 From 2001 until 2005, she was General Manager of the C&A Belgium-Luxemburg company of the Brenninkmeijer family.From 2001 until 2004, she was a member of the board of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (VBO) and a member of the board of Fedis.From January 2005 to June 2006, she succeeded Etienne Kaesteker as CEO of the SCF retail group comprising "E5-mode" and "Sportorama" (Sint Niklaas (Belgium)) and ECG UAB/E5-Mode Baltic UAB/ Edvalda UAB (Kaunas (Lithuania)).