John F. Schrurs - Operations and business development
Graduated in ‘85 from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL - Belgium) with a BSc and a MSc degree in mechanical engineering, he acquired industrial process experience with Exxon, while obtaining an MBA (KULeuven - Belgium) in ’87.
From 89 to 91, John fine-tuned his 6-sigma competencies at Bekaert and his market development skills with Royal Dutch Shell.
For the next 10 years, he held various positions with The Coca-Cola Company and bottlers, in Europe and abroad. These roles covered process excellence, operations support, product innovation, global technology development and multiple-country technical leadership.
In 2000, Amcor offered him a European manufacturing leadership role for its flexible packaging division. In 2003, the Inbev group (now Anheuser Busch Inbev) asked him to lead the worldwide packaging and sales equipment innovation strategy.
In 2005, he founded Cape Decision to offer his experience to a wider range of clients.
Jean is member of different boards and certified by Guberna, the Belgian Insitute of Directors.
Our Mission
Evaluator of EU Funded innovation Projects
Innovation expert Jean is a proposal evaluator for EC Horizon 2020 Programme. This is the biggest EU research and innovation initiative with 3O billion EUR funding for 2014-2020.
- advise the beverage and packaging industries in total independence
- provide business development expertise to private and institutional sectors
- involve our clients in tailor made solutions for their own success
- take a hands-on with a no-big-report approach until all deliverables are met.
Food safety essential role in today’s food and drink industry.
this industry has to continuously evolve and adapt to keep its mission of protecting the consumers and constantly improve itself along its supply chain. Interview of Jean Schrurs, expert in food & beverage and auditor for leading certification bodies. Read in Food & Drink technology, Jan 24
Dominique got her first journalism degree at the University of Georgia (Athens - US) in 1983.
She then obtained her masters degree in political sciences and communication in 1988 at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL - Belgium).
For the next 8 years, she has been a journalist and producer with CNN (Atlanta), the BBC World Service (London), the European Commission (Brussels) and teaching in International Schools.
She has organized successful executive events and managed Europaid communication projects. She also joined the EBRD team of communication experts.
Dominique is in charge of communications projects and market research.
Dominique Huret - Consulting and communication
Since 2015 , Dominique is member of the International Packaging Press Organisation. IPPO is a professional network of individual ediors, journalists and writers from around the world, covering packaging and the packaging industry from various perspectives. Since 2024, she is treasurer of the association.
Our Partners Network
To guarantee optimal competencies for our clients, we build strong partnerships with our wide network of :
- agro-business and food experts
- market research and agencies
- intellectual property service providers
- business assurance certification companies
- conference and trade show organizers
- private equity companies and strategy consultants.
%20-%20Copy.jpg?etag=W%2F%2255a61-192d7ed15a0%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=214%2B203&quality=85)
Sustainable packaging Podcasts
Cory Connors interviewed Dominique on her background in journalism and her latest views on the packaging topics
Podcast here
interpack 2026: show me the payback. Feedback from international packaging editors and journalists who attended interpack 2026 in Düsseldorf suggests that industry priorities are firmly focused on automation,productivity and competitiveness, alongside ongoing sustainability pressures. Dominique was one of them. In Packaging & Print Media June 26
