Philippe Seynaeve is HR Development Manager at Smals, the IT consulting firm, partner of e-government and the social and health sectors in Belgium. At Smals, he is responsible for the training and learning initiatives within the company and the current e-HRM implementation. Previously, he was e-HR Project Manager at the Belgian Federal Ministry of Health and e-Learning Manager for the Training Institute of the Federal Government in Brussels. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant and project manager for IT consulting firms in Brussels and Paris. He also lectured at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He obtained a B.A. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and he did graduate work at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He obtained an M.A. from Columbia University in New York.