Denis Pettiaux has a Degree of civil engineering in physics, and an Executive Master in Management from the ULB (Brussels). He is a member of the Executive Committee of SPDG, where he is in charge of finance. He is also a non-executive member of various boards of directors, advisory boards and investment committees. He joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. He was director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory in Belgium until 2008, and then director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance in Paris until 2011.