Interview Stijn Bijnens (Ubizen)
He sees to be there much too young from a veteran. Without many trouble will he yet can continue for a student of computer sciences at the KU Louvain, where he begin years '90 investigation did to network protection.,. Yet has Stijn Bijnens eight year at the top stood of Ubizen, the business that he in 1995 with set up.
End of years '90 threw Ubizen self on as one of the market leaders in a total new segment: urged security services, the vanop distance manage of the network protection. According to a recent report of Frost&Sullivan now the world-wide numbers is Ubizen ATE two on this market, area behind IBM and with large lead on&T, Symantec and TruSecure. But it remains a very split market: both market leaders have each but about 6 per cent market share, and the total cake rises pace from 2005 above the billion dollar out. Positive ebitda stands for Ubizen on the agenda for the present quarter, but net profit appears far away.
Since Augusts is Stijn Bijnens no CEO more, but loves he self as an executive chairman busy with the drawing the business strategy. The continuous critical in the Belgian media sit him clear diagonal. “It is fantastic that we yet exist”, finds Bijnens. “That may also once said become. By the IPO in 1999, we said: we want to stand in the top 5 of Europe. Nobody believed that marriage, in such a way bought she our shares as lunatic. Today we are European market leader. It is but look at how you it.”
Single months ago was Ubizen almost taken about by an American investor. That have been jumped off. How do you look back now on that episode”
Stijn Bijnens: Well, that was pure speculation. It is so that we in conversation were with a particular party to look or there on a number of points better no piste was for the further extension of Ubizen. That was freely premature, but it is so that Ubizen in Flanders rather in the viewer walks, through which it with difficulty is such trials till a good end to bring.
Why have you must set a step aside”
I have must set no step aside. No, historical is such bit a n-on-n mapping gegroeid between Stijn Bijnens and Ubizen. That have I never wanted, and what I wanted to do is a number of other men that here already for years on end active be more to in front bolts.
Does not become your name too much geassocieerd with the past: the dotcom-era, with figures as Jo Lernout, Rudy Hageman”
That association with dotcom, that can live I with. That other associations have to make nothing with myself. I say always: we had to be a business in Germany or in England, were will written become then we normally an of the hundred technology business and there not so many about us. The number of rules in the press in proportion with the size of the business is a little bit from balance. Because about it so many businesses are not about to write.