Peter Bal joined WABCO in January 2007 as Chief Information Officer. In October 2009 his position was expanded to Vice President, Administrative Process Optimization. Since 2015 he is also steering the business digitization.
Prior to WABCO, Bal was responsible for the delivery of technology solutions at SWIFT, a financial industry-owned cooperative providing messaging services to most of the world’s banks. Previously, Bal worked nine years at Belgacom, a leading telecommunications company based in Belgium, where he held a number of senior IT leadership positions, including director of IT application services. Before joining Belgacom in 1997, Bal worked for Alcatel Belgium in the fields of IT applications development, office automation and network services. Bal started his career with IMEC, Europe’s leading independent research centre in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics for ICT systems.