Ingrid Dumon- National Finance Officer

Tinne De Beckker - Deputy Chair

Initially Tinne did not want to become a Management Assistant but an Archeologist. She has a Master in History to prove it.

A short stint as assistant to the Sales and Marketing Manager changed her mind and she decided to go back to school to learn all the tricks of the trade. After getting her degree she worked as assistant for various companies, both big and small (BESIX, CHN Industrial|New Holland, etc.). For the past three years she has been employed as Project Assistant at Desmet Ballestra, a Zaventem based engineering company.

When she is not playing taxi for her two daughters she likes to cook or curl up on the sofa with a cozy British murder mystery or a history book.

Why did I become a member
Leen Maegh introduced me to IMA and I’m very grateful she did! Here I found a community of likeminded professionals who are passionate about their job and for whom life-long learning is key.  Within IMA you can find help, support and lots of laughs too.

Hobbies: cooking, reading, gardening

Liesl Houben - Deputy MarCom Officer

Liesl is the youngest member of the National Committee and is excited to learn and contribute to the success of IMA. She is a cheerful person with a strong desire to make a difference in everything she does.

Liesl has a background in linguistics and graduated from university with a master’s degree in Interpreting. She started working as a legal assistant for Covington & Burling LLP four years ago and soon realised that being an assistant is her professional calling. Liesl would love to further climb in her career as an assistant and is eager to learn so she can support her team in the best possible way.

Outside of work and IMA, Liesl loves to spend time with family and friends and her two dear cats, Pablo and Lilly.

Frieda Catteeuw - Deputy Finance Officer

Frieda studied Office Management in Brussels and has been working as a Management Assistance in different industry sectors since 1980. She is happily married, has four children and four grandchildren.

Frieda was contacted by our National Chairman when her manager participated in the TV show "Back to the Floor". She persuaded Frieda to ask her manager to be a keynote speaker at one of our monthly networking events. Frieda found the networking amongst peer very interesting and only a few weeks later she became a member.

Frieda really liked the energy, friendship and fun she was getting out of IMA and she was eager to learn more about the functioning of the association. She wanted to participate more actively in our Belgian branch and so she decided to join our National Committee.

You can wake me up in the middle of the night for  watching a good movie with a glass of wine

Favourite drink: red wine.
Favourite food: Italian.
Favourite city: Barcelona.
Favourite book: comics.
Hobbies: movies, netflix bingewatching, traveling, knitting, puzzles, grandchildren

Muriel Poncin

Greet Puttaert - Advisor 

Greet has 35 years of experience as management assistant in a whole range of industries and going from middle management to C-suite level. She now works for an international law firm as PA to the Managing Partner of the Brussels office and the Global Co-Chair Competition/Antitrust Group.

What Greet loves about our profession is that we are so versatile and can thrive in many different industries. “Not one day is the same and if you are lucky enough to be appreciated for your problem-solving and creative support in the background, it gives you a boost every single day.”

Greet did not have a classic training in office management so she wanted to discover what she could learn from her peers. She wanted to look over the fence and expand her network. Greet became a member of EAPS (then EUMA, and now IMA) in 1991. Only six months later, she was asked to become National Chairman. Greet has served on the Belgian board and on the international board in various (non-) elected functions.

Amongst Greet’s biggest highlights as a Committee Member are the organization of the annual conferences in Amsterdam and Brussels.