Dr. ir. Jo Wyns graduated in 1993 in engineering (Ms), and received a PhD in 1999.

He worked as project leader and Java-developer at RealSoftware, for customers in manufacturing and logistics. Later, he took an assigment at Compu-Mark, a Thomson company as manager of the architecture team, in a 50-people IT-department. In this position, he certified as PMP - Project Management Professional - by the internationally renomated Project Management Institute.

In 2003, he takes up responsibilities as steering committee member of the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG), and member of the JavaPolis steering. Since September 2004, he is equally chairman of the Belgian Websphere User Group.

Mid 2004, Jo started his own IT-consultancy business, and he founds and leads Retailability-IT 's product development team. He is responsible for the product strategy and product development of Retailability-IT's supply-chain management product offering. In this role, he is involved in multiple supply-chain management projects in the textile and manufacturing industry.