Mimi Lamote (born Ostend, 27 April 1964) is a Belgian businesswoman. Since December 2006, she is the Chair of the Flemish Socio-economic Forum of Flanders in Action of the Flemish government. She is a member of the board of Belgacom. Mimi Lamote is married with Peter Otten and lives in Tielrode.
She obtained a master's in economics at the University of Antwerp and a master in Retail Management at the Tias University of Tilburg.
From 2001 until 2005, she was General Manager of the C&A Belgium-Luxemburg company of the Brenninkmeijer family. From 2001 until 2004, she was a member of the board of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (VBO) and a member of the board of Fedis. From January 2005 to June 2006, she succeeded Etienne Kaesteker as CEO of the SCF retail group comprising E5-mode and Sportorama (Sint Niklaas (Belgium)) and ECG UAB/E5-Mode Baltic UAB/ Edvalda UAB (Kaunas (Lithuania)). [1] Since 1 February 2007, she is a member of the management team of ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen (ZNA), an Antwerp hospital group. [2] She is managing director of Eugenius BVBA.
On 2 November 2009 she starts as vice-president of Pearle Europe, working at its headquarters in Amsterdam. [3]
2021 she is CEO of the 'slow-fashion' label Mayerline.
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