How we engage
We engage first as an owner-minded leader and investor — as co-investor, management buy-in partner, or late founder — combining capital, accountability, and day-to-day involvement.
Where ownership is not the right fit, VILKAS may take an interim management role: a temporary mandate, but with the same standard of commitment as if the business were its own.
Track Record
VILKAS Management brings over 15 years of core experience in both operational and management roles, across consumer goods, retail, food, 3PL logistics, packaging, textiles, and pharmaceuticals.
Co-Investor
VILKAS invests where it can genuinely contribute. Capital paired with hands-on involvement, not a passive shareholder position.
MBI (Management Buy-In)
When leadership alone isn't enough, VILKAS participates. The firm takes an operational and financial stake, running the business as its own.
Late Founder
VILKAS joins ventures already in motion, at founding level, bringing the experience, network, and drive of a co-founder to a business that has already found its first traction.
Interim Management
Additionally VILKAS steps into a company to stabilize, professionalize, or accelerate and becoming part of daily operations for as long as it takes to secure the results.
PHILOSOPHY
VILKAS is Latvian for wolf.
We recognize ourselves in the wolf: pack over ego, strategy over noise, loyalty over shortcuts. A wolf doesn't chase every opportunity — it chooses its ground, commits, and sees it through with the pack behind it.
That discipline defines how VILKAS works: as a team, for the long term, doing things right even when no one is watching.
Team
VILKAS Management is founded by Matthias Sabbe, supported by an operational team with deep supply chain and operations expertise.
Matthias Sabbe
Leads VILKAS Management's strategy and philosophy, and drives the firm's co-investor role in particular.
Jonas Windels
Supports engagements at management level, with a focus on supply chain and operations.
An Vanraes
Brings operational, hands-on expertise in supply chain and operations combined with a very strong analytical mindset to every engagement.
Zita Van Haecke
Brings operational expertise in supply chain, S&OP, data analytics and ERP management.
Connect with Us
Location
Zwevegem, Belgium
info@vilkasmanagement.be
Phone
+32 (0) 472 42 14 86