Chairman and Territory Senior Partner, PwC Belgium

Patrick Boone is Chairman and Territory Senior Partner of PwC Belgium (since July 2024). For the eight years before, he’d been the Managing Partner for Tax and Legal Services (TLS) and representative in the PwC Global Transfer Pricing Network. 

During his career of almost 30 years, he has assisted various clients in managing their international tax affairs both in Belgium and the United Kingdom. His main areas of interest have evolved towards dealing with cross-border supply chain discussions as well as multi-jurisdictional disputes involving European, Asian and American taxation authorities. He’s the European Tax Lead for major Japanese, European and American accounts. Patrick has also been a co-leader of the PwC’s European Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution network. Besides tax planning, Patrick also assists clients in defence work. 

Partner Technology Consulting & Innovation, PwC Belgium

Xavier is the lead Partner for Technology Consulting and the Innovation Leader for PwC Belgium. Throughout his career, he's helped many clients from strategy through execution delivering innovation-driven business and technology transformation projects. Xavier focuses on developing business strategies, ensuring customer success, driving growth and providing thought leadership within the rapidly evolving technology and digital landscape, always prioritising business value.

With deep expertise in digital and technology domains, Xavier brings comprehensive insights into areas such as cloud, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, business applications, analytics and data management, middleware and security.