RAID Opens Belgium Regional Office
RAID International has announced the establishment of its Belgium Regional Office under the strong leadership of Filip Coysman: CEO, Steffi Coysman: COO, Katelijne Buydaert: CFO and Bert Wallaert: Back Office Director. The RAID Belgium Regional Office will be a full service facility providing on the ground support for the growing number of RAID Instructors and Dive Centres that see RAID as a real alternative to what other training agencies have to offer.
Making the announcement, RAID International Training Director Paul Toomer said: “The Belgium office will administer RAID’s affairs in Belgium and will assist other RAID offices throughout Europe to develop RAID generally and forge valuable partnership with local dive industry stake holders. Filip, Steffi, Katelijne and Bert between them have extensive knowledge of the region and in particular dive instruction and retailing, developed over several years. They know what it takes to develop and maintain a successful business, so we at RAID International could not be happier than to bring these extremely experienced industry personalities into the RAID global family.”
Terry Cummins, RAID International Director of Business and Marketing said: “We cannot express more the tremendous excitement we share by having Filip and his well-established crew choosing to join the rapidly growing RAID global team. We are sometimes asked why we choose to set up RAID Regional Offices as we do and the answer is quite simple. We are not ignorant of the fact, or expect, one big European office will suit all the countries right across the continent or would it also be able to properly service nearby UK, Middle East and Africa. Each country has its own unique needs and challenges so having quality representatives on the ground there that can directly cater for local essentials is what it is all about. This approach has worked extremely well for us already when you see just how much our offices in the UK, Middle East, South Africa and Italy have achieved already. So in keeping with this, RAID Belgium will bring to RAID strong administration skills, local experience and representation. Of course translation of more RAID materials will follow and accelerate. Together with our other RAID offices, the Belgium office will also be able to provide RAID Trainers and Examiners for both mainstream and technical diving throughout the continent.”
RAID International CEO Jim Holliday welcomed the announcement and said: “The establishment of our Belgium Regional Office is just another example of RAID’s unprecedented global expansion since our re-launch in 2014. RAID is truly a quality alternative to other training systems as evidenced by the quality of professionals we are attracting from all over the world to RAID like Filip and his team. Existing dive professionals and divers anywhere with a desire to come on board this exciting journey with us, that is, interested in becoming a RAIDer, should contact us”.
Paul Toomer went on to say: “The establishment of RAID Belgium is an awesome development. I am absolutely thrilled! It fills in yet another part of the globe where RAID is emerging as the training agency of choice of diving professionals unafRAID to take a serious look at us and when they do, they jump on board.”
RAID Belgium over coming weeks will develop their infrastructure but for the moment you can contact Filip Coysman and the RAID Belgium team at:
Fonteinestraat 10
8740 Pittem
Mobile : +32 475 596652
To learn more contact your local RAID Regional Office or find all the information you need on all RAID programs at www.diveraid.com and freediving at www.freedivingraid.com. You can find RAID on Facebook here.
