Benjamin Vandermarliere is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Ravical. He previously co-founded Boltzmann, a bootstrapped AI company focused on finance and accounting, which was acquired by Silverfin in 2021.
At Silverfin, he went on to serve as Director of AI and later Head of Product, leading the discovery and delivery of AI-driven solutions used by accounting firms at scale.
Benjamin holds a PhD and was a senior researcher at Ghent University, publishing research on economic networks, financial statement analytics and temporal dynamics in big data.
He is a proven AI product leader, known for bridging academic depth with product execution.
Ravical
2025 - Present
Silverfin
2022 - 2024
Silverfin
2021 - 2022
Boltzmann
2018 - 2022
Ghent University
2017 - 2019
Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
2013 - 2017
