Anthony Belpaire is the General Manager of touchatag™, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture.  Touchatag™ enables consumers, applications developers and business to link everyday's objects with online applications using 2D barcodes/Near Field Communications.

Touchatag™ is used in a variety of environments: for example in an in-home application a father can use touchatag™ to link his toddler’s teddy bear to an online story about that same bear;  in an outdoor environment touchatag™makes it possible for a visitor to an art gallery to wave his Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile phone at a painting and then see the painter’s Wikipedia profile appear on the phone’s screen; or in a business/logistics environment a cleaning company can, for example, use it to record that a room has been successfully cleaned through a simple touch of an NFC-enabled mobile phone to a touchatag-linked NFC tag that has been placed in the room

Prior joining touchatag™,  Anthony headed a number of start-ups in the online media and IT security domain from start to exit as Certipost, Info2clear and GlobalSign.
He started his career as Investment analyst at the innovation holding of a leading Belgian Publisher Corelio.