Cecile Dekeuwer

Mrs. Dekeuwer was a lawyer advising SMEs and startups in Asia. She created and ran her own international business law firm, dedicated to the French-Asian business She is now the funder, CEO & majority shareholder of WeCo. Her life in Asia, her travels around the world and the need to adapt the public toilets to the women’s needs, made her change her international business lawyer world into an industrial ecological & design toilets’ business world. She met Madhi Sharma in 2012 in Sorrento during a BPW International congress. This is where the idea and will to create a toilets’ company raised in her mind. She is responsible for the legal, financial and administrative issues in WeCo. She ensures the coordination of the team, the project and fundraising. In charge for the relations with Asian partners. Facing the issue of a 40 years old woman managing a team of 8 shareholders, mostly men, in an industrial business such as the public toilets’ one.
Few men understand why Mrs. Dekeuwer, a successful international business lawyer, switched into a toilet’s business company and her motivations. Women usually do understand…