Jan Van Lierde is a Belgian designer, entrepreneur, and architect with a prominent international creative force in the field of lighting. After graduating from the School of Architecture in Ghent in 1978, Van Lierde established his own architectural firm and, even more importantly, in 1982, he founded Kreon, the first of his many entrepreneurial ventures and design endeavors, to provide interior lighting design services. Jan became a prominent lighting design consultant for several European companies and eventually began designing products for companies like B.lux.