He also holds a Master of Science in Power Plant Management, from the Université libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium.
[1][7] His first job was as an associate engineer, based in the Czech Republic, at the European division of Westinghouse Energy Systems.
During his tenure, he oversaw the renewal of the telco transmission license, the separation of the company's financial services subsidiary into a separate entity and the successful listing of the shares of the company on the Uganda Securities Exchange in an initial public offering (IPO).
He was replaced at MTN Uganda by Sylvia Wairimu Mulinge a former executive at Safaricom Plc.
[8] Vanhelleputte was selected by the board of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc, to replace Anwar Soussa, the founding managing director, whose two-year secondment from Vodacom had come to an end.