Bart Venlet Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsible for the MemberDirect digital banking suite, and CyberSecurity features across product lines.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I have managed a variety of products and features over the years, including the MemberDirect(R) digital banking platform, cybersecurity features, foreign exchange services, mobile payments, identity and access management, and more.I have played a key role in creating a 5-year business plan and presented this at board level.

• Member of the management team for the Wholesale business unit.• I have successfully set up the capability to host MVNOs on the Vodafone network from scratch.• I was responsible for the rollout of new MVNOs on the Vodafone Network, and have rolled out five different MVNOs, including the largest MVNO in the Netherlands.• I was also accountable for all business operations related to the MVNOs.• My customers were highly satisfied with the services that I have supplied.

Senior Manager:• Senior Manager with the Product & Service Development Division.• Responsible for collaboration between Vodafone Japan and Vodafone Group regarding new mobile broadcasting services (MBMS).Senior Innovation Manager• Senior Manager with the Future Products Unit within Vodafone Group Marketing.• This role enabled me to identify gaming and imaging innovations from Vodafone Japan that were to be produced as global company products and services.Group Leader• Group Leader of Voice and Video Products.• Managed a team of professionals.• The team was responsible for product management of Voice Services (Call Completion, Voice Mail, Missed Call Notification, and VAS) and Video Telephony.• I was instrumental in a number of proposals that led to increased revenues and enhanced customer satisfaction.• The fruits of these proposals were launched to market in 2006.

• I was responsible for launching Wholesale Content Billing & Wholesale Location Based Services together with our wholesale customers, and also worked on IVR improvements and Horizontal Address Book projects.• Worked in close collaboration with Proposition Managers and contributed constructively to the marketing mix.• In the 2004 performance review, I scored the highest points among all product managers in Vodafone Netherlands.

• This role was very similar to the one mentioned above but focused on Wholesale Services.• A European Patent (EP1259084) was granted for my ideas on interacting with 3rd party solution providers.

• This role was also similar to the one above.• In addition, I also managed a team and worked on the mobile data strategy that evolved into the Vodafone live! concept.

• As a product developer in the Marketing department, I developed new products and services.• I was involved in strategy projects, acted as the marketing project manager for UMTS, and made a predictive revenue model for the UTMS license business case.• I also worked on the fixed-mobile substitution strategy (“Home Zone”).

• I was responsible for planning the capacity of the core switching network.• I modeled customer behavior and projected this into the future; and designed a network based on this model with high quality at minimal cost.

• I was working in the ICT department of a local electric utility.• My roles were very diverse: driving marketing activities, recruiting new engineers, development of real-time process control hardware and software, developing and writing equipment manuals.

• My main role was to coordinate research projects regarding noise abatement by military aircraft and ground operations.

• Computer Operations on mainframe and mini computers.• This was a part-time position next to my university education.

Mba, Business

As part of my MBA, I wrote a marketing plan that was awarded with an A+ mark.

Msc, Applied Physics