I’m a highly skilled, knowledgeable and energetic leader with a drive to unlock and accelerate the innovative power of a company to maximize the contribution to its financial result. As a game changer I am able to create tremendous value for a company!My drive is to spot market opportunities and link them to the company goals (both vision & mission) in order to develop, communicate and execute a successful innovative and entrepreneurial strategy. I pursue to converge business, technology and product development with manufacturing to complement, improve and accelerate the product renewal.My passion is to guide a company emerge into an effective powerhouse through innovation.Commitment, collaboration, creating and seeing opportunities and entrepreneurship are part of my core values and define me as a person. I have a passion to work in a dynamic and very challenging international environment, both internal and external (customers), to develop and implement an innovation strategy (portfolio) with impact and to build result oriented and empowered teams and organizations. Results are based on trust between people, both internal and with customers.One would describe me as an inspiring and energetic leader who simply stimulates and motivates people to perform and deliver. My door is always open and I’m always willing to listen to different views in order to get the best out of people, teams and organizations.My experience includes: working in a challenging international business environment at board level, directing and being responsible for innovation, R&D, product development and engineering, innovation processes, executive portfolio management and product lifecycle and change management.