Mobilexpense is a European tech group, committed to simplifying expense management for both large multinationals and SMEs as well as their employees.We create smart, simple, seamless expense management solutions to improve cost-effectiveness and workforce happiness.As the Chief Executive Officer at Mobilexpense, I successfully steered the company through a transformative journey, culminating in a strategic acquisition by Visma in November 2024. This milestone reflects our team's relentless commitment to innovation and customer success, strengthening our position in the market and providing resources to further our mission.Achievements:• Strengthened company's market position and provided resources for strategic growth.• Empowered teams to deliver meaningful solutions and drive digital transformation.• Led Mobilexpense to achieve Rule of 40 status, balancing growth and profitability.• Expanded solutions to address broader finance and HR needs, evolving into a spend management leader.• Thrived in key markets like Benelux, Germany, Nordics, and UK, supporting thousands of organizations.• Gaining market share in Enterprise, MidMarket and Small & Medium Enterprise.

Fortino is a leading B2B software venture capital and growth equity firm with offices in Antwerp and Amsterdam. I support Fortino leveraging my international network, C-level, and entrepreneurial experience to help European SaaS companies scale faster and more sustainably than the competition.

I provide strategic leadership as a managing partner at Flexso, an end-to-end SAP Gold Partner and pioneer in SAP innovation, including 400+ SAP specialists at offices in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Austria. To continue this growth momentum, I was tasked with expanding our European footprint by establishing a new office in the Netherlands. Building robust partner networks and high-performance teams from the ground up, the new office rapidly expanded our Netherlands customer base.

Advising innovators requires creative adaptation and a passion for fast-paced, entrepreneurialenvironments. As an advisor for cloud-based TMS SupplyStack, I analyze performance, facilitate communication, and support executive decision-making in a cutting-edge market. With SupplyStack, I developed a tailored forecasting process designed to enhance predictability and assesspotential outcomes more decisively, giving the board the confidence to pursue new productinvestments.

AiVidens develops AI-driven automation and propriety algorithms to organize and anticipate cash flow and payments. Working collaboratively with their board, I share experience and insights from over a decade of working with SaaS-driven startups specializing in digital solutions for business operations, client management, and market growth.

My approach as an advisor focuses on shaping both the tools and the mentality that enables business success, ensuring that executives not only have the capability to succeed, but the confidence as well. By combining my expertise in digital platforms and SaaS with my experience managing complex initiatives in multi-national contexts, I provide the board with strategic insights and initiatives designed to streamline the sales processes and improve client management infrastructure.

While managing the complete portfolio of SAP’s software, cloud, and services offerings, I was responsible for leading a team of Senior Account Management specialists directly engaged with key account customers. This role involved developing a multi-functional sales team with the expertise required to manage high-value deals and the communications skills to build strong client relationships. I oversaw critical negotiations and managed diverse client needs while also improving team efficiency and coordination, with a focus on developing new sales talent and utilizing the experience of senior team members. Under my leadership, each member of the sales team was able to secure deals ranging from €4MM to €9MM annual contract value, including the organization’s 5 largest cloud contracts.

After being promoted to Sales Director, I further developed my executive leadership experience while expanding the scope of my negotiation and client management skills to include multi-million Euro deals with some of SAP’s largest clients. My role involved innovating in close partnership with customers to improve their efficiency, simplify operations, and increase profitability. I hand-picked and developed a team that efficiently managed large accounts and sought to consistently improve the quality of our customer and client relationships.

As Assistant to the President, I gained first-hand experience at the multi-national executive level, with a revenue scale exceeding €5B across 26 countries. I launched a program to implement governance improvements, introduce deal-structure analysis, and increase strategic profit visibility, securing €100MM in additional profits. I was also responsible for engineering and approving key deals, facilitating executive communication, and coordinating individual market strategies.

My role as a Sales Executive for SAP Innovations was focused on generating paradigm shifts in large-scale data management by simplifying architecture, enabling new classes of Big Data, and developing cloud and mobile applications. I had end-to-end responsibility for delivering SAP HANA Platform solutions to the entire Belgium market, including roll-outs of HANA and SAP’s High Performance in Memory Appliance.

Following a brand re-organization for Information Management, I was given full responsibility for the Telco, Utilities & Media Industries. My leadership role involved management and virtual collaboration with solution sales team members, development managers, marketing managers, services managers and technical resources.

Solution Sales, IBM Software Group, delivering Trusted Information to Belgian clients in Banking, Insurance, Industries, Utilities & Distribution SectorsJob role: Started up sales for a new IBM software brand, called “InfoSphere”. Identified leads, developed business and grown the revenue of InfoSphere software in the Belux market. InfoSphere was a new brand name launched in 2009 to cover the end to end information integration needs of our customers and prospects.Technologies covered: information integration, data governance, data quality, master data management, data warehousing, data models.

Thesis: "Escape the talent trap"Internship @ Agfa- Audit of 2006 marketing strategy for Agfa Discovery- Research on target marketing strategy mid-term & long-term- Creation of 2008 marketing strategy for Agfa Discovery- Kick-start deployment of 2008 marketing strategy for Agfa Discovery* Agfa Discovery is Agfa Graphics' world-wide talent recrutement program in the search of young masters in science and technology.