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Louvain, Flemish Region, Be

Propelling the company into its next growth phase, leading sales, marketing, and other key growth-oriented business areas. My responsibility lies in driving external business growth, while fostering an internal culture of innovation and excellence. This dual focus ensures that SettleMint not only continues to evolve internally but also consistently delivers unparalleled value to our enterprise clients through the transformative power of blockchain technology.

As an Advisory Board Member at Lykos, I provide strategic guidance to shape the company's sales and marketing strategies, offer insights into product development to address current talent acquisition and management challenges, support market expansion efforts, and participate in thought leadership initiatives to position Lykos as a leader in the HR tech space. Additionally, I mentor the leadership team to refine their approach to business development and customer engagement, leveraging my network and expertise to drive growth and innovation.

Amsterdam, Nl

During my tenure as an executive growth consultant at Mambu, I partnered closely with the Commercial Leader to redefine the company's growth strategy, optimize sales operations, and revamp the partner framework, assisting to steer the transformation initiatives that significantly enhanced business scalability and market reach.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Leading Sales and Growth for Managed Services in EMEA. Overseeing all Managed Services sales operations in the region, pre-sales, bid management, growth initiatives and strategy to exceed business goals. Strong c-level client relationships, P&L ownership, and go-to-market strategies to penetrate new markets leveraging partnership and strategic alliances.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Working closely, reporting to the CEO. Organized and prioritized critical issues and required information for the CEO to facilitate efficient decision making. Brokered the sale of DN’s Headquarters and acquisition of new headquarters. Ran global strategic corporate initiatives in the 10s of millions, driving cost reduction, process efficiency and optimisation. With covid hitting midway through my tenure as Chief of Staff, it was both an extremely challenging time to be involved in every facet of the company, but also an amazing time to continue to develop and hone real business changing skills.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Responsible to lead an experienced banking/retail services Architect and SME team focused on all strategic, complex, and high-profile services deals. Supporting both banking and retail sales segments with best practice services solution definition, assisting to innovate the global services portfolio, and driving standardization into the company’s delivery capabilities, ensuring all services opportunities globally are best fit and best placed to increase market share.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Total Services owner across APAC, full P&L owner, focused both on growth and run, leading a business unit of 4000+ sales and delivery professionals. Overachieved revenue targets (Hundreds of millions), while reorganizing the team to deliver annual financial targets in the 10s of millions, ultimately with overachievement of services savings that led to positive contribution of the company’s operating profit. Led the creation of the “..as a Service” models later developed globally and utilized for strategic deals.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Joined Diebold Nixdorf to assist the transformation towards a services-led and software enablement organization. Overall accountability for the growth and performance of Diebold Nixdorf’s Managed Services business in Asia Pacific, including all sales, delivery and operations (including Global Service Hubs in India, Singapore, Philippines and China). Key strategic role shaping and leading the Managed Services business, building solution and sales teams, improving operations, with full P&L responsibility.

Green Bay, Wi, Us

Green Bay, Wi, Us

CEO of Axicor, a data analytics/science solution and service provider, responsible for the complete direction and performance of the company, all strategic alliances and partnerships, overseeing all operations and business, sales, delivery activities.

Green Bay, Wi, Us

Responsible for the book of business across key accounts (NetApp, Extreme Networks, Rocket Arkivio, Fujitsu), with overall responsibility for solution sales and delivery, including the partner network.In this role, my primary focus was:- to evolve the core services and solutions being offered by the company- establish strong vendor partnerships and build the partner eco-system- lead by example and establish a company culture that attracts and retains great people- Identify global cutting edge technology solutions to introduce into the A/NZ region- build a sales team that can grow the solution delivery part of our business- work closely with the Managing Director to achieve company targets

San Jose, California, Us

Global owner of the engagement and project management practice for NetApp, working between global headquarters in Silicon Valley (USA) and the Australian office, responsible for a team of 200+ engagement/project managers globally. Working closely with the communities to create a team approach gathering, defining and implementing best practices on a global level and driving strategic initiatives. The role involves creating and implementing strategies around:- productivity and efficiency improvement- training for the unique business focus that EM’s, PM’s and GSMs require- improving the Technology Enablement and Solution Organisation (TESO) roadmap, marketing and general approach to our customers - Methodology creation and adoption- needs for professional skills training for the TESO field

San Jose, California, Us

Customer focused services engagement manager with sales/delivery responsibility. Responsible for mentoring Engagement Managers and Project Managers in Australia, developing and closing sales opportunities, enhancing pre-sales and delivery methodologies.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Commencing as a Project Administrator, proven achievements were followed with multiple promotions in the project/program management, bid management and services sales space.- 1999 - Project Administrator/Coordinate- 2000 to 2003 - Project/Program Manager- 2003 to 2008 - Senior Project/Program Manager- 2004 to 2008 - Bid Manager / National Bid Management Lead

Diploma In Corporate Governance, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics And Electronics