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Leuven, Flanders, BE

Brussels, BE

Brussels, BE

CEO for the Schréder Group. Schréder offers smart public lighting solutions that reduce energy consumption, improve safety, provide aesthetic refinement and enable Smart Cities of the future.

Alberschwende, Vorarlberg, AT

Groom2Grow partners with innovative B2B start-ups, investors and established companies to scale up and deliver sustainable growth.

Hickory, North Carolina, US

Responsible for strategy definition & execution, profitable growth, innovation & M&A.Driving high single digit growth in a +1B$ business through innovation, solutions selling and entering adjacent markets

Galway, IE

Managing the P&L for EMEA & South America with +750M$ revenue, 6 plants and 2200 staff.Creation of a new Broadband Network Solutions BU, combining TE's activities in Telecom, Enterprise and Wireless. Developed new organization model leveraging the best talent and balancing functional excellence with agile and customer intimate execution.Drove Telecom.

Galway, IE

Managing the P&L for the Telecom Networks division in EMEA with 400M$ revenue, 4 plants and 1500 staff.Leading the EMEA management team (sales, strategy & bus dev, product management, operations, R&D, marketing, finance, HR, legal).Developed and executed a growth strategy focused on innovation, customer intimacy and emerging markets. Realized revenue.

Galway, IE

Leading the effort to enter new, adjacent markets, both organic and through M&A.Leading the strategy definition and execution of the division, participating in the strategy process for the corporation.Acquisition of ADC for 1,3B$: defined the strategy to increase the BU's presence in North Amercia and China, and to enter the wireless market. Recommended.

Galway, IE

EBIT responsibility for the 230M$ broadband business, including fiber connectivity and DSL products.Responsible for product management, marketing, business development and R&D.Incubated the "Intelligent Broadband Connectivity" business to reach annual sales of 65M$. Moved the Telecom OSP division for the first time into active sales, required the.

Responsible for all functional areas and EBIT results for a company with +50M$ revenue and 300 staff in Spain and Brazil.Grew sales from 12 to 50M$ and created a very enthusiast, highly engaged team.

Relocated to Spain to integrate the newly acquired Mondragon Telecommunications into Raychem.Converted a "local", Spanish company in a global company, did a fast integration and realized an important product cost reduction.Responsible for all operations funcitons and the overall company integration process.Started satellite plants in Brazil to support.

Startup of a manufacturing plant for telecom fiber connectivity products. Responsible for all operations fucntions (manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, quality, process and product engineering).Realized a drastic reduction of lead time and "time-to-market", an important qualtiy improvement and the creation of a customer oriented, flexible organization.

Product management and marketing for fiber optic infrastrucutre solutions for telecommunciations networks for Europe, Asia and Latin America.Revenue growth from 4 to +20M$, accountable for the EBIT of the product familyIntroduction of new products throught the "invent, make, sell" cycle, management of cross functional project teams (R&D, operations, PLM.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

Start up of a business unit for sales and installation of document management systems.Consultancy for manufacturing and distribution companies.

Evere, BE

Development of a tank simulator

Leuven, BE

Research and industry liaison on artficial intelligence and computer graphics

Master Of Science In Engineering, Computer Science

Leadership Development Program

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General