Yannick Dillen Email & Phone Number

Brussels, BE

Brussels, BE

Brussels Region, Belgium

As a Professor of Management Practice specializing in Entrepreneurship at Vlerick Business School, I teach a range of courses across our Masters, MBA, and Executive programs. Additionally, I head the Impulse Centre for Growth Management (iGMO), a content network connecting over 200 owner-managers of leading Belgian growth firms.

Gent Area, Belgium

As a Lecturer, I was teaching Entrepreneurship in the degree programs (Masters and MBA) and Growth Management courses in the executive education programmes at Vlerick Business School. Within Vlerick's Entrepreneurship department, I was coordinating the iGMO network.

Gent En Omgeving, België

I started at Vlerick Business School as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, focused on strategic risk management and high-growth entrepreneurship.

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

Teaching the course 'Leer Ondernemen' (bachelor) and acting as a supervisor for Master thesis students [Dutch]

Hasselt

Teaching the course 'Ondernemerschap' (Bachelor + Master) at the University of Hasselt [Dutch]

Namur Area, Belgium

Teaching the course 'Entrepreneuriat' at the University of Namur at Master's level [French]

Peking, China

Teaching the Entrepreneurship course at the Beijing International MBA at Peking University

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Teaching sessions on High-Growth Leadership in their Bachelor programmes

The French Kiss Club offers wine in a can sourced from French grapes. Available at several retailers and many more POS to come.

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

Theo creates extraordinary eyewear. They have been doing so from Belgium since 1987. I help theo's management team by advising them on their growth strategies.

GDW Security is a family firm specialized in a broad range of security services, both for the B2C and B2B market

Ellie.Connect is a the digital platform for organizations in the textile and fashion industry with the aim to enhance their sustainability performance.

Lokeren, Flemish Region, Belgium

Belfine is worldwide renown for its decorated chocolate hollow figures, lollipops and relief figures.

Antwerp, Belgium

TCO Fleet offers several fleet management solutions such as Mobility Calculator and Mobility Buddy, a SaaS solution for companies and employees to better manage their mobility policies

België

Marple is a data analysis platform for engineering teams

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

Accounton.io is an accounttech firm that helps accountants and financial professionals to automate several repetitive tasks

Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België

Lawren.io is a legal tech firm that aims to streamline the work of lawyers and legal departments by giving them access to Lawren's chatbot, contract bot and AI search engine.

Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België

AS Verbroedering Geel is a Belgian football team. Within the board, I focused on the long term development of the club. In May 2023, the majority of the shares were sold to local entrepreneurs. As from the season 2023/2024, I remain minority shareholder to advice and support the club.

Gent Area, Belgium

Greenway is a vegetarian restaurant chain that also produces vegetarian meals for retail and food service.

Antwerp Area, Belgium

At Econopolis, an independent asset management firm, I was member of the Private Investments team, where we assisted clients in investment opportunities not quoted on the stock market.

Antwerp, Belgium

From 2010 to 2014, I worked on a PhD about high-growth firms, which was a cooperation between the University of Antwerp and the Chamber of Commerce Antwerp-Waasland (co-financed by the Vlaio Baekeland mandate)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Applied Economics

PhD thesis: 'High-growth firms: 'one-shot high-growth' versus 'persistent high-growth''

Master Of Science, Applied Economics

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Economics

Secondary School