Personal
Born in 1980 in Belgium and a father of two (14/18). In my free time, you’ll find me going deep into food, sailing, music, and playing board games. Both professionally and personally I love expanding my experiences as widely as possible.
Another thing I only up in the last few years is reading. I’m currently at an average pace of 20 to 40 books a year (2/3rds on Audible and mostly Business/Psychology). If you want to follow what I read, feel free to befriend/follow me on GOODREADS.
Professional
Being a highschool dropout at 18, I started working as a bartender. My love for computers and arts in my youth lead me to become a DTP Operator, which later turned into a Graphical Designer and Project Manager for an internal signage company. (1999-2006)
In the meantime, I did follow a Bachelor in Computer Engineering (Network Engineer) track, which later made me roll into IT as a Systems Engineer, Implementation Consultant, and Solutions Team Lead for Systems Integration companies. (2006-2012)
Since 2012 I’ve been on the vendor side of things. I first traveled the world as the EMEA Evangelist for Veeam Software. In 2015, I joined TrendMiner as its VP Marketing to lead the coming out of stealth, and later as its head of Technology Alliances until the company was successfully sold to SoftwareAG (2018). Since then, I’ve taken many different roles at startups/scaleups during critical pivots, mostly focused on long-term Product or Corporate Strategy.
In 2021, I joined Qompium, the makers of FibriCheck [a mobile application for arrhythmia monitoring], to analyze the potential of their medical-grade cloud platform as a separate product in the market. This has led to taking on the role of Managing Director of that new Business Unit and ultimately in September 2022 graciously accepting the role of CEO of the new startup Extra Horizon as a spinoff dedicated to its success! Today the team is fully independent, being lead by the founder of the idea, Kobe Leysen.
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