Personal
Born in 1980 in Belgium, where I live with my lovely wife Lynn, our 2 daughters Marie and Kaat en our Dalmation named Bo. As far as hobbies are concerned it’s a lot about music (the whole family is in a concert band), food (competitive barbecuing with my team SmokeyTheBoar), and quite recently I added sailing (the dream is to sail from SanFran to Hawai).
Another thing I only picked up in the last few years is reading. I’m currently at an average pace of 5 books a month (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 school 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.
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.
Since 2012 I’ve been on the vendor side of things. I first traveled the world as the EMEA Evangelist for Veeam Software, then joined TrendMiner as VP Marketing and later head of Technology Alliances. I’ve taken many roles at startups/scaleups during critical pivots, mostly focused on Product 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!