Product Marketing, Portfolio Management, Innovation Management, Segmentation and Product Positioning, Value Creation, Marketing Process Management, Marketing Project Management
Individual personality: Creative & Innovative, Out-of-the-box-thinker, Analytical, Good Helicopter View, Open-minded, Pragmatic Group role: Constructive challenger to stimulate novel ideas and best solutions
Consultant Company: The House of Marketing From February 2010 Realized projects:
Product Line Manager Company: Option From September 2009 till January 2010 Managing a team of product managers. Capturing new ideas from internal (Innovation Management) and external sources (Competition and partner Intelligence, Market Studies and Reports), transforming them into a long term concept roadmap and assisting sales in strategic customer visits. Portfolio P&L management were also important tasks, as well as driving the End Of Life tasks. Portfolio Manager Company: Option From September 2008 till August 2009 Driving the creation of the roadmap on the longer term (>1y). Assuring all internal and external information (market & competition intelligence) is taken into account and is used to continue to deliver innovative products. Product Manager Company: Option From August 2006 till August 2008 Defining product and marketing strategy for a product line. Product definition, and after product launch, assure product lifecycle management. Product Manager Company: Mobistar From March 2002 till July 2006 Responsible for a series of products, from initial idea, over investment analysis, product definition, project management for launch, value creation, communication & training to live product. Products launched: USSD & Location Based Services. Live products managed: WAP and GPRS. Products in launch phase: EDGE & UMTS. Pre-Sales Consultant Company: Mobistar Corporate Solutions From September 2000 till February 2002 Technical support to the sales team: assistance in customer visits and answering large requests for proposal. Major successes achieved, also international offers. R&D Engineer Company: Telindus From January 2000 till August 2000 Development in C of firmware for router, modems and monitoring tool in rack management module. Product Specialist Company: Belgacom From June 1999 till December 1999 Assuring that the full Installation and Maintenance staff (+10000 people) had all tools and knowledge that was needed to do their job. Interfacing with Product Marketing teams for new product introduction. Project Consultant Company: Belgacom From May 1997 till May 1999 Project Prioritization and Program Management support to major process reengineering projects with as goal to reduce the number of employees at Belgacom (PTS project). During implementation, also driving the change management. In this function, I received a CEO team award. Sub-district manager Installation & Maintenance Company: Belgacom From February 1995 till April 1997 Responsible for local operational management for all installation and maintenance activities. People management, directly over 5 coaches and indirectly 100 installation and maintenance technicians.
Graduate Degree: Master in Engineering (Telecoms), Group-T Post-Graduate Degrees:
All Marketing Experts of The House of Marketing are fluent communicators in Dutch, English, and French. They also know common computer programs and can be considered Internet-savvy. Participated at final of Job-At Business Game, followed Emotional Intelligence course
Proud father of 1 daughter, born in 2008 and 1 son, born in 2010 Married on a beach in Mauritius Cycling expedition over Himalayan mountain passes, from Tibet to Nepal Cycling trip from Belgium to Mediterranean Coast (1300km), collecting money for Karuna Project in Nepal Ran a Marathon Climbing Island Peak in Nepal (6189m) Self-guided trekking towards Everest Base Camp and Gokyo Lakes in Nepal Supporting and having visited the Karuna Project, an educational project in Nepali slums (www. Karunaproject.be)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho When you want something, the whole Universe conspires to help you realize your dream. Santiago, the hero of the novel, already forms part of a select gallery of illustrious characters and leads us through his story to experience a remarkable adventure. “When I wrote The Alchemist, I was trying to understand the reason for the existence of life. Instead of writing a philosophical treatise, I decided to converse with the child inside my soul. To my surprise, this child was living inside millions of people around the world. With this book I wanted to share with my readers the questions which, precisely because they don't have an answer, make life a great adventure” Paulo Coelho
Keep young by keeping on dreaming, keep happy by realizing your most wanted dreams.
