Description

Entrepreneurial digital leader with experience building complex consumer centric products based on user feedback and methodology - to solve big, urgent and relevant consumer problems that have been validated with hard facts and process. Navigates ambiguity with a strong bias to action to make big but slow companies move fast and efficiently. +10y relevant experience in multinational organisations with available references.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Dutch
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Turkish
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussels (up to 50km)

Elia Transmission Belgium
Low-Voltage Flex Products Lead
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
February 2023 - December 2025 (2 years and 10 months)
Brussels, BU, Belgium
Part of the Consumer Centric Energy Solutions department of Belgium's Transmission System Operator, I set up the In-Market Flex Applications initiative and built an innovation pipeline of projects that identify blockers to low voltage flexibility to better address these from a TSO perspective to accelerate the energy transition. Projects on EV Flexibility (EVLIA) and PV Flexibility (PV@Scale), Home battery optimisation (Neo Project) & Granular Energy certificates (Energy Track & Trace).
Scrum Product management Business analysis Product roadmap Innovation
Glocal Traders
Founder
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
June 2017 - Today (9 years)
Brussels, BU, Belgium
Glocal Traders is a trade agency focused on growing FMCG solutions & D2C Value Propositions, successful ventures include: Pacha Drinks, MOM's Granola & Diknek. Since 02/2023, it also serves as my main company for contract business.
Business development Consulting Product management User Experience Design E-commerce
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Venture Lead PerfectDraft Omnichannel
E-COMMERCE
September 2020 - February 2023 (2 years and 5 months)
London, United Kingdom
Founder, Commercial Leader & Product Owner for PerfectDraft OmniChannel in Europe. Formulated & validated hypothesis using consumer feedback and built & led a team of 6 members - validating product for Grow in Q12022 with GMV of £9 mio in Q42021.
Corporate Finance E-commerce Product management Team management Business development