Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
Strategic decision-maker, able to mobilize teams in a constructive and positive environment, with a sharp sense of structure and humor. I help organizations embed sustainability into their core strategy through pragmatic tools, cultural alignment, and cross-sector engagement. Strong mix of strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, and deep industry knowledge. With over 25 years of global leadership in chemicals and biomaterials, I now consult on sustainable portfolio steering and ESG-driven business transformation. Sustainable topics are complex and interconnected and rapidly evolving with climate change, resources scarcity, supply chain constraints, regulatory landscape, market trends to name but a few. How can you capture these new market signals in a systematic and structured way? What will be the impact for your P&L? How will this translate in business terms, delivering high growth and strong EBITDA. This is the right time to ask these questions, getting new answers that will trigger actions. Using AI at its best capabilities whilst keeping a critical eye to differentiate and stay one step ahead of any competition. Let’s connect to shape your impactful, resilient businesses.
• Translate Sustainability in Business Terms at strategic and operational levels: Design and deployment of strategic tools as Sustainable Portfolio Management to steer decision maker in Product, Innovation, and Investment portfolios management • Strategic ESG Integration: Double materiality, risks and opportunities mapping, EU taxonomy, impact measurement metrics and sustainable finance • Change Leadership: Facilitating behavioral shifts, team alignment, and cross-silo collaboration with empathy and clarity • Thought Leadership: Contributor to key international sustainability frameworks Impact Valuation, Safe and sustainable by Design (SSbD) • Adaptive Communication: Tailored engagement from Executive Boardrooms to operational teams, fostering buy-in and ownership.
• Anchored sustainability into strategic and operational decision-making across functions (Strategy, M&A, Innovation, Capex, business development) and developed people Sustainability mindset in their ways of working foostering sustainable solutions for the future. • Led deployment of the Sustainable Portfolio Management (SPM) and ESG governance tools; reported to CEO office. • Built bridges between internal stakeholders and global networks (World Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD), Harvard Business School, NGOs, EU commission). • Proposed and implemented new frameworks that challenged established practices while ensuring stakeholder alignment.
General Management function instrumental to anchor Sustainability in strategic and operational decisions of key business processes: Strategy, Marketing and Sales, Research & Innovation, Capex, M&A. See above Syensqo function and impact continued. From Jul 2020 till Sep.2022, I co-leaded the Carbon Neutrality project for the chemical sectors@ the International Council for Chemical Associations (ICCA) and animated the core team composed of head of energy and climate change directors of the regional chemical associations (Cefic, ACC, JCIA,...) to deliver on the ambition of the project.
o Launched a 100 ktpa bio based epichlohydrine plant, the pioneering bio-based platform Epicerol® : new technology, revenue > 100 mio USD in a 500mioUSD public company with P&L responsibility. o Implement Bio value marketing strategy and branding of bio chemical Epicerol®, now Epinity® o Set up commercial organization in Asia 6 FTE (Thailand, China, Japan, South-Korea, India) and steer Commercial Excellence program (McKinsey) Member of the BOD of Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co,Ltd
• From technical marketing manager to business management with global responsibility with 4 Years expatriation in Paris • Managed up to €500M turnover and international teams (25+ FTE). • Drove strategic pricing, supply chain optimization, and digital innovation. • Represented the industry in EU-level regulatory dialogues (CFC phase-out). • Facilitated communication across multidisciplinary teams with a direct and constructive style.