Henk D.

Digital leadership in Pharma, biotech and global industries.

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

More than 25 years of experience in general Biotech, Pharma and global IT leadership. Translating the company's ambitions and challenges into a digital strategy. • Improvement of business processes - consolidation of data/application silos : Use IT more effectively to meet larger company goals. • Use innovation and business needs to shape digital architecture through roadmaps. Business alignment, the development and Implementation of new architecture and business continuity plans. • Achievement and adherence of regulatory compliance. (GxP) • (prepare for) commercialisation : CRM; supply chain; reporting & digitalisation • Pragmatic approach • IT leadership : vision- strategy- inspiration- motivation- values and culture • Use roadmaps and strategy to create financial stability. Portfolio management and optimisation of resources. Rollout of new ERP systems (SAP) + business intelligence dashboards • IT governance : Incident and change management, risk based approach; robust audit framework. Effective document management: paper to electronic, data retention and deletion. • Cybersecurity : assessment of processes and architecture. Keep the right balance between block, lock, monitor and allow through training. (NIST framework adherence)

Experience

  • Agomab Therapeutics (3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Head of Information Technology
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • ICT-manager
      Oct 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Automation COE lead & IT Strategy - CIO office at Gilead Sciences
    Aug 2022 - Mar 2023 · 8 mos

    - The setup of an IT Automation Center of Excellence : Creation of the charter, Scope setting (across the pharma value chain and internally within IT) & definition of KPI’s, define use cases, projects and initial analysis. Technologies to be covered/analysed : RPA, AI, ML, LowCode/NoCode, etc - IT Strategy refresh

  • Vice President Information Technology at Galapagos
    May 2019 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Sanofi (5 mos)
    • Sanofi global vendor Manager
      Jan 2019 - May 2019 · 5 mos

    • ITS site manager
      Jan 2019 - Mar 2019 · 3 mos

  • ICT Director at Ablynx
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2018 · 11 yrs