Hasselt, Flemish Region, Belgium
Sales & business development leader with significant multinational experience in the semiconductor industry; working with startup’s up to large scale multi-billion $ companies • Track record of building and growing successful businesses • Strong relationship builder, on all levels. • Self motivated, creative and analytical thinking • Open mind, eager to learn • Excellent judgment and decision-making skills • Effective communicator
Many societal and macro economic developments of the future will increasingly depend on deep tech innovation, nanotechnology and new digital capabilities driven by new, core hardware developments. @ imec, I'm responsible for building and growing relationships with imec's world class partners, providing them deep insights in the imec's innovative technologies that shape the future, with the goal of making positive societal impact.
Sales & Business development for the Central European region. Focus on image sensor sales to regional automotive and industrial markets.
Created a successful semiconductor representative company, covering the Benelux and French markets. Major semiconductor lines represented: Programmable Logic (Altera, Intel), Image Sensing (Aptina Imaging, ON Semiconductor), Flash Memory (Sandisk, Western Digital), Analog & Mixed Signal (Semtech). After ON Semiconductor acquired Aptina imaging in 2015, I took the opportunity to join this industry leader in sensing, power and connectivity solutions
Development of Icera's cellular modem chipset and software business within the European market. Sales to hardware companies integrating the chip set, as well as to all major European telco's planning to use Icera's unique modem technology on their cellular networks. As a start-up in a very challenging environment, facing Qualcomm and HiSilicon (Huawei) as major competitors, we successfully created a footprint in the market, attractive enough for NVIDIA to buy the company. After the acquisition of Icera by NVIDIA, I decided to return to Belgium to start a new adventure by creating a semiconductor representative company .
Different sales management roles at a local, European and global level - Regional Channel Manager - Philips Global Account Manager - Nokia Mobile Phone Global Account Manager - Regional Sales Manager Benelux and Nordic regions