Tom Dejonghe

VP Product | Data Governance | Data Quality | Collibra

Ghent Metropolitan Area

About

active for many years in the financial services business, worked internationally for big and small financial institutions in London, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium experience with implementation of finance and regulatory reporting software solutions experience in managing multiple cross functional teams in different leadership roles experience in PPPM (Program, Portfolio and Project Management), certified Prince II project manager but also delivered great solutions with Agile methodologies (like Scrum) passionate about inspiring and coaching people to do things in a better, faster and easier way excellent trainer, coach and people manager my motto in life is “There are no problems, only solutions”!

Experience

  • Collibra (10 yrs 7 mos)
    • Vice President of Product Management | Data Governance and Data Quality
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      Executive leader for Collibra’s core product portfolio, driving vision and strategy for the Data Governance and Data Quality pillars. Responsibility encompasses the vast majority of Collibra’s product business, focusing on the delivery of a unified, AI-ready data ecosystem. By integrating active Data Governance with high-integrity Data Quality, the focus is on empowering global organizations to build semantic understanding and trust across the entire data lifecycle. Core Impact: - Portfolio Strategy: Leading the global roadmap for 15+ cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products for data governance and data quality. - GTM Partnership: Driving market-aligned innovation to ensure high-scale product delivery and competitive excellence in the Data & AI space.

    • Vice President of Product Operations
      May 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Be a trusted strategic partner to Product leadership, providing process and information in support of bringing a better experience and more value to customers faster!

    • Sr Director SaaS Transformation
      Sep 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Founder at otree.eu
    Aug 2014 - Sep 2021 · 7 yrs 2 mos

    Freelance consultant with strong experience in software development and implementation, business analysis, agile software product management, change management, team management and coaching for the financial sector, specialised in regulatory data management, data quality, data governance and reporting.

  • Data Warehouse and Regulatory Reporting Specialist at Argenta
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Support the Corporate IT and Finance departments with the development and roll-out of end-to-end automation and data governance for internal and external reporting. Projects: - Automation of the Consolidated IFRS FINREP compliance reporting (EBA) - Automation of the regulatory compliance in the context of ECB Payment Statistics - Automation of the multiple reporting requirements in the context of the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) or Deposit Guarantee System and many adhoc questions from BBF / SRF (EU) / NBB - Automation of Protocol for Loans to Regional Governments (LRG)

  • Partner at ALVEARE bvba
    Aug 2014 - Dec 2014 · 5 mos

    ALVEARE brings a refreshing approach to change management consultancy, focusing on embedding the change reflex into organisational behaviour.

  • Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (Ghent)
    • Head of Product Management - Finance
      Dec 2013 - Jul 2014 · 8 mos

      Responsible for • definition of the product strategy • translation into detailed product roadmap • writing product requirements • sign-off product releases

    • Senior Manager Product Development
      Jan 2000 - Nov 2013 · 13 yrs 11 mos

      Responsible for the solutions Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting and Common Data Layer.