Jan Govaerts

Managing Partner at theMatchBox - Search & Match solutions
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium, BE
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • German Professional working proficiency
  • Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French Full professional proficiency
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Michael Anfang

Top Guy! Very professional and supportive

James Davidson

I enjoyed working with Jan immensely, his blend of technical knowledge and sales acumen were vital to growth of our business in the EU and beyond. Jan was involved with Vee24 form the very beginning and taught me a lot when I joined, he took on all responsibilities required to scale Vee24. He played a key role in building out the company and the solution and had great success selling to enterprise clients like KBC.

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Credentials

  • Sales: Referral Selling
    LinkedIn
    May, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Becoming Head of Sales: Developing Your Playbook
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • prince 2
    Wolters Kluwer

Experience

  • theMatchBox
    • Belgium
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Managing Partner
      • Jun 2019 - Present

      Data is the new oil! theMatchBox will help you mine it. Quicker and more accurate! A recruiter with a database of candidates wants to find valid candidates out of his pile of CV's asap to present them to his customer. TheMatchBox will match bidirectionally a candidate to a vacancy by mapping hard- and soft-skills, location, job interests and so on. Winning time and increase the recruiters revenue! A legal practitioner wants to analyse and (re)search legal document quickly and semi-automatic. Accelerating his day-to-day practice, giving them access to valuable insights which are today most of the time locked up in (un)structured sets of documents. TheMatchBox seamlessly understands the meaning of (con)text by means of which data extraction from any type of legal document is made easy. TheMatchBox uses advanced natural language processing (NLP), intelligent use of machine learning (AI) and superior language technology in Dutch/Flemish/French/English and German usually in combination with elasticsearch. Our prime vertical is search & matching in the recruiting business our value being recognized by customers like VDAB and Helloflex. In the NLP4gov theMatchbox analysed and structured Belgian legislation. At VIAA.be theMatchBox analyzes, indexes and searches through large volumes of Flemish archives. For content marketeers at BNP Paribas Fortis we powered a content-suggestion solution crawling data sources and the internet for interesting new content. Contactcenter agents will be quicker searching for the right contract or manual to answer their clients calling for support.Any organization that wants to obtain a competitive advantage by analyzing and searching automatically through large volumes of texts, finding relevant information, with less incorrect matches or noise, will benefit from the expertise of theMatchBox founded by Joeri Mesens and Leen Van Acker.Check out www.thematchbox.be Show less

    • External Advisor
      • Dec 2018 - May 2019

      Advising TheMatchBox on their go-to-market and business development for it's NLP, AI and machine learning solutions. Tech that makes a difference in the HR industry, compliance, legal and other sectors where analyzing large volumes of text automatically creates value by winning time and increasing revenue.

  • DJANGO
    • Belgium
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • Owner / Business Accelerator
      • Sep 2007 - Present

      Django allows me to engage in multiple business opportunities as an external business advisor, interim sales manager or other freelance activities like consulting. This gives me the freedom to share my experience of scaling up a business and be passionate about product strategy, go-to-market, sales, sales processes, sales enablement, marketing and business development in Belgium, UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Feel free to contact me at any time if you think I can be of any help... Django allows me to engage in multiple business opportunities as an external business advisor, interim sales manager or other freelance activities like consulting. This gives me the freedom to share my experience of scaling up a business and be passionate about product strategy, go-to-market, sales, sales processes, sales enablement, marketing and business development in Belgium, UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Feel free to contact me at any time if you think I can be of any help...

  • Brouwerij Zuidkant
    • Belgium
    • Food & Beverages
    • Co-Owner
      • May 2014 - Present

      For the 750th anniversary of my hometown Borsbeek me and two friends started brewing "het Robiaantje", a Hoppy Blond Beer with 6° alcohol. What started as a one-off initiative has continued to be a succesful hobby. With limited budget and limited spare time we managed to brew, market and distribute our beer in and around Antwerp including retail stores like Carrefour, local restaurants and bars. A nice experience to launch a new brand and a customer base from scratch with limited resources! #retail #fmcg #marketing #pr #bizcase Show less

  • Skedify (now Pexip Engage)
    • Belgium
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Advisory Board Member
      • Oct 2018 - Oct 2021

      Skedify is a Belgian scale-up based in Ghent with an Appointment Scheduling Software for Enterprises for clients including AXA and sdworx. Using my experience in business & product development, sales, marketing and managing scale-ups I advise Skedify on quarterly strategy meetings. Arne & Christophe & myself share the same DNA that you're only as strong as your network, when it comes down to scaling up businesses. Skedify is a Belgian scale-up based in Ghent with an Appointment Scheduling Software for Enterprises for clients including AXA and sdworx. Using my experience in business & product development, sales, marketing and managing scale-ups I advise Skedify on quarterly strategy meetings. Arne & Christophe & myself share the same DNA that you're only as strong as your network, when it comes down to scaling up businesses.

  • Macro 4
    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Commercial Manager - Benelux
      • Nov 2017 - Jun 2019

      Accelerating the growth of Macro 4 and UNICOM Global in different areas including product strategy, business development, customer success and other areas that I can be an added value. Macro 4 has two product lines: mainframe solutions and customer communication management. In a matter of months I discovered the mainframe market and managed to close new business in the financial, retail industry and government. Presenting Macro 4's business and involving the right pre-sales expertise from our HQ in the UK as a true teamplayer. Show less

  • 24Vision.Solutions
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    • Freelance Business IT Consultant
      • Sep 2017 - Nov 2017

      When Dubai based, 24Vision's head of chartering, asked me to help them structure their IT tooling, I didn't hesitate one minute. The forecast of getting to understand a new industry and using my 20 years of experience in IT triggered me to take up this challenge. Documenting their business requirements for fixing dry bulk cargo's using handy- and ultramax sized vessels. Spotting quickwins and mapping their long term strategy (including big data) to disrupt the dry bulk chartering business. This while focussing on laying the foundation for their new IT needs for running their day to day operational and commercial activities. By comparing and chosing the best of breed technology on the market involving all 24Vision stakeholders. Technology blending in with 24Vision's IT context, built on Cloud platforms like force.com and interconnecting all systems with secure API's. I completed the consultancy job on time and within budget, so 24Vision chartering can move on to the next phase of their business strategy. Nice job showing I can be leading in different roles in any type of organisation. Show less

  • Wunderkraut Belgium
    • Belgium
    • Information Technology & Services
    • Sales and Marketing Director
      • Dec 2016 - Sep 2017

      Responsible for the Sales and Marketing team selling exciting new web projects to medium and large corporates (e.g. Water-link). Typical projects start with Concept and Design, followed by a build phase including complex integrations until they are deployed and maintained by Wunderkraut's managed services team. Following Wunderkraut's exciting joint venture with Appnovation, my playground has been expanded with new technologies and partnerships including Mulesoft and the Atlassian product portfolio. It's my job to bring in those new clients, through a well defined sales and marketing strategy and leverage our existing references including Voka, J&J, Carrefour, Swift, Groen and the European Commission. Show less

  • Vee24
    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • European Business Development Director
      • Oct 2007 - Dec 2016

      Vee24 is the leader in Live Video and Text chat engagement solutions. KBC, a market leader in the Belgian financial industry and Financial technology is using vee24 to engage prospects (or customers) in real time on their website where the customer can see and hear their representative, who can answer any question by taking them to the correct information via co-browsing, copying the bricks & mortar experience. As one of the first staff members of the Vee24 team, I have been involved in this unique start-up venture, setting up and expanding the business across Europe. As the company grew my role shifted from an Enterprise Account Management role to Business Development, doing direct sales and working through partners on accounts like Toyota (EU), Audi (DE & JP), Binckbank (BE), KBC (BE), Johnson & Johnson, Webhelp (FR), JBC (BE) and city of Mechelen (BE), and still using my strong technical and PM skills combined with personal and language skills. Getting the job done basically, which is the fun (or hard) bit of being part of a startup from the beginning. Show less

  • Manheim
    • United States
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • IT Manager Manheim Retail Services
      • Jun 2007 - Oct 2007

      As IT Manager for Manheim Retail Services, I was responsible for managing a UK based team of developers and the local Client IT Support team. Delivering used car management tools for dealers and used car locators for manufacturers. As member of the European IT board I ensured specific European requirements were scoped into new developments.

    • European Project Manager
      • Sep 2005 - Jun 2007

      Manheim is the biggest remarketeer of used cars in the world. This requires a lot of IT applications in the front and backoffice. My job is to do the technical pre-sales for new customers, project manage new projects, monitor issue and change management.

  • Easynet Group
    • United Kingdom
    • Telecommunications
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Web department Manager
      • May 2001 - Jan 2005

      As manager of the MediaFoundry I was responsible for the Sales and Marketing of our Web Development. Combining our in house created CMS with bespoke development. Managing leads generated via my own network or our Easynet Sales team. Presenting our solutions and references, analyzing the customers requirements, quoting and signing contracts. As member of the Easynet Belgium Executive Board I was responsible for the team's P&L (#5 people) and strategy and this at the age of 26.

    • Project analyst & developer
      • Mar 2000 - May 2001

      Analyze business requirements from customer, designing the best solution for them, developing database driven application, delivery, testing and training of the client.

  • Real Software
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • R&D in ERP for the WEB
      • Nov 1998 - Mar 2000

      Doing research on using Internet to enhance ERP sofware suite. Doing research on using Internet to enhance ERP sofware suite.

  • iMotion
    • Antwerp Area, Belgium
    • System Adminstrator
      • Aug 1998 - Nov 1998

      Setup and maintenance of unix/windows servers and LAN. Setup and maintenance of unix/windows servers and LAN.

  • The Reference
    • Belgium
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Webbel - search engine
      • 1995 - 1995

      Index Belgian websites to construct a Yahoo-like search engine where users can browse through categories and sub-categories. Index Belgian websites to construct a Yahoo-like search engine where users can browse through categories and sub-categories.

Education

  • Vlerick Business School
    Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
    2019 - 2019
  • KU Leuven
    Master, Modern History
    1993 - 1998
  • Atlassian - Charlie academy
    Atlassian Sales Professional, Atlassian products & services
    2017 - 2017
  • Kluwer Opleidingen
    Bachelor's degree, Prince 2 Foundation
    2006 - 2006
  • Ehsal Management School
    Practical Management Skills
    2004 - 2005
  • SJB
    ASO, Mathematics
    1992 - 1996

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