Experience

ORG, Permanent Modernity

• Belgium
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• ecosystem builder / project manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  ORG Permanent Modernity is a research, strategy and design group, with offices in Brussels and New York City. Architects, engineers, urban planners, ecologists, economists, strategists and policy and process designers work together to tackle complex projects. The group thinks, designs and connects on multiple levels of scale: from architecture to regional and international systems. ORG Permanent Modernity is a research, strategy and design group, with offices in Brussels and New York City. Architects, engineers, urban planners, ecologists, economists, strategists and policy and process designers work together to tackle complex projects. The group thinks, designs and connects on multiple levels of scale: from architecture to regional and international systems.



Solv.world

• Belgium
• Business Intelligence Platforms
• 1 - 100 Employee

• mediator - process manager

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Our world needs impactful large projects in city-making, landscaping, water, energy and mobility to succeed. The reality is that many of these projects never make it.Solv is a unique machine learning method, significantly improving the chances for success of mediators and managers when pursuing large spatial projects. Solv accelerates the impactful transformation processes our planet needs. It blends AI with human mediation. Our world needs impactful large projects in city-making, landscaping, water, energy and mobility to succeed. The reality is that many of these projects never make it.Solv is a unique machine learning method, significantly improving the chances for success of mediators and managers when pursuing large spatial projects. Solv accelerates the impactful transformation processes our planet needs. It blends AI with human mediation.



tech with purpose BV

• ecosystem builder

  • Jul 2020 - Present



‘t Brielhof

• Belgium

• Member of the Board

  • Sep 2006 - Present

  non profit association for the support of local youth work KSA Deinze-Astene.Chairman from 2006-2015We manage 't Brielhof as an example of state of the art youth infrastructure with a sustainable (Green Key ecolabel) and inclusive design (toegankelijkheidslabel A+) non profit association for the support of local youth work KSA Deinze-Astene.Chairman from 2006-2015We manage 't Brielhof as an example of state of the art youth infrastructure with a sustainable (Green Key ecolabel) and inclusive design (toegankelijkheidslabel A+)



imec

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• opportunity shaper

  • Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

  Funded project manager in the imec EDiT department. Enabling Digital Transformation in cities, logistics & mobility and public health. Funded project manager in the imec EDiT department. Enabling Digital Transformation in cities, logistics & mobility and public health.



Stad Gent

• Belgium
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Liaison Officer Digital Transformation

  • Jun 2020 - Oct 2020

  the city of Ghent aims to accelerate the digital transformation and become a European leader in govtech. Our organisation will become user-centric, and collaborate with the (Ghent-based) digital ecosystem to pioneer digital solutions for urban challenges.

• Team coach Investment Promotion and Spearhead Clusters

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2020

• Digital Ecosystem Policy - Scale Up City

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2020

  The Financial Times listed Ghent among the 10 cities in Europe with the best startup support. Indeed, it’s not always a capital city that’s at the epicenter of the digital ecosystem. In Belgium, Ghent is the true scaleup city and home to a high-performing startup ecosystem that gave birth to unicorns like Team.Blue and Tele Atlas, fast-growing scale-ups like Showpad, Teamleader, and technologies like Drupal, and many many moreKey actors ar Ghent University, the university colleges, a worldclass accelerator: istart (imec), over 40 incubators and co-working spaces, the AI 4 Growth community...We support startups and scaleups in 3 ways: access to talent, access to market and access to finance.

• investment promotion manager

  • Nov 2011 - Jun 2017

  Responsible for the investment promotion teamAttracting foreign direct investment to GhentHelping Ghent based startups grow and internationalize.Investment seminars, economic missions, incoming company visits and representative contact



Stad Antwerpen

• Belgium
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• policy advisor

  • Sep 2006 - Oct 2011

  Policy preparation on a broad range of socio-economic themes: employment policy, sustainability and green economy, innovation and cluster policy, social economy, diversity management...External contacts with higher public bodies

• project leader green economy & CSR

  • Sep 2006 - Oct 2011

  Project development energy and sustainability for Blue Gate Antwerp.Eco-innovation and green economy policy.Programme management internal CSR policy.Project management sustainable public purchasing.



Adecco Group Belgium

• social responsability advisor

  • Jan 2006 - Aug 2006

  Reports on diversity and the Belgian labour market, e.g.“Old or out? Adecco Belgium and the experienced workforce (45+)”.Development of company training on managing diversityDeveloping “IBO interim” projectHR – research: exit analysis. Reports on diversity and the Belgian labour market, e.g.“Old or out? Adecco Belgium and the experienced workforce (45+)”.Development of company training on managing diversityDeveloping “IBO interim” projectHR – research: exit analysis.



KSA nationaal

• Belgium
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• stafmedewerker interculturalisering

  • Dec 2003 - Dec 2005

  Implementation of intercultural and diversity management in Flemish youth work and youth policy.Managing the interculturalisation process of a national youth work organisation. Implementation of intercultural and diversity management in Flemish youth work and youth policy.Managing the interculturalisation process of a national youth work organisation.