Coach, mentor, and lecture executives and graduate students in business economics. Topics of interest include financial regulation, sustainable financing, innovation in finance and emerging use cases relating to blockchain and digital assets. Responsible for the Field Project in Financial Markets and Services (MA2 Business Economics) and for the Sustainable Finance course (Advanced Master in Financial Markets).

Set up partnerships and steered collaboration between bank businesses and specialized insurance, asset management, and real estate businesses of the group. Boosted group penetration from 20% to 80% through new partnership in credit protection insurance solutions. Established new subsidiary to assist defaulting clients and reduce cost of risk, resulting in 2M+ EUR recurring profit/year for clients and the bank, and in innovation prize granted. Developed new Amazon-like front end resulting in aggregating 2000+ new valuations annually, doubling revenues through partnership with Fintech for the development of real estate valuation business.

Co-led student field analyses in industrial economics, coaching 30 to 40 bachelor students in business economics per year, jointly with several tenured professors over time.

As a member of the Integration Team BNP Paribas Fortis BGL (2009-2011), led development and synergy projects between BNP Paribas Assurance and Fortis Bank networks, supported strategic partnership implementation with Ageas, and aligned all performance and roadmap implementations with the Group Integration Committee. As a director in Fortis Business Transformation Office (2007-2008), mapped and steered large international retail banking and insurance transformation programs to successfully position the company’s value proposition and drove a unique and comprehensive process to optimize and steer transversal programs.

Led strategy, business planning, forecasting and performance controlling for the Life and Non-life insurance businesses of Winterthur in Belgium and Luxembourg. Supported business transformation and value creation in line with Credit Suisse objectives. Designed and executed the AXA/Winterthur business integration plan, as Winterthur-Europe Assurances, a Credit Suisse Group company, was acquired by Axa in June 2006.

* Initiated and oversaw finance processes for the life businesses in Belgium and Luxembourg, including developing and monitoring asset allocation strategy, legal, and compliance. * Secured Belgian GAAP and US GAAP accounts, forecasts, budgets and strategic business plans. * Established financial controlling team for life and pensions and SLA with shared services functions.

Led marketing initiatives and implemented marketing strategy to build brand awareness and sales support. Trained and served 500+ insurance brokers, resulting in increased baseline revenue by 50% to 1B EUR through successful launch of unit-linked investment solutions, and hired personal financial advisers to exploit synergy in the broker network.

Led several successful, large-scale management consulting projects aimed to serve international telecom, utility, and financial services clients in the areas of strategy, organization, process redesign and transformation. Achieved billable days exceeding 90%; repeat business and 2000+ EUR daily rate simultaneously.

Led a team of corporate loan officers, assessing client capital investment projects and handling client debt restructuring analyses and negotiations at Board Level, resulting in decrease of cost of risk for the bank. Performed varied three-month assignments in Retail, Corporate & Investment Banking and support functions.

Provide part-time freelance advisory to BeeBonds, a crowdlending platform connecting project sponsors needing alternative financing with potential investors.

Lecture graduate students in Banking and Finance on blockchain, ICOs and cryptoassets and connect them with expert fintech entrepreneurs and financial services market players. Practical use cases include bitcoin mining, asset tokenization, digital custody, payments, asset management, platform exchanges and trading.

Advised Telemedi BV, a telemedicine startup. Telemedi provided video consultation services connecting doctors and other healthcare professionals with patients, for better health care and convenience.

Provided part-time freelance advisory to Trusti, which enables the creation of accredited and identified cryptocurrency wallets and offers the fastest fraud detection and analysis solution in blockchain.