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Business Transformation & Cross-Cultural Operations Consultant
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Brussels, Belgium
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
International Business Partner | Making European Expansion Simple & Credible for Growing Companies For over 30 years, I've helped companies navigate the complexities of international business. My career began in corporate supply chain and procurement leadership, managing multi-site operations and guiding transformations for global players like ExxonMobil and ArcelorMittal. Later, as a consultant with firms like Andersen, Ernst & Young and through my own practice, I've applied this operational excellence expertise to drive digital transformations and optimize processes for clients in financial services, insurance, and manufacturing. Today, I channel this extensive experience into Fulwell & Co, built on a simple but powerful idea: International companies shouldn't need a full European office to do business here. Based in Brussels at the heart of Europe, I act as a flexible, hands-on partner for smaller and mid-sized firms. I provide the local presence, cultural fluency, and operational support you need to succeed, including: * Market Entry & Commercial Representation: Representing your interests on the ground. * Operational Improvement & Supply Chain Optimization: Streamlining your processes for efficiency. * Interim Management & Project Leadership: Filling critical leadership gaps to drive key initiatives. My approach is rooted in practical, results-oriented collaboration. Fluent in five languages (French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish), I build trust and bridge cultural gaps, ensuring your business is understood and represented the right way, from the boardroom to the operational frontline. Let's connect to discuss how I can help make your European expansion simple, credible, and successful.
Work experience
Sales coordinator
Mobil Plastics Europe, Inc.
Virton, Belgium
Management of the Sales support. Responsibilities : * Logistic support to the national sales offices in the UK, Spain and France. * Direct sales in Scandinavia
Guest Lecturer
Thomas More
Nov 2017 - Present
9 years
Mechelen, Belgium
Managing Director
Fulwell & Co
Sep 2016 - Present
10 years 2 months
Brussels, Belgium
Fulwell & Co is built on a simple idea: international companies shouldn’t need to set up a European office before they can do business here. Based in Brussels — at the heart of Europe — I provide smaller and mid-sized firms with the local presence, cultural fluency, and operational support they need to succeed. With more than 30 years of experience in international business and consulting, I've worked across industries and geographies, from large corporates to entrepreneurial scale-ups. Fluent in five languages, I’m able to connect with people across cultures and make sure your business is understood and represented the right way. Think of Fulwell & Co as your trusted European partner — flexible, hands-on, and focused on results. Whether it’s representing you in meetings or fairs, supporting your market entry, or improving your operations, the goal is always the same: to make expansion simple, credible, and accessible for your business.
Member of the Advisory Board
ITMOVESIT
Jul 2015 - Present
11 years 4 months
San Diego, CA, USA
LEADiNiUS is a cloud-based comprehensive and unified Business Management Solution for managers and any other user. LEADiNiUS is conceived to monitor, share, approve, manage and report and more in one single place. No more constant task switching between multiple programs, complicated menus and cumbersome import-export. Increase productivity, streamline processes, save money and empower users, while reducing fragmentation and error risks. Inspiring people to become efficiently effective is what we call Augmented Management and combined with interfaced features, services (and objects!) it creates transparency.
Curator
CarpeDiemRoyal
Jul 2013 - Present
13 years 4 months
Raleigh, NC, USA
Coffee is the pleasure ... Art is the treasure ... In essence CarpeDiemRoyal is Jasmine Villalobos del Castillo who is a unique coffee artist. Originally from Costa Rica, she has been painting with coffee since childhood. Through the years she’s developed and perfected her technique, yet her style is always evolving. Uniquely, she doesn’t use many traditional paints unless she is looking to emphasis a portion of a piece. Instead, her medium of choice is coffee. By trial and error and many years of dedication she has discovered ways to manipulate the simple coffee bean into a variety of hues. With a combination of aging the coffee, the strength or variety of the bean, and continuous layering and patience she has been able to use this naturally occurring seed to paint a variety of pieces.
Project Manager eInvoicing
Colruyt Group
Jul 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 1 month
Halle, Belgium
Project Manager Business Transformation
Colruyt Group
Jan 2024 - May 2024
5 months
Halle, Belgium
Worldline
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
2 years 5 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area
Supply Chain Manager France
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
11 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area
Supply Chain Management Consultant
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
2 years 5 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area
IS E2E Architecture & IS Transformation Program Manager
AG Insurance
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 2 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area
Club Captain - Committee Member
Golf Club Virton
Jan 2010 - Dec 2020
11 years
Virton, Belgium
Entreprise Content Manager
Brussels Airport Company
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
7 months
Brussels Region, Belgium
In charge of the definition of a corporate wide strategy related to Content Management and the creation of a Content Services Platform. The project has as goal to define a 3-dimensional cross company approach to managing key documents & information enabling the seamless running of operations (ongoing)
Senior Account Project Manager
Docbyte
May 2015 - Mar 2020
4 years 11 months
Docbyte is, since 2006, helping companies and organizations with their digital transformation. We are specialized in the creation and management of customer-fit Capture and Output, Case Management, and Enterprise Content Management solutions. We are experts in providing and implementing solutions for Long Term Archiving, Digital Filing, Mailroom Automation, Procedure & Case Management, Invoice Processing, Application Decommissioning, Digital Sealing and Signing, and Content Transformation. Our main fields of experience reside in Finance & Insurance, Healthcare, Public Sector, Corporate and Industry.
Business Management Consultant
Kinetic Investments
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 10 months
For an international Pharmaceutical company : In charge for the design and roll out of the Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing (CMO) project management framework
Head of Project Management Office
Gam Consult
Dec 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 1 month
Bertrange, Luxembourg
Responsibilities : • Head of Project Management Office • Part of Enterprise Content Manager Business Unit • Service Delivery Management Main accomplishments : • For a large insurance company : in charge as Project Manager for the replacement & deployment of an existing Content Management system (Documentum) by an IBM FileNet solution. The project covered the complete process going from the dematerialization phase to the electronic management of electronic versions of the documents complemented with metadata • For an international waste management company : in charge for the functional analysis of a dematerialization project for all corporate HR documents • In charge for the functional analysis & deployment of a Corporate SharePoint solution for a large security company in the Netherlands (6000 users). The project aimed at defining requirements and performing a large scale gap analysis between the existing tool and the to be tool • For a large Swiss bank : in charge for the functional analysis & deployment of IBM Case Manager for the management of customer claims as well as for the Project Management • Selection & deployment of a corporate Time Management tool enabling the on-line capture of timesheets and seamless consolidation of data & reporting. One of the main benefits was the reduction of the Service Invoicing cycle as well as data integrity
IRIS (Canon Group)
Oct 2009 - Dec 2013
4 years 3 months
Project Manager
Aug 2011 - Dec 2013
2 years 5 months
• Part of Enterprise Content Manager Business Unit • Program Manager for SaaS solution in Financial Sector in Luxembourg • Service Delivery Management • Main accomplishments: - For a large Scandinavian bank: in charge of a dematerialization project aiming to convert the bank’s Client Information from a paper format to an electronic one. The project also aimed at intelligently recognizing, classifying and ultimately making them available via a Document Management tool - For a German Investment bank : In charge of the migration from an existing “homemade” ECM system to Documentum. The project required the analysis and mapping of existing data to fit the to be system while meeting new business needs & reporting demands
Manager International Practice
Oct 2009 - Dec 2013
4 years 3 months
Luxembourg
Manager – International Practice, October 2009 – November 2013 * Head of Corporate Organization & Process Management * Member of the Board of Directors * I.R.I.S. designs, implements and supports solutions for efficient enterprise content management towards companies and administrations (listed in Brussels stock market) Main accomplishments : * Selection and implementation of a Customer Support tool (FrontRange ITSM) * Selection and implementation of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool covering the entire Project Sales Life Cycle – Microsoft Dynamics CRM * Design & implementation of a Corporate Management “backbone” covering 7 territories of IRIS & incorporating business best practices * Start up of activities IRIS Nordics (Norway & Denmark)
Senior Manager
Victor Buck Services
Nov 2004 - Oct 2009
5 years
* Head of Organization, Process and Quality Management * Head of Audit & Compliance (CCO) * Member of the Board of Directors * Main accomplishments : - Selection and implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning system (modules Finance and Accounting, Sales, Production, Inventory Management, Purchasing, Time Tracking & CRM) – Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Business Process Reengineering & definition of a new organizational structure - Creation of a Corporate Audit & Compliance function in the context of a strictly regulated environment (PSF status & CSSF) - Start up of Singapore branch
Manager
Ernst & Young
Sep 2002 - Dec 2004
2 years 4 months
* Part of the Business Consulting practice and the Supply Chain & Digital Markets solution. * Major engagements : - For a large international bank located in Luxembourg : in charge for the elaboration of an adjudication model for the construction project of the new corporate headquarters (€250 Mio.) as well as the conduct of a complete purchasing diagnostic covering general expenditures and investment projects. The results of the diagnostic served as a base for the re-engineering of the purchasing and procurement processes. - For a multinational petrochemical group : performed a European multi-site procurement diagnostic in line with a SAP MM/WM review. Set up the basis for the deployment of a corporate function, lead buyers and project buyers, re-engineering of purchasing processes and methods, business reporting. The objective was to harmonize the procurement practices, leverage process efficiency across the organization and finally provide the framework enabling cost savings.
Manager
Arthur Andersen Business Consulting
Sep 2000 - Aug 2002
2 years
* Part of the Business Consulting practice and the Supply Chain & Digital Markets solution. * Major engagements : - For a multination waste management group : in charge for the quantitative and qualitative assessment of the purchasing activities following the integration of 2 multinational organizations (>1000 sites in 7 countries). Definition of the purchasing strategy, optimization of structures and processes. Feasibility study for the implementation of an eProcurement solution and a Procurement portal. - For a copper foil manufacturer : in charge for the program management of the construction and set-up of new facilities in Canada and the launch of production. - For a copper foil manufacturer : in charge organizing the multi-site replenishment and logistics processes, purchasing, sourcing and procurement functions, setting up the warehouse facilities and defining a detailed action plan for item purchases, supplier selection and e-procurement strategy.
Senior Purchasing Manager
Viking EMEA
Jul 1994 - Aug 2000
6 years 2 months
Direction and coordination of the Purchasing, Logistics and Inventory Management for Europe, the Middle and Far East (10 sites). Main accomplishments: * Creation of a corporate Purchasing function. * Roll out of an Inventory Management policy. * Support in the implementation of an ERP (J.D.Edwards). * Roll out of a DRP Inventory Management system. * ISO 9002 certification of the Purchasing department.
Sales Executive
Guardian Industries
Jun 1992 - Jul 1994
2 years 2 months
Management of Sales support. Main accomplishments : - Start-up of sales activities in Scandinavia enabling the development of sales without a permanent regional structure. - Initiation and development of sales in Morocco. - Start-up of sales in Greece & selected "Export" countries.
Education
HEC Liège
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Economics, Political Sciences, International Relations, Sciences Commerciales & Politiques
1986 - 1990
3 years 11 months
Grade: Master
Activities and societies: A.I.E.S.E.C.
Licenses & certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Issued: Jan 2018
Prince2 Practitioner
Issued: Jul 2013