Vincent De Smedt 👋

TERYA

Co-Founder / CEO

Start it @KBC

Startup Mentor

VIXO

With an entrepreneurial mindset I research & develop climate solutions and lead climate tech startups

Entrepreneur in Residence

KPMG Belgium

Leading the development of a new digital / ESG / WEB3 product within the KPMG digital innovation team.

Product Owner (Ext)

HYGINN | reinventing hygiene

Founder

EDMIRE | circular design

Circular & EcoDesign expert | Reducing product & packaging impact & waste by Life Cycle Assessment, concept design, product-service design, circular business modelling

Voka - Kamer van Koophandel Limburg

Advisor charter sustainable entrepreneurship

Astrobot

Co-Founder

Smart Design - Barcelona

As a Product Design Intern at Smart Design I supported the team working on several products for global brands in consumer electronics, telecommunication, transport and lifestyle products.

Product Design Intern

CEO at TERYA 🌳 A company purposed to regenerate forests & restore biodiversity. 
> we provide high quality voluntary carbon offset and compensation credits
> we provide a nature positive investment opportunity

🥇 Experienced in managing & building innovative businesses, climate focussed.
👨‍🏫 Startup Mentor, helping entrepreneurs not to make the same failures I did. 
🤖 Entrepreneur with a background in circular product & business design, strategic thinker & experience in B2B sales and ecosystem building. I co-founded several companies and projects in the fields of Biotech, SaaS and robotics. Eager to learn new skills, explore new ideas, and collaborate with others who are aligned.

☝️Build, test, improve! Keep iterating for better strategy & implementation! 
☝️Your network is your most valuable asset!
☝️Follow your passion, supported by ratio!

Climatetech Startup Mentor

KPMG España

Insights Center Lead

Senior Manager in the innovation team. Decision maker (as part of the management team) in matters such as people strategy, budget management, people planning and growth, external and internal marketing for the team and stakeholder management. 

Head of the the centre of excellence for Advanced Facilitation. Facilitating end to end innovation projects for clients in different industries (water, logistics, education, financial services, ESG). Designing a company wide training program for Innovation (including skills such as human-centricity, storytelling, prototyping and agile mindset). Promoting collaboration, co-creation and multidisciplinary within KPMG Belgium and with other member firms. 

Directly coaching and managing several people at different levels to achieve their full potential.

Senior Manager (Human-centric Innovation and Transformation)

Maria Salmones - Entrepreneur

Enabling innovation in companies by putting people at the center of Design.
Facilitating vision and strategy off-sites where participants have great fun while achieving tangible results. Making the world a little bit better and learning with fantastic people.
Clients: Eurocontrol, IMEC, Lonza, Saint Gobain, Vlerick, Partena, Deloitte, Ageas and Swift

Euroclear

Leading a user-centric strategic transformation company wide. Including the following:
- creating a team from scratch (up to 5 people at the end)
- defining vision, strategy and KPIs to measure our success
- convincing stakeholders to collaborate with us and advocate for the change
- find financing sources and asking for budget for people, training, software, etc
- understanding people affected by the transformation, listening to them and facilitating co-creating sessions to get their input and buy-in (more than 50% of my time).
- applying ADKAR as change management framework

As part of the transformation I was also leading the information and communication stream of the New Ways of Working. I had the role of Product Owner and we worked Agile for more than a year to implement several measurements that have shaped the company for better (adaptability to working remotely, keeping human connection across team members, bringing interactivity and energy in meetings, etc)

Selected as one of the top 20 candidates for Leaders for the future program

Transfomation Lead - Leader for the Future Program (top 20 worldwide)

Working in the Continuous Improvement and Transformation as innovation front runner.
Manager of an open Innovation Ecosystem between several companies in different industries.
Leading Vision and Strategy off-sites for top management.
Founder and lead of TEC (Talent Exchange Community), an in-company business incubator. In TEC we create an environment to welcome new ideas and prototype them quickly. Design Thinking is promoted to truly understand underlying needs and we bring ideas to actions with lean start-up methodology.

Innovation Manager - Design Thinking Lead

Financial Performance Manager. Advising senior management in business decisions performing a full financial assessment for budget and actuals. In charge of Strategy, Communications, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, Risk Management, Audit, Legal and Compliance

Financial Performance Manager

In charge of modelling the risk arising from the banking operations (PD, LGD,EAD) Providing a risk monthly report to top management with an analysis on the credit risk requirements. Calculation and report of the economic capital for the bank to protect it against credit risk. Assessing banking on current and future credit risks.

Credit Risk Modeller

Working in the Management Reporting team providing monthly reports after closing exercise. Forecast and Budget exercise in TM1. Experience on developing reports in BI tools (Oracle and Cognos). Experience with Lean methodology and Continuous Improvement

Business Intelligence Analyst

Internship in Finance. Management Accounting and Reporting Services. Developing and reviewing KPIs, procedures and controls for both teams.

Internship

Senior Manager @Ignition KPMG. Driving human-centric innovation with a great group of people (SP, EN, FR, NL)

Heading an innovation Center in KPMG Madrid. Leading a team to facilitate sessions; executive strategic events, immersive experiences with technology, offsites, etc. Passionate for human centric design where innovation and technology creates value for people (GenAI, Web3, AI, DLT...). Leading transversal projects from discovery towards ideation and prototype: finding sponsors, allocating resources and above all bringing inspiration and positive energy to act and make companies more innovative. 
Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators. 
Executive MBA graduate by Vlerick Business School.

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