Peter Poelman

Summary

Ambition:
A challenging senior management function at the board level as Sales and Marketing Director / Director of Operations / Business Unit Director / Corporate Affairs or Public Affairs Manager for an innovative company that has long-term career perspectives and encourages entrepreneurship and leadership.

Vision * Leadership * Strategic thinking * Negotiations & Sales * Entrepreneurship * Hands On * Authentic * Integer * Team player

Specialties: General management / Change management / C-level stakeholder management / Sales & Marketing in technical B2B environment

ExperiencePresidentVlerick MBA Alumni

September 2007 – Present (7 years 7 months)Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for the discrete C-level networking (CEO, CHRO, CFO, ...); maintaining authentic and in-depth friendly relations with Belgium's Captains of Industry and decision takers. Leveraging the reach of the associations network (already elected 6th worldwide by the Financial Times in 2009) and enabling the possibilities for the people within.

Organising and being a connector at high-level prestige or intimate networking events that create opportunities in an uniquely intimate atmosphere.

Being the face and the spokesperson of this respected and much looked at organisation.

Business Unit Manager ICT BIS DivisionGetronics

March 2006 – October 2012 (6 years 8 months)Brussels Area, Belgium

Management of the ICT BIS division (IT infrastructure mgt/data /electricity/telecom cabling/technical facility mgt/datacenters/HVAC/...) of KPN-Getronics.

80-90 persons in headcount + multiple equivalent outsourced

The ICT BIS division is responsible for the technical facility management for large companies as well as the project management and installation of data&telecom networks and turn key datacenters (false floor, HVAC, fire detection, access control, UPS, generator, ...). Afterwards the IT infrastructure can be taken over in an outsourcing model, with service and intervention contracts or by staffing in-house technicians in the clients organisation.

I'm the head of the division, that can be seen as a independent company within a larger company.
Overseeing a management team consisting of a manager wh