Paul Ploumhans is a member of the Novable board of directors. He is an experienced Strategy Consultant. He helps companies that seek growth, profitability and change and he is an angel investor in technology start-ups.
Over the last two decades, Paul Ploumhans have worked in a variety of environments including Management Consulting, High-Tech Start-Up, and Academia. He also combined freelance consulting with entrepreneurship. This gave him a broad exposure to many industries (Logistics & Transport, Banking, Insurances, Software Development) and functions (Strategy, Transformation, Post-Merger Integration, Due Diligence, Product Development).
Paul Ploumhans operates effectively on the whole spectrum going from strategy to implementation, and does most of his work in Belgium, The Netherlands, UK and France.
EXPERIENCE & STRENGTHS
• Strategy, Go-To-Market, Salesforce Effectiveness
• Due Diligence, Post-Merger Integration, Transformation
• Entrepreneurship, Product Development, R&D
• Angel Investing, Quantitative Investments (listed securities), Risk Management
• Multilingual: French (native), English, Italian, Dutch (B2)
EDUCATION
• Mechanical Engineer (University of Louvain, Belgium, 1996)
• PhD in Applied Sciences (University of Louvain, Belgium, 2001) – Focus on numerical simulations and high-performance computing
• MBA (IMD, Switzerland, 2006)
• Blockchain developer (Udacity, 2021)
• Full stack developer (Udacity, 2021)
• Deep learning (Coursera, 2022)
• Generative AI (Coursera, 2023)