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Dirk Wauters

Investor

Advisory Board Expert at Qbic Fund

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Dirk Wauters is a visiting professor of innovation management at KU Leuven and a business angel investor. He has held senior executive positions at Alcatel and Siemens, serving as CEO of Siemens Networks and VRT, Belgium's public service broadcaster, where he directed operational turnarounds and growth initiatives. His background includes founding Silvar-Lisco, KU Leuven's first spin-off, which listed on Nasdaq in 1984, and five years working in Silicon Valley.

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Experience

  1. KU LeuvenVisiting Professor Innovation Managementcurrent2014 — presentLeuven
  2. JalaExecutive with extensive international experience in telecom, media and software industriescurrent2010 — present
  3. KBC SecuritiesDirectorcurrent2015 — presentBrussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
  4. NRBDirectorcurrent2017 — presentHerstal, Wallonia, Belgium
  5. OTN Systems NVDirectorcurrent2011 — presentOlen, Flanders, Belgium
  6. VRTCEO2007 — 2009
  7. SiemensCEO Siemens Networks Belgium2002 — 2007Herentals
  8. AlcatelPresident, Enterprise Sales and Services (eDD) Division1999 — 2001Paris
  9. AlcatelVice President Northern Europe, Business Systems Division1995 — 1998

Education

  1. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA, Business1979 — 1981
  2. Stanford University
  3. Stanford University
  4. Stanford University
  5. Stanford University
  6. Stanford University

Skills & more

Management Consulting8Business Strategy7Strategy9Management6Product Management2Telecommunications4Entrepreneurship7Business Transformation1Cloud ComputingBusiness Process1Start-ups9Project Management1
+7 moreChange ManagementDigital MediaInnovation ManagementBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsProgram ManagementConsulting

Languages Dutch · English · French · German · Spanish

From Dirk's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,150

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew

+ 1,144 more

Also attended Stanford University1,578

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital

+ 1,572 more

Shared employers

Also worked at KU Leuven26

KobeFinance Director at Hummingbird VenturesPieter AbbeelAlumni at HouseWillem BroekaertManaging Partner at V-Bio VenturesShelley MargetsonManaging Partner at V-Bio VenturesHendrik Van AsbroeckManaging Partner at Astanor VenturesFrank BulensPartner at imec.xpand

+ 20 more

Also worked at KBC Securities9

Victor van EijkDirector Global Business Development at Maven 11Mathieu DevosSenior Investment Manager at NPM Capital N.V.Norbert KruszewskiPrincipal at Cogito Capital PartnersEls DegrooteInvestment Principal at AlychloNathalie Van Den HauteInvestment Principal at AlychloEvert Jan de GrootPartner at Vortex Capital Partners

+ 3 more

Also worked at NRB2

Nicolas BietInvestment Manager at Meusinvest (Noshaq)Géraldine HotterbeexInvestment Manager at Meusinvest (Noshaq)

Also worked at OTN Systems NV1

Hans KayaertGTM Operator at Aikido at Syndicate One

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