Wim Maria L Wynants

Wim Wynants Address: Ambassador Road – Diplomatic Area – West Bay – Doha - Qatar Phone: + - Email:- Executive Summary I thrive on being able to grow companies in international context (from start-up to corporates), even in difficult times, delivering exceptional performance through astute optimization, ruthless customer-centric focus, intelligence-driven strategic positioning, and creating, retaining and empowering exceptional talent in high performance teams. As at home in IaaS/SaaS industry as I am in Infrastructure, Energy, Engineering or High-tech start-ups, I am a technically astute inspirational leader as evidenced by the feedback of past teams. I have a deep-rooted entrepreneurial attitude and have been proven to be an outstanding motivator and team-player, able to navigate, grow businesses through the most challenging stages and times. I excel at creating company-wide enthusiasm, a can-do entrepreneurial attitude… by empowering people & teams. Career Path - KEY ACHIEVEMENTS InnoVVent LLC– Co-Owner/Board Member (2018 – Present) Specialist Boutique Consultancy and Advisory firm focused on providing tangible “hard numbers” value to organizations by delivering on transformational business performance optimization, Headcount optimization & organizational restructuring, costoptimization, digital performance reviews and company-wide efficiency optimization. Main responsibility is oversight, strategic focus, government relations, leadership, financial management and client relations, while I personally specialize in assisting international clients to be successful in Middle East & Africa. Canon B2B Qatar – General Manager - (Canon Imaging Solutions) (3 years - 2015 –2018) Full P&L responsibility, overseeing and leading – logistics, HR, Sales, Service, Marketing, Product Management, Finance – reporting to MEA HQ MD o Achieved 150% growth in Revenue between-, making Canon market leader in Qatar market, at higher GP% and at lower average cost base, through prudent financial controls, active people management and business risk management in a double-digit declining market, delivering 140% on Profit target End of FY2018. Siemens Qatar – Business Director (3 years - 2012-/2015) Successfully took ownership & management of Qatar Foundation (Qatari Government owned) Siemens share-holder relations and business, covering business volumes more than USD 800M across all Divisions in Siemens. o Successfully Leveraged High-level Relations within Government institutions and Qatar Foundation related entities to maximize Siemens’ value to QF as a shareholder and strategically position Siemens in critical/key projects. Successfully managed Cross Divisional, Regional and Corporate/Board/Stake-holder relations in Siemens dealing with QF o achieving buy-in for Joint R&D projects, negotiating contracts, managing contractual disputes & escalation process, Oversee and Manage Project execution KPI’s with board/shareholders, innovation roadmaps, technologydiscovery rounds, etc Siemens Southern Africa – Head of Sales & Marketing (4 years -) Successfully re-structured the IC division to meet changing market conditions through re-alignment of business and sales approach/strategy (HR, Sales, GTM, Engineering, Design, Commercial, R&D, Admin back office, Rewards & Benefits, etc...) Wim Wynants Phone: + - Email:- o Improved hit-ratio and increased average deal value from 50K USD to 200K USD in FY2009, to 700K USD in FY2011 & build-up of pipeline with dedicated approach to key corporate customers, dedicated market segment approach, for FY10/11 to a value of USD80M and FY11/12 to a value of USD120M. o Successfully implemented the Partner program for Sub-Sahara market, resulting in increased of volume by USD 2M for FY 2009 and USD3M for FY2010. Entelec Control Systems – International Sales Director (2 years -) Achieved international exposure and business for Entelec in EMEA, US and South East Asia within 9 months, effectively doubling pipe-line sales value and effective sales by 40% in the first year. OmniMark – European Business Development Manager (5 years -) Achieved the successful venturing-out of the company into new industries (telecoms and aviation) by drafting use-case and validated business case to use the company’s software and expertise in alternative ways to respond to increasing dataprocessing/enrichment/data-mining needs in those industries. Various other – Telecommunications & Internet (5 years -) From Belgacom (national telecom operator in Belgium) to Global Telecommunication Systems (GTS) and EuroDat. CORE COMPETENCIES Strategic Business Planning ▪ Organizational Optimization ▪ Web Design & Digital Transformation ▪ Process & Policies ▪ GTM ▪ Government & Corporate Relations ▪ International C-Level Business Development ▪ Digitization ▪ Shareholder Relationships ▪ Added Value Creation ▪ Business transformation ▪ Technical Innovation ▪ Customer Success Strategies ▪ Performance Optimization and Management ▪ Overhead Cost Reduction ▪ Maximise ROI’s (Return of Investments) ▪ Commercial Deal Initiation and Negotiation ▪ Channel Strategy & management ▪ Corporate Governance ▪ Talent Management ▪ Rewards and Benefits/Incentive Programs ▪ Organizational Change Management ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s in criminology (with honours) - University of Ghent Master’s in criminology (Thesis not completed, due to early career start) - University of Brussels 1990 – 1995 INTERESTS & SYSTEMS/TECHNOLOGY Mountain climbing, Water-sports (jet-ski, swimming), Power Yoga, Financial markets, Art, Real Estate PERSONAL INFORMATION & DETAILS Marital status – Married (Russian) Children – One Nationality – Belgian Driver’s License – BE & QA LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/wimwynants0477 Wim Wynants Phone: + - Owner/Shareholder in: InnoVVent LLC &, AWE Technologies (Qatar) Carpe Diem & Partners S.A (Belize) www.immaql8.com Email:-