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Daniel Van den Hove

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buydent, 2
7850 Enghien
+3223956027
+32476252532

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Partner Alphega, Exego, ICTcontrol

Lecturer and coordinator at Solvay Business School

President Benelux, European club of Information Systems governance

Board member CIO Club, member ISACA, ITGI, OCEG, cercle de wallonie

 

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contact : dv [at] alphega [dot] be
Lecturer and coordinator at Solvay Business School for the Executive Master in IT Education
Daniel is advising executives on how to successfully execute IT or supply chain driven business transformation, improve Governance while optimizing investments and resources to effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes. He has deep knowledge of management processes, practices, and real experience of leveraging, in case of IT transformation, recognized IT best practices frameworks (COBIT, ITIL, ValIT, RiskIT and others ).
He is member of various professionals associations : ISACA, ITGI, CIONet, CIO Club, OCEG,, Cercle de Walllonie and others. He is also regularly lecturing at conferences about the role of the CIO, business/IT alignment, IT governance and Enterprise Architecture.
Over the last years, he advised several companies in private and public sectors in defining the IT strategy, industrialising the IT fabric and coaching IT and business management about governance of IT, risk management and IT value generation.
Prior to that activity, over 25 years Daniel has grown as a global senior executive experienced in IT, Supply chain, customer management, M&A and consulting services contributing to Fortune 500 corporations leader in their respective industry. Focus on result centric business transformation and improvement , he managed various complex and multi disciplinary projects in heterogeneous and multi cultural environments like distribution network or warehouse process restructuring, Warehouse & distribution outsourcing, Sourcing strategy redeployment, IT operations start-up), Global IT service desk deployment. or Global POS standardisation and others He has a broad-based background in partnerships building, operation start up or turnaround and other strategic projects like acquisitions targeting, due diligence or mergers.
From 1998 to 2006 as VP Global IS – CIO International at Estee Lauder group, He accelerated the package based standardization for core business processes (ERP, SFA ,POS ...) , implemented virtual teams project management, introduced IITL framework for IT operations ( global service desk, ...) used some elements of COBIT framework, IT governance and , portfolio & project management to support the SOX IT compliance program. He led several IT operations start-ups in countries like China, Russia, Portugal or Turkey
From 1995-1998, at IMS Health, as VP BI & Tech, Daniel led the international division technology product development responsible for product portfolio management and R&D. he managed a division turnaround from IT development focus into a customer centric IT factory delivering value added technology solutions. He started a consulting practice leveraging advanced technologies for sales and marketing processes optimization at clients sites. He also worked on growth opportunities in emerging channels while targeting potential acquisitions.
From 1990-1995 he moved into business positions, as Regional Director Supply Chain 1 IT, he restructured the SCM chain processes and organization in the Benelux where he managed the operational merger between Kraft and Jacobs Suchard/Cote d'or. He also ran the Benelux TQM departement and the European "customer satisfaction improvement and ECR" program.
From 1992-1990 Daniel held various international IT positions up to IT manager where he developed a new IT strategy based on package solutions.
In 2002, he also co-founds the CIO Forum Belgium , a IT Leaders association. Daniel holds a under graduate in Economics and a Master degree in Computer Sciences in business administration. He is operationnal in English, French and Ducth

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