Jan Coppens

Gent Area, Belgium Belgium

Bringing high-tech innovations to market

Education

Obtained a Ph.D. in computer science engineering at Ghent University and continued my research in network technology at Bell Labs while managing several research projects. As part of a corporate venture effort, founded and led a small team of entrepreneurs to bring innovative home networking technology under CxO attention and push it on the product roadmap. Joined the Business Technology Office of McKinsey & Company, serving clients mainly in the telecommunication and banking sector. Specialised in IT business strategy, change management, management coaching and pushed McKinsey’s thinking about Lean application development forward. After initiating the start-up acceleration and interna.