About Katrien

I crafted my education and my corporate and consulting career to take on a business role in biotech ventures alongside the founder.

From science to business oriented

After a biotech master, I spent 15 years preferring techno-commercial roles in corporate companies such as European key account manager (QIAGEN), European field account specialist and EMEA marketing manager (Thermo Fisher).

The goal? To hone my strategic, business development, communication and branding skills for the startup world to take on a business role there alongside the founder. With my consulting company BioConAct, I did that at UgenTec, PharmaFluidics and other startups. I’m thrilled to work on the ever moving frontier of bioconvergence.

"Katrien joined UgenTec from its early beginnings. Her experience in international sales and marketing, her network and diagnostic/biotech market knowledge are key to our company."

Wouter Uten, CEO UgenTec

"The exceptional thing about Katrien is that she uses her firm basis of knowledge to leverage the actual value creation of the starting technology company for which she is committed."

Dr. Ir. Paul Jacobs, co-founder PharmaFluidics

"Katrien was heavily involved in setting-up and negotiating the terms of multiple large commercial license agreements on the myNEO technology with biotechnology partners."

Cedric Bogaert, co-founder & CEO myNEO

"The feedback and learnings of the early market assessment Katrien completed are very well perceived by potential investors during fundraising."

Koen Huybrechts, Sr Venture Development Manager IMEC

My education and specializations

I deliberately chose my courses for their added value in the biotech startup world. Here are the main ones:

  • Master in Chemical Sciences, option Biotechnology (University Ghent, 1986-1990)
  • International Executive MBA, elective Venture Capital (Vlerick Business School, 2009-2017)
  • Entrepreneurial Buyout Academy (Vlerick Business School, 2018)
  • Director effectiveness (Guberna, 2020)

In addition to these courses, I also immersed myself in these specializations:

  • Marketing Management (Vlerick Business School)
  • Digital Marketing (School of Marketing Life Technologie)
  • Marketing Strategy Simulations (University of California Irvine)
  • Applied Marketing Research Principles (University of California Irvine)
  • People management 'Enneagram Module 9 Types' (Improve)
  • Negotiating up to the handshake (Dirk Van Poucke)

Interested? Let’s get in touch.

Call +32 476 85 38 76 or Send me an email.

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