Commercial launch

Tripling yearly revenue by building and inspiring an international business development team.

Enabling technologies

PharmaFluidics develops microchip-based chromatography columns for biomarker discovery and biopharmaceutical analysis. When the company was approaching MVP stage, it involved me to start the commercialization process.

I set up a business development team with inside sales, application specialists and marketing communication professionals for Europe, the US and Canada. I also developed the business development strategy to support the company’s commercial growth.

PharmaFluidics has since been successfully acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Katrien was my manager at PharmaFluidics. We worked together for a year. She is one of the finest leaders and managers I have met. She understands that leadership is about bringing the best out of others. And she has a true heartfelt compassion for employees.

Ali Pervez, Business Development Consultant US West-Coast for PharmaFluidics, #1 Amazon Best-Selling Marketing Author.

Katrien managed to turn PharmaFluidics into a very strong international brand in a short period of time and built up a customer base on all 5 continents, despite the immature state of the technology. In managing her sales team and back office, she showed herself a master at motivating her colleagues and enabling an international group of very diverse profiles to work together

Prof. Gert De Smet, co-founder PharmaFluidics and Head of Analytical Chemistry, VUB

Katrien has extensive knowledge of commercial activities and organization, marketing, sales, communication and publicity. She also continuously improves the necessary skills and competencies in this respect. The exceptional thing about Katrien is that she uses this firm basis of knowledge to leverage the actual value creation of the starting technology company to which she is committed.

On top of that, Katrien also takes into account the challenges that typically arise in a technology-driven start-up company, in both Research and Development and in a production line coming off the starting blocks. Katrien will stimulate growth, but will also help bear the occasional inevitable growing pains.

Dr. Ir. Paul Jacobs, co-Founder, General Manager and, as of 2017, COO of PharmaFluidics

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