Marc-Henry Lachapelle

Current

• Managing Director at Lauceann sprl
• Chairman of the Board at JM Fossil Fuels LLC

Past

• Managing Director at Econocom Telecom Services BeLux
• head of commercial operations at Mobistar
• executive director purchasing/logistics at Sodexho

• Officer (Captain) at Belgian Gendarmerie

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Education

• Solvay Business School
• Ecole Royale de Gendarmerie
• Université de Liège

• Ecole Royale Militaire

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Industry

Telecommunications

Marc-Henry Lachapelle’s Summary

Experience at board, senior executive and senior management level

Experience within telecom, food, indirect distribution and public sectors

Languages

French Mother tongue
Dutch Fluent
English Fluent

Marc-Henry Lachapelle’s Specialties:

In depth understanding of general management, sales, operations, finance and procurement

Strong negotiation, presentation and people management (small and large teams)

Marc-Henry Lachapelle’s Experience

• Managing Director

  Lauceann sprl

  (Management Consulting industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  Consulting, interim management and retail company.
  Reseller for third party companies in the area of home parties.
  Owner of the lady-bug brand.

• Chairman of the Board

  JM Fossil Fuels LLC

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  July 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Hydrocarbon exploration company

• Managing Director

  Econocom Telecom Services BeLux

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; ECONB; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Management of the telecom branch of the Group Econocom for Belgium and Luxembourg.
  
  Econocom Telecom became market leader in B2B mobile phone fleet management, BeLux biggest reseller of Shoretel VoIP solution, preferred partner of Mobistar for Telecom managed services and is active in implementing telecom solutions for the corporate customers (Push-mail, mobile data, VoIP, …)

• head of commercial operations

  Mobistar

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2001 — February 2006 (4 years 11 months)

  In charge of overall indirect sales operations for Mobistar with mission to make the department cost effective and a market reference:
  
   Remuneration for indirect distribution: end-to-end responsibility with objective to maximize partner satisfaction and EBIT of Mobistar.
   Contract management: design, management and follow-up of all contractual aspects for indirect distribution, including end-of-contract negotiations.
   Hardware management: operational management of handsets, sim cards, packs and sale offers (up to May 2005).
   Call center: managing the agent helpdesk for over 2000 points of sales.
   Budget operations: overall management of Opex, Capex, margins and dealer commissions for indirect distribution, sales, communication and marketing departments (>160 million euro).

• executive director purchasing/logistics

  Sodexho

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

  January 1998 — February 2001 (3 years 2 months)

  Member of the Executive Committee of Group Sodexho Belgium and of the European purchasing Board of Sodexho Alliance.
  Crisis coordinator for Sodexho Belgium. Member of the steering committee for the development of a global SAP Retail solution for Sodexho Worldwide.
  Accountable for over 50% of the company’s turnover and a significant negative working capital for the Group.
  New ISO 9002 certification.
  Purchasing power of 100 million euro.
  Initiator of a new strategy resulting in a productivity increase of over 30%

• Officer (Captain)

  Belgian Gendarmerie

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Law Enforcement industry)

  January 1991 — December 1997 (7 years)

  General Headquarters, Corporate Management
  Member of the Management Control Cell of the Belgian Gendarmerie – Central Command.
   Involved in the control of the efficient use of the global budget (> 1 billion euro).
   Responsible for finding and tracking new budgets (10 million euro).
   In charge of the development of the internet strategy.
  
  Manager, Logistics Central Direction
  
  Second Commander, Central Investigation Bureau
  
  Platoon Commander, Mobile Legion

Marc-Henry Lachapelle’s Education

• Solvay Business School

  MBA , Licence spéciale en gestion , 1993 — 1995

• Ecole Royale de Gendarmerie

  Licence , Ecole d'application pour Officiers de Gendarmerie , 1990 — 1991

• Université de Liège

  Licence , Licence en criminologie , 1988 — 1990

• Ecole Royale Militaire

  Licence , Toutes Armes , 1986 — 1988

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