Jeroen De Backer

Current

Sr. Business & Operations Development Consultant Interactive Media at Telenet
Owner at The Business Factory

Past

Head of Sales and Marketing - CoFounder at Telemak
Business Development Manager (Special Projects/Partnerships) at Belgacom Skynet
CO, Belgacom Brussels Teleshop at Belgacom

Sales Manager to the corporate segment at Belgacom Skynet

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Jeroen De Backer’s Summary

Sales Management FMCG
Sales Management Corporate segment/Partnerships
Business Development activities, EMEA
Head of Sales and Marketing, Worldwide

Jeroen De Backer’s Specialties:

streaming media technologies, project management, branding and identity, sales and marketing

Jeroen De Backer’s Experience

Sr. Business & Operations Development Consultant Interactive Media

Telenet

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years)

Telenet is Belgium ́s largest provider of broadband cable services. Telenet concentrates on delivering cable television, high-speed internet and telephony services to primarily residential customers in Flanders. Under the name Telenet Solutions it also furnishes services to companies in Belgium and Luxembourg. Telenet is listed on Euronext Brussels under the ticker symbol TNET. For more information: www.telenet.be

• Senior Business & Operations Development Consultant Interactive Media
• Owner of the Online Video Business Case and emerging technologies
Telenet is Belgium ́s largest provider of broadband cable services. Telenet concentrates on delivering cable television, high-speed internet and telephony services to primarily residential customers in Flanders. Under the name Telenet Solutions it also furnishes services to companies in Belgium and Luxembourg. Telenet is listed on Euronext Brussels under the ticker symbol TNET. For more information: www.telenet.be

• Senior Business & Operations Development Consultant Interactive Media
• Owner of the Online Video Business Case and emerging technologies
• Overall responsibility A/V Streaming Operations, DataWarehouse, Network and Services availability (SLA)
• Member of the bid-team
Owner

The Business Factory

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

December 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)
Head of Sales and Marketing - CoFounder

Telemak

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

November 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 7 months)

Telemak is the European Leader in Streaming media technologies and facilities. The HQ is based in Brussels/Belgium. Telemak served projects like ESA mars landing, TMF awards, Telenet PCTV...

Director Sales and Marketing EMEA
Member of the board
Bringing the company from a start-up to a multi million Euro business in just 3 years was the main achievement. Serving clients like the European Council, Telindus, Telenet, Apple computer Europe, American Embassy, State.Gov, ESA, Eurovision, Video House for all of their video streaming activities.
Setting up and coaching of a direct and indirect sales channel with
vendors/partners.
Overall financial responsibility and IR
Executive Producer of various web based audiovisual performances.
Business development on new technologies versus company profiling.
Mobistar WAP award 2005: most innovative WAP application with KanaalZ/CanalZ
Extensive press and media coverage (EU/USA)
Business Development Manager (Special Projects/Partnerships)

Belgacom Skynet

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years)

The Belgacom Group (Belgacom S.A. and its subsidiaries) is the dominant telco company in Belgium and a market leader in many fields, particularly in wholesale and retail fixed-line services, mobile communications, Internet and broadband data transmission services. At the end of the fiscal year on 31 December 2005, the Group reported a total revenue of EUR 5,696 million and a net operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of EUR 2,098 million; including non-recurring items.

Mayor accomplishments: launch and general management of the free Internet hype in Belgium with brands like Belgacom.Net, CompaqNet, KidCity, KBC/CBC, Photohall.net...
From 400,000 to 1,4 million free Internet users over a period of approx. 2 years; increasing number of used dialup consumed minutes versus upcoming ADSL market.
Prospecting and maintaining new strategic partnerships between Belgacom Skynet and AAA market references.
The ‘team’ had +20 members, call-center not included.
CO, Belgacom Brussels Teleshop

Belgacom

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)

Leading a group of +12 people in their day-to-day job and coaching them to obtain their sales objectives. I was in charge of numerous pilot projects like ‘new concept boutique’ where desks where replaced by stand up and face-to-face sales positions, ADSL pilot project, Alerts Services and ISDN pilot projects.

Major accomplishments: bringing the shops’ position back into the top 5 of all +100 shops throughout Belgium.
Serving at Belgacom Learning and Development academy as a professor.
Sales Manager to the corporate segment

Belgacom Skynet

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

From Account Manager to Sales Manager to the corporate segment BELGACOM SKYNET
Major accomplishments: serving the top 500 of the Belgian corporate market.
Overscoring on sales objectives with IP related hardware and infrastructural products.
Annual Turnover: as Belgacom is quoted on the stock exchange, this data is ONLY available from the IR section of the corporate website itself.