Philippe De Ridder

Current

Business Development Manager at VINCI Facilities (Taylor Woodrow)
Founder at Board of Innovation
Founder at Open Innovators

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Past

Business Developer (internship) at Materialise
Presidium member at KIB Student Association
Business Analyst (internship) at Atlas Copco

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Education

UAMS
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Universiteit Antwerpen

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Connections

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Industry

Facilities Services

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Philippe De Ridder’s Summary

I am an entrepreneurial generalist with broad interest in ambitious new product and business development projects. (Tel: +32499551930 - Email: philippe.deridder@taylorwoodrow.com)

Philippe De Ridder’s Specialties:

integrated facility management, business development, open innovation, business analysis, rapid prototyping, new product ideation and development, web development, giving presentations

Philippe De Ridder’s Experience

Business Development Manager

VINCI Facilities (Taylor Woodrow)

(Privately Held; Construction industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Marketing and developing VINCI Facilities in the Benelux and Europe. VINCI Facilities is a leading provider of Integrated Facility Management solutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and United Kingdom. We specialise in delivering the full range of FM services achieving 10-15% savings on average while supporting productivity and creating unique experiences.

VINCI Facilities (formerly: Taylor Woodrow) is part of VINCI, the world's leading concession and construction group. The European VINCI has a turnover of 33.5 billion euros and 164,000 employees in 90 countries worldwide.
Founder

Board of Innovation

(Internet industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Board of Innovation visually maps existing and innovative business models from across the globe and across industries. Zopa, Skype, free newspapers, YouTube, RadioHead… successful new concepts are plotted with 10 building blocks to make them easily understandable and transferable to other industries. Website: www.boardofinnovation.com
Founder

Open Innovators

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Founded a global platform on open innovation. Open Innovators covers the latest trends on open innovation and crowdsourcing, providing inspiration and practical tools to business leaders and entrepreneurs. Website: www.openinnovators.net
Business Developer (internship)

Materialise

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

Designed a business strategy for a new software in the automotive industry on the level of product positioning, business potential, requirements, USP, market segmentation, and business development roadmap.
Presidium member

KIB Student Association

(International Affairs industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Business Analyst (internship)

Atlas Copco

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

July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)

Performed a business analysis of rapid prototyping and manufacturing techniques for integration in Atlas Copco's new product development processes.

Philippe De Ridder’s Education

UAMS

Master , Product Innovation & Entrepreneurship , 2007 — 2008

An international, practice-oriented master program on product innovation management and new business development. Topics: business analysis, project management, ideation techniques, new product development, product management, target account selling, financials, strategy, coaching.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Master , Applied Economics , 2005 — 2007

Dissertation: "Multinational R&D in China: open innovation and intellectual property strategies". A case-study of Philips China.
Universiteit Antwerpen

Applied Economics 2003 — 2005

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Philippe De Ridder’s Interests:

new product ideation, product development, intra/entrepreneurship, business development, presentations, business model innovation, web 2.0, tennis, cycling, poker