Toon Vanagt

Current

• Managing Partner at Casius Operations / Innovation & Venture Management (IVM.be)
• Owner & Publisher at Virtualization.com
• Managing partner and owner at Virtualisers bvba

• Managing director at Casius bv

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Toon Vanagt’s Summary

Entrepreneur with broad experience in all aspects of setting up and managing ventures in the BeNeLux. Hands-on experience with e-business, consulting and ICT projects. Holds a "commercial engineering degree" from Solvay Business School at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and was awarded "ICT manager SME of the year 2002" by the Belgian Datanews jury. Has followed the Virtualization industry for over a decade and is the publisher of Virtualization.com. Interested in early-stage startups as well as companies “on the bubble”.

Toon Vanagt’s Specialties:

SME directorships, ICT project management, strategy consulting, innovation projects & ventures, publisher (running blogs and broadcasting video coverage). Experience in technology, insurance and construction sector.

Toon Vanagt’s Experience

• Managing Partner

  Casius Operations / Innovation & Venture Management (IVM.be)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  September 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  The Casius internet platform assists home owners to realize their construction and renovation projects, by matching them with qualified local contractors, who provide a free quote.
  The Casius technology platform is the leading online marketplace in the Benelux to connect consumers with prescreened residential contractors and home service professionals.
  
  Casius offers the most effective and targeted Internet marketing solution for residential contractors while providing consumers with better choices and guarantees for their home improvement projects.
  
  For its European expansion strategy Casius is actively looking for local partners and investors (Germany, Ireland, Switzerland,..).
  Since 1999, Casius has been providing home improvement services to home owners, home improvement professionals, architects and DIY-markets in Belgium and The Netherlands. Casius.com raised over 4 million Euro of venture capital, to be fully acquired by some of its founders in March 2005 through a MBO.

• Owner & Publisher

  Virtualization.com

  (Media Production industry)

  March 2003 — Present (5 years 8 months)

  Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such as a server, an operating system, an application, or storage device) appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices or servers) appear as a single logical resource.
  Virtualization.com is the premier resource on the web for independent news & event reports, video coverage, interviews, insights and rumors from the virtualization industry, a fast-growing niche market in information technology involving players like VMware (EMC), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Citrix-XenServer, Parallels, Virtual Iron, HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, etc.

• Managing partner and owner

  Virtualisers bvba

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  May 2002 — Present (6 years 6 months)

  Toon Vanagt offers his management and consulting services through Virtualisers bvba and can be contracted for SME directorships, ICT project management, strategy consulting and innovation projects.
  Virtualisers also operates a number of generic domain names as niche portals (e.g. www.virtualization.com)

• Managing director

  Casius bv

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Construction industry)

  January 2001 — Present (7 years 10 months)

  http://www.casius.nl