Catherine Ossemerct

Current

• head of media-channels for Fortis at Fortis

Past

• communication manager at Fortis lease
• communication manager at LaCie
• media buyer at TMP Omnimedia

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Education

• Loughborough University
• Universiteit Gent

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Catherine Ossemerct’s Experience

• head of media-channels for Fortis

  Fortis

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

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  Head of branding, advertising, print channels and all e-channels (internet, intranet) for the businessline Commercial/Merchant and Private Banking.
  Introduced Entreprise and Entrepreneur positioning in 360 commsplan. Launched join2grow.biz, the web 2.0 community for entrepreneurs.
  Implemented the rebranding of MeesPierson to Fortis Private Banking.
  Integration of ABN AMRO Private Clients and BU NL: development of various internal and external commsplans, rebrandingplans and budget maintenance.
  Manages team of communications professionals with different nationalities.

• communication manager

  Fortis lease

  (Financial Services industry)

  April 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 6 months)

  Fortis Lease is a 100% subsid of Fortis Bank. Handling branding of various acquisitions in UK and Italy, setting up of internal commsplan.
  Introduction of start-ups like subsid in Poland in the market.
  Handling all internal and external comms (PR, brochureware, websites, event).

• communication manager

  LaCie

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; LAC; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  handling all communications (internal, external) towards vendors and press.
  Also communication towards endusers through seminars and events.
  Projectmanagement over borders; covering entire Benelux region

• media buyer

  TMP Omnimedia

  (Media Production industry)

  October 1998 — March 1999 (6 months)

  Media negotiating and buying for online, print and outdoor.
  Entirely responsable for own budget

Catherine Ossemerct’s Education

• Loughborough University

  communication and media studies 1995 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Erasmus study

• Universiteit Gent

  Political and Social Sciences , Communications , 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Catherine Ossemerct’s Interests:

Speaker about Join2grow, web 2.0 and business networks on conferences like Emerce in the Netherlands, and ad-tech in London (sept 2007)/ Branding: rebranding, crisis communications, integrations

Catherine Ossemerct’s Groups:

•    FORTIS Managers Association (FMA)

Catherine Ossemerct’s Honors:

5 awards for Join2grow.biz

Catherine Ossemerct’s Contact Settings

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