Gaspard Lhermitte

• Acted as interim CEO for digital energy start-up, owning its go-to-market strategy. • Created, validated and scaled business models with a focus on the commercial perspective. • Created, refined, prioritize the product backlog and OKR. Key Learning: Innovation and digital transformation should be pushed from the top-down.

• Goal: Define the IT specification to digitalise risk, procurement and sustainability processes. • Responsible for all project activities (project management, SPOC for internal and external stakeholders). • Responsible for mapping data flows, data structures and designing dashboards to visualise ERP and SAP data of 10 subsidiaries.

• Goal: To define the long term strategy for production and distribution networks out of EU factories. • Modelled the Cost Of Goods Sold, Distribution costs, and CO2 emissions for different scenarios. • Supported project management activities. • Coordinated project tasks with senior stakeholders from six subsidiaries. Key Learning: Every problem or action has micro effects and implications, building up to shifting tides of the macro: Learn to cycle through the micro to the macro

Brightbites is a market network dedicated to food manufacturers. It provides an ecosystem that connects food manufacturers with the workspaces, consumers and development resources they need to launch successful food products. Key Learning: Be effective, don't mix important and urgent things. Find the right balance between persistence and openness to pivot.

Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Institute of Energy Technology Tutor : Prof. Dimos Poulikakos