Jan de Smet

Ct Ventures is my personal holding company. I have used it over the years for various activities within the area's of Corporate Recovery, Crisis & turnaround Management, Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, M&A. Assignments in Hosted services, Payments infrastructure, Electronics, Mechanical engineering, Defence ,Textiles and Interior products

TT delivers Software (and content) As A Service in a number of market verticals. For this it has developed its own, fully platform independent delivery-architecture. Beyond this the platform integrates key applications and data there-off in central middleware architecture (SOA), which also manages user-profiles and authorizations. Advanced virtualisation technologies are used to make anything relevant available "anywhere" to the end-user at the best affordable price. Applications and content are made a

Responsible for the activities of the (Australian) publicly listed holding company and its subsidiaries in Australia, Asia, Europe, USA and Latin America. Reporting to a mixed Australian - European board. Built numerous partnerships with blue chip companies around the world in electronic payments (POS), (electronic) services and telecommunications. Moved corporate headquarters from Perth to Brussels; took care of cross-pacific hand-over of knowledge, rebuilt the organization and managed the initial seve

Post acquisition assignment. Analysis of financial situation of the (Public Australian) company. Managed a multi million $ cash deficit through negotiations with customers, suppliers and banks. Implemented a new ERP and accounting system. Became chairman of a distressed management team in march 2000.

Served in a variety of roles over a period of time. Initially CFO/COO/CIO, Responsible for Finance, ICT, Logistics, Warehouse and Sales services. Implemented full new MIS within a 6 months time-span. Headed up manufacturing plant ad interim after dismissal of manufacturing director. Restored motivation, achieved substantial productivity improvement.

Responsible for BA @ division headquarters for the consumer milk division. Direct responsibility for 4 departments, partly headquarters, party manufacturing locations. Evaluation of multi-million€ investment plans, composition of operational plans and budgets; monitor monthly results against those..

Integration of a number of manufacturing sites and sales offices around the globe into one single Strategic Business Unit for Synthetic Resins. Set up procedures, systems and reporting; develop management information systems, accomplished substantial savings in logistics and product allocation. Rationalized investment allocations internationally. Restructured manufacturing plant in Belgium. Set-up joint venture in Malaysia, evaluation of investments and acquisitions around the world. Under my leadership