As a seasoned IT and Data Consultant based in Belgium, his leadership extends to effectively guiding teams and enabling a people-centric approach in different organisations.

In the last years, Maarten has focused on emerging and disruptive paradigms in the data world, such as data mesh, data products and platform engineering to find the ideal combination between people and technology making companies more data-driven.

In the past 25 years Annelies has mainly operated in data & analytics and has helped several companies to become data-driven, identify data value opportunities and outline a data vision and strategy, emphasizing on the fact that data should be seen as an asset and as an integrated part of a company’s overall strategy.

In a rapidly changing digital world a lot of challenges and limitations arise with traditional approaches to managing data. Annelies is an enthusiast and adept of the Data Mesh principles and helps organizations to shift towards a product-oriented and distributed model to handle the growing complexity and supports in scaling modern enterprises.