Nicolas Vandenberghe

co-founder & CEO

KosmoTime

Feb 2018 - Oct 2021 (3 years 9 months)

KosmoTime, the Smart Calendar for Time Blocking & Focused Work KosmoTime was merged into Chili Piper. Your calendar will never be the same

Guest Lecturer

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Apr 2016 - Apr 2018 (2 years 1 month)

Guest speaker and coach at Stanford Ignite, a GSB-certificate program teaching innovators to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas

Co-Founder & co-CEO

Chili Piper

Jan 2016 - Current (10 years 6 months)

Chili Piper is the leading inbound conversion software, used by top B2B revenue teams like Intuit, Twilio, Spotify, and Gong. We’re on a journey to build the best company to work for and to work with while trying to make the world a better place. Our team is distributed around more than 160 cities and 35 countries around the world. Join the movement!

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founder & CEO

Floating Apps

Mar 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years 10 months)

Floating Apps AutoMagic Sync retrieves in gmail the contacts, emails and meeting that should be in Salesforce and smartly imports them. More than 400 companies signed up. The company reached break-even in summer 2015 and was transitioned to Chili Piper, a new venture focused on Buyer Enablement

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

LightSquared

Jul 2011 - Feb 2012 (8 months)

Led design & deployment of all IT systems for this $10Bn greenfield telco operator: - re-architected Business Support Systems and issued a new RFP, resulting in $85M savings - pioneered BSS deployment in cloud instead of in-house, resulting in $11M CAPEX reduction and increased business flexibility - deployed company-wide Oracle ERP on time and on budget at Amazon AWS - led migration from on-premises Microsoft environment to Google Apps - reduced operating budget by 40% while improving internal and external user satisfaction

Vice President of Sales

LightSquared

Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Signed up leading internet & new media companies to become MVNOs on LightSquared's wholesale 4G network

Venture Partner

Gotham Ventures

Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Early Stage Venture Capital Firm part of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Network, New York Responsibilities: Worked with VC team to source and evaluate investment opportunities in early stage high tech companies Achievements: Completed several in-depth due diligences leading to revisit investment decisions Identified market opportunities leading to new investments

Post-Acquisition Consultant

IDEMIA

Apr 2004 - Feb 2005 (11 months)

Led new product development for large scale, security-centric government projects

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co-Founder & CEO

Delean Vision sold to IDNX Sagem Morpho now Safran SA

Dec 2002 - Mar 2004 (1 year 4 months)

2003-2004 CEO - Delean Vision / Post-Acquisition Consultant - Identix (IDNX) Biometrics - Face Recognition, New York Responsibilities: Identified critical market space where invention would be most valuable; hired engineers, built product, brought it to market, generated revenues Achievements: Built company from new invention to successful sale to space leader Identix (IDNX)

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founder & CEO

RedCart Technologies sold to MSN Shopping

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)

E-Commerce Software-as-a-Service Provider (universal shopping cart, San Francisco Responsibilities: Founded and ran this 70-employee company focused on "universal shopping cart" services (enabling portals to provide a single shopping cart when sending their users to merchant sites) Achievements: Signed up a network of 110 partnering online merchants Built order backlog of more than $4M Negotiated acquisition by Microsoft MSN Shopping

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founder & CEO

The LivePix Company sold to Live Picture Inc

Aug 1995 - May 1998 (2 years 10 months)

Consumer Software, San Francisco Responsibilities: Created and ran this spin off the Live Picture Company, re-purposing a break-through imaging technology from professional users to consumers, in collaboration with M John Sculley (ex-CEO of Apple) Achievements: Led product development from idea to shipments of several million units Achieved $6M in revenues the first year, $10M run rate the following year Built company to 55 employees and break-even Successfully sold minority share back to holding company

Engagement Manager

Corporate Value Associates

Jan 1989 - Jan 1993 (4 years 1 month)

Management & Strategy Consulting (spin off from the Boston Consulting Group), London Responsibilities: Led hybrid consultant-client teams on strategic and management consulting assignments Achievements: Led 12-person team who uncovered profitability by product line and customer target for one of the top 3 UK banks Designed and implemented European re-structuring plan for leading industrial company, leading to 15% cost savings Generated more than $1M of new business in my last year

Assistant Brand Manager

Procter Gamble

Aug 1988 - Dec 1988 (5 months)

Worldwide leader in Consumer Goods, Paris Office Responsibilities: Assisted Brand Manager in all aspects of product management (product, price, place, promotion) Achievements: Identified opportunity from Nielsen reports to capture 5% market share by promoting alternative format Created and led multi-product seasonal promotion

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