Our team
Jan Vanderstraeten
After his 15 years of Project Procurement Management within two blue chip companies, IBM and Hewlett Packard, Jan has worked for Yara International and had a strong focus on digitalisation of Supply Chain and Production environments (Industry 4.0) in the Chemical industry. During his career he was assigned as a Procurement leader in large IT Outsourcing Projects and Merger & Acquisitions for customers in the Financial, Chemical, Industrial, Retail and many other industries. He has a professional expertise in contract & risk assessment, IT Category Management, Procurement improvement programs and Strategic Sourcing.
His expertise
- Contract Management and legal advisory: Jan has 15 years experience in contract due diligence. He has been trained to identify risks and to calculate contingencies.
- Project Management: Jan is a solution buyer. He combines his project management skills together with his in-depth purchasing knowledge. By doing this he’s very good at calculating the TCO of a project.
- IT expertise: He has 23 years of experience in IT Procurement. He has worked in large outsourcing projects as a Procurement Transition Manager and in this position he has audited several Procurement organizations of different industries.
Kurt Deroost
Kurt is a sourcing and procurement aficionado who is fond of bringing sourcing expertise to technology environments, be it in the private or public sector. His focus is on creating value for the organisations he works with, by working on improving the value of the relationship between customer and provider. Over the last 15 years he has worked with all the major technology providers in various roles at the customer side, such as sourcing expert, vendor manager, contract manager or quality consultant.
His expertise
- Business, Procurement and Vendor Management counselor. Kurt has always been active in procurement and sourcing roles throughout his career, understanding what a performant procurement function can bring to a company in terms of innovation, risk management and financial value.
- Outsourcing partnership management: being involved in outsourcing partnerships creation and management in various industries, he knows where customers need to be careful when setting up partnerships and when a customer needs to act and react in order to get the best value out of the cooperation.
- Digital Procurement: Kurt follows for Pact Association, the developments in ProcureTech. He sees digital as a key enabler for a leading-edge procurement function.
Cato Van Dessel
As a Marketing and Communications Officer at PACT Association, I help make our expertise visible and recognizable. I work on everything from well-thought-out strategies to clear, compelling content that strengthens our story.
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