Ide Claessen

Background

About Ide Claessen

Executive, entrepreneur, guest professor, scaleup advisor, with broad international experience in both creative and heavy industry, from entrepreneurial businesses to more established SME (50-100 people) and listed companies in EU people) and abroad. Proven understanding of business acumen. Strong corporate & international (global) background in B2B sales, marketing & service management, to align business and products to make teams successful and grow business within industrial machine manufacturing in high tech industries (focus on Service Management, Product Management, Marketing, Scale-up, Team expansion & long-term strategic visions). Multi-lingual, lived, and worked in multiple countries, gaining insight in local business environments with their cultural differences and opportunities > Global (EU, US, LATAM, MEA, APAC) and former US expat. Likes to work from insights, vision, creativity, and strategy with a strong focus on people management with challenging but feasible targets based upon solid agreements and structure, driven by profound curiosity. FIELDS High Tech - Sales Management - Strategy roll out - RR Management - Product Management - New Business Development - Service Management - Innovation & startup - Design Thinking - Process Management - Scale-up - Education -Ecosystems - Platforming - Ideation SPECIALTIES High Tech - Digital printing industry - Labels & packaging - IML - Heat transfer - Folding carton - Label converting - 3D ophthalmic printing - Design - Additive manufacturing - AI - Communication - CRM - Ecom - Ecosystems