Chili Piper

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!

Co-Founder & co-CEO

KosmoTime 

KosmoTime, the Smart Calendar for Time Blocking & Focused Work

KosmoTime was merged into Chili Piper. Your calendar will never be the same

co-founder & CEO

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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

Guest Lecturer

Floating Apps

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

founder & CEO

LightSquared

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

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

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

Vice President of Sales

Gotham Ventures

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

Venture Partner

Sagem Morpho

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

Post-Acquisition Consultant

Delean Vision - sold to IDNX - Sagem Morpho now Safran SA

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)

co-Founder & CEO

RedCart Technologies - sold to MSN Shopping

E-Commerce Software-as-a-Service Provider (universal shopping cart, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
Founded and ran this 70-employee company focused on &quot;universal shopping cart&quot; 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

The LivePix Company - sold to Live Picture, Inc.

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

Started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, ran Sales for a $2Bn telecom company negotiating billion dollar deals with companies like Google, now co-founder & co-CEO of Chili Piper, the first Demand Conversion Platform (chat, form routing, lead routing, SDR-to-AE Handoff & Scheduling)

In my spare time I re-read the 27 chapters of "Neuroeconomics, Decision Science & The Brain" by NYU star professor Paul Glimcher, in the hope of bringing its findings to the science of Sales & Marketing.

Specialties: Sales, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Go-to-market, Digital Marketing, IT, Technology, Innovation, CIO, CEO, venture capital, strategy consulting, enterprise software, internet, web, mobile, Cloud

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Founders Freedom

Founders Freedom's vision is to build a community of successful, multi-generational African-owned businesses.
We are on a mission to help founders build firm foundations that enable their businesses to run in their absence and last generations.

Co-Founder | Director

MicroMentor

Working with entrepreneurs, in various countries in Africa, to solve problems and build successful businesses

Business Mentor

Partners Worldwide

As the Partnership Operations Manager for Africa, I engaged my services in supporting the Regional Director in the execution of regional plans for the achievement of specific targets in partnership with key stakeholders.

Key Contributions:
• Pervading any partnership management gaps in the region by acting as Partnership Manager for uncovered partnerships.
• Creating flourishing economic environments in the region by managing PW’s loan portfolio.
• Overseeing efficient and timely application to PW loan fund including application checklists and protocols to provide financial support to the organization’s partners.
• Supporting the Regional Director in ensuring effective execution of all country and regional plans, efficient management of the country and regional budgets, and timely collection of metrics.
• Managing PW’s grant portfolio in the region to ensure that application checklists, reports, and protocols are up-to-date.
• In charge of coordinating execution of key regional projects and strategic initiatives to support regional resource management.

Partnership Operations Manager- Africa

Key Contributions:
• Complied loan applications with the correct process and properly vetting all levels to coordinate the access to capital process in Africa.
• Collaborated with the West Africa Regional Partnership Manager to interview and onboard Partnership Managers for Nigeria and Liberia.
• Provided project management support on specified projects to ensure that timely reports are shared with regional and global staff.
• Enhanced grant management support to ensure effective monitoring of actual budgets against plans.
• Increased capital by 10% through business and financial analysis of partnerships in the region.
• Developed and updated tools and resources used by the partnership managers, partnerships, and business mentors to enhance development.

Partnership Operations Manager- West Africa

Key Contributions:
• Enhanced the organization’s capacity by analyzing its financial performance and producing reports recommending initiatives to improve its systems, and processes.
• Spearheaded the growth of agriculture projects by creating plans, budgets, and financial projection models for agricultural projects and monitoring the budget during implementation.
• Tasked with creating templates for the budget monitoring and management reports supporting the agriculture, microfinance, construction, and not-for-profit sectors.
• Entrusted with monitoring, coordinating, and documenting strategy implementation.
• Analyzed requests for access to capital, and made recommendations on how to engage with each applicant based on the organization’s financial capacity.

Loan Analyst

Key Contributions:
• Tasked with providing regular analysis of monthly reports, quarterly metrics, and annual audit reports from lending partners and investments.
• Entrusted with appraising new loan and investment applicants against laid out criteria and making recommendations to the Regional Director.
• Reviewed non-lending institutions in the region and made recommendations on their internal checks and controls, processes, procedures, and systems.
• Researched and advised the Regional Director of finance and administrative, legal and statutory compliance issues in different countries of operation in the region.
• Initiated regular reviewing and forwarding of recommendations on necessary adjustments to existing access to capital products like Forex.
• Achieved 100% management of funds and budgets by equipping and supporting Africa Region staff.
• Drafted Financial Manual to address and define policy guideline for the regional Hub and get necessary approval approvals and adoption for implementation.

Finance Department

Working here, I undertook various tasks in support of the program under the instruction of assigned supervisors.

Intern

Discovery Learning Alliance, Nawiri Project

Key Contributions:
Participated in the evaluation of the Nawiri project by:
• Working with a team to translate data collection tools (interview guides) from English to Swahili, to ease communication with target groups in the field.
• Carrying out one on one interviews with school staff and facilitating focus group discussions with students, teachers, and parents; at formal and non-formal schools.
• Taking detailed notes and recording conversations for transcription.

Data Collector

Doulos Team Builders and Freedom Base Camp

Key Contributions:
• Facilitated experimental team building activities for co-operate groups to aid them to develop skills in teamwork, problem-solving, creativity, risk-taking, interpersonal awareness, and effective communication.
• Organized and facilitated 10 orientation programs for university freshmen.
• Reduced the time taken during student registration and certificate verification from 8 hours to 3-4 hours by ensuring that all parties had full information on what was required of them.
• Eased the new students’ transition into the university by leading groups of 12-15 students through 5 days of ice-breaking activities.

Team Building Facilitator

💡 Efficiency, Accountability, Timeliness, Reliability and Professionalism. These are just a piece of the inexplicable global contributions I have made through my decade-long experience working in Economic Development Programs in the non-profit industry.

I am a proactive and result-driven professional whose expertise runs deep across multiple themes including Operations management, Partnerships Management, Grants Management, Financial Management, Project & Program Management as well as Business Analysis.

 📚 Professional development has remained to be my greatest enthusiasm since the onset of my career. I have constantly pursued excellence through learning and for this reason I hold a BSc in Economics from Daystar University and MSc in Professional Accountancy from the University of London. I addition, I am a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA). I continue to show interest in learning new concepts through my interactions with others as well as personal career experiences.

I have a number of key strengths, with the most outstanding being:
𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: Uncovering unconsidered risks then analyzing the information to formulate safer alternatives that empower sound decision making
𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Seeing areas of potential excellence in others then challenging them to grow their skills and use them to succeed in an impactful way
𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: Identifying what has gone wrong in situations that may seem irredeemable then taking a step back to work out solutions that get projects back on track

𝐌𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:
🏆 I actively engaged in the monthly monitoring of a loan portfolio of $1,900,000 during the pandemic period amidst a harsh business environment which put loan repayments at risk.
🏆 I was an active member of the Partners Worldwide People Development Team, whose mandate was to improve organization culture and champion staff development.
🏆 I created, managed, and monitored budgets, amounting to over $2m, for various grants and programs
🏆 I analyzed both qualitative and financial reports from loan clients in the Africa region, made up of SACCOs and microfinance institutions which serve businesses in Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Liberia, and Nigeria. 
🏆 I compiled a regional finance manual that laid out the financial policies and processes
🏆 Spearheaded a team that worked on improving the operations processes, internal capacity to
deliver, and tools and templates for project planning and monitoring and evaluations.

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Nicolas Vandenberghe

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