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

Smart Set Oy

Strategic Product & Platform Lead (Fractional)

I help businesses transform ideas into scalable products by leveraging data, AI, and platform/community-driven strategies. With expertise in product leadership, and building AI-driven solutions, I guide companies in building sustainable and high-impact digital ecosystems. Focusing on simplicity for product builds to keep operations streamlined and efficient. Conducting market research to design and implement effective adoption strategies.

Product Advisor

RELEX Solutions

As the overseer of the entire S&A platform product, I focus on infrastructure, integrations, platform components, data/AI management, and delivering a unified user experience. I am accountable to ensure our data, AI, and platform strategy are reliable, scalable, and deliver operational excellence across all S&A product offerings.

➢ Developed and communicated a comprehensive S&A data/AI and platform product vision and strategy from inception, ensuring cross-functional collaborations.
➢ Identified gaps in our platform products to meet challenging market demands, translating these insights into actionable product initiatives across the RELEX platform. Transformed my product area from nearly 100% foundational developments to planned 50% from next year driving platform SaaS revenues.
➢ Worked closely with architects to deliver innovative and efficient solutions, continually challenging our approaches and methodologies.
➢ Provided unwavering support to all S&A Dev and DevOps teams, defining clear development goals and priorities to deliver robust data and platform solutions. Proactively improved platform capabilities from the perspective of how our products are implemented especially for integrations, ultimately reduced implementation time and platform incidents by over 70%.

Senior Product Manager, Space & Assortment Data and Platform

Zenniz

Partnered directly with the CEO and CTO to develop accurate OKRs to support nextround funding efforts. Created workflow planning and automation to maximize efficiency and minimize cost. Implemented a growth-mindset team culture with strong peer-to-peer support while leading the team to understand business challenges and shape their work around the achievement of key results. Worked quickly and efficiently, completing all work prior to the end of the four-month contract.
➢ Cross-departmentally collaborated with cloud architects, engineers, and developers to define product vision, roadmap, and implementation of processes and procedures.
➢ Designed and executed a narrative-based marketing strategy that effectively conveyed organizational objectives to secure funding.
➢ Built product management processes and protocols from the ground up that improved working efficiency and created transparency for individual team members and the overall development pipeline.

Product Owner/Manager (Lead Level)

Flowhaven - Supercharging Licensing Teams

Built and led a subdepartment, establishing best practices in product management, implementation, and technical customer success in a high-growth SaaS company.

➢ Defined and scaled processes that improved product quality and reduced urgent requests by 70%.
➢ Drove team growth & performance, aligning skill sets, coaching, and delivering 50% salary growth across the team.
➢ Led cross-functional collaboration to enhance product-market fit for new product, increasing sales by 25% in two months.
➢ Developed a strong talent pipeline, coaching and upskilling team members — many went on to become product managers at leading companies like Nordea, Wärtsilä, and Trimble.

Global Head of Technical Customer Success

remoteMX

Held multiple roles within the organization throughout tenure. Promoted to take on increased responsibility and business development work based on acute data-driven product decisions and ability to cultivate and maintain positive client relationships as the key contact for global clients. Developed, planned, executed, and communicated vision to stakeholders and clients.
➢ Conducted market research that informed budgeting practices, resulting in a self-funded model with successful products and minimal resources.
➢ Built and improved proprietary IoT online monitoring solutions and advanced analytics while maintaining product vision and long-term roadmap.
➢ Served as researcher for IoT smart water solution development for an EU research project and global clients.

Board Member | CEO | Product Lead | Researcher

Terto Ltd.

Strategic Planning and Development on information technology for business and digitalization

Chief Information Officer

Fluido - We bring customer data to life

Part of Digital Experience (DX) Team
■	Engagement of business development, solution concepting, and presale activities
■	Combining my expertise/passion "innovation with data" with my dear DX colleagues, we provide customers with a holistic view of their digital transformation journey and scalable human-centric services with Salesforce

Salesforce Solution Consultant
■	Engagement of solution design, technical implementation, and pre-sales activities:
	↠↠	Sales Cloud: account management & planning
	↠↠	Service Cloud: service system for IoT-innovative business line
	↠↠	Einstein Analytics: development guideline & governance, data management, best practice advisory
■	Strong believer in applying scalable technology features for innovation & iterative development to ensure the continuous improvement of user experience

Business Consultant

University of Southern Denmark

Visiting Researcher

Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC), University of Tromsø

Conducting researches on inorganic compounds and their magnetic properties by performing ab initio calculations.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Strategic Product Leader in Data, AI, and Platform Development
Leveraging an academic foundation in quantum chemistry and a deep understanding of scientific computing, algorithmic thinking, and data analysis, I am a product leader with a passion for developing AI-driven products and innovative solutions. With extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration, I translate complex technical concepts into actionable strategies that drive efficiency, innovation, and measurable business impact.

Proven Track Record of Success:
- Led the development and launch of high-value algorithmic products, leveraging data analytics, machine learning, and AI insights to solve complex challenges.
- Defined and executed product roadmaps, optimized processes, and drove behavioral change through data-driven decision-making.
- Successfully collaborated with engineering, data science, and business teams to accelerate product adoption and scale digital solutions.
- Oversaw S&A AI, data, and platform strategies at RELEX Solutions, transforming platform products and driving SaaS revenue growth.

Key Expertise:
- Product management for AI and data-driven products.
- AI, machine learning, and scientific computing expertise.
- Cross-functional leadership and team development.
- Driving change management and building scalable digital solutions.
- Stakeholder management and fostering strategic partnerships.

Academic Foundation:
My academic background in quantum chemistry, applying quantum physics and scientific computing to solve chemical problems, provided the foundation for my deep understanding of AI, scientific computing, algorithmic thinking, and data analysis, which continue to inform my product leadership in the tech and AI industries.

Mentoring & Connections:
- I am deeply passionate about mentoring aspiring product leaders and professionals navigating the Finnish job market. I provide guidance on career growth, navigating the job search, and building meaningful professional relationships.
- I believe in the power of collaboration and fostering connections, and I actively engage with teams, stakeholders, and mentors to create mutually beneficial partnerships that drive innovation and career growth.

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