Overview
Joris Claes is based in Ghent and has been chief executive of Spectr since March 2026. Since October 2013 he has also served as an interim executive at SEVENLEMON BOULEVARD, and from February 2022 to June 2026 he was an investment advisor at VantaMoon Investments Ltd. He was chief executive of Limecraft from June 2023 to September 2025.
Earlier he held operational and transformation roles across several organisations: chief commercial and operating officer at traicie in 2022, chief operating officer at Ovinto from 2020 to 2022, group chief technology officer at 4C from 2018 to 2020, transformation manager on site at the Vias institute from 2018 to 2019, business transformation consultant at BDO Belgium from 2014 to 2018, and director of a transformation implementation programme at Worldline Global from 2014 to 2016. At Partena HR he was marketing manager and then director of services between 2008 and 2013, having begun his career at The House of Marketing in 2000, where he rose from junior consultant to senior consultant.
Claes took an MBA in marketing management at Vlerick Business School in 1999 and 2000, following a licence in commercial sciences at EHSAL - Brussels and candidatures in applied economics at the University of Antwerp.
Career history
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- This morning I just pushed the button.
- Een pilot die slaagt maar tot niets leidt, is geen innovatie. Het is een uitgestelde beslissing. Het patroon is ouder dan XR. In meer dan twintig jaarvtransformatietrajecten zag ik het bij CRM-uitrols, bij procesautomatisering en bij de eerste AI-toepassingen. Telkens hetzelfde verloop: enthousiasme bij de start, een demo die indruk maakt, en drie maanden later verdwijnt het in de kast. Niet omdat de technologie faalde. Wel omdat niemand vooraf vastlegde welke beslissing de pilot moest mogelijk maken. Wie investeringen goedkeurt,
- Technical projects rarely fail because of engineering. They fail because people do not fully understand what is being built. Thus... A technical room is more than a model. It is a future workplace, an operational environment and a set of decisions that different stakeholders need to understand. When engineering, operations and customer teams can explore a layout together before installation, discussions become concrete. Questions surface earlier. Decisions improve. That is the value of immersive visualisation: not making a model
- Je kan de toekomst van Antwerpen niet alleen uitleggen. Je moet ze kunnen ervaren. Toch? Terwijl het viaduct van Merksem plaatsmaakt voor een nieuwe fase in de Oosterweelverbinding, verandert niet alleen de infrastructuur. Ook de manier waarop we zo’n transformatie zichtbaar en begrijpelijk maken, verandert. Voor Omloop Oosterweel realiseerde SPECTR-xr de 360°-toekomstbeelden langs de route. Het principe is eenvoudig: je staat aan een vooruitkijkpunt, midden in de stad en met zicht op de werf. Even de QR-code scannen met je
- Quantum isn't a wave to chase. It's a tide to read. I've heard Walter Vanherle speak about quantum before, and what stands out is exactly what this post shows: no hype, no solution looking for a problem. Just a structured way to get from awareness to an informed decision. That is precisely the question boards should be asking. Not "should we invest in quantum?", but "do we understand our own hardest problems well enough to know when it matters?" Routing, planning, scheduling, allocating scarce assets: many of the decisions that
- Zullen we het er even over hebben samen? Dat kan deze donderdag op de dag voor Digitale Gamechangers in de Bouwsector. Een organisatie van Lantis Lab en Autodesk; wandel even door het programma, en een eenvoudige inschrijving zet je in de zaal. Link in 1ste comment.
- Innovation rolls out of the meet-up of competences and thinking patterns that, at first, have nothing to do with each other. An then, this team brings all their capabilities together to rethink how Police can leverage from the benefits from XR.
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