Overview
Maarten Vandenbroucke is co-founder and chief executive of Timefold, which he co-founded in December 2022. He is based in Ghent and states expertise in AI, planning and operations research. Since August 2008 he has also been the owner of Big Jump Management.
He chaired the board of Peripass from October 2019 to July 2023, and between February 2019 and May 2022 he was VP corporate development at RightCrowd. Earlier he was chief executive of Ticto from September 2015 to January 2019, and of Realo during 2014. He served as a board member and coach at Bubble Post from July 2013 to September 2014, and as a board member of Behind The Buttons from May 2012 to October 2019. From August 2008 to February 2013 he was chief executive of Gatewing, having joined Newtec in January 2006 as director of customer training and documentation. He began his career as a consultant at Namahn in November 2003.
Vandenbroucke holds a master's degree in theoretical physics from Ghent University and studied at Vlerick Business School in 2007 and 2008. He completed a certified mediator programme at Promediation in 2022 and a three-year programme in professional communication and counselling psychology at Phoenix Opleidingen between 2021 and 2024.
Career history
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- That was a great and inspiring webinar Tom Cools! Thank you!
- Today is a BIG day for Timefold. We are releasing our super powerful scheduling and modeling assistant. This ties back to the dream that Geoffrey De Smet and I had since the very beginning of Timefold to make scheduling technology within reach of every company on the planet! Free the world from wasteful scheduling 🙏 🌎 Whether you are a seasoned software developer, product manager, CIO, COO, scheduler or analyst, ... we are offering you the tools to get a better grip on your operations and scheduling problem. And offer true
- Seriously Telenet Business ..? This construction outside of my office has been started last Friday. The (sub)contractor hit a cable and neglected reporting this back to Telenet. They just left the site. This has been flagged Saturday morning. A technician came Saturday afternoon and reported the root cause. We are now Monday evening and this still has not been fixed. How is this even possible? Is this your level of customer service to your business customers? #customerservice #telenet
- Couldn't be more proud to welcome Timefold as the latest addition to our growing Deloitte portfolio of Joint Go-to-Market partnerships with start/scale-ups. Belgian technology. Global ambition. 🌎 Time to conquer the world together, Maarten Vandenbroucke & Geoffrey De Smet. 🚀 #DeloitteScaleUpEcosystem Kevin Van der Plas Steven De Ridder Lidia Belevitch
- Super excited to be partnering with Deloitte Belgium. Timefold brings exceptionally strong scheduling functionality to the world of Field Services. Together we can really make an impact 🙏 Thank you Steven De Ridder, Kevin Van der Plas and Anaïs De Boulle for your trust. Let's go! 🚀
- On this rainy Friday morning (true Belgian autumn weather 🍂🌧️) I'm sharing something truly exciting! At Timefold, we're taking scheduling optimization to an entirely new level. We've taken our time to get this right. And for good reason: we have some seriously proud engineers in this house! 😎 But now we're ready to reveal what I believe is a quantum leap in how scheduling solutions are built on our Timefold / OptaPlanner technology stack. Imagine capturing the expertise, experience, and problem-solving intuition of our brightest
- John Carroll and Gerardo Pelayo, Ph.D. I am very much looking forward to our conversation on Thursday!
- Three forces are colliding in the utility sector, and scheduling sits right in the middle of all of them. First, the workforce is retiring. The most experienced field engineers are leaving faster than new ones can be trained, and their expertise is hard to replace. Second, demand is climbing as economies electrify. More load, more assets, and more that can go wrong. Third, the infrastructure is aging. Much of the grid was built decades ago and needs constant maintenance to stay reliable. Put those together, and you get more work,
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