Philippe is Belgian installed in Grenoble, France, in 1998 after having lived and worked in Australia, Belgium and the United Kingdom in the fields of industrial technological innovations in R&D & Sales functions.
Philippe is international Directeur Business Planning & global lead of Sales Strategic Programs & Partnerships Development at Hewlett Packard Enterprise of offers & solutions with NOKIA. Philippe has held functions in channel sales, services marketing, as well as director of Sales Operations (EMEA) for the networking business group.
Philippe is part of HPE’s Grenoble site management committee, in charge of representing HPE in local innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystems such as Minalogic, MIAI, FrenchTech , Campus Numerique, Pacte Economique Local from Grenoble Alpes.
In his spare time and part of his local engagement, Philippe is President of Grenoble Angels and has been a business Angels since 2005. Philippe aims to realize and carry out local startup’s accompaniments & development mainly in the digital domain (B2B solution, mobile applications, IoT, artificial intelligence). He is a member of 6 advisory councils or strategic committee of digital startups accompanied.
Philippe is a founding member of FrenchTech Alpes – Grenoble in 2015, and a member of Executive committee from FrenchTech in the alps Grenoble as from 2017.