Ron Broens

I am a Senior Technology, Business Development & Strategy professional with a distinguished corporate and entrepreneurial track record.

Highly skilled at innovation capability development, building business models, developing products & services, creating value propositions, analysing ecosystems and devising strategic plans.

Able to combine my broad technical education with a keen business acumen, accrued over many years as a self-employed business consultant and as a (co-)founder of two Finnish companies.

Excelling at creating strategies that add value to all business ecosystem participants. I am a creative agent of change, an effective communicator in five languages, highly adaptable with the ability to switch seamlessly between technology & business and between C-suites & the shop-floor.

I am looking for an internationally orientated position that ideally combines business development, innovation execution, product development and strategy creation. I am able to travel for work.

Key competencies:
✔ Creativity & Innovation
✔ Strategic Leadership
✔ Complex Problem Solving
✔ Analysing & Building Business Ecosystems
✔ Adaptability and Flexibility

Key professional milestones
✔ Developed 2 major technology incubation business cases for a 4 billion euro company
✔ Served 30+ clients, from various industries, as an independent management & innovation consultant
✔ Created a complete new, 5-year diversification growth strategy for a 9 million euro company
✔ Enabled 246% revenue growth of a client, in 1 year, through service design
✔ Negotiated a 10% price reduction with a key supplier after 2 meetings
✔ Filled 11 patent applications
✔ (Co-)Founded 2 companies in Finland
✔ Travelled to 23 countries for business & audits