Jeroen Fossaert
Master in Psychology, Co-Founder at Engagor,
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.fossaert.be |
| Industries: | Entertainment, Food and Drink, Internet, Media, Retail |
| Skills: | Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales |
| Location: | Ghent |
| Groups: | Global Entrepreneurship Competition 2011 - bizBarcelona, Online Advertising Professionals (OAP) |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
FEATURED STARTUP
Engagor
Engagor
Actionable Insights for Social Media!
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
FULL BIO
Jeroen Fossaert holds a master in Organizational Psychology from the University of Ghent (UGent), completed with a post-grad in Management. In 2010, Folke and Jeroen Fossaert founded Engagor to help companies get actionable insights from Social Media. Till April 2010, Jeroen was PR & HR Director at Netlog, responsible for HR strategy and implementation, internal and external communication. He started his career in 2000 in executive search, was Account Manager at The Reference, co-founded and managed an ICT-consultancy agency; and worked as consultant on several HR-related assignments for SME's and multinationals.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Engagor |
| Position: | Co-founder & Managing Partner |
| Time period: | September 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Engagor Dashboard is a online media monitoring tool for companies and individuals. Listen, learn and engage with your audience!
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| Employer: | Bombardier Transportation |
| Position: | Projectleader International Recruitment CH - DE |
| Time period: | April 2010 - April 2011 |
| Employer: | Netlog |
| Position: | HR Director / PR Manager |
| Time period: | April 2008 - March 2010 |
| Description: | Netlog is an online community site with a focus on fun and entertainment. The website is very popular among youngsters in and outside of Europe. The average Netlog user spends about 1h a day on gaming, communicating with friends and watching photos and movies. Netlog was founded in 2003 by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens in Ghent; it counts more than 50 million members worldwide and is available in 30 languages. Every month, Netlog is visited by more than 50 million unique visitors. In 2008, Netlog was awarded the Mashable! Open Web Award for best social network site, and was named Most Promising Enterprise of the year by the Flemish government. Netlog is ranked 2nd in the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index. |
| Employer: | ING |
| Position: | Recruitment & Selection Consultant |
| Time period: | July 2006 - June 2008 |
| Description: | Responsible for Selection and Recruitment for the IT-department of ING. Internal customers include in Belgium the departments: Financial Markets, Securities, Private Banking, Equity Markets. For The Netherlands only responsible for Financial Markets.
Initiator and project leader of the www.meet-roger.com - campaign. |
| Employer: | Trinitas |
| Position: | Managing Director / Co-founder |
| Time period: | October 2003 - March 2006 |
| Description: | Welcome to Trinitas, the network that in no time translates your demand in a sound offer. In other words : you are looking for a temporary high-level consultant, we offer you the solution.
Are you looking for an ICT expert, a Communication expert, or a Management assistant for your organisation? If so, Trinitas has the fastest solution to (efficiently) realise your projects in a flexible (and efficient) way. Trinitas gathers today the expertise that will help you to keep your business going tomorrow. Contact me for an informal talk. Together we will find the right solution. |
| Employer: | The Reference |
| Position: | Account Manager |
| Time period: | October 2001 - September 2003 |
| Employer: | Schelstraete & Desmedt |
| Position: | Junior Consultant |
| Time period: | August 2000 - September 2001 |
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Netlog
Netlog (formerly Facebox) is a social network primarily used in Europe. As of March 2008, it has over 33 million users.
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Jan Maarten Willems
Degree in Applied Economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1995), MBA from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1996), Founder of itSMF Belgium
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Daniel Fazkeas
previous jobs at: Netlog, Yahoo, IndexTools, Nestle, Research International