An entrepreneurial board-level IT executive with international experience (Europe, APAC), expert in driving changes in highly technical environments, especially startups. Currently Chief Technology Officer at Immoweb (real estate site recently valued above 150M€), responsible for defining and applying the IT strategy. Previous experience as CTO in web/mobile startups, driving the IT changes to sustain a high growth business, leading large and distributed IT teams. Former founder and CEO of an ecommerce venture, closed a series A funding, then exited after acquisition. Real problem solver, proven people manager, able to manage change and growth in high performance technology businesses.

Chief Technology Officer @ Immoweb is the belgian leader in online real estate classifieds, with over 350k unique visitors per day and 500M pageviews per month. It was recently acquired by Axel Springer Digital for above 150M€. As Chief Technology Officer I am responsible for driving the complete change of the IT department after acquisition, and lead the IT strategy of the company. Achievements as CTO at Immoweb: - recruited a 35+ team in less than a year - setup IT processes to sustain the growth of the business - setup offshore development teams - performed the Agile transformation of the company - initiated the full refactoring of legacy hardware and software platforms From 2013 to Present (2 years) Brussels Area, BelgiumManaging Director @ As Managing Director at POD Consulting, I'm coaching startups at all stage of their life: early business plan definition, fund raising, growth management, acquisition. Currently involved in several incubators and startup programs in Europe. From 2014 to Present (1 year) Brussels Area, BelgiumChief Technology Officer @ In charge of the technical department as Chief Technology Officer at Anxa. My mission is to define the technical goals and priorities according to the corporate strategy and to provide activity report on all technical topics. As CTO, I am in charge of staffing and organizing the technology management resources, setting up processes to improve productivity of the teams, and managing key technical partnerships. Achievements as Chief Technology Officer : - doubled the size of the development team - built the technology to power several multi-million euros revenue websites - migrated and refactored websites to the latest technologies and languages (.NET, C#, MVC) - implemented a fully Agile software development lifecycle - set up a high deliverability emailing platform, sending dozens of million emails per month - Las Vegas CES 2013 Innovations Award for HAPIfork device and platform From 2010 to 2013 (3 years) PhilippinesWorld Traveller @ After the acquisition of my first startup I left on a trip around the world. Achievements as World Traveller : - traveled 40000 km in 365 days, visited 19 countries, saw the most beautiful places in the world - ran an ecommerce site selling/shipping local handicraft in the places I visited From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Founder and CEO @ Founder and CEO at Doxys, a startup providing healthcare and wellness management through web and mobile technologies. Raised 300k€ seed capital from business angels and private equity, then exited the company. Achievements as Founder and CEO : - seed funding, management, exit of the startup - staffing and management of the startup team (tech marketing, SEO, business development) - supervised technical development of the web application from the ground up (Ruby on Rails) - personally developed the mobile apps (J2ME) From 2006 to 2010 (4 years) BelgiumR&D Project Manager @ Managed R&D projects related to wireless technologies and connecting devices (medical, industrial) with the internet. Achievements as R&D Project Manager : - prepared the launch of a spinoff providing a platform to make devices communicating with the web - supervised design, development and production of electronic devices in prototyping series - submission of multi-million euro R&D projects for funding by European Funds From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Charleroi Area, BelgiumR&D Engineer @ Worked in this Research Center on development of wireless technologies and embedded systems. Technical specialities are FPGA design, embedded Linux, System-On-a-Programmable-Chips, and wireless technologies. Achievements as R&D Engineer : - developed embedded platforms for connecting electronic devices with the web - implemented such platform in applications : truck driving monitoring, medical devices - ported minimized version of Linux on embedded platform From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Charleroi Area, Belgium

Master, Startup creation and administration @ Louvain School of Management From 2000 to 2003 Master, Microelectronics and telecom engineering @ Louvain School of Engineering From 1998 to 2003 Pierre-Olivier Danhaive is skilled in: CTO, CEO, CIO, Web entrepreneur, Corporate Management, Solution Architecture, Fundraising, Start-ups, Web Project Management, Internet Entrepreneur, Startup Development, Telecommunications, Board of Director experience, Technical Recruiting, IT Management