I’m a Belgian entrepreneur and investor active in the field of Healthtech.
đ„ The Telemis Adventure Co-Founder of Telemis, a Medical Imaging company with a mission to extend human life. Telemis specializes in medical equipment and software, particularly PACS/MACS solutions (systems for archiving and transmitting radiological and multimedia images), digital pathology, and Business Intelligence for healthcare. Telemis has 90 employees and is active in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Within the company, I progressed through several strategic roles, from VP of R&D to General Manager in France, COO, and SVP Products
đŒ Business Angel and Mentor Building on his success with Telemis, I’m heavily involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: Investor: acting as a Business Angel, providing financial and strategic support to various startups, primarily in the Healthtech sector. Also investing through private equity funds like ScaleFund (BE) and Andera Midcap (FR). Mentor: guiding young entrepreneurs by sharing practical experience, far removed from polished « success stories ».
đ€ Speaker (TEDx and others) « David vs. Goliath » Talk: In 2013, he was a guest speaker at TEDx Louvain-la-Neuve. His presentation addressed how small businesses (the Davids) can equip themselves and succeed against giant multinationals (the Goliaths). Thought Leadership: He is a regular speaker at various Belgian business and innovation events (TheMerode, Failing Forward, Mind&Market, Microsoft Boostcamp, Founder Institute, Nestâup, CoEntrepreneurs Weekend events). I’m also active as Advisor for The POD and Globall Concept. Specialties: COO, Operations, Business Development, M&A, Sales, Healthcare IT, Healthtech, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Coaching
đŹ Interests: On a more personal note, I’m a hug film enthusiast.
Socializing
Keynotes & Presentations
- Passionate People 2010 video (slides)
- Mind&Market 2011
- Founder Institute 2011 Sales & Marketing (slides)
- Founder Institute 2011 Recruiting (slides)
- TEDx Louvain la Neuve 2013 (slides) (video)
- SIRRIS 2013
- CoEntrepreneurs Weekend 2013
- Failing Forward 2013
- HackforHealth 2014Â (Kortrijk)
- The POD (2025)
- The Merode: Lessons from a Belgian healthcare scale-up (2025)
Press & Blogs
- L’Echo – jeune mais pas sans ambition (2000)
- L’Echo – l’aventure de l’entrepreneuriat a dĂ©butĂ© par une pizza (2003)
- L’Echo sur l’entrepreneuriat (2003)
- L’Echo – Recrutement (2003)
- Mind&Market (MIC) (2011)
- The Brain Twist, Telemis Company Pitch (2010)
- The Brain Twist, Launching your business (2010)
- The Brain Twist, How to innovate (2010)
- L’Echo – Mind & Market (2011)
- 14 lessons for health startups from a successful health-tech entrepreneur (HealthStartup, 2012)
- Nest’up day (2013)
- Trends/Tendances – Cinq modĂšles de startup dans le vent (partie 1, partie 2) (2013)
- L’Echo – Les dĂ©bauchĂ©s ont de l’humour (2013)
- La Libre – Entreprendre, cela s’apprend (2013)
- Regional-IT, Failing Forward 2013Â
- Entrepreneurs-Week-end: Et toi, t’as fait quoi ce weekend? J’ai montĂ© ma boĂźte đ (Avril 2016)
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bonjour et Ă©tonnĂ© de ne pas connaitre tous les « roulive »!!
bonne journée
Patrice, super blog, bravo. Je le lis rĂ©guliĂšrement. Bon, je suis pas trop cinĂ©ma alors je passe les considĂ©rations cinĂ©matographiques mais pour le reste ca me convient parfaitement. Je t’envoie des visiteurs via mon site.