Patrick Driessen
CEO at Seed Accelerator
Results-driven and entrepreneurial professional with a track record of achievement in a career that spans over 20 years in leadership, entrepreneurship, sales, consulting, operations and delivery.
Held executive hands-on leadership positions across IT&T, Digital Media and Financial Services with responsibility for the USA, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, including P&L responsibility of US$350M and people care responsibility for over 750 people.
Successfully led smaller companies and medium-sized/large business units of global organisations. Have developed various new products and services, which have been responsible for profitable revenue streams.
404 contacts* We help startup and grow start-ups in Australasia.
* We turn great ideas into great companies.
* We turn innovative people into leading entrepreneurs and entreprenerial leaders.
At Seed Accelerator™ we are focused on bringing the key elements of a virbrant startup ecosystem together: top entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial investors, technologists, inventors, a broad range of advisors, academia, government bodies and corporates. We bring them all together in the services and programs we provide; focused on helping emerging and established entrepreneurs to succeed faster and better! The great people on our team, on our board and on our mentoring pool enable us to run various unique startup & business accelerator programs for a select number of emerging and established technology startups.
We take emerging entrepreneurs from idea phase to becoming 'fundable' and we take established entrepreneurs from product launch to becoming a successful global technology company.
8P Capital is a low-profile boutique investment firm, which has its roots in Europe & US and is investing in early stage SME's in China, South-East Asia and Australasia. We spot and analyze new investment opportunities and execute financings for new and existing portfolio companies. Our main goal is to actively build & grow world-class companies within our portfolio and find optimal monetization strategies. Investment focus: ICT, bio-technology, FMCG, water management, online & mobile services and renewable energy. As pro-active and specialised investor, we provide our portfolio companies with a dedicated "8P A-TEAM" to partner with and support its management.
2008 - 2009Given the mandate to improve the performance of the entire Consulting & Applications Services business for the Financial Services Industry. EDS Application Services provides world class applications & software development, management, maintenance, systems integration and consulting services.
Leading the strategic industry portfolio direction, developing new solutions and leading onshore & offshore delivery, growth, profitability, people care, consulting, marketing and alliances with full P&L responsibility. Having the pleasure of leading a great team with 10 direct reports, 27 indirect reports and a large dedicated operations & delivery team across the region.
2006 - 2008Dutchlink is a member-based Dutch/Australian business networking organisation and information centre. It operates as the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. It also is an advanced knowledge portal for anybody interested in anything Dutch (business, cultural, social, educational, governmental) in Australia. Its main goals are bringing people and business together, stimulating networking and enabling the creation of new business opportunities.
2006 - 2008Responsible for client relationship management, sales management, strategic consulting, solution development and marketing for clients in the financial services industry. Focused primarily on the commercial banking, insurance, wealth management and fund management sectors in APAC. Developed new business models and BPO services. Developed new innovative solutions & services for: customer centricity, contactless payments, payments security, fraud reduction, AML, mortgage & loan processing, electronic ID verification, mobile payments and payments processing.
2002 - 2006Responsible for sales and consulting strategy, finance and marketing. Lead and managed several global and regional pursuit teams, focused on developing and selling IT-strategy, IT-consulting, IT Outsourcing, Applications and BPO solutions. Provided strategic consulting services to client executives (C-level). Initiated and developed new global deals with innovative and scalable solutions. Developed new utility computing solutions, together with global alliance partners. Lead contractual negotiations and strategic planning. Regular keynote speaker on forums and conferences.
Achievements: No. 1 sales in EMEA in 2004, achieved 500+% of my personal sales target in 2004 (>$325 million).
Awards: Global Sales Award 2004, EMEA Sales Award 2004, Alliance Accelerator Award 2005.
Sold deals: Varying from IT-Outsourcing, grid & utility computing to management consultancy and full business transformation.
