Michel Halet

Contact

Email: michel.halet@thom.be


Key Marketing Expertise

Strategic Marketing and Planning, CRM, Sales, Web Marketing


Personality

Individual personality : Result driven, pragmatic and no-nonsense minded. Not indulgent for mediocrity. Believe strongly in three main life values: trust, responsibility, and tolerance.

Group role : Facilitator, catalyst.

People management : I drive consensus, and do not accept compromise. I try to gain respect rather than to impose it.


Professional Milestones

  • Partner
    Company: The House of Marketing
    From January 2000

    Assignments: Different strategic and operational assignments in the ICT B2B industry, in the financial services and in the industrial services.


  • Director Sales and Marketing
    Company: Van Gansewinkel
    From March 1997 to December 1999.

    Developed the commercial and operational activities of the Van Gansewinkel Group in the French speaking part of Belgium.
    Contributed to the marketing strategy of the group in Belgium and in The Netherlands moving the mindset from product to segment management.
    Responsible for CRM. Contributed to the definition of the e-business strategy.


  • Division Manager
    Company: Rentokil Textiles Rental Belgium
    From August 1996 to February 1997

    General management of all the activities of the division in Belgium: two production units, three sales and service units, and a marketing department, 350 people.
    Sales, Marketing and Service Director.


  • Director Marketing Sales and Services
    Company: Friswit Linensupply, part of British Electric and Traction Ltd.
    From November 1994 to July 1996.

    Responsible for all sales, service, and marketing activities in Belgium.


  • Sales and Marketing.
    Company: Friswit, part of British Electric and Traction
    From 1986 to 1994

    Various sales and marketing functions and responsibilities: product management, account management, marketing management, both in industrial and healthcare markets.


Education Milestones

Post-Graduate Degree 1: Marketing Management, Ehsal, Brussels. 1992
Graduate Degree: Germanic Languages.


Additional Knowledge

All Marketing Experts of The House of Marketing are fluent communicators in Dutch, English, and French. They also know common computer programs and can be considered Internet-savvy.

Additional languages : basic German and Spanish.
Other skills : Proficiency in process (re-)engineering and change management.


Private Milestones

A "Re-design" project in the Benelux operations of B.E.T. Plc.: the power of innovation in processes to generate growth and profit.

The restructuring of sales and service units at Friswit in 1995. A real life lesson on the social responsibility of enterprises, a test on essential values like mutual respect, empathy and commitment, a successful P&L challenge.

Leaving teaching to make a new start in the sales: I discovered a new passion.


My books of inspiration

Valeurs et Modernité by Alain Peyrefitte
ISBN:2-7381-0401-0
An extensive report on value creation drivers in different times and different economy systems: a philosophy of economy.

Chaos, Making a New Science by James Gleick
ISBN: 0 14009250 1
A simple analysis on the relationship of a complex scientific theory with various society phenomena.

Céréales Killer by San Antonio - Frédéric Dard
ISBN: 2 265 07184 6
When you need to relax after a hard day, if you like crispy thrillers in Parisian slang!


My motto

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"
-- Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde.


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