Vincent Ghyssens

Builder and operator. Ten years inside fast-growing companies, most of it spent building the systems that let them scale. Founding CTO/CPO at Cohabs, from three houses in Brussels to 3,500 rooms across five markets. Two companies of my own since. I ship LLM-based products end to end and use the same tools to do the work faster.

01Now

OWS Ventures → Poppy

Standing up Carcloud, a connected-car data aggregator, as a new business line inside Belgium's free-floating car-sharing operator. It puts every vehicle in a fleet on one screen whatever the make, turning seven years of running an intensive fleet into something that can be sold.

Owning the whole path from idea to market: discovery, product, prototype, pricing, first pilots. 30+ customer interviews so far. carcloud.poppy.be

02Work

2023– Octane Racing Sports events business built from nothing to a community of 100+ athletes. Activations for ON, Salomon, Oakley, Hyperice, Club Med. ↗
2023– OWS Ventures Management company. Operating assignments with high-growth businesses as fractional CPO/CTO or product lead. ↗
2018–23 Cohabs Founding CTO/CPO. Three houses to 3,500 rooms across Brussels, New York, Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg. Built the platform, four products and a team of ten. ↗
2018–23 Solvay Created and taught the introductory computer science course for third-year business engineering students.
2017–18 Proxyclick Head of Growth. Acquisition and retention engine for an enterprise SaaS, held to measured results.
2016–17 eFounders First commercial hire at Forest Admin, one of the companies built by the startup studio. Go-to-market and positioning, between San Francisco and Brussels.
2014 Google Enterprise intern, London. Business case for the first EMEA sales engineer on Google for Education.

03Elsewhere

Email: vincent@ows.ventures
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vincentghyssens
Octane: octane.racing
OWS: ows.ventures