Patrick Crasson

Patrick Crasson

Business Angel at Sun Microsystems - Strategic Business development

Namur Area, Belgium

Current
  • Strategic Business Development and Business Angel for Technological startups at Sun Microsystems
  • Owner - Managing Partner at P2C Management Consulting
Past
  • Lecturer at Solvay Busines School - Executive Program in IT Management
  • Manager Engagement Management at Sun Microsystems
  • Country Manager at Compaq Professional Services BeLux
Education
  • Haute Ecole 'Groupe ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC', Bruxelles
  • Royal Military Academy
  • Royal Military Academy
  • Royal Military Academy
Connections
280 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Patrick Crasson’s Summary

I am a customer focused Senior Executive with recognized experience in operational responsibilities, including P&L, strategic business planning,
financial management and change management.
• I’ve been particularly effective in increasing profitability, growing revenues
and managing costs while keeping morale of employees at a good level by
communicating the right messages.
• My departments showed globally solid incremental gains and maintained
operational efficiency by getting costs under control while developing further
new and innovative business streams.
• One of my additional strengths is building leadership teams that value crossfunctional collaborative working relationship what’s key in today's matrixed
and global organizations and passionate about finding working solutions for my
customers on the strategic Business to Technology alignment issue that most
of enterprises have.

Over 15 years proven expertise in national and international at higher mgt./executive
level leadership, consulting (IT & Business), Strategic business development, sales and services industry.
• Background in a wide range of industries
• Executive accountability experience for P&L, strategic planning, staffing, and sales development, human resource, etc., for a 125M€ international consulting and technology business, in an 85bn$ US firm.
• Management of change within the demanding and pressurized business environment including pre and post merger & acquisitions.
• Implementation of modern management practices
• Mentoring and support to European general managers in the context of a new strategic orientation of the company
• Fully quadrilingual, culturally open and international profile, effective communication.
• Entrepreneurial minded, Founder and managing partner P2C Management consulting.

Patrick Crasson’s Specialties:

IT to Business Alignment, Knowledge Management, IT Processes Optimization, Business Process Optimization, Management Consulting, Business Governance (BGI)...
see http://www.p2c.4xs.be for more info.


Patrick Crasson’s Experience

  • Strategic Business Development and Business Angel for Technological startups

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2006Present (3 years 3 months)

    In charge of strategic and qualitative relationship building and business development with large public and Private global companies headquartered in Belux.
    Last 18 month Patrick is an instrumental Business Angel for many startups and Web2.0 enterprises helping them to get their innovation happen and controlling their grow while using affordable enterprise class and business enabling infrastructure

  • Owner - Managing Partner

    P2C Management Consulting

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2003Present (7 years )

    http://www.p2c.4xs.be

  • Lecturer

    Solvay Busines School - Executive Program in IT Management

    (Higher Education industry)

    March 2009April 2009 (2 months)

    In charge of " G1/ 9 - IT Strategy Setting (ITMGT)" Module

  • Manager Engagement Management

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; sunw; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2004September 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  • Country Manager

    Compaq Professional Services BeLux

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 1999December 2002 (3 years 1 month)

    Implemented the Principal led model : reference country in Europe.
    5 Quarters of incremental profit after organisation/business re-engineering...

  • Geographic Offering Executive - EMEA

    IBM Consulting Group

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    19982000 (2 years )

  • Consulting Principal/Manager

    IBM Global Services

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    19961999 (3 years )

  • CTO

    Imicos - Molis

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    19951996 (1 year )

  • ICT Program Manager - Officer

    Headquarter Belgian Air Force - Cilic

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

    19901995 (5 years )

  • BCO - Air Defence

    Belgian Air Force

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

    19861990 (4 years )


Patrick Crasson’s Education

  • Haute Ecole 'Groupe ICHEC - ISC Saint-Louis - ISFSC', Bruxelles

    Special Degree , Advanced Management , 19992000

    Activities and Societies:
    Cercle Wallonie, CPH, AML, ...
  • Royal Military Academy

    Special Degree , Information Systems Engineering , 19921993

  • Royal Military Academy

    Special Degree , Special Year in Military anagement , 19891990

  • Royal Military Academy

    Masters , Aeronautical & Military Sciences , 1982


Additional Information

Patrick Crasson’s Websites:

Patrick Crasson’s Interests:

General Management, Scuba Diving, Golf, Fishing, Tennis, ...

Patrick Crasson’s Groups:

Up2U, Cercle de Wallonie, CIO Club de Wallonie, CIO-Club Wallonie/Bruxelles

  •    Executive Suite
  •    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    CIO-Club, Wallonie-Bruxelles
  •    ICHEC Brussels Management School Alumni
  •    Europe 2.0 - web 2.0, startups, funding, & entrepreneurship in Europe
  •    Guberna Alumni
  •    BetaGroup Belgium
  •    Ecole Royale Militaire de Belgique Faculté SSMW-TAW
  •    KCS: Koninklijke Cadettenschool Laken
  •    International Executive Recruiting - IER
  •    Mobile Monday Belgium
  •    iSTORM
  •    IntellectGroup Ukraine
  •    BMR Brussels Metropolitan Region
  •    CloudStorm - Cloud Computing Solutions Summit
  •    Cloud Academy

Patrick Crasson’s Honors:

Blue Ribbon at IBM, ...


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  • new ventures
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