of Jan Coppens

Jan Coppens obtained a PhD in computer science engineering at Ghent University and continued his research in networking technology at Bell Labs. In 2008, Jan joined McKinsey & Company, serving clients mainly in the telecommunication and financial industry. He specialized in IT business strategy, change management and pushed McKinsey’s thinking about Lean application development. In 2011, Jan returned to iMinds (IBBT at the time, now imec) to initiate iMinds’ start-up incubation, acceleration and internationalization programs. Meanwhile, he lectured entrepreneurship at the Master of Global Management at Antwerp Management School. After his role in driving iMinds corporate strategy and structuring the merger with imec, Jan supported the integration of both institutions and founded Aloxy as a spin-off of imec and the University of Antwerp.