Ir. Cornelis van Elst

Founder | RegTech Innovator | Builing Real-Time Food Safety Assurance I help food companies move from paperwork-driven compliance to knowledge-driven learning and ultimately real-time assurance.As founder of QAssurance and creator of the iMIS Food platform, my work is focused on one goal:giving food companies, auditors, and regulators the ability to learn faster, prevent better, and operate with full confidence every day, not once a year during an audit. Over the past years, I’ve worked across three continents to reshape how our industry manages standards, hazards, legislation, and digital transformation. My philosophy is simple: Compliance should be continuous. Learning should be structured and shared.Assurance should be real-time. iMIS Food is a food-native PLM and compliance operating system that connects product design, regulation, and real-time assurance into one living infrastructure. Through iMIS Food, we connect knowledge, data, and people into one live system, enabling food companies to focus on their daily operations instead of yearly audit readiness. Our approach supports internal teams, strengthens HACCP/FSMS decisions, and creates a transparent foundation for trust across the entire chain. I believe in collaboration, openness, and building systems that help people do their best work.If you’re working on the future of food, digital assurance, or modernizing quality systems, I’m always open to connect. Turning compliance into learning.