Philippe M. Mauchard

Chief Bridge Officer @ Arthur D. Little

About

Philippe envisions, designs and builds thriving ecosystems between corporates, startups and investors, bringing in additional necessary enabling partners along the way (e.g. academia). In this context, he has an extensive proven track record as visionary and impact-oriented intra/entre-preneur, bringing innovative ideas into action as an energetic team builder and leader. He builds over 30 years of deep and broad experience in the 3 core mutually reinforcing elements of such innovation ecosystems: 1) First as an experienced consultant, as a Partner with McKinsey&Company in particular until 2006, where he led impactful work in marketing, sales and innovation across different industries at international level; 2) Second, as a prolific tech solutions builder, starting as the ideator, designer and global leader of McKinsey Solutions (active in data, analytics and decision-support software), which he brought over 9 years to some 2,000 people globally, and 50+ individual solutions (of which a third based on external startups) generating triple digit $millions in revenues. In 2016 he launched The Bridge to continue building such demand-led ecosystems in an open architecture way; 3) And third as an active investor, particularly as Chief Investment Officer in a long standing Belgian Family Office (SPDG), where he restructured and further built their new direct tech investment arm, in close collaboration with several investment funds. Philippe brings these complementary experiences to the next level with global consultant in innovation, Arthur D. Little as their global Chief Bridge Officer and member of the Executive Committee. Throughout his different complementary chapters, Philippe has been increasingly striving to bring a sense of balance between business performance and societal responsibility with his core business partners (which includes collaborating with thought leaders in the space, as well as implementing best practices in his related activities). On the societal front more specifically, Philippe is also a.o. a Professor in Applied Marketing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, a co-founder of Teach for Belgium and an active member of the Ben Gurion University’s International Board of Governors (co-leading the Belgian/ EU chapter). Philippe holds a Master in Commercial Engineering from Solvay, and an MBA from INSEAD. He lives in Brussels with his wife and is a father of 3. Philippe is a drummer and a long distance runner. He speaks French, English, Spanish, Dutch and conversational Hebrew.

Country

Belgium

City

Brussels Metropolitan Area

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Investments, Project Management, Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers, Business Development, Consulting, Strategic Consulting, Strategy, Venture Capital, Change Management, Entrepreneurship, Executive Coaching, Market Research, Management Consulting, Financial Analysis, Business Strategy, Business Planning, Corporate Finance, Business Transformation

Experience

Chief Bridge Officer

Arthur D. Little

2023-10 - Present · 3 yrs

Brussels Metropolitan Area

Member of the Global Executive Committee of ADL, responsible for advancing the Firm's client service innovation by “bridging” to augment our value proposition along three main dimensions: 1/ Further integrating our pool of experts and its vast ecosystem of complementary partners (experts, data players, solutions providers), championing open consulting initiatives based on collective intelligence ("bridging between ADL and external capabilities"); 2/ Leading the development and deployment of our Firm’s applied advanced technology and AI capabilities in collaboration with our expert consultants and external partners ("bridging between today and tomorrow through technology"); 3/ Expanding our value consulting models to drive value creation and align our interests with those of our clients, thereby expanding our impact from advisory to co-venture building ("bridging with our clients"). As Chief Bridge Officer, Philippe’s role is to work closely with our key clients and leadership cells across the Firm (industry practices, functional practices and market clusters) to grow our impact by equipping clients and consultants, in a more scalable and sustainable way.

Founding Partner

The Bridge Europe

2016-9 - Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

Brussels Area, Belgium and Tel Aviv, Israel

We help companies get the best of both worlds, namely corporates and startups, by: - complementing the corporate innovation teams of incumbents in defining use cases for (external) innovation, connecting them with curated tech entrepreneurs and assisting them in building new digital offerings - complementing the business development teams of larger tech players ("scale ups") as they land and expand in Europe

Professor

Solvay Lifelong Learning | Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management

2003-4 - Present · 23 yrs 6 mos

Brussels Region, Belgium

Professor of Market Information Management/ Applied Marketing Analytics

Board Member

Axceler8 Solutions

2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

https://axceler8solutions.com/

Managing Director

Magic Moment SRL

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

Brussels Region, Belgium

https://www.linkedin.com/redir/suspicious-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmagicmoment-hub%2elovable%2eapp%2F

Co-founding Partner

FutureLabs Ventures

2018-1 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

Singapore

Chief Growth Officer

SOSA

2022-9 - 2023-8 · 1 yr

Brussels, Tel Aviv

Leading SOSA's growth efforts through strategic partnerships and venture investments. SOSA is a professional services company extending open innovation teams from leading international corporates and government units.

Venture Partner

SPDG

2022-5 - 2022-12 · 8 mos

Brussels

Part of the Venture Partner team, helping lead priority projects / portfolio efforts for the Family Office, building on the strategy set as CIO

Chief Investment Officer

SPDG

2018-11 - 2022-5 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Brussels Area, Belgium

Member of the Management Committee and Chief Investment Officer of SPDG (société anonyme de participation et de gestion). Leading the day to day efforts to (re)focus direct investments in sustainable cities in key geographies (including adding 12 new direct investments and half a dozen of supporting funds), putting in place corresponding sourcing, deal structuring and company support activities (through a strengthened team of analysts and venture partners), leading the cross company BCorp certification and other key enabling processes. SPDG is a Family Enterprise recognized for its active and responsible role as one of the two major shareholders of the D'Ieteren Group, for its entrepreneurial vision in its diversification portfolio, and for its philanthropic involvement. Through SPDG Ventures we build platforms of innovative companies that are sustainably improving the future of cities, by making them healthier, safer and smarter

Board Observer

Regulus

2020-2 - 2022-5 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

Regulus is the first company dealing with sensor cybersecurity. Our first product is Pyramid GNSS™ - defending against GNSS spoofing and GPS hacking attacks.

Board Member

IOTech Systems

2019-8 - 2022-5 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

IOTech's open edge platform solutions enable workloads to be processed at the IoT edge to enhance security, enable real-time decision-making and reduce IoT data storage and transport requirements.