Sonny Van Dessel

As founder of Y.C.S. I am an enthusiastic and innovative entrepreneur with over 25 years of global industry experience. A results-oriented professional with a proven track record in managing P&L responsibilities to high-value standards. Appreciated as diplomatic people manager, a team player, strategic and analytical thinker, adept at solving complex problems and building creative solutions. Your Company Support was founded with the goal to provide support to companies in different markets on level of general management, project / program management, operational management, engineering management, business development or business and due diligence support. Next to the consultancy activities, Y.C.S. also envisions to be part of the creation of a more sustainable world. We are convinced that the energy landscape will change significantly in the next coming years and today we are at the tipping point towards this change. Renewable energy in combination with local storage will be part of the new energy eco-system and play an important role to make this change happen. Therefore we work together with innovative companies, in order to have the proper battery and inverter technologies available, to actively participate in this always changing energy landscape. Please visit our website www.batterij.expert

The energy market is in full transition and our vision is that local storage will be one of the key elements to make this transition successful. Working together with high-tech companies, we have access to innovative battery and inverter technologies to provide the ever changing energy market with modular, flexible and economical solutions. With these innovative solutions as base, it is our aim to play an important role within the energy transition for the Belgian and Dutch market. For more information please visit our website www.batterij.expert.

Xemex is a provider of smart metering communication hubs. The company is a leading innovator in its industry and is currently market leader in the Netherlands with an installed base of over 500,000 data communication modules. Xemex's customers are meter manufacturers, service providers and utilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, UK and the Nordics. In order to establish further international growth, first steps are taken in the Eastern European and Middle East market. Xemex develops multi utility telemetry communication modules, with both prepaid and postpaid features, connected to electricity, gas, water, temperature, or any other kind of meter. Based on industry standards like DLSM, M-bus and Zigbee. The modules gather readings any given time-slice store them and perform, daily or customizable, data transfer over GSM/GPRS, UMTS, CDMA450 or Ethernet. The modules are available standalone and build into electricity meters and are proven to be reliable in the field for years.

Xemex is a provider of smart metering communication hubs. The company is a leading innovator in its industry and is currently market leader in the Netherlands with an installed base of over 250,000 data communication modules. Xemex's customers are meter manufacturers, service providers and utilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, UK and the Nordics. Xemex develops multi utility telemetry communication modules, with both prepaid and postpaid features, connected to electricity, gas, water, temperature, or any other kind of meter. Based on industry standards like DLSM, M-bus and Zigbee. The modules gather readings any given time-slice store them and perform, daily or customizable, data transfer over GSM/GPRS, UMTS, CDMA450 or Ethernet. The modules are available standalone and build into electricity meters and are proven to be reliable in the field for years.

3SI Security Systems is the world leader in asset protection solutions. The solutions are designed to recover stolen cash or high value assets, apprehend criminals and deter crime. The innovative solutions, together with the first class service support protect peoples all over the globe against crime.

Dolmen IP is a system integrator specialized in automation of logistic processes. It was my job to watch over the total project management from project sales until project closing including : # Budget follow-up ; # Contract negotiations with customers and suppliers ; # Follow-up functional / technical compliance with contract requirements.

JST Europe develops and produces connectors for the automotive-, telecom-, braun and white goods- and consumer markets. # Worldwide Key Account Manager Siemens VDO : responsible for the worldwide business (commercially and technically) with Siemens VDO on level of new developments and catalogue products. # R&D responsible Europe : responsible for the development of new products for the European market. Managing team of 4 product development engineers and 1 test engineer. Put in place the necessary working procedures to act as an ISO and QS certified development / project department.

FCI was a company developing and producing connectors for different markets. My job was designing new connectors according to customer specifications specific for the automation market using ME10 2D drawing software and Pro-Engineer 2D/3D drawing and simulation software for different markets.