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Sylvain Niset

Scale-Up CEO

€1,250/day
Bruxelles, BE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Sylvain

Seasoned scale-up executive with a 100% success rate of bringing companies to breakeven as a CEO. Strong ability to build high performing teams, maximise operational efficiency and lead business via data and fast iterations.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Bruxelles (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Paynovate,
    Strategic Advisor
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2025 - September 2025 (4 months)
    Belgium
    a payment acquiring market Belgium (Loyalpay). In 2017, the company has obtained a banking license (EMI) and developed onward card issuing and banking services to specific niche markets around the world (70 employees). The company mostly operate in a B2B2C framework. The mission consisted into advising and helping the founder to prepare the company to scale its various business lines (recruitment of new C-levels and operational roles, revamping of the sales CRM (Hubspot), data room set up project to build business and operational KPIs (the goal being to set up a high performing team culture), multiple travels to tradeshows to analyze the sales process (Amsterdam, New-York, Ibiza), etc.
    Recruitment Hubspot Business intelligence Sales Strategy Storytelling
  • Poppy Mobility,
    CEO
    TRANSPORTATION
    September 2019 - April 2025 (5 years and 7 months)
    Belgium
    Lead Poppy to become the multimodal mobility leader in Belgium by offering cars, mopeds (till May 2021), vans, and kick scooters through a single app utilizing the free floating model. Launched by Lab-Box in early 2018, a subsidiary of D'Ieteren Group, a BEL20 listed company. Achieved profitability milestones, including reaching monthly profitability as of May 2024. Drove a 20x increase in monthly revenues from mid-2019 to april 2025. Oversaw a fleet of 2200 cars, 2000 kick scooters and 400 mopped. Directed a team of 75 full-time employees (originally 50 in 2019). Managed multi-million euros budgets on an annual basis and increased annual revenue per employee by 13 via automations and digitalization. Scored very high team engagement and retention scores over the years.
    itération Sales Strategy Recruitment Storytelling Marketing
  • Doctoranytime,
    CEO
    MEDICAL
    July 2016 - August 2019 (3 years and 1 month)
    Belgium
    Doctoranytime helps patients and medical practitioners connect more efficiently via its SaaS and lead generation platform. In 2019, the company generated its first ever yearly net profits. Launched the venture from scratch in Belgium and revamped the product completely to achieve market fit. Successfully achieved monthly profitability by the end of 2018 (EBIT). Led the company to its first profitable semester in 2019. Achieved annual revenue growth of +600% from 2016 to 2019. Increased monthly website visits to 300K in 2019. Today, Doctoranytime is among the Belgian leaders in its field. The platform is visited by over 1M patients each month, it generates a 60% net profit of total turnover.

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Education

  • Master
    Louvain School of Management
    2011
    Master
  • Erasmus
    Indian Institute of Management
    2010
    Erasmus

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