Jan Smekens
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Industry
- Media, Entertainment & Hospitality
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Functional expertise domain
- General Management
- HR Management
- Marketing & Sales
- Operational Management
Business Mentor profile
General management - Business Development - HR - Marcom
experience as a founder-entrepreneur
25 years of many mistakes and some good decisions
passionate about teaching and making a difference
I love to walk in the woods in the weekends (I have a great Irish Setter) and read the press and business books. Once in a while an ancient Greek or Latin text as I was trained as a teacher in classical languages.
I am the (slow) cook at home. Advice to my younger self would be not to listen too much to my older self. Probably I would have made less mistakes, but definitly I would have learned less too. I had a mentor myself who guided me from my life as a journalist to my life as an entrepreneur.
My absolute hero is Nelson Mandela. The combination of his moral superiority, wisdom and humour is extraterrestial.
