Jan Coppens

Jan Coppens
Incubation & Venture Accelerator

Jan graduated as Master in Information Technology in 2001. After this, he chose to precede his doctor’s degree at the University of Ghent, faculty of Engineering Science. He graduated in ‘content distribution networking and network monitoring’. Jan obtained his PhD at IBCN, a research group of IBBT at the University of Ghent.

Almost a decade later, Jan left the University building and started working as a researcher/project leader for Alcatel-Lucent, and later in the consultancy company McKinsey&Co. There, he became acquainted with operational management of IT departments.

Since June 2011, Jan is working at IBBT as a senior business developer in the Incubation & Venture accelerator. His main task in this function is to support SMEs , in function of further growth, internationalization and generating new business.

Do not hesitate to contact Jan.