element61, the thought-leading Performance Management consulting company today announced the name of a 3rd co-founding partner, Toon Puissant.
Toon Puissant (37) is an experienced Project and Delivery Manager with 10 years+ of experience in Business Intelligence and Performance Management. Toon has a background in Applied Economics (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and a Master of Business Administration in the USA.
Toon started his career at leading consulting organisations such as EDS and IBM. In 1997, Toon joined Platinum Technologies as Data Warehouse consultant. In 1999, Toon joined start-up Norkom Technologies (advanced analytics) as one of the first Belgian consultants. After quickly moving to the Delivery Manager position, he helped grow the organisation to approximately 30 people. He combined this managerial role with project management for a number of major projects at key accounts.
Throughout his professional career, Toon has worked in customer-facing roles, focusing on creatively thinking together with the customer about solutions to their problems, followed by an active & pragmatic involvement in the implementation of the solution. Toon has a strong methodology background (Prince2™ certification) combined with in-depth technical & communication skills.
Since 2005, Toon has worked as an independent Performance Management professional and now joins element61 as co-founding partner, focusing on Customer Project Management.