Meet Harmoney

Thomas holds masters’ degrees in Business Engineering and Operations & Technology Management and completed and Executive Program at Singularity University. Early in his career he worked as a Senior Advisor in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions at KPMG before joining Econopolis, a wealth advisory and wealth management services provider. At Econopolis Thomas was, as a partner, responsible for the Private Investments division, working with high net worth clients in managing private equity and private debt investments. Thomas is co-founder and Managing Director at Harmoney.

After receiving his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ghent University Wouter started working in the telecommunication market and participated in various delivery projects at fixed and mobile operators. In 2004 he joined IBCN as a research assistant where he was involved in various European and national research project. In 2009 Wouter obtained a PhD in the field of Computer Science. In 2011 he became business developer for Ghent University (Industrial Research Fund). In this role, he has been involved at iMinds (CTO, Future Internet Technologies) and as Director Research Valorization at IMEC. Wouter is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Harmoney.

Steven holds a masters’ degree in Economics, specialized in (corporate) Finance. After starting his career as a Senior External Auditor at KPMG and Internal Audit assignments, he focused his career on Project Management and Operations in IT and Telecommunications at Alcatel-Lucent (currently Nokia) and Bpost. As COO and CIO for a start-up delivering Electrical Vehicle charging solutions and Energy Management software, Steven implemented processes and IT to make the start-up scalable. As Chief Operations Officer and Product Manager, Steven is focusing on scalable Operations and Product processes at Harmoney.

Stijn built up more than 15 years of enterprise experience throughout different types of software development projects, after he achieved in 2002 a master’s degree in industrial science Electronics ICT. Stijn started his career as a Java developer at DATA4s (acquired by Norkom Technologies) where he was co-responsible for their unique name-matching AML tool, with focus on the financial sector. Afterwards Stijn evolved as technical consultant from a developer to a senior technical team lead on a wide range of projects and customers at XploreGroup, part of the CRONOS company. At Harmoney, Stijn leads a young and dynamic product development team with great opportunities in a complex matter, making sure the company’s objectives are achieved.

Anne-Catherine holds a master’s degree in management from the University of Antwerp. She has built an outstanding project and process management track record at Belfius and Bpost during the past 11 years and is our Head of Professional Services, responsible for the smooth delivery of the Harmoney solutions.

Jolien is delivery manager at Harmoney. With a background in project- and program management of IT implementations, she guides the customers with clear and transparent communication towards a smooth delivery of the Harmoney solutions. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Leuven and completed a MBA highlights program at Solvay Business School.

Frank Verhaest, our Partnership Director, has extensive expertise in product and brand management, with a strong focus on SaaS and new product development. With over 25 years of experience, he has worked across industries such as finance, IT, retail, logistics, sports, and the food industry, collaborating with both start-ups (including fintechs) and multinationals.

With years of experience and a profound understanding of Fintech and Regtech, Wouter excels in business development and sales operations. His mission is to streamline the integration of financial services and innovative technology, a goal that resonates deeply with Harmoney's vision.

With more than 20 years of experience in compliance – customer protection, fraud prevention, and AML – Laurent has built strong expertise in regulatory engineering. After a career in consulting and within major insurance groups, he now brings this experience to Harmoney France.

His goal: to actively deploy innovative tools that help financial institutions meet their regulatory obligations in a simpler and more effective way.

As a commercial leader in the RegTech space, Jens helps financial institutions and service providers transform the way they manage compliance, risk, and counterparty relationships. He believes true compliance maturity goes beyond reducing manual work, creating instead a connected risk ecosystem where data, people, and technology work in harmony. At Harmoney, he empowers organizations to orchestrate data and decisioning across the full client lifecycle, turning fragmented information into actionable insight to anticipate and manage risk more intelligently.

Emile is passionate about operations, digitalization, and process optimization, a path shaped by curiosity and hands-on building, from his first website at 16 to leading automation and AI initiatives as a director at AXA. Later he founded a SaaS company simplifying complex processes, and today at Harmoney he helps organizations make digitalization tangible and scalable.