Daan de Geus

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Expertise

Innovation, Strategy

Themes

Public and Social domain

Manager

Daan is a strategic innovator with experience at both the executive and operational levels. He combines strategy, innovation, and technology to help organizations become future-proof. With a background in business design and venture building, he has worked for international corporations such as Microsoft, IKEA, and LEGO, as well as in the public sector. He has also gained experience within Defence as a reservist innovation specialist.

My talent

Strategic thinking, systems thinking, and translating complex challenges into concrete action and bringing structure to ambiguity, building ventures from concept to execution, and combining human insight with AI-powered execution.

My education

MSc. Business Administration, Strategy & Organization – VU Amsterdam (2015)

People and organizations that inspire me

Andrew Ng inspires me with his pragmatic approach to AI adoption: making technology valuable only when it is scalable, applicable, and directly usable within organizations. DARPA inspires me as a model of how public institutions can drive fundamental technological breakthroughs through bold, long-term, high-risk innovation.