Harrivds BV

About

A bit about me.

I spent five years at HPE in enterprise sales, then a year as COO at Inect, which Panenco acquired in early 2026. Today I'm Growth Lead at Panenco, where I started as Product Manager. Through Harrivds BV I take on a few freelance projects a year, mostly with business owners working through digitisation and automation questions.

I'm interested in what AI is doing to how software gets built and how businesses run. Most companies are still working out where it actually helps, and I like being part of that conversation. The same goes for the basics: a solid digital setup gives people their time back.

I keep my client load small and do the work myself. Where it helps, I bring in developers or specialists from my network to get from plan to implementation.

Harris Van der Stighelen

Harris Van der Stighelen

Founder, Harrivds BV

Antwerp, Belgium MSc Business Economics, KU Leuven & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin HPE · Inect · Panenco
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Career

The path so far.

2014–2020

MSc Business Economics

KU Leuven

2019–2020

MSc Business Economics (exchange)

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2020–2022

Account Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2022–2023

Category Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2023–2025

Business Development Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2026–now

Product Manager & Growth Lead

Panenco

Practical depth

Where I've built experience.

I bring hands-on experience in specific technology domains, so the advice is grounded in how things actually work.

Hybrid cloud

Advising on hybrid cloud architectures, balancing on-premise and cloud workloads for performance, cost, and control.

Datacenter infrastructure

Deep familiarity with datacenter environments from enterprise sales at HPE: compute, storage, networking, and lifecycle management.

Software development

Product-level understanding of software development cycles, tooling, and delivery from requirements through deployment.

AI-assisted development

Hands-on experience building functional products fast using AI-assisted development tools, with a small team or on my own.

Go-to-market

Go-to-market experience from both sides: enterprise sales and channel strategy at HPE, and today positioning and pipeline as Growth Lead at Panenco.

Platforms & tools

Technologies I work with.

From enterprise cloud infrastructure to AI-assisted development. These are the platforms and tools I use and advise on regularly.

Microsoft

365Microsoft 365
SPSharePoint
AzAzure
CoCopilot
TeTeams

Google

Google Workspace
Google Cloud
Google Analytics
Google Gemini

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAWS

AI & Dev tools

Claude
AIOpenAI
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
LvLovable

Web & No-code

Wix
Webflow
Vercel
Figma

Productivity & Project management

Notion
Momonday.com
Trello
Jira
Linear
Excalidraw
LcLucidchart

CRM & Sales

SFSalesforce
HubSpot
SlSlack
Zapier
GitHub

Let's talk and see whether I can help.

If something here sounds relevant to what you're working on, feel free to reach out. Happy to have a call and go from there.

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