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
Founder, Harrivds BV
Career
The path so far.
2014–2020
MSc Business Economics
KU Leuven
2019–2020
MSc Business Economics (exchange)
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI & Dev tools
Web & No-code
Productivity & Project management
CRM & Sales
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.