Prof.dr. Stefan Stremersch
Is Chaired Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and at Ghent University. Stremersch has published more than 50 scientific articles in leading scholarly journals, some of which were voted as the best of the year. He received several career awards from the American Marketing Association (AMA), the European Marketing Academy (EMAC), the Dutch Association for Market Research (MOA), the Holland Scientific Society, the Dutch Royal Academy for Science (KNAW) and the Francqui Foundation. He received more than 6M euros in competitive research funding. He has held faculty positions at other universities and business schools, such as IESE Business School, Duke University and Emory University, and has taught at all levels of business school and university education. In 2001, he obtained his PHD from Tilburg University with the highest honors (top 2% of all Tilburg PHDs) and was a visiting PhD student at UCLA and University of Southern California.
Is the Founder of MTI2, a spin-off of his academic career. MTI2 enables people & firms to transform their innovation potential into commercial success. It does so in three domains: innovation, marketing and sales. In those areas, it delivers advice, training, and project implementation. Among its past and present clients are many leading companies in their own respective industries: Aliaxis, Baloise Insurance, Barco, Baxter, Bio-Techne, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Caesar Group, Dechra, Grünenthal, GSK, KLM-AirFrance, Merck, Michelin, Novartis, SABIC, Sanofi, and SKF, among others. MTI2 also received several grants of the Flemish Organization for Innovation and is a provider of choice for innovation activities at science foundations such as the Dutch Science Foundation and universities, such as Ghent University, University of Munster, Basel University, University of Liège, among others. Stremersch and his wife also lead a second-generation family company in Belgium, where they – in the trenches – grow the innovation talent of close to 100 employees (www.euromat.be).
Is a passionate endurance athlete in his “spare” time. He runs (ultra-)marathons, long distance duathlons and triathlons. He is at best an average athlete in these disciplines with as highest performance a top 10 place in his own age group in the World Championship long distance duathlon (Zofingen). He did finish all of the races he started, but one, typically somewhere middle in the pack, but always with a smile and sometimes with goose bumps.