About My Biography
K arin Maquet lives in Brussels and is a passionate business catalyst. She has 25-year+ experience as business consultant. After graduation as business engineer from Louvain School of Management, she worked at PwC Luxemburg as auditor of banks and investment funds. She led numerous projects in Europe and specialized in strategic diagnosis, project management and business case’s preparation in asset management and private banking. She was specialized in risk management, compliance and operational performance.
After PwC, Karin founded Kammco, a consulting company that advises start-ups, growing companies and SME transfers to setting up the right balance between strategy, marketing, finance and organization, from business modelling to “get things done” on a creative but structured and efficient way. She has been active in various sectors : professional services, data management, design, engineering, knowledge management, interactive gaming, SaaS, non profit, automotive, food, etc.
Karin has also been president and vice-president of “Cercle Olympe Brussels” for 10 years, a network of female professionals where she was in charge of developing cross-border synergies with other women networks.
Involved in female entrepreneurship programs, Karin won in 2012 the Trends Equiwoman award – rewarding Belgian women who combine their role as female entrepreneur and as woman in the society and family life.
She is frequently asked as business mentor in accelerator programmes in Wallonia, Brussels and Belgium.
As a member of Be Angels Netork, she coaches business angels groups and is trainer at Be Angels Academy.