About Omar Mohout

Omar Mohout is an Entrepreneurship Fellow at Sirris, a former technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, a C-level advisor to high-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Antwerp Management School and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.

He is the author of Pricing Strategies for Startups, The Belgian Startup Landscape, Crowdfunding in Belgium, 99 reasons why startups fail, Corporate Venturing and the popular Start-up Master Class series.

Mohout writes for VentureBeat, SaaScribe, Data News, Bloovi, StartUs and is an academic contributor to the European Startup Monitor.

He delivers the following workshops for start-ups and organizations that are scaling up: Community Engineering; Pricing Strategies for Startups; Lean Marketing; Setting up and Managing an Advisory Board; Growth Strategies; How to go from Idea to Scale-up; Going International; Subscription Based Business Models and; Cash Flow Models for Startups.

He is co-chair of the Circle Of Growth and the #BeTech Community as well as a community host for Corporate Venturing Europe. He also organizes the Growth Hacking meet up and keeps track of European funding and scale ups on www.scaleups.sirris.be.

Mohout was chairman of the Strategy Advisory Board of VITO, a research and technology organization working in clean tech and sustainable development. He was also chairman of BeCentral. He served as an advisory board member for the Euronext TechShare Program and the Belgian Cloud Summit.

He was an active member of the general assembly at Startups.be and served on the boards of high-growth technology companies including Aproplan, Teamleader and Esoptra. He joined the board of directors of venture capital fund imec.iStart. CTO of Digicono.my and cofounder of MyAdvisoryBoard.be.

He is also a mentor at Nexxworks, Duval Union, Founder Institute, imec.iStart, Startit @KBC, Startathlon, Virtuology Academy, Flanders DC, as well as being Belgian Ambassador to the World Startup Report, Innovator Community Ambassador for Belgium, Ambassador for MIT Innovators Under 35 Europe and Country Ambassador for UBI Global.

Mohout is a keynote speaker and panelist on technology, entrepreneurship and innovation topics at leading conferences.