Paul Coerkamp

Paul Coerkamp is an experienced professional with a diverse work history. Paul is currently the Managing Director at Vital Innovation since March 2023. Prior to this, Paul was the Co-founder & CEO of Blits, a low-code Conversational AI Ecosystem, from January 2020 onwards. Before that, they worked at KPMG as a part of the Conversational AI team from June 2019 to January 2020. Paul also gained experience as a Strategy Consultant at PJFC from December 2017 to January 2020. Additionally, they served as the Launch Director - Iran MVNO at Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa from October 2016 to November 2017 and as a Strategy Consultant - Telecom MVNO at ESM from July 2016 to September 2016. Prior to that, Paul worked as a Program Director - Space at Benbenet from February 2015 to July 2016 and as the CEO - Telecom MVNO at CrowdFone from February 2014 to February 2015. Paul also served as the Launch Director - Saudi Arabia MVNO at Lebara Mobile from August 2013 to February 2014. Paul began their career as the Co-founder of AccessBoP, a nonprofit organization, where they worked from November 2010 to July 2013.

Paul Coerkamp obtained their Master of Business Administration degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Groningen between 1983 and 1989. In 2005, they completed a Senior Executive Leadership Course in Organizational Leadership at INSEAD. Additionally, in 2004, Paul Coerkamp completed an Executive Leadership Course in Organizational Leadership at IMD. In 2016, they obtained the certification of Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA) from Scaled Agile, Inc.