Unifiedpost Group
Karel Wouters is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in information security and product ownership, currently serving as a Product Owner and Internal Security Consultant at Bancontact Payconiq Company since February 2012. In this role, Karel has been instrumental in establishing security requirements for the organization's payment system. Additional roles include IAM and Payments Internal Consultant at Unifiedpost Group, and previous positions as Product Owner at Unifiedpost Payments and Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven/Opacity, where Karel contributed to the Opacity project. Karel's early career involved pivotal roles in information security consulting at CardWise and project management at Clear2Pay and IBBT/iMinds/imec, along with significant research endeavors at KU Leuven's COSIC department. Karel holds a PhD in Engineering and a Licentiaat in Mathematics from KU Leuven, complemented by foundational studies in Civil Engineering and Mathematics.
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Unifiedpost Group
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At Unifiedpost Group, our mission is to make business easy and smart by offering enterprises the tools to build strong digital connections with their customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. By doing so, we help our customers become more efficient, cost-effective and compliant. Our cloud-based open network of consumers and organisations - small or large, local or global - promotes collaboration, digital interactions, document exchanges, payments and cash flow optimisation. It also enables us and our partners to create additional data-driven services to help organisations grow. In our trusted network we equip every verified participant with the right tools to digitalise and automate business processes including order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes. Those tools range from smart mobile and web applications over software integrations all the way to fully documented APIs. Since our founding in 2001, Unifiedpost Group has grown significantly, expanding to offices in 30+ countries, with 500+ million documents processed in 2022, reaching 1,000,000+ SMEs and 2,500+ corporates. Noteworthy facts and figures: - Established in 2001, with a proven track record - 2022 revenue €190.9 million - 1300+ employees - 500+ million documents processed in 2022 - Diverse portfolio of clients across a wide variety of industries (banking, leasing, utilities, media, telecommunications, travel, social security service providers, public organisations, etc.) ranging from large internationals to SMEs - Unifiedpost Payments, a fully owned subsidiary, is recognised as a payment institution by the National Bank of Belgium - Certified Swift partner - International M&A track record - Listed on the regulated market of Euronext Brussels, symbol: UPG