WHAT WE DO
We help corporates innovate and digitally transform.
We work with CEO's and executive members to assess their current state of innovation and shape their innovation ambition and trajectory.
We believe that different innovation models apply to different corporates. We also believe that - in today's environment, whatever the model - innovation comes from startups.
We understand startups. We understand corporates. We understand what it takes to build a bridge between the two.
We help you build the organization that will make you a successful corporate innovator.
WHO WE ARE
Catalina Daniels Co-Founder of CoStart, has 17 years international consulting experience with McKinsey & Company, where she built a strong reputation for long lasting impact in large (often public) companies which she helped transform; her spike was in the media and transportation & logistics sectors. After McKinsey she gained 7 years entrepreneurial and executive experience with a start-up and with the Special Olympics European Eurasian Summer Games. She has a deep understanding of both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. For the last years she has been active as an angel investor in NY, as an advisor to start ups, and to corporates on their digital transformation. She recently launched programs with the government of Flanders and the EU to select and scale European start-ups in the US. She holds a degree in business engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Chantal Tjong Co-Founder of CoStart, has a rich corporate background, always working on new opportunities and moving boundaries on the digital front. She spent 12 years at McKinsey & Company where she was part of the team starting up the McKinsey Jarkarta office in ’95 and joined the newly formed Business Technology Office upon returning from Indonesia for another 5 years. After McKinsey, she spent 15 years at Nike in various leadership roles, most recently with the team that designed and developed Nike’s new HQ in NYC. She built a reputation for digital innovation in Nike Sales, developing interactive b2b showrooms using the latest VR technologies and rule-based AI. She is advisor to corporates on how to engage with new technologies and to startups how to grow and expand their business model. Chantal holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and an MBA from INSEAD.
