Jo BAEYAERT

Executive owner of AI strategy, production AI products, engineering, enterprise data platform, and AI governance for the group's AI portfolio, serving enterprise localization in regulated domains. Led development of proprietary translation LLMs, agentic runtime, evaluation platform, and real-time interpreting platform, contributing to over EUR 5 million in revenue.

Independent applied AI research and creative-technologies lab, delivering agentic, retrieval and recommendation prototypes and executive advisory for European clients. Built a semantic job-search application with multi-agent LLM orchestration and hybrid retrieval.

Owned company-wide AI and data strategy tied to P&L during a major corporate restructuring, delivering approximately EUR 27 million in annual run-rate savings and EUR 15.5 million in growth initiatives. Shipped recommender, personalization, semantic retrieval and RAG platforms on the enterprise data stack.

Built and led a Data Hub of more than 40 people, defining operating model, roles, talent strategy, budget framework, governance, and KPI/OKR system. Shipped recommender, personalization, semantic retrieval and RAG platforms, improving relevance and reducing latency.

Owned company-wide AI and data strategy tied to P&L during a major corporate restructuring, delivering approximately EUR 27 million in annual run-rate savings and EUR 15.5 million in growth initiatives. Built executive decision and reporting assets that reduced manual reporting effort by 55%.

Scaled a multilingual NLP and ML engineering team from 4 to 23 people across three continents in 12 months. Led query understanding, ranking and localized experience across more than 23 languages, linked to more than USD 400 million in quarterly Ads revenue.

Led grant-funded quantitative research programs in movement and fisheries ecology, cognitive and behavioural modelling of elasmobranchs, coordinating international teams across four institutions. Built reproducible end-to-end analytical and machine-learning pipelines.

Led grant-funded quantitative research programs in movement and fisheries ecology, cognitive and behavioural modelling of elasmobranchs, coordinating international teams. Built reproducible end-to-end analytical and machine-learning pipelines.

Led grant-funded quantitative research programs in movement and fisheries ecology, cognitive and behavioural modelling of elasmobranchs. Built reproducible end-to-end analytical and machine-learning pipelines.

Research internship in marine biology, contributing to quantitative research programs.

Coordinated construction projects, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with safety standards.

Specialized in historical research and documentation for the department.

Supported educational programs and initiatives within the metropolitan area.

Grade: Cum laude

MSc with Honours in Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, graduated Cum laude and Merit Scholar. Thesis on movement ecology and personality of juvenile lemon sharks.

Postgraduate degree in Marine Sciences.

BSc in Organisms, Populations and Ecosystems Biology.

Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc).

Visiting studies in Aquatic Biology and Limnology.

BA in Humanities (CPGE).