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Digital transformation and award-winning student work

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Strategy, Finance, AI & Engineering

Valentin Angenot

Business Engineer · Industrial Engineer · CFA Level I passed

01 · Profile

Business Engineer.
Industrial Engineer.
CFA Level I passed.

01 · HEC Liège · 2025

Business Engineer

M.Sc. Business Engineering, Science & Technology

Valedictorian · Major de Promotion

B.Sc. 18/20 · M.Sc. 18.5/20 · First-ranked at both levels · Summa Cum Laude with Committee Praise.

02 · HELMo Gramme · 2026

Industrial Engineer

M.Eng. Industrial Engineering

Current average: 18.2/20 · Mechanics, energy, industrial systems, robotics and optimisation.

03 · CFA Institute · Aug 2025

CFA Level I

Passed on the first attempt

Financial analysis, valuation, portfolio management, ethics and quantitative methods.

Languages

French Native
English C1
Spanish C1
Dutch Beginner Ready to deepen
Italian Beginner Ready to deepen

Selected learning

Certifications

A deliberately cross-disciplinary selection spanning strategy, AI, finance and engineering.

01
IBM Applied AI

Generative AI for Executives and Business Leaders

Connecting AI adoption to business value, governance and executive decision-making.

02
University of London Strategy

Corporate Strategy

Competitive advantage, strategic choices and organisational execution.

03
Erasmus University Rotterdam Valuation

Advanced Valuation & Strategy

M&A, private equity and venture-capital decision frameworks.

04
Dassault Systèmes Engineering

Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate

Technical design translated into robust, buildable engineering models.

05
University of Michigan Simulation

Digital Twins

Linking physical systems, data and simulation for better decisions.

06
Yale University Markets

Financial Markets

Market structures, risk, behavioural finance and the role of institutions.

07
CFI Modelling

Financial Modeling Foundations

Structured financial models built for analysis, valuation and decision support.

02 · Experience

Professional experience.

Seven roles between 2022 and 2026 — all held in parallel with full-time studies.

Filter experience

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026
Internship

Industrial Engineering Intern · Strategy & Operations

CILE · Compagnie Intercommunale Liégeoise des Eaux · Industrial Engineering degree internship

Built the make-or-buy case and target operating model for bringing a critical field operation in-house across a utility serving 560,000+ residents.

560k+ residents480 interventions / year€597K / 10 years
  • Modelled staffing, equipment, vehicle, compliance and workflows for 480 road-opening interventions per year across two depots and 24 municipalities.
  • Designed and built two linked browser applications combining geocoding, 24 rule sets, native DOCX generation, a canvas-based signage editor, submission workflows and analytics.
  • Quantified €597K in ten-year savings, unified 24 permit procedures and reduced the core administrative workflow from 98 to 11 minutes.
Sep 2023 – Mar 2026
Professional role

Teaching Assistant · Strategy & Digital Transformation

HEC Liège & Faculty of Medicine, ULiège

Mentored 300+ students on applied strategic diagnoses and transformation mandates built around live company and healthcare cases.

300+ studentsStrategy + healthcareLive field cases
  • Supervised corporate projects in digital strategy, Industry 4.0 and strategic consulting in collaboration with companies and MecaTech.
  • At the Faculty of Medicine, coached Master's teams on healthcare strategy and digital transition, translating field issues into structured recommendations.

Faculty   Prof. Nicolas Neysen

Jul 2025 – Feb 2026
Professional role

AI Engineer & Researcher

University of Liège · University of Rouen · Long COVID Research Network

Designed and integrated the AI system that turns unstructured paediatric Long COVID narratives into interoperable phenotype data usable by clinicians.

10 clinical cases148 → 128 termsClinician-ready output
  • Built the AI pipeline (embeddings, semantic search and LLMs) that mapped 148 clinical observations from 10 cases into 128 standardised medical terms.
  • Co-authored research on integrating AI into Belgian primary care, contributing evidence used in scientific and public-health discussions.

Research lead   Dr Marc Jamoulle

Sep 2024 – Oct 2025
Professional role

Invited Lecturer

HEC Liège Executive Education · Liège · On-site

Invited to deliver applied AI sessions for executive audiences using business cases I had personally led.

Executive audiencesApplied AIReal business cases
  • Structured the intervention around strategic opportunity selection, operational limits, governance and the conditions required for adoption in real organisations.
  • Translated technical systems into decision frameworks for non-technical professionals.
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025
Professional role

AI Engineer & Project Lead

AIASHI · HEC Liège · University of Liège

Led a strategic research-intelligence initiative turning raw institutional data into a decision-ready taxonomy and quality-controlled pipeline, built to optimise the allocation of a €200M budget through better data analysis.

62k+ abstracts3-level taxonomy€200M decision scope
  • Engineered an NLP/LLM system processing 100,000+ documents; on 62,000 research abstracts, produced a three-level taxonomy spanning 1,977 topics.
  • Raised usable coverage to 89.8%, reduced unresolved records from 18,724 to 6,320 and reached 96% quality-control accuracy.
Sep 2024 – May 2025
Professional role

Equity Research Analyst

CFA Institute Research Challenge · Benelux

Produced full sell-side initiating coverage on Just Eat Takeaway.com (Euronext: TKWY), from industry analysis and forecasting to valuation and investment recommendation.

  • Issued a SELL recommendation with 18.5% downside potential and defended the thesis before investment professionals at Euronext Amsterdam.
  • Ranked 2nd among 20 Benelux universities.

Academic mentor   Prof. Marie Lambert

Sep 2022 – Feb 2026
Professional role

Student Instructor · Finance, Mathematics & Engineering Sciences

HEC Liège · Five course appointments

Delivered tutorials, problem-solving sessions and student support across finance, accounting, physics, mathematics and supply-chain management.

5 course appointmentsFinance → physics500+ students supported
  • Corporate Finance & Strategic Financial Analysis; Physics I & II; Mathematics: Infinitesimal Analysis.
  • Supply Chain Management; Finance & Accounting.

Course leads   Marie Lambert (corporate finance) · Pierre Deneye (physics) · Valérie Henry (analysis) · Sabine Limbourg & Élodie Bebronne (supply chain) · Giuseppina Capodici & Wilfried Niessen (finance & accounting)

03 · Selected work

Selected work.

Cases, models and reports with direct access to the work behind each result.

01 · Case study · Strategy, AI & Operations
Claude co-development case + leadership playbook

Built with Claude. Grounded in business intelligence.

How a make-or-buy question became an operating model, a software product and a reusable human × AI co-development method.

Projected 10-year value 596,881

Industrial Engineering internship

480Interventions / year 98 → 11Minutes / workflow 24Municipal environments
Explore the case study Strategy, AI & Operations
02 · Applied AI · Institutional intelligence

AI-driven research intelligence at institutional scale.

An AI system — NLP and LLMs — built to optimise the allocation of €200M+ in research revenue.

100K+
Documents
96%
QC rate
1,977
Final topics
Read article → View defence → Defence deck: desktop only
03 · Investment analysis

A sell-side thesis defended at Euronext.

Full initiating coverage on Just Eat Takeaway.com with a SELL recommendation.

2nd
Benelux
20
Universities
18.5%
Downside

More projects

Reports, models and research.

Open the report, model or research behind each project.

2026 · Energy

Denmark Energy Plan 2045

35 GW offshore wind · ~€90B over 20 years

2026 · Mechanical systems

Mechanical Systems Simulator

Live RK4 model · energy and phase tracking

2026 · Biotech

mRNA Sequence Optimisation

LinearDesign · structure and translation efficiency

2025 · Health

AI in clinical medicine

Long COVID · turning patient narratives into structured data

04 · Recognition

Recognition.

  • 2025
    Jury Prize, Digital Transformation Thesis

    Awarded by an industry panel for business and societal impact.

  • #2
    CFA Research Challenge Benelux

    Second of 20 Benelux universities; final at Euronext Amsterdam.

Valedictorian
#2 Benelux CFA Research Challenge
2025 Digital Transformation Jury Prize
RTBF National interview on applied AI and transformation

06 · Beyond the work

What shaped me beyond work.

Football, technology, travel and the quality of human connection have shaped how I compete, learn and work with others.

01Football
8years · Standard de Liège
+
2years · KAS Eupen

The pitch changed. The mindset stayed.

I spent eight years at Standard de Liège and two at Eupen, regularly wearing the captain’s armband. A car accident interrupted that path and led to more than a year of rehabilitation, including learning to walk again. Football left me with more than a taste for competition: self-improvement, discipline and responsibility towards a team.

02Technology

Progress is technological. Value is human.

I believe technology can improve society when it is placed in the right hands. At the same time, the more digital the world becomes, the more valuable the non-digital becomes: trust, thoughtful service and high-quality human interaction. In business, these are not soft extras; they are strategic assets.

03Spanish & travel

A language learned through people.

Spanish grew out of travel, friendships and a genuine affection for the culture. In Mallorca and Lanzarote, trips became lasting friendships. I value the warmth, directness and social energy of Spanish culture—and the way speaking the language lets you experience a place beyond the surface.

04Helping & sharing
The faster the world becomes, the more valuable it is to take time for people.

Helping, sharing knowledge and connecting people matter to me in everyday life. As more interactions become fast or automated, taking time to explain, listen and support others feels even more important.

07 · Contact

Let’s talk.

Open to roles in strategy, finance or corporate development and performance, including chief of staff positions alongside a founder or executive. Replies within 24 hours.

Based in

Liège, Belgium — open to roles in Belgium, Luxembourg, London, Madrid, Barcelona and internationally.

Languages

French native · English C1 · Spanish C1 · Dutch and Italian beginner.

Curriculum

Download the full CV (PDF)