Karel van der Poel is an accomplished Enterprise Software Executive, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO, and CPO with a strong motivation for innovation and execution.

His career spans founding, failing, growing, scaling, fundraising, investing, divesting, acquiring, and selling technology companies across various revenue phases.

With hands-on experience at every stage of a technology business, Karel has a passion for challenging the status quo, building exceptional teams, and enabling them to drive rapid business starts and expansions.

Currently, Karel van der Poel serves as the head of the ECN product division at ServiceNow, overseeing a billion-plus dollar business portfolio experiencing hypergrowth.

The ECN portfolio includes high-growth businesses such as Employee Workflows, ERP workflows, Creator Workflows, and NowX, ServiceNow's incubation center for new ventures.

Karel's educational background includes studies in Business Administration at Northeastern University and Computer Science and Business Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Vu Amsterdam).

Throughout his career, he has held key roles at notable organizations such as SVP & GM ECN Products (Employee Workflows, Creator Workflows & NowX) at ServiceNow, VP NowX, VP & GM Analytics, ITBM and SAM Business Units at ServiceNow, and CEO and Founder positions at KPI Library, Mirror42, and Gorillapark.

His past experiences also include roles at Hewlett Packard, Prolin Automation, Meta Software, and as a software developer and research engineer.