Getting to WOW!

During weekdays, you may find Daphné as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Co-Founder at Tengu, a fast-growing tech startup in Ghent that connects the right people with the correct data.

Next to Tengu, she’s very passionate about smarketing and product management. With Bjièn, she helps tech startups scale and scaleups excel by

• identifying the right product-market fit,
• building up a sustainable brand perception and employer branding,
• coaching founders and smarketers on the best strategies and practices for smarketing, go-to-market and product management,
• adapting your messaging to convince non-technical decision-makers and influencers, and much more.

According to her colleagues, customers, and partner, Daphné is creative, proactive, analytical, result-driven, eager to learn, intrinsically motivated, persistent, and a good planner, coach and leader.

Starting as an Open Source developer in the early 2000s, Dietrich grew to become an experienced software engineer and agile coach. At Bjièn, he takes engineering at SaaS companies to the next level by

• joining, leading and coaching the software development team,
• improving quality and stability of the product,
• implementing continuous value delivery flows with short feedback loops,
• breaking barriers between product and engineering, and
• providing software development services with industry best practices.

Leveraging battle-tested product and software development methodologies and values from Lean, Agile and Extreme Programming (XP), Dietrich improves the team’s productivity, resilience and happiness.

As a software developer, he builds software in a test-driven CI/CD environment using Python, JavaScript, PHP, Go and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and has experience with refactoring legacy codebases.