Commercial strategist · Bruges
Simon Pille
I think with growing companies about their commercial side: sales, marketing and process. And then I build what we decide.
Entrepreneurship runs in my family. My grandfather Bruno Maes invented Brugs pikanterie, my parents built careers in the hotel industry. I started trading at school as a teenager. Today I put that drive to work for companies whose commercial side grew along instead of being designed.
Not a standard CV.
This is how I got here, and why I build commercial engines instead of merely operating them.
Entrepreneurship as family tradition
My grandfather Bruno Maes invented Brugs pikanterie. My parents built careers in the hotel industry, and I was already trading at school as a kid. Entrepreneurship was never a conscious choice. It was simply in my DNA.
Thinking differently as a superpower
I have ASD and ADHD. That didn't make my youth easy: I ended up in special education and never quite fit in. But that same wiring is what makes me who I am today. Where others see a spreadsheet, I see the missing system behind it. I get fully absorbed by a problem until it's solved. What once seemed like an obstacle is now the reason clients bring me in.
From politics to entrepreneurship
At sixteen I joined the Bruges youth council, where I spent seven years trying to make an impact. The turning point? A meeting about the Bruges library. Weeks of preparation were swept away by the crowd and the impossibility of reaching a compromise. That's when it clicked: as an entrepreneur I can build in a week what takes months here. Along the way I went to Poland and later South Korea, where my worldview changed for good.
Studying and building at the same time
I earned a master's in business administration and a second master's at VUB, where I bridged IT and business strategy. But sitting still was never my thing. As a student entrepreneur I founded Crea-studio (a branding agency), launched techjane and kompuuter through social entrepreneurship, and wrote "Alexander and the dark fury": a fantasy novel that channels my intense view of the business world. Fiction is my safe space to think freely about problems and possibilities.
Blitzt: everything combined
After freelance work through Gighouse, I started helping clients with their commercial growth. At Finvictum I set up the first outbound engine and delivered results straight away. Today Blitzt is one seat: someone who thinks about the whole and then builds what we decide. No assumptions, but testing. The gut feeling delivers the hypothesis, the data decides which one survives.
What you can count on.
You always know where you stand
If something isn't working, I tell you. If your budget is better spent elsewhere, I say so. You won't waste months on the wrong strategy.
Every session moves you forward
You walk away from every meeting with action items, not just insights. If it doesn't directly improve your pipeline or revenue, we don't do it.
You understand everything I do
No black box strategies or consultant-speak. I explain every recommendation in plain language so you can make informed decisions, even after we stop working together.
Your business gets my full attention
I deliberately work with a handful of clients at a time. That means I know your numbers, your team, your market. Not just your company name.
One conversation of 30 minutes.
You tell me where you think it is stuck. I say what I see, and whether I think it belongs with me. No pitch, no pressure.
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