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Jean Dessain

Managing Partner at Reacfin | Independent Non-Executive Director at MeDirect Bank | Professor of Finance & Machine Learning

📍 Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Nov 2019
We’ve reinvented size and fit. Our market-leading technology ensures the right size for customers thanks to instantaneous, fully-clothed and precise scanning technology. It’s painfully ironic that an age of endless data has done little to ensure that the next pair of jeans or shirt will actually be sized ‘right’. And with more of us than ever buying online, the sizing problem is projected to grow. It’s a challenge faced both by companies and society at large, which needs a scalable and efficient solution: ours. Our unique scanners and algorithms provide brands and customers with the right size first time round. Thereby growing brand loyalty and future purchase intent - moving from ‘fit anxiety’ to ‘fit certainty’. It also enables brands to engage deeper with their customers and to bridge the gap between the online and the in-store fashion experience. Today, our technology - recognized for its reliability, affordability and excellence - is already in use with household global brands such as Amazon, Zalando and Nike. We provide solutions that empower brands to: - Offer an engaging customer-experience - Liberate shoppers from size-related frustrations - Increase brand loyalty & stimulate omni-channel - Decrease returns and carbon footprint - Increase profitability Treedy’s patented 3D scanning technology helps more than just the fashion industry. By means of our reliability and precision, we’re able to create digital twins, allowing for endless possibilities. We’re already working on solutions for workwear, gym and the metaverse. The time has come for hassle-free, highly efficient technologies that offer advantages to all the stakeholders of the clothing industry: customers, brands, supply chain actors and society at large. At Treedy’s, we’ve developed such technologies.
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2019
Non Executive Board Member
Nov 2019
We’ve reinvented size and fit. Our market-leading technology ensures the right size for customers thanks to instantaneous, fully-clothed and precise scanning technology. It’s painfully ironic that an age of endless data has done little to ensure that the next pair of jeans or shirt will actually be sized ‘right’. And with more of us than ever buying online, the sizing problem is projected to grow. It’s a challenge faced both by companies and society at large, which needs a scalable and efficient solution: ours. Our unique scanners and algorithms provide brands and customers with the right size first time round. Thereby growing brand loyalty and future purchase intent - moving from ‘fit anxiety’ to ‘fit certainty’. It also enables brands to engage deeper with their customers and to bridge the gap between the online and the in-store fashion experience. Today, our technology - recognized for its reliability, affordability and excellence - is already in use with household global brands such as Amazon, Zalando and Nike. We provide solutions that empower brands to: - Offer an engaging customer-experience - Liberate shoppers from size-related frustrations - Increase brand loyalty & stimulate omni-channel - Decrease returns and carbon footprint - Increase profitability Treedy’s patented 3D scanning technology helps more than just the fashion industry. By means of our reliability and precision, we’re able to create digital twins, allowing for endless possibilities. We’re already working on solutions for workwear, gym and the metaverse. The time has come for hassle-free, highly efficient technologies that offer advantages to all the stakeholders of the clothing industry: customers, brands, supply chain actors and society at large. At Treedy’s, we’ve developed such technologies.
2018
Associate Partner
Oct 2018
We develop sustainable actuarial and quantitative financial solutions in partnership with our clients (from design and modelling to operationalization in their systems), building on strong data analytics while securing full transparency and integral knowledge transfer. Reacfin is the reliable bridge between academic excellence and market best practices. Our Services - Consulting We offer consulting services in actuarial science & quantitative finance, including a.o. capital - portfolio - product - risk - and liquidity - management. We build our expertise on broad data analytics capacities. - Tooling We develop solutions in partnership with our clients, i.e. we integrate our solutions in our client’s systems and processes and we secure full knowledge transfer (e.g. open source code). - Learning We share our knowledge with our clients. We offer a comprehensive learning platform, including on-site trainings, e-learning modules, webinars etc. Our clients include Insurers, Banks, Asset Managers, Pension Funds, Financial Market Infrastructures and Regulators. Our team is organized in four centers of excellence: - Life, Health & Pension - Non-Life - Risk Management & Finance - Data Analytics Our History - Founded in 2004, we have 15+ years of experience. We are a spin-off of the UCLouvain School of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Science - Our team consists of 25+ specialized consultants (mostly actuaries and quants, several of PhD level).
2015
OneLIFE SA
Board Member
Jan 2015
OneLIFE SA
Board Member
Jan 2015
2010
Managing Director & Owner
Jan 2010
Navagne Management BVBA ("Navagne"​) is an independent strategic & financial advisory services company. Navagne is a financial services firm specialized in two core businesses with a successful track record : - Assisting start-ups and SME's in capital raising activities and accompanying its clients throughough the process ; - Providing advices to corporate clients for M&A, for financial and/or strategic management, and participating to the operational support for the execution of related transactions.
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