Belgium · EMEA · 2026

Manuel
Mestré

SVP, General Manager EMEA

I’m SVP, General Manager EMEA at Trackforce. Technology and communication are central to how I work. I’m also drawn to neuroscience, particularly what it can teach us about how people understand information and make decisions.

I’m pragmatic by nature. I like understanding how things work, explaining them clearly and turning ideas into something useful in practice.

To me, leadership means making things clear enough for people to decide and act.

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Brique bleue, dessin technique isométrique

One brick.

This is my childhood. And my present.

One brick offers few possibilities. Put it together with others, and you can build a city, a system or a new way of working.

That’s what I enjoy about my work: understanding what each piece brings, bringing people together and finding connections that aren’t obvious at first.

20
Years at the intersection of people, tech & operations
F500
Fortune Global 500 & Fortune 500 Europe organisations supported
5
Continents of operational & commercial reach

I started in a control room in Zaventem. At three in the morning, when something breaks and you have to fix it, operational responsibility becomes very concrete.

Thirteen years at G4S. I learned that growth takes discipline and that the person closest to the problem is often the one with the answer.

I joined Trackforce in 2018, having been a client from 2014 to 2018. I’ve experienced its tools from both sides of the relationship.

I’ve led Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product and Engineering, sometimes at the same time, across very different markets. Today, I’m SVP, General Manager EMEA at Trackforce.

Reading Kahneman gave me words for something I’d seen in the field: intuition and deliberate thought both have a place in our decisions. I try to make room for both.

Sales Leadership Customer Success Support Operations Product Strategy Engineering Management P&L Ownership EMEA Markets AI & SaaS

UCLouvain · Law  /  University of Maryland · AI & Business  /  PECB · DPO  /  NATO Secret Clearance

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Trust over time

The relationship is tested after the kick-off meeting too, when something goes wrong and the client calls. I’ve spent my career building teams that show up when needed and hold themselves to that standard every day.

Working with large organisations taught me that features matter. Trust in the team matters at renewal too.

02

Technology that addresses the problem

In security, the difficulty often starts before the technology: understanding the problem to solve. That takes careful listening to distinguish the stated request from what would actually change how people work.

AI makes it easier to build new features. Choosing which ones deserve to be built matters all the more.

03

Helping teams act

Teams sometimes wait for permission when they could already act. A process that people don’t understand or trust can end up blocking decisions.

My work is to make expectations clear, reduce friction and build the trust people need to move forward.

ANews Sécurité
Digitising operations: the Center Parcs example
A conversation with Grégoire Caruhel, Center Parcs Europe
Anthropic
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Claude 101 · Introduction to Agent Skills
2026
University of Maryland
AI and Career Empowerment
Generative AI for Management
2025 – 2026
K1 Investment Management
K1 Advanced Management Program
2022
PECB
Certified Data Protection Officer
2018
UCLouvain
Université catholique de Louvain
Droit
Belgian Government
National / European & NATO Security Clearance — Secret Level
2017
International Security Journal
Five Critical Operational Threats
Published article
2020
Agape ASBL
Administrator
Arts & Culture · Volunteer
2025 – present

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I do not know where I am going.
But I know why I am moving.

That has always been enough. ∞

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In the beginning was the work.

Every stone begins rough, hidden within its own shadows. To build is not to add, but to reveal — to chip away the superfluous until only the true form remains.

A builder who has never felt the weight of the stone cannot judge the balance of the arch.

You have clicked three times. You have sought the light.

Remember that it is never given; it is earned, degree by degree, in the silence of the labor.

Brique bleue, dessin technique isométrique

You found it.

You clicked on a brick.

There was something to discover, and you wanted to know what it was. That pleasure in finding things out has stayed with me since childhood.

Understanding how the pieces fit. Trying another way. Seeing what you can build with what’s at hand.