Mach2 Management

About us

After a career spanning almost 25 years in big organisations, 20 years of which were spent with passion in the energy transition international sector, Julien Henry left his position in December 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic and carried out a personal reflection on the unavoidable changes within the big organisations and on their needs in an increasingly competitive, disruptive and innovative environment, in a global capitalistic society, in which the market pressure decision-making consequences resulting from the short-term vision on profitability are increasingly ill-adapted to the new human challenges of the 21^stcentury, which are insufficiently developed and lead thus to a huge loss of sense among shareholders, staff, associates and leaders of many organisations, culturally impaired.

In this global pandemic tragic context and in the frame of the climate warming acceleration, Julien Henry, who cultivates for many years a strong interest for the urgency in the changes to be made to the organisation strategy in order to ensure a sustainable development of the human activities on earth and a societal sense to the latter, and who is convinced of the huge innovation and organisational agility needs to rapidly accelerate these unavoidable strategic and behavioural changes, has decided to dash into the entrepreneurial adventure and to incorporate Mach 2 Management in August 2021 after attending trainings relating to Agility (SCRUM), to Innovation and Design Thinking (INSEAD) and to Sustainable Development Strategies and Circular Economy (University of Cambridge).

Mach 2 Management is thus incorporated to allow its founder to pursue, in the frame of a main self-employed occupation, the profession of Interim or Permanent Manager in commercial organisations or others, or Management/Finance Consultant and to take up company director positions, while being sensitive to sustainable development, cultural change and to innovation as the main theme and objective.

To this end, Julien Henry has a sound academic training in business administration and audit and finance, acquired at UMONS, as well as a 25 years successful experience in management and finance, during which he attended numerous trainings which gave him the opportunity to accumulate a great deal of new expertise in many in-demand and in rapid evolution areas such as audit and international controlling, Belgian and international accounting USGAAP and IFRS, Belgian and international taxation, mergers and acquisition, computer science (SAP software), human resource management, labour relation management, Belgian social legislation, corporate governance, safety and wellbeing at work, financial risk management, decision support methodologies and solution to problems, strategic development methodologies, innovation methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, 4Q, Design & Creative Thinking), management by Agility, sustainable development strategies, circular economy, energy transition and renewable energy, fundamentally.

Since 1996, he held the following positions in reputable and international environments such as PwC, Comase, UMONS, Walibi Group, ABB, Hitachi Power Grids, ENECO :

• Financial Auditor
• Management Consultant
• Academic Assistant in Public Finance
• Finance Controller
• Finance & Administration Manager
• Academic guest Lecturer in Controlling
• Business Controller
• Human Resource Manager
• HR Business Partner
• IT & OpEx Manager
• General Manager.

Julien Henry is supported through a large professional network consisting of numerous specialised recruitment companies, which support him in the search of Management/Advisor and board of director appointments in order to ensure the long term success of Mach 2 Management, but also of colleagues and alumni who followed the same process and who are available to fulfil, whether under a subcontracting arrangement or in collaboration, complementary missions to the diversified expertise.