OLIVER FRANCX

INNOVATION STRATEGY,
Industrial design,
Product development

+32493652476
oliverfrancx@gmail.com
Antwerp, Belgium

WORK

Performance data has become of crucial importance in the process of talent identification and player development. However, the vast majority of this data is focused on physical performance. SCARAB is a sports tech start-up focused on data-driven athlete profiling by tracking technical and cognitive skills through smart and interactive products.

SCARAB Sports

SCARAB sports

    • Fundraising

    • Pitching

    • Business modeling

    • Strategy

    • Product vision

    • Product strategy

    • Product design

    • User research

    • Prototyping

    • Design

    • Production

    • Supply chain

    • Product updates

    • Project management

    • Elite football clubs & academies (i.a. PSV, RAFC, KAA Gent, OHL)

    • Ghent University

    • Investors (imec.istart, Green Park Investment Partners, Crowd, business angels)

    • Accelerators (imec.istart, SportUp, Birdhouse, SportsTech Belgium)

    • R&D partners

    • Production partners

    • From concept to sales

    • Complex product design (i.a. digital-physical, outdoor conditions, performance data)

    • 11 Top performance clients (daily use)

    • €100K revenue

    • €1M funding finmix

    • Production batch of 120pcs

A Thailand-based traineeship at a world-leading composites manufacturer with its core business in the watersports market and a specialized business unit for high-end automotive parts.

Cobra

cobra international

    • CFRP part manufacturing

    • Quality control

    • Tooling design

    • Modular tooling design

    • Concept design

    • FEA

    • Implementation strategy

    • Cobra Advanced Composites

    • Lamborghini

    • Thomas More

A service concept and business plan to help ostomy patients with the hassle of fitting stoma pouches. The original product proposal of a customized punching device was redesigned into a more efficient and sustainable service.

Initiated by MakerHealth

ADAFINO

    • Stakeholder Interviews

    • Concept Design

    • Prototyping

    • System Design

    • Business Modeling

    • Ostomy Patients

    • Wit-Gele Kruis

    • Ghent University

    • ConvaTec

Climbing Everest has shifted from being a rare feat of extraordinary skill to being dangerously popular. The pursuit to the top and the advent of commercial expeditions created an industry with blood on its hands. Concept design to reduce casualties among Sherpa.

saaba

    • Concept

    • Styling

    • CAD

    • Rendering

    • Presentation

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A pilot project that arose from the identification of waste streams. Pamele, a care center for the physically disabled, and BUDA::lab, an open makerspace, were brought together for various creative workshops. This resulted in more variety in activities for Pamele and a way to fill off-peak hours of BUDA::lab.

Pamele & BUDA::lab

PAM::lab

    • Stakeholder Interviews

    • Concept Design

    • Prototyping

    • System Design

    • LCA

    • Pamele

    • BUDA::lab

    • Stad Kortrijk

    • Ghent University