
People
TiTANS’ history and future is very much interwoven with her Managing Director, Kees Maenhout.
Kees Maenhout started his career in ICT Resourcing and Consultancy at MDA Resources ( formerly: DART Resourcing Group a Selection and Recruitment agency) as Recruitment Consultant on the cICT contract team. After some time he became the Manager of the contract team dealing with freelancers.
In 2003 he joined INTRASOFT International in the capacity of Business Unit / Sales Manager of the Professional Services Business Unit. He was in charge of the delivery of Time and Means services within large framework contracts to the European Commission and European Parliament in the various domains of the ICT.
In 2005 he started TiTANS as one of three shareholders and became the only active party in TiTANS as Managing Director. TiTANS started from a pure ICT Resourcing organization for external solutions – coming from a recruitment/headhunting background that made sense! So in the beginning, we have worked almost exclusively worked as "intermediary" for freelancers, and they are still with us – THANK YOU.
The first year (2005-2006) we experienced the tough challenges of a true start up. There were few successes and as a result the major shareholder withdrew from TiTANS. But the seeds had been sown and in the second halve of 2006 TiTANS hired the first people on our payroll that stunned us with their experience, drive and commitment. TiTANS started to develop herself.
In 2007, in accordance with the ideas of her Managing Director, TiTANS started to put emphasis on an internal growth and plans around Competence Centers to provide the people working with us more tangible assistance. Some choices were made, which led amongst other things to the departure of one of the remaining shareholders.
At the start of 2008, TiTANS finds herself with a solid group of people that will formalize a number of Competence Centers from which we can develop other type of services and to support to our people and Customers. This does not mean that people or services outside these Competence Centers are (becoming) less relevant, we expect these competence centers to be as buoyant as the market, new ones will emerge in the same way the current have emerged to the surface. The people that constitute TiTANS are growing in number, responsibilities, influence and experience and they will be the ones that will write TiTANS future.