Jan van Hoek

VP Worldwide Sales, DemandTec 

Since the spinout of Acoustic and DemandTec from IBM, Jan has led the DemandTec global sales and sales engineering team, providing advanced science-based price, promotion, markdown, and deal management solutions to innovative retailers worldwide.  Jan has spent 30 years in retail and retail sales, beginning his career as a category manager at Delhaize.  He has served in executive sales positions in IRI, Symphony Retail, and IBM, where he was in the Watson Marketing group.  

Jan holds a BA in Finance from the University of South Florida and a MBA in Marketing from the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University. He coaches youth soccer and is a flotilla crew member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, which provides recreational boater safety education and public awareness and FEMA disaster response preparedness.