Karsten Daemen

As the Director of Cloud Infrastructure at Esko, I lead our core cloud development teams within the R&D department. These teams are responsible for developing the cloud platform that integrates all Esko and Enfocus products. I play a pivotal role in shaping the vision for our cloud platform and guiding other teams in its implementation and use.

As the Lead Technical Product Manager, I lead Esko's team of Technical Product Managers. This team works on long term strategy and translates high level business goals into actionable plans. We take care of more complicated escalations and work across multiple departments.

As Technical Product Manager, I focus on the development of new products and research new innovations that Esko can bring to the market. Additionally, I'm also the escalation point for more complicated product issues that customers run into. As the title implies, in this role, I’m less involved in day-to-day commercial activities but more long term strategy.

As Product Manager, I was responsible for the commercial success and strategy of Esko's flagship product (WebCenter) to the supply chain segment of our customers. I also oversaw the launch of our first product in the Esko Cloud (”Share & Approve”). In this new function, my focus shifted from a technical perspective to a more commercial one.

In this role, I define and prioritize the development of Esko's "Package Content Management" solution, a web based platform to aid Brand Owners in globally controlling the contents of their labels, artworks, advertisements etc. This function requires me to regularly visit various Brand Owners, analyze their process and identify their needs. As the designated development team is based in Bangalore (India), I moved for one year to India in order to kick off this project.

I started working for Esko straight after graduating. In this starting position I worked as a software engineer on "WebCenter", a web-based platform for managing the complete life-cycle of packaging and artwork design. Due to the renewed focus on big Brand Owners, a lot of work went into up scaling and modernization of this platform.