Léon Van Berlo
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLéon Van Berlo is a Digital Transformation and Product Strategy leader with 15 years of experience focused on the built asset and construction industry, blending hands-on automation and product development with strategic leadership. He has led standards transformation at buildingSMART and delivered industry-scale BIM innovations at TNO, while also founding open-source initiatives and entrepreneurial ventures that commercialized niche technical and physical products. As CIO of Overleaf Investments he applies an investor’s skepticism—his "Zie Ommezijde" philosophy—to uncover value beyond the obvious, flipping assumptions to find durable opportunities. Léon excels at translating CxO-level ambition into scalable products, interoperability solutions, and pragmatic roadmaps that balance technical implementation with market fit. He combines formal leadership training from Columbia Business School with deep technical roots (from carpentry to scripting) that make him unusually comfortable across boardrooms and codebases. Outside work he pursues endurance sports and early-stage investments, reflecting a bias toward long-term value creation and disciplined curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Carpentry/Carpenter, Carpentry/Carpenter at LTS, MTSCxO Leadership Program, CxO Leadership Program at Columbia Business SchoolMsc, Design Decision and Support Systems in Architecture and Construction, Msc, Design Decision and Support Systems in Architecture and Construction at Eindhoven University of TechnologyOrganizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership at TNO High Potentials Leadership ProgramBuilding Construction Technology, Building Construction Technology at Hogeschool 's-Hertogenbosch
Github Skills (96)
ontology10
orientdb10
specification10
aec10
schema10
ietf10
javascript10
ifc10
leiningen10
vdm10
ids10
sketchup10
opengl10
webgl10
bim10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
buildingSMART/Sample-Test-Files
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Sample files of various formats and schema versions.
Contributions:1 review, 53 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 5 months
ifcopenbimstandardsleiningenspecorientdb
buildingSMART/IDS
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Computer interpretable (XML) standard to define Information Delivery Specifications for BIM (mainly used for IFC)
Contributions:10 releases, 15 reviews, 95 commits in 2 years 7 months
ifcschematronxmlspecificationbim
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