Fifteen years inside Oracle's Telco stack taught David one thing: when a billing platform stops, an entire operator stops. He co-founded DNA Solutions to make sure it doesn't.
From Oracle Telco to entrepreneurship
David spent more than a decade as an Oracle consultant on Communications Network Charging & Control (NCC) and Billing & Revenue Management (BRM) — the systems that decide whether your call connects, your data session is rated, and your invoice is correct. Working alongside Europe's largest operators, he saw how a single misconfigured rule could trigger millions in revenue leakage overnight.
That seat — implementer, firefighter, escalation point — is also where he learned that most enterprise IT pain isn't technical. It's relational: vendors who oversell, consultants who disappear after go-live, contracts that punish honest conversations.
Why DNA Solutions exists
In 2019, David teamed up with longtime friend David Aerts to start DNA Solutions. The premise was simple and slightly heretical for the consulting industry: be the partner you wish you'd had as a client. No bait-and-switch staffing. No "we'll figure it out on your dime." Honest scoping before the contract, reality-based timelines, and engineers who actually stay on the project.
As CEO and Customer Advocate, David spends most of his week in front of clients — scoping engagements, mediating tradeoffs, and making sure the team's commitments match what gets shipped. He's the one who'll tell a prospect "this isn't the right fit for us" if the project isn't right.
What he believes
- Long partnerships beat fast contracts. DNA's average client relationship sits at six years for a reason.
- Sales and delivery should be the same people. If a salesperson can't write the SOW with the engineer who'll execute it, the SOW lies.
- Knowledge transfer is the real deliverable. A successful project leaves the client more capable than before, not more dependent.
Outside the office
Based in the Brussels area. Family man. Reads more enterprise architecture papers on weekends than is strictly healthy. Keeps a running list of "consulting horror stories" he's lived through — and won't repeat at DNA.