Bert Depiere is corporate entrepreneur & digital innovator at GROHE, the world’s leader in sanitary fittings. He successfully lead GROHE´s core categories showers, thermostats & bath, relaunching many of GROHE’s power brands and driving innovations like GROHE Smartcontrol & Smartbox.
As Director Digital Innovations Bert initiated the GROHE Sense & Sense Guard project, a water security solution reducing pipe related water damages tackling the number 1 source of damage in today’s buildings. Today he leads this corporate start-up that delivers a one stop water security solution based on strong partnerships with Relayr & Munich RE/HSB in an innovative insurer driven business model. GROHE Sense is now part of the 100 European InsureTechs.