Patrick de Lange holds a degree in media management and is co-founder and CEO of Sound,a fast growing advisory agency providing both digital consultancy and implementationservices to corporate and governemental clients which own or manage infrastructure(services) essential for society. Next to that Patrick co-founded several other tech-driven startups. Since 2020 Patrick is actively involved in European R & D programs as an innovationmanager. His company Sound is one of the consortium partners in XRECO. Sound as a workpackage leader is responsible for impact maximalization and will focus on thecommercialization and exploitation opportunities which will emerge out of XRECO. As acompany Sound wants to make an impact in connecting the European science bubble withcorporate business bubble to scale and strengthen the European digital innovation ecosystem.