Curriculum vitae (English)

Oct 2020 – present: Chief Executive Officer | Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers.
General management of the organisation, organisational renewal, strategy implementation, change, membership services and representation of engineers.

Mar 2005 – present: Firm simplifier | Owner – Firm in Enterprise
Interim-management & consultancy, professionalize business management, strategy, change and (financial) process management. See below for all projects.

Feb 2008 – present: Concept creator | Marketing/Sales director | owner – Anniething®
Import, sourcing and trade company of inter alia gifts and premiums focused on Asia.
Elaborating (end) customer needs into promotional business concepts. Acquisition, sales and purchasing of demand-driven goods for the proposed concepts. Acquisition of sourcing orders for purchases in the Far East. Produce DTP, graphical design and artwork for proposed concepts.

Feb 2019 – Apr 2020: Chief Executive – Royal Dutch Association of Printing and Allied Industries (KVGO)
Employers’ association printed media, general management of the organisation, organisational renewal. P&L-responsibility of € 3m., a staff of 15 and ± 800 company-members.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2018: NationExpat.com – Owner
Digital web-platform for expat-entrepreneurs in 80+ countries.
Concept creation, content and technique of the platform for BrazilExpat.com. Manage writers & ICT-team (1,5 FTE) and expand to BeneluxExpat.com. Realize strategy for franchise platform of 87 countries.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2018: Consultant renewal of organisation structure – Dutch Montessori Association
Consult, guide and implement a new association structure and articles of association and organisation structure. Also build the new financial administration, housing and hire an official secretary.

Apr 2017 – Apr 2018: Part-time sabbatical – Home/Office
A period where I limited my working activities to trade, consultancy and voluntary work. Some time for myself and some extra attention for our kids and the loss of my father.

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017: Lecturer International Business & Marketing, Business coach (1 day a week) – EuroCollege Management School
For the accelerated students (4 years in 2 years) for intermediate vocational education and bachelor students this school was looking for experienced international entrepreneurs with specific knowledge of international trade, import and export, marketing, social responsibility and innovation.
Provide classes on International Business and Marketing, and coach students as Business coach with their doing and writing their export plan.

Jun 2015: Debate chairman and organizer of the political cafés with Frank van Kappen

Mar 2015 – Dec 2016: Feasibility study and funding invention new combustion engine – No Stroke Engine
The inventor of a new combustion engine got stuck putting the invention into operation and asked me to do a feasibility study to the working of his invention as well as find funding for a prototype. If the research is positive, also putting it into operation is part of the request. Search for parties that can endorse the working of the invention, search for funding partners and run the company if the research is successful.

Dec 2014: Debate chairman and organizer of the political cafés with Hans Spekman

Sep 2013 – Apr 2014: General Manager EMEAR a.i. (Düsseldorf, Germany) – CRON Europe GmbH
Top 3 largest manufacturer of pre-press (CTP) machines. No. 1 in Asia.
Responsible for the organization and management of the European headquarters of the Chinese manufacturer. Responsible for international sales through dealers in the region: Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Central Asia (125 countries). Responsible for logistics, logistic facilities (approximately 800m2), assembly/repair an international team of 20 people in China and Germany and the 53 dealers. Total P&L responsibility of € 9 million, direct accountable to the owner. Result: very successful, logistics flow completed successfully, contracted existing dealers, expanded the number of distributors with 35% and solved the existing cultural and communication problems with some existing dealers.

Nov 2012: Organizer and debate chairman first outing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s new coalition

Oct 2011 – Aug 2012: Developer App2Find
Research and develop (externally) a smartphone application for iOS and Android for finding people, pets and belongings (>650.000 downloads).

Jun 2012: Debate chairman and organizer of the national political debate of the top 5 parties

Jan 2011 – Sep 2013: Process consultant product-development – Plato PC & Tellamessage
Two firms worked together in the de development of two new products. To make their development on paper real, they need help with the complete process of sourcing, technical specifications, management, production, purchase of components, pre-production, etc. The counsel entails the complete process of development up to customs clearance. Process-counsel of development, production and transport from The Far East. Managing the process including all aspects of sourcing, documentation, process-management, etc. The assignment contains a total two different products.

Jan 2012: Debate chairman and organizer of the political cafés with Jeanine Hennis – Plasschaert

Nov 2011: Debate chairman and organizer of the political cafés with Mark Harbers

Jun 2011: Debate chairman and organizer of the political cafés with Ard van der Steur

Jun 2011 – Nov 2011: Strategy development – 20one productions
Consulting and developing the strategy for the film production company 20one.

May 2011: Adviseur en coach bedrijfsvoering, marketing en strategie – Notebooktotaal.nl
Consulting and coaching the owner in marketing and strategy of the owner of the retail-website Notebooktotaal.nl

Dec 2010 – Jun 2012: Participant and researcher national research printing industry – Stivako – Firm in Enterprise™
Joint research into the history of the printing industry, it’s previous inaccurate predictions and a new revised prediction of the future of the printing industry.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2016: Firm2Find – General Manager
GPS solutions for global finding of people, pets and belongings.
Responsible for strategy, finance, ICT, legal, international sales, member (technical) R&D-team.
Strategy- and concept creation for global finding and realizing App2Find. Responsible for technical development Tool2Find, setup team of 6 people. Realization of an investment of € 150k, setup international distribution network, realization of B2C-channel (GPSTrackShop.com)

Jan 2010 – May 2010: Interim Project Controller – ROC Zeeland
ROC Zeeland’s financial situation was perceptibly deteriorating due to changes in the incoming financial flows and growing costs. To change this situation a better insight in all the financial flows was necessary. The three separate financial flows that ROC Zeeland used in the execution of teaching were utilized as one. This did not give enough and/or correct management information for a positif execution of all programs. Besides the disentanglement of the financial income-flows ‘earmarked funds’, ‘subsidy funds’ and ‘commercial funds’, there was a great financial risk as ROC Zeeland was not able to give account for the received funds, possibly resulting in repayment of large parts of those funds. After disentangling the funds and having scrutinized the financial risks, new policies were framed, the digital financial data needed to be computerized into automated systems and was linked to different operating digital platforms. New and complete management information as a result helped to interpret the financial risks and enabled giving account for separate financial flows. This complicated wide-ranging financial project was executed to the satisfaction of the Executive Board of ROC Zeeland. The total financial year-budget was 65 million Euro, of which 15% is for commercial and subsidy funds and 10% for earmarked funds.
Framing, execution, linking and managing the financial flows within the organization and its subdivisions.
– Project manager steering committee.
– Financial disentanglement of different financial flows.
– Managing the link of different automated software programs.
– Outline all project costs and proceeds per project and per type of project.
– Map current policy concerning projects.
– Frame new policy for all concerning processes.
– Improve the process of budgeting and implement the new budget-fund of commercial activities.
– Council the concern controller and the Executive Board.

2009 – 2010: Lecturer Successful coaching (1 evening a week) – Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Develop and lecture program for students that want to become a successful coach in either business, sport or politics.

Sep 2009 – Jan 2011: Researcher and participant sounding board NDiV trade agreement – Syntens & KVGO<