Sales professional with 28 years of experience in national and international markets, of which the last 18 years in the leisure marine industry. I’ve held direct responsibility for commercial dealings in the advertising / graphic industry and for the last 20 years in the leisure marine industry. I’m open and I’m able to see and to create opportunities. Also, I’m used to surge for new markets and signal changes.I grew up on the water and I have been sailing for as long as I can remember. Sailing itself and the technique that’s involved, holds my interest for a very long time. As a yacht broker I had my businesses all over Europe. Dutch is my mother language, and I’m used to communicate in English, spoken and written. I also have a conversational knowledge of German.My experience spans commercial and project-management activities, in technical environment such as the graphic and marine industry as employee, manager and entrepreneur. I never run from a difficult situation, and I am accurate and timely in what I do. People consider me friendly, open and hardworking. In my work I have always been strongly involved with the end customer, from the acquiring-, advising, selling-, building- until the after sales process with a keen eye on profitability. Therefore I know what’s important for a distributor and the end customers.