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Verenigde Staten

Mobile Oasis in Surgical Deserts

The Netherlands

Mission to Heal (M2H) is a Washington-DC based nonprofit medical educational missions agency that trains local practitioners by healing underserved people in the most remote places in the world with a unique ‘Mobile Surgical Unit’ concept.

Raptim Humanitarian Travel (RHT) is the recognized partner and authority in the field of NGO and Humanitarian Travel, getting yearly over 200.000 humanitarian travellers where they are needed most. RHT is trusted by the airlines as their distribution channel for special fares and conditions for NGO’s. Founded in 1949 - now with a profitable turnover of €150 million and 250 well trained staff members in 6 continents - RHT is the world’s largest and leading dedicated niche travel management company for NGO’s.Responsibility:Initiate and lead the global repositioning of the former 17 independent Raptim offices into one global Raptim Humanitarian Travel organizationImprove margins in a changing travel industry Create long term sustainable partnerships with Airlines, NGO’s and humanitarian organizations by managing and winning complex tendersDevelop new unique services for the NGO and humanitarian travel community based on Business Intelligence Solutions Results: Successful integration of the 17 stand-alone travel agencies into a leading global player under a new global brand with aligned systems en proccesses. Opening of new offices in Africa and Australia and the introduction of a franchise conceptMargin improvement to above-industry double digit figures by using proprietary technology solutions Asset optmization program on group level to improve shareholder returnsRecognized as preferred partner by Airlines, GDS and other content providers as well as the NGO and humanitarian travel community resulting in global partnerships with airlines and organizations like Red Cross, MSF/Doctors without Borders, Rotary international, World Vision and WWFIntroduction of new services, among others ‘Raptim Care’, a Duty of Care solution including track and trace facilities, and the introduction of Business Intelligence Solutions to optimize the product mix towards customer needs based on their travel pattern and behavior

Hanzevast Capital is a provider of fiscally optimized real-estate and shipping investment funds, with an invested portfolio of €1,5 billion spread over 71 funds. Managed the succesfull first-ever listing of a Junior Secured Bond (JSB) at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

Responsibility: Commercially & logistically responsible for worldwide Transport of Live Animals through Air France and KLM networkTurnover €50 million; leading 50 FTE (Sales, Logistics, Operations, Engineering, Marketing & Support) Results:25% turnover growth in 2 years by:Improving operational quality → regain customer trustSelected as official carrier of the Olympic horses, Beijing 2008Integrating KLM specialized knowledge wt Air France networkKLM Animal Hotel recognized as world wide benchmark for Live Animal Shipping, best practices promoted by IATA and CITES

Turnover growth from 9 million to 35 million Euro by creating strategic partnerships with DHL, Fedex and TNT.

Focus on Customer excellence: eg introduction of “Salmon Express”: daily dedicated trucks from Norway to Schiphol with fresh Salmon for Asian markets resulting in a 50% reduction in total throughput time from farm to shop-shelf. Result: Japan market share Norway Salmon from 21 to 48%.

Official negotiator on behalf of KLM Board of Directors with KLM workers council and relevant unions. Management of transformation processes eg proposed merger KLM Alitalia, joint venture of KLM Engineering & Maintenance with UTC and ‘Baseline’, a staff reduction program of 2000 FTE.

Contributing to four projects, among others the start-up of a pan-European customer care center and revenue management for the French market in the Passenger Division.

Mba, Economics, Industrial Psychology

Activities and Societies: Areiopagos

Mba, Business/Managerial Economics

Granted by the dean of the Vrije Universiteit with a scholar-ship to participate one semester in the MBA program of the University.

Master'S Degree, Business/Managerial Economics

Honors, Industrial Psychology

Activities and Societies: Guest-participant in the Honors Degree program Industrial Psychology / 'Bedrijfs sielkunde'