In my role as business developer corporate venturing for Alliander New Business I focus on exploring growth opportunities that contribute to the creation of a sustainable, future proof energy system. This includes both internal and external innovation activities, value proposition design, building internal startups, establishing corporate-startup collaborations and building partnerships with players in the energy ecosystem.

Corporate Venturing Network is a successful network of corporates and ecosystem players active in corporate venturing and open innovation. We are a peer-to-peer network organization sharing best practices and collaborating on creating tangible leads and global new business initiatives. We operate as a professional association for corporate innovation and venturing professionals. We co-create ecosystems.Our objectives• Collaborate on Corporate Business Development -… Show more Corporate Venturing Network is a successful network of corporates and ecosystem players active in corporate venturing and open innovation. We are a peer-to-peer network organization sharing best practices and collaborating on creating tangible leads and global new business initiatives. We operate as a professional association for corporate innovation and venturing professionals. We co-create ecosystems.Our objectives• Collaborate on Corporate Business Development - Sharing best practices amongst members - Collaborate on creating tangible leads and new ventures, increase quality and quantity - Learning from venturing experiences internationally• Establish an Open Innovation ecosystem• Encourage EntrepreneurshipThe value of joining CVN is:• Sharing real life experience and knowledge with the other members • Peer-to-peer consulting• Exploring the entire spectrum of venturing instruments to (re) shape organizations• Learning about real learnings (failures) not only on the success stories• Enlarging your network and connecting to different players in the ecosystem• Collaborating on creating tangible leads and co-creating new business initiatives• Research on Corporate Venturing, resulting in publications and toolsIn collaboration with Rotterdam School of Management/Erasmus University (RSM), the Corporate Venturing Network (CVN), and Tilburg University, we constitute the Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Community. This international community brings together corporate venturing professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs to share cutting-edge insights on corporate venturing, collaborative innovation, and entrepreneurship. Together, we explore emerging concepts and innovative approaches in our collective pursuit of knowledge and advancement. Show less

As a professional I advise clients on organizational design and the development of new product and service offerings. My experience includes innovation operating models, corporate startup collaboration, accelerator design, ideation management, roadmap creation, business model innovation, project management and product lifecycle management (PLM).

As an intrapreneur in residence I am coaching startups in the professionalisation of their company and facilitate in corporate-startup collaboration through the PwC network.

I worked as an editor for the local television and radio network of Enschede: TV Enschede FM. My tasks involved editorial work, preperaring radio- and television reports and postprocessing. Furthermore I was responsible for the development a documentary about social robots in which I did the editorial part and part of the creative direction.

Involved as student assistent during Master Open Days for the masters programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society. Tasks: speaker during presentations and information market for aspiring students.

Project description: Regulation of regulatory T-cell (T-reg) differentiation by the balance of FOXP3 and RORyt. Investigate the effect of CD27 costimulation on Treg cells, especially their proliferation and differentiation. Methods: FACS, cell culture.

Project description: Setting up a new method for optimising diagnostics in Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). In specific flowcytometric fuctional research of NK-cells and STXBP2 gene mutation analysis. Methods: FACS, conventional- and sequence-PCR.