Serial founder turned CEO (and Supervisory Board Member) combines strategic thinking with proven pragmatic execution in complex high-tech industries. Building, coaching and leading open and radically candid teams that jointly deliver on ambitious goals while having fun.Coming from an industrialist family, once leaders in cigar manufacturing, industrial entrepreneurship has stolen my heart at young age. After a mechanical and industrial engineering master at Delft University of Technology, I have been working continuously in the manufacturing industry in various roles. As a project manager and strategy consultant, executive and supervisory board member, but mainly as entrepreneur. During the start of my first company, I brushed up my business insights with an MBA from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and I had the privilege of following a course on fast growing companies at Stanford University in Silicon Valley where rapidly scaling has been invented. My experience ranges from strategy development & implementation, industrial marketing & sales, global (out)sourcing, open innovation and internationalisation in the digital and high-tech manufacturing industry. I'm a serial entrepreneur and excel in out-of-the-box thinking, opportunity scouting, business modelling and execution with a signature consisting of pragmatism, enthusiasm, perseverance and cost-consciousness.Specialties: Deeptech & high-tech venture building, Photonics, Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing Excellence, Digitalization, Open Innovation, Marketing & Sales, Entrepreneurship, Strategy Development & Deployment, Sustainability, Leadership & Governance.