Fred has been an entrepreneur, manager and consultant in the past 38+ years. He started as management consultant with Accenture. During the nineties, he has setup and expanded Magnus (SAP-services) from 5 people to a company of 500 people in US, Europe and Asia, culminating in the IPO of the company in 1998. Became CEO in 2000 and managed the company turnaround/recovery in 2002/2003 to a Microsoft VAR. He rebuilt, partly through M&A, the public-listed company under the name Qurius, a Microsoft Value added Reseller, from 100 people in 2002 to 1000 people in 2009 in 9 european countries. From 2010 to 2018, he has led the global expansion of Every Angle software, a business analytics firm, increased revenue and profitability by a factor 5 and has successfully realised shareholder-value through a sale of the company to Magnitude. After the acquisition by Magnitude, he was globally responsible for all SAP-add on solutions (Every Angle, Innowera, Zoption, Sourceconnect, Process Mining) of Magnitude until the end of 2019. In 2020 and 2021, he applied his experience in M&A as sell-side advisor for Corum Group, a US-based but globally active technology investment banker. Throughout his career, Fred has carried general management responsibility and has extensive experience with both organic / acquisitive growth as well as corporate recovery. Fred currently advises, as board member, coach or investor, B2B software companies to realise their full potential. He also assist midsized and large end-customers with defining and implementing digitisation strategies.Specialties: Technology or technology-intensive service-businessBusiness and IT-alignmentManaging and financing Agressive Organic GrowthRestructuring and ChangeMergers&Acquisitions