Hans Van Alebeek Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Senior advisor to the CEO and Executive Team of Suitsupply - privately-held, fast-growing, global omni-channel fashion retailer.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Create scalability strategy and build platform to support rapidly growing, increasingly global business. Priorities: focused growth strategy, complexity reduction, culture and talent, operational discipline, supply chain capabilities, technology strategy.

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Stanford, Ca, Us

Led Supply Chain, Procurement and Technology across Brands and Geographies. Reporting to CEO. Led transformation of fragmented functions into global capabilities to support a complex fast-growing business. Built Retail and Digital capabilities. Integrated Sustainability throughout Supply Chain. Expanded margins and achieved cost leverage while more than tripling the size of the business. Helped deliver double-digit annual EPS growth and ROIC expansion by 9 points, reflected in a 20+-fold increase in shareholder value.

VP Operations and Administration, COO, EMEA, Sep '01 - Sep '03Dir Operations, Europe, Feb '99 - Sep '01Started at Nike in Europe running Operations - logistics, distribution, customer service - a team of 1200 people. With help of committed, experienced and supportive teammates and transformed the European Operations from a fragmented, decentralized network that was a barrier to growth at $2 billion to a scalable platform that still forms the basis for today's $10 billion business in the region. After two years, I was asked to take on an expanded role that included Finance, HR, IT, Legal, as well as P&L responsibility for the Golf and Outdoor business. The geography was expanded to include Middle East and Africa.

Maastricht, Nl

Us

Consultant to Fortune 1000 companies on strategic issues. Worked on growth strategy, acquisitions, turn arounds, and operational improvement in a variety of industries (including Energy, Electronics, Media and Aerospace) across the globe. Based in Los Angeles (through ’95) and Amsterdam (after ’95). Helped build the firm’s Procurement and Strategy practices. Example projects:• Long-term growth strategy and organization redesign for a global energy company • Post-merger integration of large acquisition by an electronics company, reducing cost by 22% in target• Purchasing strategy for an oil company achieving >17% reduction on areas covered• Redesign of supply chain for a electronics manufacturer to take out 3 months and reduce cost by 12%• Design of acquisition strategy and capability for a European industrial company• Benchmarking study of several Western economies and six specific sectors. Published in Sep. ‘97

Worked for CFO on a variety of business issues critical to the company - acquisitions, investment financing, turn arounds, operational improvement, across Europe, Asia and US. Two examples:• Developed comprehensive financial model for Company’s largest and troubled investment project; helped identify and evaluate refinancing options • For Los Angeles-based business, identified root causes for poor profitability; worked with local management to take the business from a -6% to a 10% return on sales

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Worked final two years in college for CFO of a high-end apparel retail chain. Wrote a thesis on inventory management.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Drs (Masters Equivalent), Econometrics