Flevo Berry is an independent breeding company with a unique range of strawberry varieties. With a strong focus on developing tasty varieties with high yield and strong resilience Flevo Berry offers a broad portfolio for early, mid and late season and all year round harvesting.

Rubisco Foods / Biorefinery Solutions (BRS) is a young Dutch company that has developed a technology to produce high added value, non-denatured, soluble protein from fresh green leafy biomass; green protein. Rubisco Foods / BRS is committed to developing the green protein value chain and aims to sell its protein products as a functional ingredient in formulated food products for human consumption.

Synerlogic is a family owned company producing and distributing a broad range of products for the dairy industry and agricultural sector in de Benelux and Germany. We deliver food ingredients, manufacture cheese coating, blend and fill chemicals for hygiene and disinfection in various packing sizes. The total revenue amounts to EUR 100m with 220 employees. I was leading the commercial organisation with approximately 30 FTE (marketing, account management, customer services and back-office).

After a short break I decided to start working as independent consultant and interim manager. Focusing on strategy execution and change in the area of marketing, sales and finance. Connect-the-dots" and "make-it-happen", that's what I am good at. Making use of my experience as a leader of (commercial) teams with a firm background in finance and control. My ability to analyze complex issues, bring forward real solutions but also to identify and implement changes help organizations forward.

Studystore is a business unit of The Learning Network (previously Van Dijk Educatie) mainly focusing on secondary vocational, higher and university education. Studystore sells educational products (print and digital) to students. The company is transforming from a traditional distribution model towards a service organization focusing on digital and physical distribution. Key responsibilities and achievements:• Part of management team, leading the commercial organization with approximately 40 FTE (account managers, customer services, marketing/e-commerce and five stores)• Implementing a new commercial strategy, reorganizing and building a new commercial organisation (customer-oriented and streamlined, servicing two brands), redefining sales processes and tooling• Successful introduction of the brand Studers and rebranding of Studystore, including new websites and marketing campaigns• Business owner (project lead) integrating the B2B proposition (Van Dijk Zakelijk) into Studystore and a small acquisition of Boekenservice

• Part of the management team leading the controlling department, responsible for the financial strategy, budget and control cycle, investment analysis, renewal of pricing policies and margin management tooling, redesigning the purchase and sales processes, cash flow management• Main challenges: redefining strategy, redesigning the commercial organization (“kwartiermaker”) and driving the integration of ERP systems (BaaN/Dynamics).

Salt Specialties has a revenue of approximately EUR 130m, 275 employees and production locations in The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Salt Specialties produces and sells several salt types via its brands Jozo, Nezo, Broxomatic, Broxo, KNZ, Sanal and Suprasel and several private labels. Our portfolio focuses on B-to-B and B-to-C customers in the retail, food, pharma, water treatment, industrial and agri segment.Key responsibilities and achievements:•Part of the commercial management team, leading the sales team South/West Europe that generates about 80m euro (11 FTE) and building overall sales & marketing strategy, full contribution margin responsibility. •Commercial lead for growth area’s agri, pharma and water treatment, development of strategic sales & marketing plans.•Interim responsibility for export department (3 FTE) with main focus on China, India and Middle-East, achieved growth over 10% during this period.•Co-created and implemented commercial excellence agenda: key account planning, contract management, pricing corridors and margin management, lead generation and monitoring, cost-to-serve modeling, customer segmentation and value-propositioning, sales and operations planning•Build new partnerships with large distributors in the Netherlands and France resulting in capacity expansion and significant margin growth

Management team role leading the finance and control department (10 FTE) with responsibility for control cycle, business management presentations and several projects (e.g. SAP integration and business warehouse setup, segmentation and menu-pricing, strategic reorientation and a reorganisation, divestment of part of our business)

Senior business analyst role to the Vice President responsible for monthly forecasting and closing, price and margin analysis, cost modelling, audits, investment analysis and several projects at the production site in Amsterdam.

Auditor and project lead servicing a very broad client portfolio (multinationals to local non-profit institutions) in various segments (retail, production, engineering, staffing, consultancy, wholesales, cure and nature conservation).

Traineeship, participated in audits at various clients.

Several part time positions within Albert Heijn XL Store: (head) cashier, shop assistent, greengrocer, warehouse clerk