We are a team of 20 travel enthusiasts whom believe it should be much easier to book a bus for your event or trip. Booking a bus should be a nice and hassle-free experience. Bookabus has established relations with around 1000 bus companies in Europe and has transported +600.000 people in its first 3 years of existence. Bookabus is active in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain. In every country we pride ourselves with delivering excellent customer service for unbeatable prices.

With 2days we built a stunning app and website that made it easier for people in Amsterdam to be spontaneous, by offering the easiest way to discover the best events for the next days. We made it possible to book tickets directly in the app in just a few taps - simpler and quicker than anywhere else on the market. The app grew quickly to being used by almost 10% of the Amsterdam population and has been very well received by our users and in the press. The company has since pivoted to a B2B service company, in combination with Pink-Tie, a top-notch direct ticketing platform for theaters - providing the most user friendly ticketing platform and best service in the market. We power strong platforms such as www.lastminuteticketshop.nl.A small selection from our previous press coverage:http://www.metronieuws.nl/amsterdam/2015/04/een-uitgaansapp-voor-spontane-amsterdammershttp://www.marketingonline.nl/nieuws/2days-een-app-voor-spontane-plannenhttp://www.iculture.nl/apps/2days-review-kaartjes-events-amsterdam/#comment-655253http://www.androidworld.nl/apps/2days-amsterdam-uitgaansoverzicht-tickets/http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/3404/GADGETS/article/detail/3970929/2015/04/21/App-2Days-Amsterdam-laat-je-nooit-lang-zoeken-naar-een-uitje.dhtmlhttp://www.theaterkrant.nl/nieuws/theaterkaartjes-via-app/http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/lifestyle/features/2days-app-discover-book-events-amsterdam (English)

Innovative Travel is a start-up specialized in hotel meta-search for and where I am end responsible for IT and new product development. We compare offerings of hundreds of travel sites in order to provide full transparency on hotel prices, and I have led the project to automate the creation of online marketing campaigns in over 15 languages for over 400.000 individual hotels; a function which allowed the company to scale significantly over the past year. Exploring my entrepreneurial skills and aspirations, I drove all recruitment efforts over the past year and am very proud of the excellent team we have gathered. Of additional work in product development, I have also led the introduction of our new website design, our first mobile app, and a large-scale project to replace the Google AdWords Editor with our own software based on the AdWords API.

In the refrigerated container (reefer) management team I was responsible for the global strategy and marketing of one specific container type, representing over $200m in assets. The team has the global responsibility for all of Maersk Line’s refrigerated containers, sets the strategy on where to employ the containers in periods of scarcity and decides on which areas to grow the reefer activities – so for this I was in almost daily communication with marketing and sales managers around the globe. Additionally, I was trained in the Green Belt and lean methodology and was the commercial lead for a very innovative project to significantly reduce customers’ cold storage facility costs.

As part of the Key Client Management Team during my first year in Maersk Line's management traineeship my aim was to deliver the best possible value proposition to Maersk Line's largest clients (mostly Fortune 500), representing 40% the company’s total volume. Personally I was responsible for analyzing and communicating management information of the key client sales performance to all top-level stakeholders within Maersk Line, including the management board, on a weekly basis. Other main achievements in this role were that I created and introduced a new business planning tool, that became actively used by Key Client Managers across the globe, as well as a global key client dashboard so that selected strategic stakeholders around the world are better aligned and up-to-date on our dealings with specific clients. I also provided commercial support to our key client managers and hosted numerous meetings with decision makers at these Fortune 500 customers.

✤ Graduated cum laude with an 8.4 average from the joint degree programme of MSc International Management and CEMS-MiM. ✤ Received a 9.0 for my thesis. I researched whether people's lifestyles affect their preference for local or global brands.✤ My study trajectory included one semester in Rotterdam, one semester in Stockholm, two semesters in Copenhagen (during which I wrote my thesis and completed several Danish language courses) and one month of intensive Spanish language training in Barcelona.

✤ Analyzed Michelin’s discrepancies in seasonal market share in the four largest Nordic markets✤ Investigated full range of activities, including a.o. marketing, sales, supply chain and forecasting✤ Presented findings and recommendations to management at Michelin Nordic AB

✤ Research focused on how to increase revenues of Gillette based on in-store value drivers within the largest drug store chain of the Netherlands✤ Presented findings and recommendations at P&G and client’s head office

✤ In charge of organizing a major conference with the theme ‘Sport is Business’✤ Responsibilities included a.o.: long-term and short-term planning, leading the team, shaping the conference and theme, maintaining the budget, planning of the conference day, setting out of promotional campaign, initiating and maintaining contact with speakers and sponsors✤ Speakers included a.o. Anchorman BBC World, CEO Bjorn Borg, VP Deutsche Telekom, Marketing Manager Bavaria, Director of Sports Chelsea FC, President NOC*NSF

✤ Assisted Senior Financial Advisor in development of risk analyses and financial plans (mostly pension funds and insurances) and client visits