Karel Das Email & Phone Number

's Hertogenbosch, NB, NL

Breda

Haven Ventures is the holding company of a number of subsidiaries and majority shareholdings. Qubiz is a well-established provider of IT software development services. With nearly 400 employees, Qubiz provides software design, web development, end-to-end IT services, mobile and app development and cloud migration services to renowned clients in Europe and.

Experienced finance professional available on parttime or project basis for professionalization of information provision and management for small and midsized organizations. Result-driven and collaborative with strong capabilities linking operations and strategy.

Den Bosch

Small growing business in the sun cream protection market (B2B). Ambition: growth Dutch market share and international expansion, which requires additional capital funding.

Eindhoven & Surrounding

• Director of Finance & Procurement and program director Fontys Finance Future Proof, direct management: 5 employees. Fontys consists of 27 (higher) education institutes +/- 47.000 students located in 12 cities in the.
• Modernization of the financial information provision (including accounting, project administration, budget). Steering of 3-year program from initiation to successful… Show more Director of Finance & Procurement and.
• Modernization of the financial information provision (including accounting, project administration, budget). Steering of 3-year program from initiation to successful implementation (go live per 1/1/2022). Partly as a.
• Increased customer and employee satisfaction by 20%. Show less

Rotterdam

• Zadkine: Regional Education Centre (mainly vocational): 17.000 students on 12 locations in the Rijnmond area. Director Finance & Procurement (reporting to Executive Board) direct management: 12 employees.Achievements:
• Substantial cost savings (2+ million €).
• Improvement of the budget (both content and process).
• Implementation of (10) strategic KPIs.

Den Bosch

• Sanoma Learning: in 2011 consisted of 14 subsidiaries located in a.o: NL,BE, FI, SE, UK, FR, RU, PL & HU. Activities: educational publishers, production and services companies. After a strategic review educational.
• Harmonisation & enhanced transparency & predictability of the performance
• Acquisitions/divestments of companies (incl. integration/disentanglement) managed.
• Setting up a management information system (incl. Balance Scorecard).
• Over 15% reduction of working capital in 5 countries.
• Efficiency improvements. Costs reduction: 25%. Show less

Brussel

• Multimedia magazine publisher of general magazines, Publisher of niche magazines (via separate operational entity) and interests in TV- production houses (i.e. Woestijnvis). Revenue 240 million € /employees: 650.Chief.
• Reorganization/optimization resulting in more than 50% costs savings in finance.
• Improvement of services & quality resulting in an increase (+35%) of customer satisfaction.
• Substantial improvement of transparency and predictability of the performance. Show less

Den Bosch

• Publisher of regional newspapers/weeklies, TV broadcaster and Printer (incl. external customers i.e. NRC). Revenue 400 million €/employees: 1050.Chief Financial Officer (reporting to CEO) direct management:5.
• Successful integration with the new shareholder Wegener.
• Split up of the organization into 4 separate/independent operating units.

Den Bosch

• Educational Publisher (including logistic centre). Revenue 60 million €/employees: 280.Chief Financial Officer (reporting to CEO) direct management: 4 employees.Responsible: Finance and Facilities Malmberg & division.
• Transformation from reactive to proactive of the finance function incl. setting up management information
• Divestments of business activities

Prague Czech Republic

• Publisher of magazines, books, retail and production of patterns. Mentioned activities were restructured/ divested under my supervision. Revenue 18 million €/employees:125.Chief Financial Officer (reporting to CEO).
• Implementation of the accounting to western principles incl. education of local finance staff
• Creation of timely & relevant management information and substantial improvement of… Show more Publisher of magazines, books, retail and production of patterns. Mentioned activities were restructured/ divested under my.
• Creation of timely & relevant management information and substantial improvement of predictability
• Restructuring (incl. divestment) of business activities Show less

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• A division consisting of several professional magazines publishers in Europe. Revenue 500 million €.Financial controller (reporting to finance director).Achievements:
• Setting up a new management information system (Italy).
• Liquidation of activities (France).

Rc, Executive Master Of Finance & Control (Emfc),

Drs., Business Economics

Mergers & Acquisitions

Education record

Toezichthouder

Nlp (Neuro Linguïstisch Programmeren)

Education record

O.A. Ashridge Executive Education, University Of Helsinki, Leadership Program, Ifrs, Treasury

Master, Bedrijfseconomie

Twee afstudeerrichtingen : bedrijfskunde en bedrijfseconomie

Rc, Post Doctorale Controllersopleiding