Epic Angels is democratizing angel investing. We make angel investing accessible. We give women the confidence to invest, by learning about the investment process, and understanding how other women invest.Epic Angels is the largest global network of female-only angel network. A community of executives and operators who've built and expanded companies all over the world. Research shows, investors tend to back those they perceive similar to them. Instead of trying to convince male investors to invest women, we need to focus on increasing the percentage of female investors. We need to close the financial gender gap.Our focus is early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals. We invest in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. We are strong advocates of female leadership. Having at least one woman on your executive team is preferred. Above all, we invest in people. We invest in founders who refuse to die. Founders who choose agility over ego.

As a Fractional CFO, I don't just crunch numbers - I leverage them to drive transformative outcomes.In this role, I combine my experience from PwC, from being a CFO leading global expansion, and being an Investor. I help startups & scale-ups to build their professional back office, strategize their financials & business models, build their data rooms, prepare them for meetings with investors, and plan for exit scenarios.

This course is part of the Masters in Disruptive Innvoation - Innovation, driven by emerging tech, is now fundamental to business growth. Seeing opportunity in uncertainty and being able to act and adapt in rapidly changing contexts requires a certain mindset and skillset. Having the confidence to try new things and fail fast is essential. This is at the core of my curriculum. The students will be asked to imagine a future that doesn't exist yet and use business to make it a reality.

As an EdTech company, Sparkademy is the digital-first institution, bringing scalable and measurable learning to the corporate world. At Sparkademy, large organizations benefit from the latest developments in neuroscience and education research to elevate their employees’ skills and futureproof their business.

Empower Program is an accelerator program for Vietnamese -Female entrepreneurs. It provides mentorship, training, 1-1 curriculum design by 1-1 mentor, real-time feedback and investor connect and followed by a 1-year support program. Empower is looking for female entrepreneurs who are building technology-enabled ventures across different sectors.

Provide strategic direction for the industry development that the council is spearheading, in its journey to develop Singapore into an innovation driven economy and a loveable city by design.

As an adjunct professor I teach the course 'The Design of business' that allows students to apply a cross-disciplinary approach. It prepares the students for the complex business environment through solving real-world problems for an actual company. The course exposes students to the uncertainties and ambiguity that exists in today's landscape. Students will design new business model options for existing companies, while using techniques like Design Thinking, Business Modeling and Lean Start-up.

Equipping founders from idea to MVP stage with all round knowledge required to successfully run a startup. The Founder Institute is a four month program operating in over 95 cities worldwide that trains new and seasoned founders on the current best practices for building the next generation of companies. The program facilitates weekly sessions where experienced entrepreneurs help other Founders develop and launch their new businesses. The program offers a founder-friendly startup environment, mentorship from renowned CEOs, fundraising opportunities at fair market value, and shared equity upside among all participants in the companies formed.

At Business Models Inc (BMI), a global strategy and innovation firm, and producer of the Business Model Generation book, Design Thinking is at the core of everything. In my role as global CFO, leading the global strategy, I've built and expanded the company overseas. We started with 3 people in Amsterdam and I expanded the company to Australia, Taiwan, and UK. In 2015 I moved from The Netherlands to San Francisco to further expand BMI to Silicon Valley and New York. I built the offices from the ground up, hired our employees, drove the business development, and developed new methods to achieve product-market fit in the US. At BMI, I've guided many global multinationals, as well as startup entrepreneurs on their innovation journey. I am passionate about turning great ideas into real business, and you might hear me say ’stop the blah blah blah’ and ‘reports and business plans are useless’.

The groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is not only profitable, but also sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful. The DMBA is a full-time 2 year MBA program, for more information visit www.designmba.org.

Mentoring the startups that join the Accelerator program in Amsterdam. I created a two-day masterclass for all startups, that they would undertake in their first week. Afterward, individual mentoring with all startups took place. In 2014 I was voted 'Most Epic Mentor'.

Being responsible within PwC for our Corporate Responsibility program related to our strategy for doing projects for Charity Organizations.

Focussing on large Merger & acquisition projects: integration, separation and change projects, especially from a financial perspective. Examples of projects are:- Integration of an acquired entity for an international technology company- Integration for a merger between two banks- Offshoring of the finance department of an international bank to India- Implementation of various Financial Shared Services Centres within different industries- Global IFRS conversions for international companies in the Financial Services en Technology industry- Global roll-out and implementation of Sarbanes Oxley for insurance and banking companies

Engaged for various (international) companies (Holding, Media, Real Estate, Energy & Utilities, Venture Capital) in the function of interim controller.