Mark Ramakers started working during his study of operations research at (Amsterdam Airport) Schiphol Management Services BV (currently Schiphol International) giving financial advise to airports worldwide. He had a key role in the privatisation processes of the airports of New York (USA) and Brisbane (AUS). After the IPO of Endemol at the end of 1996 he was responsible for the majority of the European acquisitions of media (production) companies that form the basis of the current Endemol. At the start of 2000 he directed the IPO of Endemol daughter Helkon Media AG (Munich, GER) and joined the board as CFO. After spending three years in Germany he returned to the Netherlands as director at ABN AMRO Private Equity. As a delegated supervisory board member on behalf of ABN AMRO at optical fiber network Eurofiber he took over the CFO position and directed the national expansion of the optical fiber backbone in the Netherlands in order to sell Eurofiber to Dik Wessels (currently Reggefiber). From 2009 to 2013 he assisted John de Mol as CFO with the expansion and growth of Talpa Media. He was also responsible for the acquisition of Dutch Broadcaster SBS from Pro7Sat1 in 2011 and acted as a Board Member of SBS till 2017. In 2014 he was responsible on behalf of Dasym for the reorganisation of the Los Angeles and London (Hammer) based film production company Exclusive Media and the startup of the Center for Applied Games in Amsterdam (NL). He also co-founded Heimdall Management AG, offering a wide range of transaction and sector-specific advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings and capital raisings to corporations, partnerships, institutions and governments. He was also co-founder of Science & Innovation Xchange, Scix BV - focussing on adaptive interfaces. Mark is strongly driven by strategic and financial concepts with a clear no-nonsense vision and practical approach.
Listed skills include Media And Entertainment, Mergers, Management Consulting, Venture Capital, and 11 others.