Mark Van Roermund Email & Phone Number

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Leading the engineering team focussed on empowering independent hotels to compete on trivago's marketplace by offering an easy-to-use and reliable platform to drive direct bookings at a sustainable cost.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Part of the Weekend Business Unit, which is a “startup” in trivago that helps travelers find inspirational weekend getaway packages. The initial focus is on “Flight + Hotel” and “Rail + Hotel” offerings under the unique weekend.com brand.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Responsible for:
• leading a cross-functional team that designs, builds, and maintains the services and algorithms which process all trivago live data at scale to deliver ranked search results on trivago web and App;
• delivering the backend services for a new, inspirational product that provides recommendations of what to do, where to go and where to stay for your staycation, vacation, or just a free Friday night.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Responsible for:
• leading a distributed team of software engineers and data scientists;
• deriving unique characteristics about hotels from data sources like reviews, images, prices, and geospatial information;
• productionizing statistical models, machine learning solutions, and natural language processing pipelines, using AWS, Hadoop, and Kafka streams.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Responsible for:
• leading a cross-functional team of product managers, software engineers, business / data analysts, and project managers;
• ensuring that the hotel inventory that trivago receives from every advertiser is accurately and timely mapped;
• driving automation and process improvement initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce business cost.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Responsible for:
• delivering a new crowdsourcing platform for generating hotel descriptions, reviews and highlights;
• gathering stakeholder requirements and keeping stakeholders informed at all stages of the development process;
• setting up and managing a distributed onsite / offshore agile development team in Spain and Ukraine.

Arnhem, Gelderland, NL

• Responsible for:
• driving the roadmap for Business Intelligence and Digital Marketing;
• managing the needs and expectations of all stakeholders;
• setting up and managing a new offshore agile development team in India.

Lexington, Kentucky, US

• Responsible for:
• defining the global product strategy and roadmap for the Perceptive Process line of products;
• relationships with key customers, industry analysts, university researchers, partners and other major stakeholders;
• collaborating closely with engineering, release management, sales, marketing, professional services and solution management groups during development and launch of new product releases.

• Responsible for:
• developing and maintaining the product roadmap for Pallas Athena’s Business Process Management platform;
• defining and managing the content and timeline for product releases;
• collaborating closely with engineering, sales, marketing, professional services groups during development and launch of new product releases.

Master’s thesis about a pattern-based translation of Pallas Athena’s process modeling notation to BPMN.

Prince2 Foundation & Practitioner

Personal Influence Programme

Cspo, Certified Scrum Product Owner

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt & Black Belt

Software Product Management

Msc., Business Information Systems

Technical Management

Bsc., Computer Science And Engineering

Vwo (Pre-University Education)