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Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Responsible for Product Portfolio Strategy, Go-to-Market and the Product Marketing of all companies in the Proalpha Group. The group has grown from 3 to 12 companies during my tenure, and includes the product categories ERP, MOM, MES, QMS, CRM, FP&A, SRM, HCM, WFM, AI, BI. Target market is German speaking SMB, specifically Discrete Manufacturing and.

Netherlands

Advising PE on M&A. Helping start-ups and scale-ups to achieve growth with a product led strategy and more predictable R&D processes.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

- Product strategy for Manufacturing Operations Management solutions (MES, HMI, IIOT, QMS, SCM, EAM) and a joint PaaS. - Post-merger integration- Product management and engineering best practices (agile, pragmatic marketing framework, JIRA, Confluence)- Product Marketing and Industry go-to-market strategy and messaging-Cloud transformation, apps.

Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Product strategy for PSA software.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

• Unit4 is a global provider of enterprise applications for organizations in Higher Education, Professional Services, Public Sector and Not-for-Profit. Unit4 is Private Equity owned and generates about €500m in revenue.
• Go-to-market strategy for Higher Education (~ €30m ARR in 2019);
• Product portfolio strategy and requirements for 6 applications,
• Sales enablement and strategic deal enablement,
• Customer escalation management,
• Direct management of 5 team members, indirect 200 FTE in R&D,

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Hired in a newly created role, in a new management team appointed by PE, to partner with the CTO to build a corporate product management team from a group of professionals that was federated initially.Responsibilities
• Product portfolio management, strategy and requirements for a product portfolio (~€300m) of initially 3 product lines when joining, and 4 additional during my tenure;
• Process standardization of investment planning, delivery and organizational readiness
• Collaborate with corporate development on acquisitions and post-merger integration
• Team management of ~50 product managers, product owners and UX,
• Member of Corporate Leadership team (~ 30 leaders), reporting to CTO.Accomplishments

Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands

• Infor is a global provider of enterprise cloud applications, headquartered in New York City. Infor has 17000 employees, and $3b in revenue. Responsibilities
• Go-to-market, strategy and delivery of Infor Cloudsuites / Infor LN / Baan
• 330 FTE in 6 countries (Netherlands, Brazil, India, Germany, Czech, US),
• Official spokesperson for press, user groups, industry councils,
• Executive sponsor in strategic sales, executive supplier in co-dev engagements.Accomplishments
• Technical and organisational transition to the Cloud (90%+ bookings in 2016)

Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands

• Responsibilities
• Lead strategy, requirement management, solution architecture and design of Infor LN;
• Managing a team of ~20 product managers and owners,
• Reporting to the VP Products,
• Program management for:o Strategic co-dev programs,o Inhouse projects to manage end-of-life of various Infor legacy apps,o Integration to facilitate cross selling to other Infor apps and partner products.Accomplishments
• Standardized requirements management and application design process, following Agile principles and with a focus on use cases and user centric UX design;

Responsible for go-to-market and product strategy for Infor LN manufacturing, supply chain and projects module, and add-on Leanware to manage Kanban based manufacturing

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsibilities:Peoplesoft Product Specialist for FMS (Financials) as well as ESA (Enterprise Service Automation - Projects and Contracts). Serving customers in Government; Education; Banking.Achievement:Highest customer satisfaction score in a team of 10 people after 4 months.

Ede

Baan (now Infor). Principal Consultant for the Baan ERP application. Implemented financial; cost accounting and project management applications in large, multinational engineer-to-order environments like BAE Systems (UK/US), L3 Randtron (US), Glamox and Kongsberg (Norway). Acted as solution architect for R&D.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration

- Supply Chain Management - Financial Management / Accounting - Marketing Management - Organisational Change Management - Strategic Human.

Pragmatic Product Management

THE leading education for product managers in the technology sector. Steve Johnson was the trainer who is well known in the industry.

Bachelor'S Degree, Marketing Management

- Marketing Management - Marketing Communication - International Business - Consumer Behavior

High School, Atheneum

Leadership Development

Leadership Development training delivered as 4 modules through 2016 - 2017: - Leading myself - Leading the Business - Leading Others - My.

Cpim, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management