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Utrecht, Nl

Leading further growth of the company both in terms of services and geographic expansion. XXImo's innovative Mobility Management Payment Platform empowers businesses to develop seamless multi-model travel solutions by offering innovative, flexible and compliant payment capabilities for fuel, EV-charging, parking, public transport, and other mobility related services. Its robust platform is built on a foundation of proven regulatory and technological components, including its license from DNB as a payment institution and electronic money institution, Visa Principal Membership, Apple/Google Pay integration, and AWS cloud capabilities.

Düsseldorf, Nrw, De

Expert member for advisory boards focusing on digital transformation of core processes, business model and customer interaction. Supporting managing directors and shareholders as sparring partner in their strategy execution. The German Digital Advisory Council is the umbrella brand for senior advisors with special focus on digitization. As independent advisors in the board, we always act in the interest of the company.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nl

Accountable for the consolidation, roll-out, integration and support of Financial Systems across the different companies/brands that are part of Booking Holdings International (BHI). As such drove the largest financial change program in Booking history and defined and implemented the next standard financial services platform for BHI and the brands based on SAP S/4HANA. Building and leading a terrific finance and technology team, growing it exponentially from 50 to 250 FTE in 2 years, whilst providing both key customer and supplier payments capabilities as part of FinTech, as well as all traditional corporate financial services (OTC, P2P, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, etc) to Finance and the rest of Booking's business.

Berlin, Berlin, De

Leading change and transformation within Zalando Payments to prepare for the future growth of the organisation. In particular leading the organisation (220 FTE) through the definition of a new Payments strategy, introducing a new organisational design to support that growth and strategy, as well as driving the product development of the core payments solution to continually support the payment needs of the markets (currently more than 20 methods in 17 markets), lead the new business development activities within the company, while ensuring complete security compliance of our services, and interfacing with partners and other payment providers.

Sittard, Limburg, Nl

Leading Dynacommerce to create, market and sell innovative, omni-channel and multi-play sales- and order processing solutions for telecommunications providers and beyond. Our market-leading solution (OMNIUS) supports Digital Transformation today in telecom/cable and media companies by providing the ultimate integrated shopping experience across all possible sales & communication channels to their customers (e/m-commerce, telesales, shops, etc).

Suresnes, Île-De-France, Fr

Initially CTO of GlobalCollect, a leading B2B global payment services providers (PSP’s), servicing 300+ tier-1 e-commerce companies in the world. Within the management board accountable for the evolution and quality of the technology platforms and services (leading 100+ FTE with an annual budget of 30M+), from product management and R&D, through implementation and operations of the services offered. Main focus points were organisational change, improving innovation around fin-tech products and transformation of the legacy platforms to improve time to market for (mobile) products and payment channels, with the goal to provide seamless payment services to grow online/mobile commerce and ready the company for a public offering.After the trade sale to Ingenico (now part of Worldline), accountable within the Executive Management (leading 500+ FTE with an annual budget of 150M+) for all Technology Platforms, leading organisation change and transformation of the core platforms and services that support both in-store and online financial transactions and payments.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Globally responsible for the BSS business within NSN; driving the product development, design, implementation, sales, maintenance and support of all NSN products in the business line of Business Support Systems (charging, billing and care solutions) with an annual revenue of more than a quarter billion euro. Refocussed the product portfolio investments on the high-value products and increased innovation potential of the BU. Successfully restructured business and the operational model to improve the quality of the delivery and services and increase the overall bottom-line of the BU.

Gent, Be

Meucci Solutions offers a unique range of value-ading services in the roaming, interconnect and anti-fraud environment for telecom operators. Their flagship product, SimBox detection, is valued worldclass by their clients and yields immediate results in recovering lost revenues.

Executive Interim Management and Transformational Change within technology oriented companies; providing leadership, assisting in new product development and propositions, and driving cultural and/or organisational change. Examples of roles performed were: - PDG and CEO for Global-Interface (security software company, Paris, France), - Program Manager Greenfield IT at Essent Energy (RWE company), - Operations / Program Director at Telfort/KPN (telecom company), - Sales trainer at Eisenfelt Principle, Providing professional training and coaching of marketing and sales management based on value-based selling techniques in the B-to-B market.

London, Gb

Responsible for leading the IT organisation through change and managing the budget (OPEX+CAPEX) of € 90 Mio and 330 staff. Leading transformation and change of the organisation, reshaping the IT domain to cope with globalisation and centralisation, increasing service quality and cost-reductions, whilst supporting innovation in the market. Superseded all targets by defining the new technology vision, executing on it, and creating a new operating model which is mainly outsourced.

Gb

Responsible for developing and marketing an Internet Services Portal, Messaging and SMS portals and a mobile Internet Portal with multimedia content, leading to the Vodafone Live! implementation in the Dutch market. Managing a yearly technology investment of € 12 Mio and leading a technology/product management team of 50+ people.Vizzavi NL was part of the Joint Venture of Vivendi and Vodafone, headquartered in London. The Dutch business was located in Amsterdam with a strong interaction with Vodafone Libertel N.V.

Responsible for executing projects in the field of telecommunications, media and energy trading, as well as developing new business concepts and sales lead generation. Focus was mainly on supporting mobile commerce propositions and location based services within start-up companies. Furthermore fulfilled several interim roles as telecommunications manager and IT Director within 2 large media and energy companies.

London, England, Gb

Managing all IT activities within Shell Gabon, Gabon, West-Africa. Budget responsible for $ 5 Mio and managing a team of 11 IT professionals, managing the helpdesk and supporting all corporate systems, the IT network and 550 desktop computing systems.

London, England, Gb

Responsible for Product and Program management of a within a joint-venture developed 3D image processing package for seismic interpretation.

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