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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

When corporates effectively partner with startups, it's transformational to both parties: corporates gain access to leading edge innovation, new growth opportunities and start to adopt a new culture. Startups get the chance to scaleup. CO:CUBED (www.co-cubed.com) works with Fortune 200 companies to help them harness the power of the startup revolution to stay ahead of the game. Serving all industries, CO:CUBED helps large organisations define, build and execute their startup collaboration programme in a way that is simple, fast and impactful.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The Blue Mind Company supports a culture of rebellion against status quo, and a fluid mindset. A culture that is required to accomplish break through change and innovation.​The Blue Mind Company is a boutique consulting business that provides advisory and mentoring services and works with founders, executives and managers in the start-up and scale-up ecosystems, corporate innovation and the gig- and flex work ecosystems.​We mentor, coach, advise and are a discussion partner/sparring partner. Whether it is making your business thrive, scaling your business to new heights, or simply giving you the freedom to do more of the things you enjoy most, we want to help you overcome those things holding you back from taking action and achieving these goals and your dreams. ​

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The TechStars partnership gives me an amazing opportunity to share and learn:Share my extensive network in corporate & finance, as well as the in-depth knowledge of a wealth of industries. Learn from all the amazing ideas that sometimes just blow your mind and catapult you far outside your comfort zone. It also gave great ideas for potential partnerships and angel investments. Focus area’s: Fintech & gig-economy

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

As a mentor for the Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator, I have picked up this role for this amazing young and promising startup. Through periodic board meetings and ad-hoc contacts, I support the company in making progress, providing solicited and unsolicited feedback.THX.network: Token powered loyalty in any app or website. Powered by a battle tested loyalty API and the Polygon blockchain.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Founded in 2010, Startupbootcamp is one of the most successful global innovation programs, supporting top companies across the world through over 20 offices in key global hubs. Startupbootcamp has a proven mentor-driven and industry-focused model of supporting innovative companies that has resulted in 70% of program graduates still active and 64% having raised additional funding from many of the world’s leading VCs and angels

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Payday is a corporate lean start-up, build through prove problem, prove solution, prove pay and prove it scales stage gates in the ABN AMRO corporate start-up funnel using the DARE methodology, a combination of Lean Startup, Design Thinking and Agile. Payday is providing Gig-work and labour platforms with the tools to make flex workers earnings available instantly after work done 24/7, creating a superior worker experience. The solution includes an API integration, access to the instant payment engine, a home build dedicated front-end wallet app, web based admin panel and the working capital funding to facilitate this.We've build a from a 2 cowboys founding team with a blank piece of paper to a 17+FTE rebel team running an actual business, with multiple clients and significant revenues. The team includes product owners, developers, UX design & validation, scrum master, finance, compliance, operations and sales. At time of exit, we were paying 25k+ freelancers with their earnings instantly, making 2,000+ payments a day. After running pilots and scaling with various platforms, including Charly Cares, Packaly, YoungOnes, Level.Works, RGF Staffing, 365Werk and others, we have obtained formal product approval from the Management Board, marking the completion of the startup phase with an exit towards the mother ship into business as usual and the execution of the business plan and growth strategy.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

"Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an Entrepreneur, but within an established organisation" - Gifford Pinchot IIIThe intrapreneur program is aimed at ABN AMRO colleagues with an entrepreneurial mindset who are searching for and developing new revenue-generating business models. They accelerate disruptive innovation and build a diversified portfolio of disruptive innovation initiatives. Precisely because as innovators we are not satisfied with the status quo, we want challenge existing definitions of what it means to be a bank.By not just acknowledging but embracing the power of platform business models and new technologies, we see a huge opportunity to deliver a superior experience to customers and thereby to grow ourselves in a sustainable way by doing business in a more open manner and by playing new, enabling roles in ecosystems – at scale.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The TechStars partnership gives me an amazing opportunity to share and learn:Share my extensive network in corporate & finance, as well as the in depth knowledge of a wealth of industries. Learn from all the amazing ideas that sometimes just blow your mind and catapult you far outside your comfort zone. It also gave great ideas for potential partnerships and Value added Services to add to the Payday proposition. The Amsterdam accelerator (in conjunction with ABN Amro) is an annual programme focussed on FinTech. TechStars is an American seed accelerator founded in Boulder, Colorado. As of 2019, the company had accepted over 1,600 companies into its programmes with a combined market capitalisation of $18.

Amsterdam

Globally responsible for the overall relationship & business development with large banks in the region and pan-European Consumer Finance players. This involves sustaining commercial dialogue and developing new business models & revenue streams. Over the past years I have successfully built new pockets of business and met my annual turnover target and all compliance & regulatory requirements. I manage the C-level dialogue and lead multiple multidisciplinary international deal teams. They appreciate my guidance, enthusiasm and perseverance. Recent successes include the CaixaBank Social Bond, Sustainability Advisory proposition, a broad range of Dutch cash management mandates, Tikkie for business, the Consumer Finance Round Table on PSD & Open Banking, the EUR 13 bn. Unicredit Rights Issue, EUR 650mio. PSA Spanish Auto ABS and 100+mio. lending transactions for a.o. Santander, Credit Agricole Consumer Finance and FCA Bank.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsible for the global relationship of ABN AMRO with banks in Southern, Central & Eastern Europe & Latin America. After the breakup of ABN AMRO we traveled almost every corner of the planet with a small team to secure relations with our international clients, that had been acquired by RBS This resulted in a strong international network of corresponding banks. We managed to retain relations with over 100 international banks. Appointed team head June 2011

Within Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), I was responsible for a portfolio of large Dutch Wholesale Clients, amongst which Ahold, Heineken and private equity owned Dutch retailers Maxeda and Hema. I was directly in charge of commercial and strategic dialogue in cooperation with multiple deal teams with responsibility for annual revenues around EUR 30mio. Major transactions included the sale of Hema to Lion Capital, the Leveraged Finance deals for Hema & Maxeda and PIN and European cash mgt mandates for Ahold.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Role equal to the following one at RBS

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Top Tier wholesale clients. My focus was on dealing room treasury, sales and advisory. I handled a portfolio of the 12 largest blue chip clients of ABN AMRO. I also coached junior employees, inspiring them to find and take their position within the team

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Advisory on FX, interest rate and commodity risk for large corporate clients

Dealing Room Traineeship

This three months programme was exclusively for high potentials. I was prepared for a position in financial markets within ABN AMRO..

Bachelor'S Degree, Banking & Finance

Successfully completed this bachelor programme with two three-months graduation traineeships at Beleggers Belangen (magazine for Dutch.