Squad develops World's first Solar City Car designed for sharing platforms and for your daily (sub)urban mobility with direct solar charging from the roof of the vehicle.Squad is both emission free as well as a solution to urban congestion and parking problems. Comfortable, sustainable, quick and safe. A 2+2 person micro car combining the advantages of an e-scooter with a car. An affordable (starting at 5750 Euro ex) and dry commute, avoiding traffic and park like a scooter, no drivers licence needed, no helmet, no congestion charge no road tax.Squad is a cool urban mobility solution for families, professionals & millennials, a state-of-the-art innovative design and sustainability statement.We develop the Squad both for the consumer market as well as for B2B markets such as sharing platforms and B2B clients.

As Sales & Business development manager at Lightyear I am responsible for- International Business Development; developed roll-out strategy for EU- Lease, Fleet & B2B sales; sold more than 3,5 million in first year- Partnerships; initiated and brokered the LeasePlan NL & EU partnerships- Government Relations; initiated the Solar Car tax exemption and definition- European Commission; Presented Lightyear at the COP24 and at the World Future Energy Summit - European roll-out of country sales organisationsLightyear is developing the first Solar-Electric consumer car in the World with 100 engineers in the Netherlands, The Lightyear One is a family car with 725 km range and up to 20.000 Solar Km range per year. Lightyear’s long term ambition is to develop mass-market solar electric cars and therefore offering a sustainable solution for the growing worldwide mobility needs. Solar electric cars are independent from a charging infrastructure by using just the sun and ordinary power sockets as an energy source.Lightyear has developed a native Solar EV platform, resulting in an energy efficiency up to 3x higher than current EV’s in the market. This efficiency, combined with Lightyears' PV solar technology makes a solar-electric car a viable solution for millions of users worldwide.

As General Manager of Dloky I manage the product development by a team of frontend and backend web (#PWA) and native app iOS and Android developers, distributed worldwide. I set goals, targets and prioritize the various features and fixes. Next to the business and technical development I am responsible for (digital) marketing, SEO and PR as well as financial planning and budget control.Dloky is a worldwide #proximitymarketing platform for #retail and #hospitality. Dloky is also offered white label e.g. for #shoppingmalls and #citymarketing✓ Develop business plan and business model, define strategy & goals✓ Develop product specs and requirements✓ Design of prototype, mock-ups and wire-frames of mobile app and website✓ Search and recruitment of app developers for iOS and Android as well as Polymer web developers both local as well as online (in Venezuela and HongKong) via Upwork✓ Product development management through tools as GitLab, Slack, G suite and Hangouts. Planning, prioritizing, progress control, budget control, assignments, time control, bug and issue reporting✓ Contract negotiations, legal matters, domain name & logo design, trademark applications✓ App, website and backend software testing and reporting✓ Acquisition of retail partners and clients as well as other partners such as malls and strategic partners, for example credit card companies, software partners etc.✓ Social media marketing and advertising (SMM) on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn✓ SEO, both onsite as well as offsite, also with the help of external SEO specialists, link-building, Google Search Console and Google Analytics, data analysis, #SEM, #Adwords✓ Digital marketing, blogs, WordPress site, content marketing, write and distribute press releases✓ Outsourced video production; video script development, storyboard, video editing✓ App store optimization, localisation in 30+ languages✓ Financial reporting and budget control, accounting

Commercial Manager responsible for #Sponsor and Partner acquisition as well as PR, Press and Social Media Management.Team China Racing was the first Championship winning team in the #FIA Formula E World Championship, acquired by NEXTEV in 2015✓ Sponsor and partner acquisition in #EMEA, predominantly outside China but also e.g. BYD in Shenzhen✓ Development of race team business plan, budget and financial planning ✓ Development of racing team operational structure and budget✓ Racing team PR, writing of press releases and digital marketing✓ Team website maintenance✓ Team on-race PR, arranging driver interviews, backstage video production and publishing✓ Team social media development, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Vine✓ Team sponsor and partner on-race account management and support✓ Team search & recruitment of technical personnel✓ Advise to the team owners on technical and team management subjects

Sales of solar energy systems for residential and commercial buildings, mostly PV

EpowerGP is a revolutionary new open international electric Formula racing series, developed in cooperation with car manufacturers and race car constructors from North America, Asia and Europe.✓ Worked with the FIA HQ in Paris on the new regulations and plans eventually resulting in the start of the FIA Formula E✓ Sponsor and partner acquisition, e.g. Deloitte, Allen & Overy, Lola, FondTech/Aerolab, Epsilon Euskadi, Endemol ✓ Joined in the FIA tender of organizing the FIA Formula E championships with a group of Chinese and Dutch investors✓ Developed business plans and raising funding for competing in the tender to organize the FIA Formula E✓ Developed a business plan and raising funding for a competing team in the FIA Formula E

General Manager of A1GP Netherlands, Commercial & PR management for both the A1GP Zandvoort race in 2006, 2007 and 2008 with more than 120.000 vistors as well as the A1GP Team Netherlands.Acquisition and activation of A1GP Zandvoort and A1GP team Netherlands sponsors and partners such as Heineken, Remeha, Würth, Hertz, Bavaria, Pro-Racing, Sparco, RTL, Telegraaf, Jumbo, McDonalds, State-of-Art, OTTO, TW steel and many others.

Owner and manager of RacingInteraction. Marketing and development of 'life size' Formula 1 race simulators for testing and training as well as for entertainment purposes.Acquired Costa cruises as major client. Costa installed multiple F1 simulators on their latest cruise ships

Eteck develops and supplies sustainable heating and cooling systems using heat in surface water, ground water, residual heat generated by industries and shops, solar heat (energy roofs) etc. on a local residential scale http://www.eteck.nl/EN✓ M&A management and advise on the sale of one of the companies business units

Indyra was a hosting and broadband network consultancy startup emerging from and by ex- NAIT employees

✓ Management of the the Web development business unit

✓ Sales Manager Far East for Benier and Kaak food processing machinery

✓ Responsible for the design & development of the Maico 500cc and 250cc Cross Motorcycles

✓ Performance engineer/ data engineer for Race team with two 125cc Honda Racers , 2D data system✓ TNT freight attendance before and after the race

✓ Successfully Implemented an ISO 9001 Quality Assurance system in the DOM Sicherheits Technik Netherlands sales and production operation

✓ Graduation Internship; designing a 3 cylinder 900cc Superbike for Laverda S.P.A. in Italy, Graduation Mark: 9