Rob Verbeek Email & Phone Number

Zwolle, NL

Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland

I will continue to support the growth and development of Arcus IT Group with a focus on our M&A program and business development.

Zwolle En Omgeving, Nederland

Founder and chief executive of the Arcus IT Group, executing a buy & build strategy to form a new force in the Cloud mid market.

After the acquisition of IASO by GFI I have made a few small to medium sized investments in companies/projects with high growth perspectives, including WideXS. My current main project is Arcus IT Group, of which I am the majority shareholder and CEO. We are executing an ambitious buy & build plan to create a unique mid-market Cloud Service Provider.The.

Amsterdam

In charge of all commercial activities, including Customer Contact Center, Sales and Marketing, with a clear focus on inspiring the teams to achieve significant revenue growth. Invested in the company in 2013 to support the growth ambitions, executed the growth strategy successfully, leading to the acquisition of WideXS by IS Group in June 2014.

Founder/co-owner and general management responsibility for the entire company. IASO has evolved from a start-up to a multi-million euro, highly profitable and internationally successful software enterprise. We supply major Telco's such as KPN and a wide range of xSP's and IT service companies with innovative platforms for the provisioning of IP Backup.

Leading a team of Global Account Directors and Global Account Managers to address the needs of C&W’s Global Top 85 Enterprise Accounts in the Northern Europe region.

Manage country sales teams in NL and BeLux. Acted as deputy for the VP Enterprise Europe on a number of European organisation development issues. Tripled revenue from previous year.

Setup Data Service business unit in NL and BeLux from scratch, full P&L responsibility, dotted line responsibility for support functions (Finance, HR, Operations) and other global divisions. Build significant revenue base, EBITDA positive in 10 months.

Network Integrator/VAR (Nortel, Cisco, etc.). Grow and manage sales team of 8-10 AM’s and 6 support staff; member of Impact MT; responsible for turnaround and significant growth, until acquisition by C&W in 2000.

Start-up, spin-off from Impact, distribution of datacom equipment (TDM, Voice over Frame, etc.) to Telco and channel partners. Started as one-man salesforce, grown to 7 people sales & support team, with excellent results, until merger with mother company Impact.

New business sales position. On target performer.

New business sales position.

Independent software firm, started by myself and fellow student, closed down after graduation.

Mba, General Management, Strategy, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Chairman of the Nimbas Student Association (NSA)Started up my new company while attending the full time MBA.

Bsc, Business Informatics

Started up and ran a company during the final half of the course.

Education record