Advisory specialised in digitally enabled growth- and value creation strategies, and the implementation and organisation thereof.Clients include several large global and mid-market private equity houses, global corporations and regional market leaders, and a number of hand-picked scale-ups.

FD Mediagroep is the leading provider of business and financial news and business information in the Netherlands. With its daily Het Financieele Dagblad, its Business News Radio formula via FM and DAB, its business sector information services grouped under its FD Business activities, and its Company.info database and information services, it is the trusted, independent source for business data, information, news, and knowledge.

Yonderland is the group owning and operating the market leading outdoor and sports apparel and equipment retailers Bever (NL), A.S. Adventure (BE and FR), and Cotswold Outdoor, Snow & Rock, and Runners Need (UK).

Zorgwerk offers superior, highly innovative and efficient staffing solutions to a large variety of customers in the healthcare, eldercare, and childcare sectors in the Netherlands. Its digital platform efficiently matches qualified care professionals with the desire to work self-employed, under temp contracts, or in interim roles with care providers. It facilitates personnel planning, capacity management, and enables a cost efficient operation, using the Power & Love philosophy to contribute to better care by driven, motivated, and fairly rewarded care professionals.

Industry Advisor on a non-exclusive base. Involvements include EQT investments in the B2C and B2B online/tech sector.

Ponooc is the Venture Capital fund of PON Holding, focused on mobility and energy investments.

Pigu Hobby Hall Group is the leading online retailer of the Baltics. Through its online stores Pigu.lt, 220.lv, kaup24.ee, hansapost.ee and hobbyhall.fi, PHH Group offers the broadest assortment in a broad range of categories and combines an easy and convenient shopping experience with best-in-class delivery options and reliability for its over 1 million active customers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. In 2020, PHH Group launched its highly successful marketplace, allowing other retailers to benefit from its large customer base, visitor volume, and superior merchandising and content platform and its market leading and highly efficient logistics, payments, and customer service propositions.

Member of the Benelux Advisory Board of CVC Capital Partners from 2016-2023, when the formal Benelux Advisory Board has been dissolved. I continue to serve as an Industry Advisor to CVC Capital Partners, on a non-exclusive base.

Discover. Learn. Achieve.Springer Nature is a world leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people helping researchers, students, teachers & professionals to discover, learn and achieve more.Through our family of brands, we aim to serve and support the research, education and professional communities by putting them at the heart of all we do, delivering the highest possible standards in content and technology, and helping shape the future of publishing for their benefit and society overall.

Thuiswinkel.org is the Dutch e-commerce industry association.

After writing the first business plan in 1997 and launching the business in 1999, I led bol.com as CEO from early 2000 on. Bol.com developed quickly into the by far leading online retail platform of the Benelux, and one of the true love brands to consumers, serving over half the population and generating close to 2Bn worth of sales by the time I left in 2017.

Funda is the leading Dutch real estate classifieds site.

October 1997 - January 1999: Fellow / Junior Associate; several projects including feasibility study for worldwide e-commerce operation (which later became bol.com)January 1999 - May 2000: (Extended) Management leave; Interim role at newly founded company bol.com NL as Finance & Business Development Director.