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Utrecht, Netherlands

Utrecht, Netherlands

&samhoud is a family of consultancy & creative boutiques that achieve breakthroughs. With everything we do, we aim to inspire the people we work with and for. We work with leaders who want to realise change in their organisation and society. Together with our clients, we solve strategic challenges with creativity and behavioural change expertise, supported by AI, technology & data.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

At Graduate, I was responsible for our ClimateTech and DeepTech investments, managing end-to-end investment processes, and coaching of our juniors (3 analysts). I led our investment in and/or filled our observer board seat for:🚀 QuantWare - €1.35M Pre-Seed (2021); €6M Seed (2023)🚀 Magneto - €1M Pre-Seed (2022)🚀 Skoon - €5M Series A (2024)🚀 VitalFluid - €5.5M Seed (2024)Graduate Entrepreneur Fund was founded by 100 alumni entrepreneurs from the TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam, who are eager to support the ecosystem with their broad expertise and capital. Together, they raised a €50M Seed and €8M Pre-Seed VC fund. The fund invests in visionary alumni founders across all tech verticals, and provides support from an extensive and growing network of +150 successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Bussum, North Holland, Netherlands

I was involved in all investments processes and portfolio initiatives related to Digital (Transformation), IT and eCommerce.

Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

I was involved in >20 deal sourcing projects, due diligence trajectories and portfolio optimization projects.

Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Driving the transformation agenda of a +250M revenue and +1,000 FTE company with European footprint, direct report to C-level executives. Amongst others responsible for:- Business Improvement / Change Management, redesigning processes together with leaders and their teams across the entire organization- Managing M&A integrations in CEE and Iberica region- Project management of +25 transformation initiatives

Driving strategy setting for and development of the B2C and B2B digital channels and broader digital transformation of a +100M buy-and-build platform. Intensive market trend and competition analyses, stakeholder management and pushing teams across the organization to succesful results on key projects. Direct report to C-level executives.

Groningen En Omgeving, Nederland

Build SaaS spin-off from scratch, together with 2 commercial colleagues and a development team. Carried out numerous corporate strategy and product development projects (product management, sales, marketing), while undertaking market and customer analysis as founding team member (e.g. involved from the get go). Direct report to C-level executives.

Groningen

I conducted international market entry research, led a large-scale recruitment reorganisation and worked on several conversion optimization (CRO) projects. Direct report to C-level executives.

Groningen, Nederland

I provided input to the Board of Directors on strategic challenges and growth opportunities.

Groningen

Acquired our first customers and generated substantial revenue within the first year. Selfles is a social impact venture aiming to support societal reintegration of individuals with a distance to the job market.

Msc, Business Economics, 7.8

- Specialized in behavioural economics and econometrics - Selected as one of sixteen Dutch Economics & Business students to travel.

Bsc., Life Science & Technology (With Honors), 8.0

- UvG Honours College graduate (top-10% students). Completed minor in Entrepreneurship. - Acquired the first customers and managed to grow.

Vwo+ (Pre-University Education), Nature & Technique / Nature & Health, 7.9

VWO+ is a specific pre-academic programme aimed to strengthen skills such as planning, teamwork, etc. via a 20% decrease of teaching hours.