A visionary Business- and Product Design Executive with over 20 years of experience overseeing complex multidisciplinary projects. Supported start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, and investors with an approach combining design thinking and lean startup to bring new business ideas and technologies to the market.Passionate to inspire founders, teams, and stakeholders across departments and organizations to develop innovative, customer-centric propositions, business models, brands, products, and experiences that reshape businesses.High-level problem-solver with an entrepreneurial mindset, creative and strategic thinking, data and insights, knowledge, skills, and network. Culture-sensitive people manager by his international background with engaging leadership to hire, develop, and challenge multidisciplinary teams.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTSInitiator and co-founder of the Netherlands' first (pre-)seed investment fund.Set up and led over 40+ teams and projects at start-ups & scale-ups in an array of markets and industries, i.e., SAAS, PAAS, ConsumerPackedGoods, furniture, eyewear, footwear, bicycle, lighting, luggage, consumer electronics, packaging, training & coaching, and automotive.Led the design, manufacturing, and launch of 6 eyewear collections for European high-growth scale-up Ace&Tate. Growing from 5 to 500 employees and selling thousands of frames monthly. Some designs have become part of the Core Collection and are adopted globally by eyewear competitors.His work is globally distributed by selected partners, i.e., Heineken Corporate, Selfridges Group, LVMH Group, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Ace&Tate. And featured in international magazines, including Monocle, and exhibited in museums next to artists like Andy Warhol, Bill Viola and Pipilotti Rist.Established a network of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, artists, engineers, manufacturers, and other experts.Clifton Strengths: 1. Futuristic – Inspiring and energizing leadership by visualizing future possibilities and bring ideas to life.2. Activator - Make things happen by turning thoughts into actions. 3. Ideation – Creating stakeholder value by creativity, innovation, and out-of-the-box thinking4. Responsibility – Ownership, commitment, honesty, loyalty5. Self-Assurance - Confidence in making decisions, taking risks, and navigating teams with certainty by an inner compass