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Houten / Paris

Netherlands

After the merger between Terberg Leasing Group and Arval, continuing as senior product owner, but now at Arval OneIT. Responsible for the integration of the Terberg Leasing Group direct sales retail systems into the Arval organisation. As senior product owner, I design and drive the future of Arval's sales channels, lead to contract flows and price calculation & quotation solutions, aimed at supporting and growing Arval's mobility business in 15+ countries.

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Doing what I love doing most. Building products that deliver real value to people. At TBLG I am spearheading the development team that builds our future forward environments in which we in realtime offer all currently available cars on the market to our (next) leasing customers (B2B and B2C). Online, cloud based and with fully automated option matching and price calculation.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Responsible for building up the company behind the scenes, so the founder and the rest of the team can focus on client work. Since the start the company has grown from a single person business to a team of 5 change enablers and a 15 people facilitator pool. Key achievements:- Ensuring healthy legal and financial structure- Organizing new office en training location and overseeing construction work- Implementing marketing automation (CMS, CRM, email automation)- Business development and (strategic) consulting on client projects - Tech hosting online sessions with many participants (Zoom/Webex/MS Team and Miro)STORMPUNT is a business consulting company focussing on using creative techniques such as Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving or LEGO Serious Play to help clients address business challenges. STORMPUNT believes there is not a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem. The team mixes various creative techniques to help clients come up with effective solutions that people love to work on.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

In this hands-on role focused on building product, project and tech operations teams to deliver digital insurance solutions to leading insurers and banks in Europe, Latin America and the USA.Key achievements:- Building and leading the teams (from 2 to 13 people)- Defined high level product & delivery strategy for the DIG platform- Created product management function focusing on driving the DIG platform- Created project organization focused on implementing client projects based on DIG platform- Setup customer support infrastructure- Implemented new set of tooling for product and project teams - Implementing overall compliance framework (ISAE 3402, GDPR and IDD)- Started professionalization of the IT Infra / DevOps functionDigital Insurance Group, DIG, is a leading b2b2c InsurTech innovator and a next generation technology partner to insurers, banks and brokers. DIG delivers insurance e-commerce and customer engagement solutions, through single-tenant SaaS-like solutions that are hosted in a multi-tenant cloud on AWS and Azure.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

In the NIPO team responsible for product strategy, product portfolio development, cloud IT operations and marketing. In addition I oversaw the relationship with various vendors/stakeholders, including Microsoft. Key achievements:- Driving the product strategy and technology roadmap- Changing the legacy on premise portfolio to a SaaS based product & offer- Moving our offer fully to the Microsoft Azure cloud- Building and managing a product management team - Building and managing an IT organization to support the SaaS offer- Implementing and substantiating ISO 27001:2013 and various data compliance standards including GDPR- Working with global and local Kantar Operations teams to increase operational excellenceNIPO offers survey solutions to the professional Market Research industry. These products are offered as cloud based services running on the Platform as a Service Azure infrastructure from Microsoft. NIPO’s global customer base is located in 70+ countries. NIPO has teams in 5 countries and works Agile across all its activities, delivering product and service improvements every two weeks. Although part of the larger Kantar / WPP organization, NIPO was/is able to drive its own roadmap as a large part of the revenue is generated outside the Kantar business.

Heading product management / innovation. Brought focus in product portfolio by reducing product scope to the area where NIPO Software can really compete: data collection solutions.

Started new team with colleague focused on Information and Performance Management. We innovated multi-source reporting dashboards, to help our customers make better decisions with the data they have available. Strong commercial role with product management element.

Freelance marketing consultancy, owner

Co-founder of digitaledokter.nl, a consumer website for medical information and online medical advice.

Lead/participated several high profile strategic business development projects, which included helping to guide the business to new labor legislation and co-creating the business case and plan for a new recruitment agency. Worked directly with senior management.

Master Of Arts, Drs., Communication Science

First Year, Political Science

Facility Management

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