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Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nl

As a trendsetter in sustainable innovations and an all-round technical service provider, Unica solves technological issues in the built environment. Unica's services include installation technology, energy, ICT, industry, internet of things (IoT) and smart buildings. With a decisive network of nine leading business clusters and almost 3,700 employees, Unica is one of the largest technical service providers in the Netherlands.As CIO I am responsible for the digital solutions within this innovative company and the modernization of the technology stack and roll out of the IT roadmap.

Geneva, 1205, Ch

Kinetic is a Strategic Consulting Group that partners with ambitious companies and leading international organisations. Our definition of success is enabling our clients to achieve outstanding results and sustainable competitive advantage.This drive to make an impact is rooted in our ethos. We firmly believe that vision without action is a daydream and action without vision is a nightmare. Which is why all of our consultants are senior business leaders, ensuring a real life understanding of the challenges and opportunities that you face.Our experience, combined with a tailored approach and a track record of consistent success is why our clients choose us. As a result, we have a rapidly growing global client list with a 75% client repeat rate. We partner with industry leading multi-nationals, SMEs and associations / NGOs. With them, we develop Strategic choices, build Organisational capability and ensure pragmatic execution at all levels.

Heerenveen, Friesland, Nl

Responsible for both Digital (e-commerce) solutions and roll out and IT roadmap with a team of about 100. Changed ERP roadmap by stopping group roll out and changing to dual ERP strategy. Implemented e-commerce in UKI, France and extending to Benelux and Germany. Improved cyber security roadmap. Changed full IT leadership team. Created 5 year IT strategy after acquisition by private equity

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Corbion is a Dutch-headquartered bio-based food ingredients and biochemicals company which operates in about 20 countries.In this role I am globally responsible for creating an efficient pathway to digital innovation & growth for Corbion, by defining the IT strategy, creating a plan to deliver on it and executing it. This includes amongst others a big change agenda for the main global ERP system, implementation of digital science in R&D and other initiatives to increase efficiency or competitive advantage. Most of all I like the people aspect of it, both by creating high performing teams and by increasing the collaboration within Corbion

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Responsible for IT globally in the Over the Counter division of Novartis, which touches 400 Million consumers/year and employs about 6000 employees worldwide. Accountable for budget (100M), innovation, service (SAP, CRM, document management etc) and project delivery, as well as business partnering. Leading the IT community (200 internal/external) through a period of change, as we prepare for a Joint Venture with GSK, focusing on people engagement and business continuity, and “JV readiness”.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Globally responsible for the way these two companies govern information. Making sure information risk is understood, appropriately managed and balance with business value. This includes IT compliance in regulated environments. Changed the mindset from creating procedures to ensure effective risk management and to create a culture where people intrinsicely do the right thing.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Responsible for IT in Europe for the OTC division. Built strong links with local business management teams and my team to align the IT roadmap to our business strategy and global IT strategy, and implement this throughout the markets. With this I created a target landscape and changed the mindset from local focus to adopt and implement the enterprise architecture.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Responsible for IT in the major worldwide OTC production site and in addition, for IT in the Swiss sales unit. Reduced complexity in the factory environment resulting in streamlining processes, reducing downtime and increased visibility of IT by creating change boards with internal customers and change the team mindset to be more pro-active.

Changed roles with my wife as she resumed work after a 4 year sabbatical. Moved to Geneva. Take care of 3 kids. Doing ad-hoc IT consultancy work.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Chairman of the IT Board. Managed a team of 7 regional IT directors and responsible for:-effective IT governance (budget ~30M Euro, 200 IT employees in Europe), -definition, communication and implementation of IT strategy, linked to business strategy, including Software development, project management, infrastructure, financial management, architecture, security and service delivery-reduction and harmonization of systems-centralising all local Data Centres to one Data Centre In parallel, assumed IT responsibility for BNL (2005-08) and UK&I (2006-07)

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Responsible for IT integration of Credit management part of D&B into Intrum Justitia in 12 European countries, within a divestiture period of 1 year. Finished ahead of schedule and under budget. Managed and co-ordinated critical IT projects with my European project management team.

Delft, Zh, Nl

Responsible for introducing a mid-end financials-application into the Belgian market, both via direct and indirect channels, in a pioneer function.

Delft, Zh, Nl

Led a team that developed a financial software system for mid-sized companies. Expanded local organisation from 8 to 12 people. Added an offshore partner for scalability: selected and supervised a software development site in India.

Delft, Zh, Nl

Responsible for QA, managing the testing and release process of the product, including code inspection, black-box testing and white-box testing.Introduced metrics, official sign off of software versions and automatic testing.

Msc, Industrial Engineering And Management Science

Leading Digital Business Transformation