Guiding. Coaching. Change.

your GCC growth partner


DELIVERING GROWTH.

RESULTS GUARANTEED.




TRANSFORMING VISION INTO REALITY.



My personal specialty is lifting organizations into high performance organizations taking (new) projects and business initiatives from the ground and run them successfully. As a c-level advisor I help to transform vision into reality.



How? By thoroughly analyzing the situation, taking necessary strategic and communicative measurements, enhancing human growth and 'charging' leadership. Alignment, focus and growth will follow.



I deliver guaranteed results. 





DO YOU CHOOSE

'STATUS QUO' OR GROWTH?





Let's change 'status quo' into growth delivery together: 


By pushing the right buttons at the right time.


Simplicity, communication and timing will be the power of our succes.




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shaping & growing organizations with sustainable change

and enhancing human growth

YOUR AIM.

MY DELIVERY.

My career has mainly been shaped by some not so obvious decisions, by entrepreneurs and CEO's with whom I worked with and by a positive, creative and open mindset always striving for new challenges.


As an interim advisor and director I work on behalve of your results. Always keeping the goals and the internal or external customer(s) in mind..


The red line in my career:


  • Board advisory
  • Setting up companies and departments
  • Go-to-market strategy & implementation
  • Large project strategy and implementation
  • Digital transformation and change


I possess a proven track record by my own unique way of working. 

STRATEGY+

But there is more. As an interim director, I orchestrate all your organizational elements that are needed for success representing the board of directors or your organization and it's stakeholders.


And as partner director of QMBA leadership company with a 40 year long history of experience, I bring additional value to  organizations - which I call Strategy+.


At QMBA we offer focused and customized training programs for leaders and your organization on the three spheres of excellence:


  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Culture and structure
  • Change and innovation

WHAT IS INNOVATION?


I am a seasoned specialist on innovation and at QMBA - Q management Business Academy - we run certified innovation programs.


But what is innovation? Innovation can be technology. But in most cases, innovation goes beyond. Innovation is changing the way you see things and how to approach the market or serve your clients in order to distinguish yourself as an organization. 

I combine experience with proven methods on innovation and (market) strategy, tailored to your needs, challenges and goals as every organization is different.

MY STORY

It all started back in 1992 with a crazy idea: studying Japanese. Unlike other students who studied Japanese because they just loved the language or the country, I had a vision for myself: As Japan was the number one world economy during the 80's and the mid 90's, I foresaw lots of career opportunities.


My vision to start this study was to help Dutch companies to start a business in Japan and vice versa. After having lived one year in Japan and finishing his study, I started off in a Japanese Multinational as a buyer, working closely with the Japanese factories. But after this first job things started to run differently.


After four years, I changed to doing exactly the opposite: sales, marketing and communications, in a medium sized company  of about 400 employees- supporting the CEO/major shareholder and the operational & commercial director. As their right hand I was directly involved in all their ideas and growth plans.


Here I learned first hand how to act and think like an entrepeneur; how to run a company in all its facets. This was the kick start of everything that came after in my career.


Soon I was not only leading in all sales of large roll out projects within the telecom & internet industry, but I also lead the set-up phases of all of my projects working closely with my clients and partners delivering  all sorts of value adding services.


As the company grew and markets changed, I became responsible setting up several new departments like a customer service center and a logistic center, to even setting up a complete new business and company. After that I never stopped exploring new markets, new opportunities, building markets, building companies and running great projects within commercial companies, multinationals as well as for government and for my own companies.

INTERNATIONALITY

Studied Japanese, lived in the United States & Japan and now seated in the UAE - all of that topped with the love for Italy, Poland and especially for the GCC region: My outlook is not local, but global. 

One of the most important things I learned in Japan, when I was still a student, was to be able to respect 'the others culture', and to be able to look things not only from your own point of view, but also from 'the others' point of view. 

That's where I discovered that achieving successful co-operations, is being to be able to adapt to the other party without throwing away your own identity. Bringing worlds together means 'one plus one is two'.

The same rule is applied in working successfully in organizations and markets. My own unique way of working adds value to companies and governments, still serving the goals and needs of the organization itself. 

The bass(is)

I have a love for the bass guitar as well as the double bass.

Where the piano is the mother of the instruments, the bass is the body of every music band or orchestra.


It is the invisible force that lets the whole band shine. The bass is the musical director; the rhythmic driving force; the energy charger - steering from the background, orchestrating direction and intensity.


For me at least, the bass is the basis from which music evolves. It has it's own specific personality but always operating in harmony with others to be successful. It reflects who I am and how I work. 

trackrecord

Company owner & partner

  • Insyncc Project Management Services and advisory L.L.C. UAE - CEO & owner

    C-level advisory, training, coaching

  • Q Management and QMBA - GCC director, partner, trainer, coach

    Improving organizations and developing people and teams in international environments - mainly GCC region - as consultant, inspirator and executive coach. I build effective and passionate organizations with improved results in a continuously changing, international environment. I believe in building relationships and strong teams to achieve results that exceed expectations.

  • Custom App Industries - CEO & owner

    Company sold and merged in 2022

  • Polink - Interim Director Business Implementation & strategy

    The basis of all interim assignments, large consultancy and operational projects, leadership training & coaching. Event- and keynote speaker.

  • The Best Seller - Director/ Consultant / Trainer

    Commerially oriented assigments such as company market introductions, start up consultancy and coaching, commericial trainings

Interim manager/director/ trainer & coach

  • Ministry of Finance Netherlands - National project- & change manager

    Interim changemanager and projectlead for an organization-wide project concerning datasecurity and privacy for  one of the most complex organizations in The Netherlands - the national tax office. I act as a projectlead in assignment of the Information- and datamanagement department. This huge project involves 30.000 employees, 800 business processes, >1000 applications and three national laws and has a direct impact on the privacy and data protection of citizens. The project targets an issue that is high on the political agenda and has continuous media attention. This assigment involves strategy, monitoring, servicing and implementation. 

  • SOS International - Unit- & crisismanager

    Main responsible for setting up and leading the National Center of Refugee Coordination (LCVS) on behalf of the Red Cross and the Dutch Ministry of Justice as a result of the war in Ukraine in 2022: started as a new and instant crisis center and evolved towards a sound department for the government. Focus was the stream of refugees from Ukraine spreading them to all refugee regions in the Netherlands. 


    Additionally involved as starting project-crisismanager for the Refugee crisis in Groningen August 2022, serving the government by helping to coordinate the refugees with transportation lines to temporarily housing until their Immigration checks. 


    Started at SOS international leading a team of 70 covid-crisis call center agents, specifically it was my job to de-built the team towards complete cancellation and zero employees, after which I was asked to lead the Ukrainian war-refugee project. 

  • WEM Modeler - Application Platform Expert & Market Introduction Expert

    Hired by the investor of the platform to bring this revolutionary application development modeler to the market. Exploring and expanding the market on commercial strategy and project involvement. 

  • PragmatiQ - Associate Partner & digital expert

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  • Novo Nordisk - Innovation specialist

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  • Flexclinics - Digital Expert & digital transformation

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  • AP Support - Digital Expert Finance & Nocode lowcode specialist

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  • Part up - Start up market introduction, Business Development & Strategy

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  • Blue Chain Procurement & Logistics - Business development innovation specialist & market strategy

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Employment

  • Yacht/ Randstad Netherlands - Business Unit manager Industry, Oil & Gas, Pharmacy

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  • Yacht/Randstad Netherlands - New Business Manager (operational & commercial)

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  • Burdock Group - Commercial manager Oil & Gas & Offshore

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  • Planhold Group - Business Unit manager, sales & marketing

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  • Murata Electronics International -Account coördinator & purchaser

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Summary of some remarkable projects

Setting up a logistics center at Amsterdam Airport for serving the telecom market and a customer service (call) center and helpdesk for the telecom industry

Setting up a new home-engineering company, from scratch to company including marketing, sales, web-presence, planning and operations

Go-to-market strategy, sales and operations of a No Code IT platform scale up company, running projects for several clients within different industries like care, pharmacy, telecom engineering, care-finance. 


Opening up the Offshore market for an HR service company within the field of Oil & Gas and engineering working with the largest Dutch and international Offshore companies like Boskalis, Allseas, Van Oord, Seaway Heavy Lifting, Mammoet and more.

Running one of the largest crises projects in the Netherlands of the last recent years:  Responsible setting up a central national department for spreading Ukrainian refugees to all local refugee centers in the Netherlands at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in assignment of SOS International, the Red Cross and the Dutch Ministry of Justice.


Besides that, I was involved in two other crises projects for SOS International: One concerning international (non-ukrainian) refugees and the other concerning Covid.

Revitalizing the Industry-business (Engineering, Oil & Gas, Heavy industry, Food) for HR service company Yacht/Randstad, as well as exploring and expanding a whole new new nationwide market within the pharmacy industry doing business with the largest pharmacy companies in the world like Astellas, Novo Nordisk and Johnson & Johnson. 

Project director & change manager for the Dutch Ministry of Finance, specifically the Dutch tax office, a project that was not coming 'off ground' for four years: The Dutch tax office is probably one of the most complex organization in the Netherlands: the project concerns 30.000 employees, 800 business processes, 21 matrix chains with 21 department directors and +1000 applications. As a change manager I had to get everybody in the same direction and getting them to work ‘just doing it’

Founder and CEO of an IT application development company including responsibility for large projects. Company sold.


Director and GCC lead for high-end international HR training & consultancy firm QManagement Business Acadamy.

languages

Speaking

other people's languages, makes your world broader

and brings you closer together.

Understanding

each others culture and background
makes the magic happen.



DUTCH

Mothertongue

ENGLISH

Excellent



POLISH

Very good

ITALIAN

Very good

JAPANESE

Once mastered

Long time not used

Work to do if needed

ARABIC

Beginner in progress