Description

As a senior leader I have built experience in the past 19 years with a mix of entrepreneurship, product management and leading multi-disciplinary teams in SaaS, media and eCommerce companies.

I get my kicks from facing big and small challenges and bringing structure to chaos. I bring a positive "can do" mindset to any situation and with that I love steering a team/department/organisation on its path to achieve their goals. I'm all about the action and fast impact.

Previous challenges I was hired for:

- Organising setup of a new product team to support a business model transition

- Changing strategic direction to adapt to a market changed by covid

- Changing support, implementation and DevOps teams to support a transition

- Managing due diligence during acquisition

- Bringing back the spirit of success in a team

- Researching a new proposition

- Re-organising a team

- Taking on a temporary position to cover for an absence

I have worked for start-ups (including my own), scale ups and large corporate organisations, I have built B2C and B2B products for SMEs up to Fortune 500 customers and I would love to come and join your company next.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Amsterdam (up to 50km), Utrecht (up to 10km), Rotterdam (up to 10km), Den Haag (up to 10km)

Cenosco
Interim Head of Product
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
November 2022 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
Den Haag, Netherlands
- Setting up and structuring the product management department from scratch
- Reorganizing and creating operational processes to gain efficiency and digitize the organization
- Advising on strategic product direction
- Leading a team of 8
- Overall project management of the setup
HqO
Director of Product Management
October 2021 - Today (4 years and 8 months)
Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Shifted product focus from tenant services to workplace experience
- Built (from scratch), hybrid working solutions in the HqO product offering that entails a mobile app, web solutions, an admin service and integrations
- Integrated Office App into HqO and transitioned its customers
- Built and led an information security team and obtained an ISO27001 certification for Office App & HqO in the Netherlands
- Led product and information security, with 5 direct reports
HqO
Head of Product & Engineering Office App (acquired by HqO)
October 2020 - October 2021 (1 year)
Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Defined and executed on the Product Strategy of Office App
- Transformed the product to shift from tenant services to hybrid working solutions for large corporates
- Led product, engineering, data and information security teams with 6 direct reports, both IC's and other team leads and was part of the MT
- Led product and engineering due diligence for the acquisition by HqO
- Grew the product development team from 10 to 25 fte in 6 months