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CEO / directeur / director/ VP

CEO / directeur / director/ VP

Work Experience

History
Owner & Director
April 1994 - Present (15 years 1 months)

Chief Executive Officer at TT
May 2006 – March 2009 (2 years 11 months)
TT delivers Software (and content) As A Service in a number of market verticals. For this
it has developed its own, fully platform independent delivery-architecture. Beyond this the platform
integrates key applications and data there-off in central middleware architecture (SOA), which also
manages user-profiles and authorizations. Advanced virtualisation technologies are used to make
anything relevant available "anywhere" to the end-user at the best affordable price.
Applications and content are made available where-ever the customer needs them, be it at work, at
school, at home, in hospital, on vacation or anywhere else.. .
Since the platform is largely based on open-source components, all of this can be done at very
competitive prices.
Technology-basis: XML/JAVA/AJAX/SOAP/JBoss/JSF.

Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director at Intellect Holdings
December 1999 - September 2004 (4 years 10 months)
Responsible for the activities of the (Australian) publicly listed holding company and its subsidiaries
in Australia, Asia, Europe, USA and Latin America. Reporting to a mixed Australian - European
board. Built numerous partnerships with blue chip companies around the world in electronic
payments (POS), (electronic) services and telecommunications.
Moved corporate headquarters from Perth to Brussels; took care of cross-pacific hand-over of knowledge, rebuilt the organization and managed the initial severe financial crisis.
I grew the company from a market cap of 8 million to 260 million dollar within a period of 3 years.
Transition from box moving, hardware orientation to electronic commerce and added value through the
foundation of TAFMO.com and the acquisition of Touch networks; an entity that currently serves 4 out
of the 5 largest banks in Australia and a number of international retail chains with electronic services
over POS infrastructure.. Moving up the value chain. Within TAFMO a XML/Jboss/JAVA based
delivery platform was built within the constraints of the banking – security restrictions. TAFMO
is fully vendor independent.
Global exposure including : Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China,
Taiwan, Japan, South Africa, Benelux, Norway, Denmark, Germany, UK, France, Greece,
Italy, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, USA, Canada, Mexico, Dominican
Republic, Venezuela, Brazil


Several interim and recovery assignments
March 1995 – November 1999:
• Boardroom consultant at “confidential”: Advice on a potential strategy-change and reorganization of management team.
• Manufacturing director a.i. at “confidential” Post-restructure assignment. In Textiles industry. Restored motivation on the work-floor (120 FTE) and managed to bring reject - % in manufacturing down by some 75 % within a period of 5 months. Relocation and integration of manufacturing facilities from a sister-organization from London to the Netherlands. Initiated new restructure round to finalize the process.
• Recovery agent at “confidential”. Nutrition / fresh-food industry. Saved the company from technical bankruptcy. Took over the assets, changed orientation from bulk to niche and, reorganized the workforce and resold assets.
• Director a.i. at “confidential” . Mechanical engineering / interior products. Changed strategy from project to product orientation. Developed new product portfolio and put out to contract on a licensing basis.

CFO / COO /CIO/ Manufacturing director at Swinkels
June 1990 - February 1995 (4 years 9 months)
Served in a variety of roles over a period of time. Initially CFO/COO/CIO, Responsible for Finance, ICT, Logistics, Warehouse and Sales services. Implemented full new MIS within a 6 months time-span. Headed up manufacturing plant ad interim after dismissal of manufacturing director. Restored motivation, achieved substantial productivity improvement.

Head of Business Administration at Campina
May 1989 - April 1990 (1 year)
Responsible for BA @ division headquarters for the consumer milk division. Direct responsibility for 4 departments, partly headquarters, party manufacturing locations. Evaluation of multi-million€ investment plans, composition of operational plans en budgets; monitor monthly results against those..

Business integrator & Controller Resin Business Unit at AKZO Nobel
April 1984 - March 1989 (5 years)
Integration of a number of manufacturing sites and sales offices around the globe into one single
Strategic Business Unit for Synthetic Resins. Set up procedures, systems and reporting; develop
management information systems, accomplished substantial savings in logistics and product
allocation. Rationalized investment allocations internationally. Restructured manufacturing plant in Belgium. Set-up joint venture in Malaysia, evaluation of investments and acquisitions around the world.
Under my leadership a full custom made BI/BPM solutions was built and implemented
(ORACLE/Uniface) covering the main functional area’s of the international unit (R&D – Purchasing –
Manufacturing – Sales). Headed up project team of 25 professionals (Bsc/Masters/PHD level) and a
number of external developers.


Education

Education
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Business Administration, 1980 - 1985


Skills

Summary
Senior executive with broad experience in a variety of industries. Served as CEO, CFO, COO, CCO and manufacturing director over a period of 25+ years. Strong leader with excellent strategic, creative, commercial and people skills. “Change leader” with strong background in Financials, Management Information Systems, Manufacturing and Service Delivery.

Specialties
Interim and transition management.
History including Chemicals, Dairy food, Textiles, Interior products, Fresh food and IT services.

Ambitions
My ambition is in projects where strong people skills are required. I have the ability to work effectively at work-floor, management and executive / board level. My strength is in realization of behavioural change and improvement of organizations as a result of that.
I can be hard-nosed but also diplomatic, depending on the situation. I will restructure where necessary and without hesitation, but even more I enjoy one phase beyond; rebuilding the organization and making the wheels spin again.


Languages

Languages
Dutch Mother tongue
English Fluent
German Close to fluent
French Good, needs some dusting - off.


Other

Honors and Awards
•IPON Award: Utrecht (Nl), January, 2008. Thin Tables was honoured with an IPON (ICT
platform for Education in the Netherlands) award for most innovative product for secondary
education during the IPON fair in January 2008.
•Best of the rest: Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2002 Several chief executive
officers in Australia deserve to be praised. In late 2002, they are among the most efficient and
productive chief executive officers. They include Jack O'Mahony from Cochlear,
from Intellect Holdings, Darin Walters, from Blackmores, John Ellice-Flint, from Santos, Rod
Walker, from Freedom Group, and Leigh Clifford, from Rio Tinto. Both and Walker
have achieved a big turnaround in their company's fortunes.

Interests
New technology, golf, reading, politics, modern art, design


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