Senior Director, Public Matters
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
2022
2021
Programme Manager Green Shipping Waddenzee, FME (Dutch employers' organization for the technology industry)
2017
Self-employed Consultant
2014
Senior Advisor to the Mayor & Board, Municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch
2011
General Manager EU affairs, Fokker Technologies | Damen Shipyards | NL Maritime Technology, Brussels
2007
Attaché, Netherlands Permanent Representation to the EU, Brussels
2005
Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs
2001
Policy Advisor, Ministry of Traffic and Water Management
1999
Government Traineeship, State Government
Senior Director
I very much like to put my extensive experience of more than twenty years in government (national, local, regional and European Union) and in business, particularly in the manufacturing and technology industries and in trade organisations, at the service of our clients. The thread running through my career is innovation and especially stimulating progress in public-private partnerships. In recent years, as a programme manager of large-scale innovation subsidy programmes, I gained a lot of experience in energy transition, digitization (industry 4.0) and infrastructure. My goal is always to make complex matters more comprehensible and clear, and to organise processes as efficiently as possible. Furthermore, I’ve a coaching management style and like to empower everyone in a team.
Personal
Outdoor, that’s where you’ll find me: walking, running, or working in the garden, and I love being on or around water. I enjoy a rich social life, like to ‘wine and dine’ with friends and occasionally go to an outdoor festival. Because of my study and work I lived everywhere and nowhere, and now – as a down-to-earth Frisian at heart – settled in the kind and social south; North-Brabant.
Public matters