Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Senior executive focused on turning strategy into execution. Known for aligning organizations around clear priorities, mobilizing teams, and delivering measurable outcomes. Passionate about building strong teams and leading through transformation. Currently Chief of Staff to the CEO at Philips, partnering with the CEO and leadership team to drive enterprise priorities, strategic transformation, and value creation across a global health technology company. Background across strategy, M&A, operational leadership and P&L management in global B2B, B2C and D2C businesses. Track record of leading strategy development and execution at scale, building and transforming businesses, and driving growth in complex international environments. Particularly interested in enterprise leadership, transformation and long-term value creation in global organizations.
Strategic partner and extension of the CEO driving execution of the company’s value creation plan across strategy, innovation and operations. Orchestrate enterprise priorities, ensure clear trade-offs and alignment across the organization, and support decision-making at ExCo and Board level. Lead high-impact initiatives, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and mobilize teams to deliver measurable results in a fast-paced, transformation-driven environment.
Responsible for developing and enabling the execution of the (in)organic strategic direction for Philips across enterprise and global businesses (Imaging, Image Guided Therapy, Monitoring, Enterprise Informatics, Sleep & Respiratory Care, Personal Health). Head of Philips Ventures (minority investments and LP positions).
Responsible for developing and enabling the execution of the (in)organic strategic direction for Philips’ consumer activities (Personal Health business: Oral Healthcare, Grooming & Beauty, Mother & Childcare). Leading enterprise-wide Consumer Health exploration.
Responsible for developing and enabling the execution of the overall (organic/inorganic) strategic direction for Elsevier ($3B+ revenue, $1B+ operating contribution). Specific focus on accelerating the transition to a customer-centric data & analytics organization and associated value-capture. Report to Elsevier CEO; member of Elsevier management team. Responsible for Elsevier’s commercial centers of excellence (sales, marketing, pricing and customer insights). Head of House Netherlands / statutory director for RELX NL, responsible for relations with staff in the Amsterdam office (> 1000 FTEs) and NL works council, as well as for Elsevier’s positioning and profile in the Netherlands.
Led a global $300M business serving life sciences, engineering and corporate R&D customers. Responsible for product, strategy, P&L and commercial execution across a 200+ person global organization. Developing and delivering B2B information solutions that help accelerate and improve R&D outcomes in pharma, chemicals, oil & gas, academia. Report to Elsevier CEO; member of Elsevier management team. Accomplishments • Grew revenue in highly competitive markets, including turn around. Launched and integrated multiple new products. Evolved point product offerings into industry platform offerings. Transformed Go To Market from product-centric to segment-specific, customer-centric. • Led multiple acquisitions and integrations in support of growth strategy (Knovel, Quosa, Ariadne, Aureus). • Primary sponsor of company-wide marketing effectiveness initiative; co-sponsor of company-wide sales effectiveness initiative.
Interim management of global science & technology book business; with 300+ FTEs in 4 major offices and 3 continents. Report to S&T CEO; member of Elsevier S&T management team. Accomplishments • Led in depth strategic review of the individual lists. • Coordinated search for full time MD.
Development of corporate and innovation strategy; acquisition and investment analyses; and organizational structure and (re)design for companies primarily in consumer goods, financial services and telecoms across Europe. Promoted from consultant to senior consultant to associate to senior associate. As senior associate responsible for day-to-day client relationship management and project management: structuring, managing and delivering work, managing Booz Allen and client teams, working closely together with and counseling senior client management.