Bart van Aanholt

Chief Commercial Officer / Sales & Marketing Leader, building and transforming customer-led organisations

Netherlands

About

Experience

  • Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at GNX
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Accelerating growth and enhancing the customer experience by deliver true global connectivity to large enterprises and partners all around the world through the amazing GNX+ platform

  • Personal goal pursuit at Career Break
    Aug 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Chief Commercial Officer at NorthC Datacenters
    Oct 2020 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    With ten data centers NorthC is the largest regional data center business in the Netherlands that serves both large organizations and government institutions as well as cloud and IT providers and small businesses. NorthC differentiates itself by their strong local presence in different regions, qualitative high-end services, and custom solutions when it comes to connectivity and hybrid cloud solutions, among other things. Thanks to close collaborations with regional IT partners, NorthC can offer complete solutions that help customers with their digital transformation. Together the ten locations have a surface area of 80.000 m2 and an electrical capacity of 65 megawatts. In addition NorthC now also has two locations in Germany; Nurnberg and Munich IP Data Centers are now part of the NorthC group..

  • Vice president of Sales, Continental Europe and MEA at CenturyLink
    Feb 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    As Vice president of Sales I'm responsible for the Sales and Sales support teams in the Continental European markets of CenturyLink. I'm part of the European Board/Leadership team and report into the EMEA president of CenturyLink.

  • Level 3 Communications (13 yrs 2 mos)
    • Country Director
      Jun 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Responsible for the Wholesale and Enterprise sales channels in the Benelux/Nordics and Baltic region with a strong emphasis on expanding the Enterprise capabilities/customer base. As a Country Director I'm working with the local MT team on building/executing on strategic (investment) plans for the region so they are aligned with the central organization.

    • Director, Sales
      Jan 2009 - Jun 2016 · 7 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for Sales teams the Benelux, Nordics and Baltic countries. Serving a customer base including Large Enterprise, Carrier and Broadcasting/Media with a portfolio of Colo/Wholesale transport/ IP Transit/ VPN/ CDN and Cloud services. Since 2010 also Board Director of the Dutch entity of Level 3 Communications.

    • Account Director
      Jan 2005 - Dec 2008 · 4 yrs

      As an Account Director I'm responsible for some Dutch large Wholesale accounts and the Research and Education accounts throughout Europe.