Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
As a seasoned Technology Executive and Strategic Transformation Leader, I specialize in guiding PE-owned technology firms through critical transformation phases and steering them towards market leadership. My career is marked by a series of strategic triumphs in high-stakes buy-side and sell-side transactions, where my focus has always been on maximizing ROI and achieving sustainable, long-term growth. What sets me apart is my ability to blend visionary thinking with pragmatic execution. I am renowned for reshaping technology landscapes within organizations, leading complex integrations, and cultivating cultures of innovation. My leadership approach is deeply rooted in strategic foresight, empowering teams to embrace technology adoption, project management excellence, and organizational agility. Key Achievements: ➤ Orchestrated transformative strategies that significantly enhanced productivity, innovation, and market positioning for global technology firms. ➤ Led and integrated diverse, high-performing teams across multiple continents, consistently achieving and surpassing business objectives. ➤ Pioneered groundbreaking product visions and technological strategies, aligning them seamlessly with emerging market trends and consumer demands, resulting in substantial revenue growth. ➤ Cultivated robust, values-driven organizational cultures, which have been pivotal in enhancing team retention, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and maintaining high operational efficiency.
- Enthusiastically running the business operations of this high-growth, private equity-backed company with 130 employees across three countries. Responsible for driving international expansion, strengthening Pro4All’s position as a European leader, and ensuring the successful implementation of a unified product and cultural strategy. - Strategic goals: Integrating all operations to function as one company, achieving a strong and aligned culture, and focusing on international growth and market leadership. - Overseeing the integration of recent acquisitions and guiding new ones, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic vision. Leading the process of unifying the organization into a cohesive European player, fostering a shared culture, and harmonizing the product suite.
As the Group Chief Product & Technology Officer at Sogelink, a leading force in construction technology, I'm at the forefront of the digital transformation in the global construction sector. Sogelink is committed to igniting a smarter, safer, and more sustainable future for the built environment through our innovative and user-friendly solutions. We're not just adapting to the future, we're creating it, leveraging the power of data and location intelligence to redefine construction as we know it. Alongside our dedicated team of ~700 professionals across Europe, I'm actively working to solve our customers' biggest challenges. • Reengineered Software Engineering & Product teams (250+ members) into a powerhouse, significantly boosting cross-portfolio productivity and innovation. • Orchestrated the development and execution of a groundbreaking product vision and bundling strategy, solidifying market leadership in key product domains. • Fostered an engineering culture centered on excellence, markedly enhancing team output and quality and cross-functional collaboration. • Directed the technological integration for multiple acquisitions, leading to enhanced operational synergy and process streamlining. • Redefined the firm’s technological strategy to align with acquisitive tech stacks and organization strategy, creating manageability and improving innovation. . • Supported a highly successful exit, culminating in a transaction exceeding 1 billion euros
With location intelligence, the Sogelink provides valuable insights that are needed to successfully meet the challenges of urbanisation, mobility, energy transition and climate change. • Heading our Software Engineering & Product teams (85+) • Integrate acquired companies on a technological level and brining up to level • Set new vision for how technology will be (re-used) in the company • Maintaining and further developing the engineering culture at the company, while growing the team further – first CTO at the company • Coordination of Engineering and Product, developing and designing teams
• Managed global Software Development teams (Netherlands, India, Belarus, 100FTE), notably reducing escalations after new software releases and enhancing overall product quality. • Spearheaded the expansion of the Salesforce product team, significantly elevating product capabilities and customer satisfaction. • Implemented advanced development methodologies, drastically reducing critical bugs and accelerating the development cycle.
➤ Led the growth and operational scaling of Mainland Europe and India offices, maintaining high service levels. ➤ Cultivated a values-driven organizational culture, achieving high employee satisfaction and reduced staff turnover. ➤ Critical decision-making in crisis scenarios, ensuring business continuity and effective problem-solving.