Amsterdam Area
I founded CM.com in 1999 together with my friend Gilbert Gooijers under the initial name ClubMessage. Our idea was to introduce SMS Marketing in the Netherlands for clubs and discotheques. This went very well and within a few years we reached almost one million young people a week by SMS and we served a thousand disco's in the Netherlands and Belgium. Nowadays, CM.com has a yearly revenue of more than 220 million euros and we serve millions of users for clients as banks, tv stations, police, marketing agencies, etc. CM.com has over 750 employees. CM.com has offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Enschede, Maastricht and Breda. Our mission is to build world's best platform for mobile messaging, payments, voice, apps and security. I like to speak about the mobile market, growth, entrepreneurship and innovation in general and I'm one of the founders of the Mobile Convention Amsterdam.
My job is to make sure that CM stays in the list of the 50 Fastest growing Technology firms in the Benelux and continues to be a Best Managed Company and a Great Place To Work. I'm involved with growth by product innovation, marketing and aquisitions of other Mobile Messaging and Payment companies.
I helped the team to attract and retain large customers.
As a development director of CM Technology I was involved with the development of a reliable and scalable SMS platform which would support the further growth of CM. I've also sold our technology to other SMS aggregators and operators and worked on new products in the field of Mobile Messaging and Mobile Payments