’s-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
For more than 20 years, it is my passion to support industry leading and fast growing organisations in their journey to transform and improve their complex reporting and planning environments. In the past I had the privilege to work at companies that evolved from innovators to leaders in the market space of corporate performance management like Frango (nowadays part of IBM) and OutlookSoft (nowadays part of SAP) Since 2013, I’m with Anaplan and focusing on the further growth and success of the Anaplan connected planning platform in the Benelux region together with our strategic alliances. Growing in the past years to a global team of more than 2000 passionate professionals and more than 1500 industry leading and fast growing companies embracing our solution, we are continuing to drive a new age of connected planning. Anaplan affords me the opportunity providing a new and better way to plan for organisations that is continuous and collaborative. We call it connected planning. With our connected planning platform organisations can automate data aggregation into a single source, involve more people in planning processes and plan and pivot more quickly. A new way of planning that drives action by connecting data, people and plans. Connected planning is for all areas of the business, Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Workforce Planning, Marketing and IT. My areas of expertise include: connected planning, corporate performance management, sales performance management, supply chain planning, EPM, CRM, BI, statutory consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting. And also, solution selling, sales leadership and territory development. If you would like to learn more about how we can help your organisation with Anaplan’s connected planning platform to make better informed decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes in every business area of your organisation, please contact me via InMail.
On the forefront of driving transformational hypergrowth for Anaplan, through the Partner Ecosystem in collaboration with our Field Sales and CS Teams.
Since 2013, I’m with Anaplan and as Managing Director, I was responsible for starting-up, expanding and making a success of the Anaplan Connected Planning platform in the Benelux region. Growing in the past years to a global team of 2500+ passionate professionals and 2500+ industry leading and fast growing companies embracing our solution, we are continuing to drive a new age of connected planning. At Anaplan, our aim is to make all planning for all people a reality. We believe our world is better when we connect communities of people with data to enhance decision-making in dynamic environments. With our connected planning platform organisations can automate data aggregation into a single source, involve more people in planning processes and plan and pivot more quickly. A new way of planning that drives action by connecting data, people and plans. Connected planning is for all areas of the business, Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Workforce Planning, Marketing and IT.
Excentive Nederland is part of Excentive International. Excentive covers any part of Total Compensation Management. On the Sales side, it includes Sales Performance and Incentive Management. For HR, it includes Employee Performance, Salary Review, Bonus, Long-Term Incentives and Benefits. Industry leaders like KPN, Total, Bearingpoint, Telecom Italia, Renault, Groupama, Barclays, Fujitsu, Novartis, Canon, Turkcell, Vodafone and others are using Excentive to deliver total compensation management. In this role my responsibilities were: • Managing the Dutch entity for Excentive in The Netherlands, • Managing the Dutch sales cycles • Realization of the first customer relations and references for Excentive in The Netherlands • Building and setting up the Dutch partner network for Excentive.
Micropole is a European consulting and engineering company specialized in the creation of added-value. Micropole partners its customers in the Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, Web & IT, ERP and CRM fields. With locations in France, Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands, the group has a headcount of over 1200, serving almost 800 clients of which 80% are listed. Micropole is a privileged partner of major international software vendors, and it’s their ambition to boost the distinctiveness through efficient business solutions and innovative cutting-edge technologies. On behalf of the Board of Micropole, I wrote the business plan for setting up the Dutch entity. Furthermore, I accompanied Micropole with setting up this Dutch entity, managed the initial sales cycles and got their first Dutch customers and references.
SAP is the largest software supplier in Europe and ranks among the three largest software companies in the world. SAP is the market leader in business software solutions. In my role as a Sr. Sales Executive I was responsible for business development of their “Office of the CFO Solutions” stack. Characteristics and responsibilities of this role: • Proven track record with complex and very competitive sales cycles. Among successful sales cycles were mostly large, renowned and listed companies • Initiation of new and maintaining of existing client relations on sr. Management and C-level • Building and maintaining of Dutch partner network • Co-manage the integration of OutlookSoft Nederland within the Dutch SAP organisation.
Being one of the founders and shareholders of OutlookSoft Nederland BV, I was responsible for the startup of OutlookSoft Nederland BV in 2002 and the launch of the OutlookSoft CPM product into the Dutch market (nowadays OutlookSoft is known as SAP BPC). After the startup in 2002, a strong and healthy customer base for OutlookSoft in the Dutch market was realized and OutlookSoft Nederland BV was transformed from a CPM start-up to a top three player in the Dutch CPM market space. OutlookSoft Nederland BV was profitable from the start of the company. In November 2007, OutlookSoft was acquired by SAP. Characteristics and responsibilities of this role: • Proven track record with complex and very competitive sales cycles. Among successful sales cycles were mostly large, renowned and listed companies • Initiation of new and maintaining of existing client relations on sr. Management and C-level • Building and maintaining of Dutch partner network • Managing the Dutch sales team • Responsible for overall sales target of OutlookSoft Nederland.