Rob van Ham

Responsible for marketing at VIB Training & Conferences

Ghent Metropolitan Area

About

Over two decades of experience in promotion, events, and branding make me an experienced digital marketer. In the last decade, I have been primarily involved with scientific (virtual/hybrid/live) events for VIB, a non-profit life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium. In the current phase of my career, I’m focussing on marketing the inspiring research(ers) at VIB and their events. I aim to achieve this through a variety of tactics, including content and social media marketing, employer branding, e-mail marketing, and more.

Experience

  • VIB (Gent Area, Belgium)
    • Communications Officer - Marketing
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

      - Continuously developing and implementing the marketing strategy for VIB and VIB Conferences

    • Science Events Officer
      Jan 2015 - Sep 2022 · 7 yrs 9 mos

      Marketing, logistical and administrative support for the organization of high-level international scientific conferences & events. • Responsible for the Marketing strategy of VIB Conferences • Focus on marketing automation, CRM, Power BI • Development of the promotional tools for conferences • Create and execute marketing plans of the conferences & events • Support online and on site during (virtual) conferences

  • Online marketing lead, film programmer at JAPAN SQUARE vzw
    Sep 2014 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs

  • Officer Online Marketing at Camera Japan Festival
    Apr 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • University of Amsterdam (4 yrs)
    • Content Manager and Communication Advisor
      Mar 2012 - Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      - Online marketing lead - Responsible for the bilingual (Dutch/English) online internal en external communication - Coordinating the editing team - Communications advisor for numerous projects - Online media coordinator for the MOOC "Introduction to Communication Science", 80.000 international participants

    • Library technician
      Sep 2010 - Aug 2013 · 3 yrs

      - Responsible for logistics at the University Library Singel - I created a wiki page for my colleagues and wrote technical process guides for it - Editor for the Library databases

  • Freelance marketing advisor at TravelBird Nederland BV
    Mar 2011 - Apr 2011 · 2 mos

    I helped create the campaign for their social media output on their Dutch and Belgian Twitter and Facebook accounts. This resulted in a rapidly increased online presence on both platforms.