Rene van Erk

SaaS / ISV Advisor & Board Member. CEO ISVWorld. ​ ​>100 SaaS + Software M&A deals, ​>10 years of AI & ML. Founder ISVPay. Passionate about SaaS Scale-ups. Product/Tech/M&A driven CxO

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Technology & Product Exec with a business-mind, passionate about disruptive SaaS scale-ups Experience in APAC/J, Europe, Silicon Valley & New York Keywords: AI, SaaS, Scale-up. Product, Marketing, Tech, Strategy, M&A Founder ISVPay (US)- Leading Payment Solution for ISVs and Tech Companies Founder ISVWorld (NL)- The AI-driven Source for Software Industry Data, Stat's, Vendor profiles &more Chief Strategy SWAT Mobility AI (Singapore): prepare for IPO on TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) Interim CxO, enjoys advising/leading Tech Scale-ups to next growth chapters Quantifiers: - M&A: Over 100 software acquisitions, evaluated >500 deals - AI: Over 10 years of experience in Machine learning and AI - P&L: Managed P&L's >500M$ and > 2500FTE, MT-member for P&L's over 7B$ - Built & lead Online businesses > 500M$ - Managed Innovation/R&D budgets from 0 to >100M$ - Enjoys finding business opportunities that are disruptive tech driven

Experience

  • Founder & CEO at ISVWorld
    Jul 2009 - Present · 17 yrs

    www.ISVWorld.com ISVWorld lists over 100.000 software companies as well as financial benchmarks and statistics on the software industry. Find software vendors globally based on any requirement, since February 2013. ISVWorld is AI & ML generated based on (b)leading edge ML & Algorithms; in search, linguistics, semantics, auto-classification etc.

  • Board Member & Acting CEO at ISVPay
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

    ISVPay - the Stripe for Unattended Payments. Connecting the world through a single API, creating an unparalleled gateway-neutral single onboarding and reporting infrastructure

  • Chief Strategy Officer & Board Advisor at SWAT Mobility
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Chief Scalability Officer: Lead Marketing to generate MQL's at Scale, (re-)launch global partnerships to drive implementations at scale. Obsessed with ARR, defining an MRR strategy that will achieve next level of scale. Very cool AI, algorithms and heuristics

  • Chief Product & Chief Technology at STAEDEAN
    Oct 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    STAEDEAN is a leading ISV on the Microsoft Dynamics platform with solutions in Pharma, Rental, Data and Manufacturing. Prepared the Product & Technology organization for the next wave of growth, including process & efficiency optimization, creating a vision centered around AI and create the ability to integrate and absorb acquisitions.

  • Investor in tech startups at Investor
    Dec 2004 - Oct 2024 · 19 yrs 11 mos