• This Dutch national has spent the last 10 years in Asia, working in Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar. He’s been at the leading edge of setting up some of the largest tech companies in South East Asia.
    • Former Co-Founder and Country Manager of Hotel Quickly, growing the company to 18 countries in their first year with a VC raise of 10 million USD.
    • Expanded FreakOut, (Japanese ad-tech company IPO’d in Japan for over a billion dollars) into South East Asia territories (Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta).
    • Strategy, Hiring and managing teams, connecting to local ad-networks, working with agencies and brands and well as setting up all operations for each of the offices.
    • Set up and ran Myanmar as interim country manager for Iflix, now their second biggest market.  Ran reporting and operations for Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya during the IFLIX expansion, while leading the full country roll-out into Zimbabwe.
    • Put Foodpanda on the map in Singapore as Head of Marketing running partnerships with major telco groups, banks, airliners and other e-commerce companies.
    • Lived in China for 3 years while assisting in the setup of a 5 million USD service centre for small and medium businesses for the European Commission in Beijing and getting his Masters at Fudan University in Shanghai.