Experience

LetSmile- Invisible Aligners

• Netherlands
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CEO

  • сент. 2020 - – настоящее время

  We build confidence by creating beautiful smiles and making it accessible for everyone. We are doing this by offering affordable, high quality dental aesthetic treatments. We use the latest technology to offer remote dental assistance throughout your whole treatment. And the best thing is, you can do all of this from the comfort of your own home. www.letsmile.de We build confidence by creating beautiful smiles and making it accessible for everyone. We are doing this by offering affordable, high quality dental aesthetic treatments. We use the latest technology to offer remote dental assistance throughout your whole treatment. And the best thing is, you can do all of this from the comfort of your own home. www.letsmile.de



Beyli Dental NL

• Netherlands
• Medical Device

• Managing Director

  • май 2019 - сент. 2020

  An honest smile is the best icebreaker of any human interaction. We believe this is the most important part of any relationship. A smile is not only about the appearance, but also about how you feel inside. And it starts behind your lips. That's where Beyli comes from - Behind Your Lips. Connecting outer and inner beauty is the kind of thing that we want to help people with. Our promise is an invisible aligner that provides a comfortable and fast way to get a beautiful smile, just the way you want it.Customer problem: People with teeth misalignment feel more insecure and smile less. Teeth alignment is often associated with metal braces and high costs. Solution:Teledentistry based direct-to-consumer clear aligner treatments. Offering a low cost, high convenient, invisible aligner treatment. Activities:- P&L Responsible (Allocated 2020 budget 1.2 Million Euro)- Recruiting and leading team (9 FTE)- Pioneering with unique teledentistry business model- Legal and governance structure - Partner acquisition - Finance and accounting- Operations and logistics- Performance marketing - International expansion Funding:Internationally (5 EU countries): 9+ Million Euro



Creative Dock

• Czechia
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Startup CEO

  • сент. 2019 - авг. 2020

  We aim to leave a positive imprint by solving real customer problems. We do this by helping companies with their innovation challenges. This results in generating new propositions or business models which we develop, bring to the market and scale as a full company building service. The benefits of these are; Big distribution network for international scaling with our experience of launching over 50 new ventures in 11 international markets. Executions is our strong point and together with all our delivery teams like IT, Big Data, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, and Innovation, we have all the capacities in house to develop a company in the most lean way possible. With our business model, we lower the risks for our clients by working on a success fee approach. This way we make sure that the goals of our clients are the same goals that we have. Industry: Health/ Medical TechCountry: NLFTE: 9Client: Scheu DentalProject phases: Proposition testing, MVP, ScalingActivities:- P&L responsible (Allocated 2020 budget 1.2 Million Euro)- Recruiting and leading team- Legal and governance structure- Partner acquisition- Finance and accounting- Operations and logistics- Performance marketing- International expansionFunding:Internationally 9+ Million Euro

• Product Lead

  • авг. 2018 - сент. 2019

  Industry: FinTechCountry: Germany, MunichPartner: ZEB ConsultingFTE: 4Project phases: Proposition design & testingLink: https://filix-finance.com/Customer problem:SME's have a limited overview of their finances and don't want to spend time on them. Often making decisions based on too little information as they don't have a dedicated financial person on board. Solution:CFO as a service; an integrated overview combining multi-banking, invoice flows, and taxes to generate cash flow predictions and easy access to banking products.Selection of Activities:- Exploratory interviews- Design thinking - Proposition development- Investment raising through partnerships----Industry: FinTechCountry: Switzerland, Zurich & ZugPartner: SEBAFTE: 9Project phases: Proposition design & testingWebsite: https://www.seba.swiss/Customer problem: Product & front-end development that closely connects to target group needs (investment managers, pension-funds, family offices).Solution:Product and front-end design iterations with a strong brand identity that stands for trust and security.Selection of Activities:- Exploratory interviews - Coordination of development team (UX, UI, Front-end developers)- Stakeholder management- Usability testing----Industry: FinTechCountry: Czech Republic and NetherlandsFTE: 4Project phases: Proposition design, testing, MVP development and runningProblem:SME's spending money abroad often don't reclaim their foreign VAT due to difficult and time consuming process. Solution:Automatic VAT reclaim software based on imagine recognition. Selection of Activities:- Partner acquisition and integration- Process development for EU VAT structure- (International) Company setup and reporting - Business Development

• Head Of Operations

  • авг. 2017 - июль 2018

  Selection of Activities:- Part of setting up the Dutch branch of Creative Dock- Company structure and setup- Operational activities- Finance and accounting- Recruiting and supporting project teams- Business Development----Area: InsureTechLink: https://www.mijnstekkie.nl/Customer problem:People that retire often have less to spend, while having more time to enjoy their retirement. Because their money is stored in their house as an asset they have to sell it in order to make use of that money. Solution:An honest and transparent reverse mortgage platform where you will remain ownership of the house, while receiving a monthly amount to fully enjoy your retirement. ----Area: FinTechCustomer problem:There is an under-served group of freelancers, small borrowers and people with slightly negative registration that either can't get a loan at a traditional provider, or that are not being treated as a 'human being' but rather as a number. Solution:A consumer credit crowd-lending platform matching private investor with borrowers - Brinker. Brinker scores, collects and serves customers while taking a borrower and investor fee. The investors take the default risk and are rewarded with monthly interest payments. Brinker serves prime customers, bank haters and the under-served.



Tony van der Zanden

• Business Development

  • июнь 2016 - авг. 2017

  Supporting companies to better promote and sell their products. Selection of clients and activities:Microsoft- Contributed in the launch of the Surfacebook Book and Surface Pro 4. The main responsibilities were, among others, visiting top tier customers with the aim to increase product awareness and boost sales.PSfm Traint- Trained sales representatives to achieve higher sales targets in a new pilot concept with Mediamarkt. Samsung- Contributed to the launch of Galaxy Tab S2 through distribution and promotion activities



Management Events

• Finland
• Events Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Event Lead

  • дек. 2015 - нояб. 2016

  Being part in creating a world-class event experience for high-level executives from the biggest companies in the Netherlands is an amazing job! In my position I was responsible for the events, account management around the partners, and taking care of other event related projects. This work gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of professionals on all levels and different branches. This offered me a broad spectrum of insights regarding the fields of Big Data, Cyber security, Internet of Things, Fintech, Insurance, and Digital transformation. The events allowed me to enlarge my personal network with amazing, inspiring people from a wide variety of companies.- Event Management- Venue sourcing- Building and maintaining client relationships- Client retention