Experience

New10

• Netherlands
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Amsterdam Area



Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Serverless GTM Leader / Technical Specialist

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  Netherlands Responsible for the go-to market strategy of the AWS Serverless services in BENELUX, DACH, and NORDICS. Working with service teams, the field sales organization, partners, and more importantly customers to enable customers to become more agile and drive down cost with Serverless services. Helping customers in my regions adopt the AWS Serverless services including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge.



Blanco WealthTech

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO & Co-Founder - FinTech

  • Mar 2016 - Dec 2019

  Netherlands Co-Founder and CTO of a VC-backed FinTech startup. As CTO responsible for building financial products from scratch. From 2016 I have built two financial products for wealth- and asset-managers, and private banks: a Know-Your-Customer (KYC) solution, and an Investment Suite solution with automatic investing and rebalancing features. Both solutions were built on latest cloud technology (AWS Serverless) to enable focus on development with a self-recruited international team of developers… Show more Co-Founder and CTO of a VC-backed FinTech startup. As CTO responsible for building financial products from scratch. From 2016 I have built two financial products for wealth- and asset-managers, and private banks: a Know-Your-Customer (KYC) solution, and an Investment Suite solution with automatic investing and rebalancing features. Both solutions were built on latest cloud technology (AWS Serverless) to enable focus on development with a self-recruited international team of developers. Responsibilities: strategic board member, lead architecture, development lifecycle, development recruitment, product owner, team lead, availability and scaling, ISAE certification, technology due dilligence for VCs, etc, etc Show less



Keylane

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Project Manager - FinTech

  • Jun 2015 - Feb 2016

  Netherlands Keylane is an international software solution supplier dedicated to provide the best standard software for life and non-life insurers and pension institutions. I was responsible as Key Account Executive for Allianz, Axent, and VvAA helping with implementations/migrations, feature implementations, and overall account management



Topicus Pension & Wealth

• Netherlands
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager Quality & Delivery

  • Jan 2013 - May 2015

  Amsterdam / Reeuwijk After setting up the Maintenance & Support Department I was tasked to professionalize/set up other departments: for quality control (automated testing, qc, functional testing, etc), and for software delivery (a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)). All of the departments together were combined into a Quality & Delivery unit. I was responsible for making sure customers like ING, Nationale Nederlanden, Aegon, and Binckbank had a structured intake process for bugs and RfCs… Show more After setting up the Maintenance & Support Department I was tasked to professionalize/set up other departments: for quality control (automated testing, qc, functional testing, etc), and for software delivery (a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)). All of the departments together were combined into a Quality & Delivery unit. I was responsible for making sure customers like ING, Nationale Nederlanden, Aegon, and Binckbank had a structured intake process for bugs and RfCs, and a controlled process for delivering high-quality releases. I managed this business unit while being part of the management-team reporting to the board.

• Manager IT Operations (a.i.)

  • Apr 2014 - Apr 2015

  Rotterdam Area, Netherlands Manager ad interim for the Internal IT Operations



Able

• Manager Maintenance & Support

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2012

  Netherlands On request of the board - after signing an important deal with strict SLAs - I professionalized the support department from a 2-person helpdesk to a 8-person Maintenance & Support unit according to ITIL best practices. The Maintenance & Support Department is the first point of contact for all of Able's customers and provides functional and technical information, help on incidents, status updates on progress, tracking system (& market) changes, providing software updates & patches… Show more On request of the board - after signing an important deal with strict SLAs - I professionalized the support department from a 2-person helpdesk to a 8-person Maintenance & Support unit according to ITIL best practices. The Maintenance & Support Department is the first point of contact for all of Able's customers and provides functional and technical information, help on incidents, status updates on progress, tracking system (& market) changes, providing software updates & patches, etc. After setting up the department I managed it for 3 years while reporting towards the management-team. Show less



Capco

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Consultant - FinTech

  • Nov 2008 - Jul 2009

  Germany Capco is a leading global provider of integrated consulting, technology, and transformation services to the financial services industry. Main Project: Eurex Clearing (Frankfurt) With Capco we were involved in setting up a new Securities Lending service. I was responsible for setting up the technical interface between the Eurex system and the Trading system from Quadriserv



Saxo Bank Nederland

• Netherlands
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Consultant / Account Executive - FinTech

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2008

  Netherlands Worked for Binckbank's subsidiary Syntel (acquired by Binckbank in 2006) which offers Back- and Front-Office solutions for the (online) investment banking branche to customers like ING, Nationale Nederlanden, Aegon, and Binckbank. I was responsible for the Binckbank account. Tasks & Responsibilities: - Account Executive - Business Analysis and Translating business requirements into Functional Design - Project Management on multiple projects - Point of contact for management… Show more Worked for Binckbank's subsidiary Syntel (acquired by Binckbank in 2006) which offers Back- and Front-Office solutions for the (online) investment banking branche to customers like ING, Nationale Nederlanden, Aegon, and Binckbank. I was responsible for the Binckbank account. Tasks & Responsibilities: - Account Executive - Business Analysis and Translating business requirements into Functional Design - Project Management on multiple projects - Point of contact for management (Binckbank/Able) (In 2017 Syntel/Able was sold to Topicus by Binckbank) Show less