Experience

Rival Foods

• Netherlands
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO / Co-founder

  • Sep 2022 - 1 year 4 months

  Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands Responsible for the invention, development, production and commissioning of completely new production technologies for applications in the plant-based food industry. Initiator of commercialization of our unique food products by establishing collaborations with leading industry.

• Co-founder

  • May 2019 - 4 years 8 months

  Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands Co-founder of Rival Foods, a food-tech spin-off company from the University of Wageningen. I bring initiative in technology development & scale-up, establishing a solid team and commercializing of products. At Rival Foods we develop the next generation of plant protein products that are unprecedented in terms of texture, juiciness, nutritionals and taste.



Optics11

• Netherlands
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product and Sales Manager

  • Jan 2019 - May 2019

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Responsible for the Optics11 Life sales, product portfolio and product roadmap.

• International Sales Manager

  • Oct 2016 - Jan 2019

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Responsible for global sales of the Life Science instrument division. Managing sales teams in Europe and USA and distributors in China and Japan.

• Application Specialist

  • Sep 2014 - Oct 2016

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands First dedicated sales employee in a starting photonics company. Responsible for setting up a sales operation and growing revenue by direct sales (worldwide).



InnoLab

• Austria
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2014 - Apr 2016

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Development and production of new educational sustainable energy concepts for schools.



IonOptix, LLC

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Developing the prototype of a novel, optical sensor based, force recording and feedback system for measuring the contractile forces in living isolated cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells).



Omics2Image

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2013 - Jan 2014

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Assisting with the technical assembly and market development of a novel pixelated time-of-flight mass spectrometry detector.



Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern at Physics department

  • Feb 2013 - Oct 2013

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Designing, prototyping and testing a new opto-mechanical sensor for single-cell biomechanics applications

• Educational board (OLC) committee member

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2013

  Amsterdam Safeguard the quality of the educational program by gathering and evaluating student's opinions about the program and discussing this with the program managers and faculty board.



PinkRoccade Healthcare

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Young Professional

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2012

  Den Bosch Junior SAP Consultant Specialization: Finance & Controlling

• Internship at Medicinal Chemistry Department

  • Aug 2011 - Jan 2012

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Valorizing the fragment-based chemogenomics biochemical research program.



NIDAP

• Netherlands
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing researcher

  • Sep 2010 - Apr 2011

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Researching the market potential for new educational programs (HBO/University).



Airpack Nederland B.V.

• Netherlands
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Engineer

  • Oct 2007 - Mar 2008

  Zierikzee, The Netherlands Commercial & technical design of compressed air, nitrogen and dryer package offers for the oil & gas industry.



De Ruiter & Fanoy

• Sales & logistics

  • Jun 2003 - Sep 2007

  Vlissingen, The Netherlands Assembly, packing and distribution of college books during summer holidays.