Experience

Allard-Europe N.V.

• Belgium
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Royal IHC

• Netherlands
• Shipbuilding
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Dredging Equipment

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Dredging Equipment is one of the core product market groups of Royal IHC and spans 9entities in 8 different countries and on 4 continents. It develops and builds innovative dredging equipment such as pumps, cutter heads, and gate valves that improve the operational efficiency for our customers and make the industry more sustainable.Royal IHC Dredging Equipment delivers wear parts, dredging components and integrated dredging installations to shipyards and ship owners all over the world. The annual turnover is approximately 80 mio, employing over 250 employees.Responsibilities:- P&L responsible for the dredging equipment scope- Developing and executing the business strategy for Dredging Equipment inorder to attain the goals of Royal IHC- Establish and maintain relations with customers, suppliers and internalstakeholders- Statutory director for Royal IHC’s fully owned casting subsidiary Allard EuropeNV in Belgium- Drive the innovation portfolio, develop new products and processes Show less

• Operations Director

  • Feb 2019 - Sep 2020

  Responsible for engineering, procurement, work preparation, fabrication, product management andproject management teams of IHC Dredge Equipment. I lead the turnaround that lead to an improvement of the gross operating profit by 3%. Total number reports (direct and indirect) 130 fte.



Hollandia Offshore B.V.

• Managing Director

  • Mar 2018 - Jan 2019

  Hollandia Offshore is an operating company of Hollandia Holding, a family owned steel construction company. Hollandia Offshore is an EPCI contractor for the supply of offshore substations, oil and gas topsides, oil and gas subsea structures and contractors equipment such as heavy lift cranes and pipe laying equipment, and employs approximately 100 people. In September 2018, the management and the shareholder decided to cease the operations of the company due to the continuing difficult market circumstances in the offshore industry. I managed the wind down of the company in the last three months of 2018, including handling the negotiations with the unions and the works council and laying off the employees. Show less

• Manager Sales and Tendering

  • Sep 2013 - Feb 2018

  Manager of the commercial department of Hollandia Offshore. Tasks and responsibilities:>Developing the network of Hollandia Clients.>Overseeing tender preparation, including concept design, procurement, price estimation and completion of bid documents for projects with a value of € 1.0M up to € 200M. >Leading the contract negotiations with clients.>Commercial follow up with the project team.>Exploring and initiating market and product development.>Establishing strategic partnerships with key suppliers and co-makers. Show less



Hollandia Corporate

• Netherlands
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager work preparation department

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2013

  Manager of the department responsible for work preparation of various types of projects like offshore platforms, stingers for pipe laying vessels, movable bridges and lock gates. Total number of direct and indirect reports between 18 and 30 depending on workload.

• Project manager

  • Jan 2005 - Dec 2010

  Ttechnical and commercial responsible for the project results. In total I completed over 50 projects with a value ranging from Eur. 50k till Eur. 10mio, mostly in the offshore sector. Most remarkable projects: Dec 09 to Feb 11: Design, manufacturing and installation of retractable roof panels for Swedbank Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. Estimated projectvalue: Eur. 9 mio.Dec 09 to Sep 10: New build and exchange of lifting cylinder in excisting swingbridge in Gotenborg, SwedenJun 09 to Jan 10: New build of Stinger for pipe laying vessel. Project value: Eur 3.5 mio. Show less



Metalix

• Project manager

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

  Implementation of Nestix2 ERP solution for part fabrication Implementation of Nestix2 ERP solution for part fabrication



van der Giessen-de Noord

• fabrication assistant

  • 2000 - 2003