Flexmanager - Business development manager

Business development manager

Work Experience

CEO and shareholder
Jippy
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– Searched market for existing company to execute a
business plan, developed by me
– sold business plan to owners / investors of Jippy
and became shareholder
– managed rebuilding of old platform, managed 3rd party
team members in the Netherlands and in Turkey
– approx 1 mln users of online services of Jippy

VP Business Development Web Europe
j2 Global Communications inc.
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responsible for business development
in Europe by Identify partners,
initiate negotiations and close
agreements with ISP/Telco's/Portals
in Europe, including

Sales director and shareholder
JUMP b.v.
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- grew online fax service from zero to no1 fax provider of
the Netherlands, leaving KPN and local market leader
XOIP behind
– Initiating and closing agreement with Dutch Telecom
Regulator (OPTA) for the registration of 500.000 telephone
numbers. The largest amount of fax numbers the
OPTA had ever provided to a company.
– Identified possible buyers of company and initiated
negotiations with j2 Global Communications, inc.
(NASDAQ: JCOM)

Manager Product Management
Yournews (currently called MoMac)
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Managing team of 5 product managers
– End responsible for the First voice controlled ‘telephone
voice portal’ in Europe for Mviva, an AOL subsidiary
– End responsible for the first ‘massive multiplayer’ viral
SMS game ‘Mobile Missile’, customers included
Telefónica – Spain

Ernst & Young Consulting
Senior Consultant
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Projects with KPN, Vodafone, ING,
Ministerie van Economische Zaken

Schlumberger
Software Engineer
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lived and worked in Paris, working in multi national team of 30 engineers

Education

Eindhoven University of Technology
Msc Electrical Engineering

Skills

- Business consultancy
- Business development
- Product Marketing
- People management

Languages

Dutch (native speaker)
English (both speaking and writing)

Other

Business development pecialist in the field of Internet (strategy) and other complex technological environments