Curriculum Vitae

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Personal data : Date of birth - August 18th, 1962
Nationality - Dutch
Marital Status - married, one child

Foreign languages : Dutch - mother tongue
English - good
German - good

Hobbies : Golf, skiing. car racing




PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE






2012– Present Ronex Shipping and Forwarding



• Commercial Director In this new role responsible for the commercial activities within the Netherlands. Ronex has offices in The Netherlands at Schiphol, Ridderkerk, Apeldoorn and Maastricht, total amount of employees is 25 .Working with a sales team and we are selling all logistics activities Air Ocean Distribution and Road transportation. I am heavily involved in Route development with our agents worldwide but particularly with the United States. Ronex is founded in 1985 is a freight forwarder and logistics service provider. With the commitment of our experts and being part of a network of privately owned forwarding companies in more then 184 countries we guarantee commitment to the job every day so our clients can be sure of receiving personal attention and first class tailored to their needs .On logistics we were successful to get large customer on board the Woodgroup who used our facility in Ridderkerk for their hub in Europe. Total 4500 m2 and the stock is emergency parts for the oil and drilling industry. The focus on this customer is based on the incoming traffic, logistics and outgoing part so the total supply chain







2010 – 2012 VCK Logistics

• General Manager In this role responsible for the airfreight division of VCK in the Netherlands and the head office was based at Schiphol. Total amount of employees is 48 and they have a top 15 IATA ranking on the Dutch Market. VCK is a very strong player on the Dutch market and they have a lot of customers in the Ship spares commodity.
Yearly turnover approx 28 million euro.On logistics we implemented the customer Samsung who used our warehouse at Schiphol airport as their repair centre for the hard drives which normally were sent back to Taiwan so we were able to give Samsung a total cost reduction of 15 %, and the total repair time went down to 3 days instead of 4 weeks in the old situation in Taiwan.


2006 – 2010 DHL EXEL Supply Chain


• Vice President Global Consumer & Retail Sector Development Europe Middle East & Africa In this role responsible for several global accounts in my region. We are talking about customers like Office Depot, GSK ,Unilever. I am working in my region with country managers and sales and account manager to get targets achieved. Our whole global sales team is based in Columbus Ohio Besides above role I am also responsible to work very close together with our other divisions like, Global Forwarding, Freight, Express, and Solutions divisions. On a monthly basis we had meetings to discuss the way forward and to work and act as one team. Our future goal was to be one voice to the customer so that we as DHL can offer all the products we have in one concept. With this concept it is also possible to offer much better rates to our customers.



2004 –2006 DHL Solutions

• Vice President Sales & Marketing South /East /West Europe. Started in Rotterdam and my first target was to reorganize the Benelux Sales organization We changed the total setup for the sales organization due to the fact there was no clear guidance and approach. First target was to implement a Tender Desk which was filtering the incoming RFQ or RFI. Besides that we structured the organization in several segments like Electronics, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, and Fashion. Also the engineering of the RFQ was done internal with our own team on every segment we had several sales people who were responsible for that segment and also achievement of their Targets. Our target the first year was 50 MIO euros and this was achieved for the Benelux. Large accounts which were achieved were NIKON (7 years contract with total value of 15 Mio Euros per years), O’Neill, Nike,Mexx and Kyocera Mita. Our hit rates went up from 10 % to 40 % and that was a great team achievement. For Nikon we build their European warehouse in Beringen and the implementation was done within 6 months , The focus on this customer was based on the incoming traffic 20 tons airfreight weekly , logistics and outgoing part so the total supply chain. Total cost saving for Nikon was 20 % based on the old scenario so no outsource.




• After the first year my Region went bigger because France, Italy, Spain and Portugal were implemented in the system and a lot of things which were done in the Benelux ,could be copied for the other countries. Our sales target for the region was 150 MIO and this was achieved and the total setup was perfect. When the merge with Exel was announced in December I knew my region was too big to handle for the future and the setup of the new DHL organization was changing. I was team member of the European management and I reported to Rolf Habben Jansen. We were able to bring the following customers on board for several countries. Samsung which had now a facility in Italy and a facility in The Netherlands. HP was also new customers which large facility In Amersfoort . We are involved the whole supply chain so starting with RFI after that RFQ taking care of total solution pricing and engineering and finally the total implementation.



2003 – 2004 GeoLogistics
CEO/Managing Director

• Joined GeoLogistics nearly two years ago to manage the Benelux organisation and to get the company out of the red figures. The turnover is approximately 25 million with a staff of <200 Fte. Recently the company has been refinanced and there are strict downsizing policies. Number of staff has been reduced and business maintained. My first target was to reorganize the Belgium organization and we were successful within 6 months to get it to break even again. We also had to reduce staff and we did that carefully. Next step was to do that for the Netherlands as well but unfortunately there was no money anymore to do it. On the logistics we had one facility in Moerdijk and there was a mix of customers the largest was Western Digital. The focus on this customer was based on the incoming traffic, logistics and outgoing part so the total supply chain and the security was on the highest level.



1994 – 2003 Expeditors International BV



1994 District Manager

Expeditors International BV is one of the world’s leading companies in Air- & Ocean freight and Global Logistics.

• Started as District Manager in 1994 with 4 people and built this out to 150 employees in 1997.. We started at Schiphol airport with 4 people and we had to start in a very short time frame. We were successful to have an import and export department within 3 months and after 6 months we also offered ocean freight services out of Rotterdam. In 1996 we started our discussions with Schiphol Airport Authorities to build our own facility at Schiphol and plans were made to build a facility of 10.000 m2 warehouse and 750 m2 office space.





1997 – 2003 Managing Director Netherlands (Offices AMS, RTM, MRD)

• As Managing Director for the Netherlands offices, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Moerdijk (new distribution centre), responsible for a total of 220 employees. The present turnover is Euro 80 million with a net profit of Euro 3, 5 million. It was a big challenge to have our new facility ready in 1998 and when we moved in we knew already that this was too small so we start talking with Schiphol Airport authorities again to expend the facility which was operational in 2000.
• We increased the facility with another 6000 M2 warehouse and 850 m2 office space. We also opened our Distribution centre in Moerdijk in that year and after that we were able to offer all services including distribution. Our biggest customer was Trane which was using 80 % for the space in Moerdijk we handled their total supply chain.

1984 – 1994 Road Air TMI


1984 Runner (RTM-Airport)
1985 Import Clerk (RTM-Airport)
1986 Export Clerk (RTM- Airport)
1987 Import Manager (Schiphol)

• Responsible for the Import Department, working with 30 employees.

1988 Sales Executive (Schiphol) South area NL
1989 Sales Manager (Schiphol)

• Responsible for the sales team, which included 10 sales executives and 2 inside sales representatives

1990 Office Manager (Schiphol)

• Responsible for the Schiphol office, working with 60 employees where he managed all processes including customer services, sales and operations

1991 Set up office Seawings (Curaçao)

• Responsible for setting up an office in the Dutch Antilles (Curaçao); the process took 6/9 months and included the initiation of all forwarding activities for that area.

1992 Office Manager (Schiphol)
Route Development Manager (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)

• Responsible for activities such as consignee sales, export sales and the managing of the operation at Schiphol

1993 Commercial Director (Hoogewerf)
- Airfreight- part of TMI Holding based on customers with
special needs)
Route Development Manager
Office Manager

• Responsible for the dedicated handling of special accounts for a number of medical companies, ship’s spares etc.; as well as managing the company, profit and loss responsibility etc.
CAREER SUMMARY


1984 – 1994 Road Air TMI
1984 Runner (RTM-Airport)
1985 Import Clerk (RTM-Airport)
1986 Export Clerk (RTM- Airport)
1987 Import Manager (Schiphol)
1988 Sales Executive South area NL (Schiphol)
1989 Sales Manager (Schiphol)
1990 Office Manager (Schiphol)
1991 Seawings, (Curaçao)
1992 Office Manager (Schiphol)
Route Development Manager (India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh)
1993 Commercial Director Hoogewerf
Airfreight (TMI Holding)
Route Development Manager and Office Manager



1994 – 2001 Expeditors International BV
1994 District Manager
1997 – 2001 Managing Director Netherlands (Offices; AMS, RTM, MRD)

2002 – 2003 GeoLogistics
CEO/Managing Director


2003 - 2006- DHL Solutions
Vice President Sales & Marketing South West East Europe

2006 – 2010 DHL EXEL Supply Chain
Vice President Global Consumer & Retail Sector Development Europe Middle East & Africa


2010- 2012- VCK Logistics
General Manager

2012– Present Ronex Shipping and Forwarding
Commercial Director












Education and Courses



Education : 1974-1978 - MAVO, Schiedam
1978-1980 - HAVO, Schiedam

Courses : 1987 - Customs Clerk Course EVO (2 years)
- Dangerous Goods Management
1993 - NIMA-A PBNA
- IATA course Switzerland
- Professional Selling Skills (Expeditors)
- Team Sales Training (Expeditors)