Werkervaring:

Senior Vice President Operations (member of the Management team) May 2008 - present
• Responsible for the company’s day-to-day operating activities.
• Built up relationships with strategic partners for the delivery products in 20+ countries.
• Key role in improving operational processes, efficiencies and margins through effective departmental management of G&O (Strategic Sourcing), Production, Licensing, Legal and Customer Care.
• Set up and manage the Risk Management and Compliancy department.

Independent consultancy firm in the area of Finance, Business Development, Purchasing and Organization advise.

Consultant February 2007 – March 2008
• Performed a feasibility study for the roll out of a VoIP and DSL service.
• Responsible for the vendor selection for the DSL and VoIP service in several European countries.
• Assisted in a due diligence project for the selection of a new strategic vendor.

Director Carrier Relation (member of the Management team) October 2000 – January 2007
• Responsible for the sourcing of the fixed and mobile telephony services. Total budget in excess of Euro 100M. Realized purchase savings in excess of Euro 5M per year on average.
• Built up excellent relationship with existing and potential providers in 15 countries.
• Had a leading role in the decision support, decision making and realization of the expansion into new geographical markets. In the last 6 years the fixed telephony service was successfully launched in 10 countries and the mobile telephony service in 5 countries.
• Responsible for the selection process of and contract negotiation with 10+ (Mobile) Network Operators.

Director Strategic Partnerships September 2005 – January 2007
• Negotiated and managed outsourcing contracts.
• Managed commercial relationship with strategic partners.

Director Product Management January 2001 – January 2002
• Responsible for gross margin performance
• Responsible for the positioning and pricing policy of the fixed and mobile telephony services
• Responsible for all end-user communication

Manager Stream management April 1998 – September 2000
Responsible for the purchasing and routing of all international telephony traffic.
• Purchased international telephony termination for the international department. Budget in excess of Euro 700M. Realised savings in excess of Euro 30M per year.
• Defined the routing of international traffic based on cost and quality criteria.
• Negotiated contracts and assisted the implementation for alternative ways of terminating telephony traffic.
• Negotiated contracts and managed the relationship with strategic partners.
• Responsible for the pricing policy of the international voice product portfolio international wholesale division.

Manager Control (member of the management team of regional entity) April 1996 – March 1998
• Provided leadership and direction to the Control department.
• Streamlined performance measurement
• Advised the management team about the monthly, quarterly and yearly financial performance.
• Provided input for strategic business decisions and supported the analytical review of planned business initiatives.
• Coordinated budgeting and forecasting process. Evolved planning from an ad hoc, top-down exercise to a coordinated and efficient process across diverse business units/departments.

Controller (Headoffice) April 1992 – March 1996
• Designed a framework for managing regional offices on non-financial performance indicators.
• Advised the board on the financial and non-financial performance of the regional offices.
• Set up a method and system to allocate indirect costs to Business Units in order to determine the bottom line profitability of each Business Unit.

August 1988 – March 1992
IT-consultant

Opleidingen:

University degree in Econometrics (Operational Research)

Certified Management Accountant

Controllers opleiding

Talen:

Nederlands

Engels