I am a Managing Partner at REMAGINATE and VGRIP, both focus on software technology and FinTech transformation. In REMAGINATE we carve out, then redevelop and scale these businesses to create value for all stakeholders. You can hire us as consultants as well via VGRIP. I have over 25 years of international experience on the edge of business and technology, spanning across various industries and c-level roles, from start-ups to blue chip companies.

My life mission is to create and optimize value for organizations and their (regional)stakeholders, by helping them make a turnaround in their business model and mindset. I am specialized in finding, creating and delivering measurable value, using my skills in new business development, customer relationship management, strategic leadership, and software development. I also enjoy teaching and learning as a visiting professor in FinTech and blockchain at Porto Business School.

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I provide coaching, business advisory/consulting and interim management services. Focus areas are Innovation, Marketing & Sales, Transformation/Program/Project management, Merger & Acquisitions. I have experience in both SME's as well as Large (multi-national) corporates.

Change Management • Executive Coaching • Business Consulting • Management Consulting • Project Management

Money & Blockchain

I am passionate about Money for already 25+ years. It’s all about understanding how money works for me. It all started when I saw clients entering the store of my parents to buy something to be able to pay by card at one of the first pos terminals in NL, I think it was about 1985. Since then I have mostly worked in Finance/IT type of environments and have always been fascinated by the concept of Money and especially how people take it for granted. Blockchain and associated concepts like tokenisation and decentralised finance have my interest at the moment and I am working on Liqwith to develop better ways of funding initiatives and businesses. The same goes for my efforts to support CryptoCommunity, which is about helping people invest in DeFi and staking. On a part-time basis I teach Blockchain/Fintech/Money at Porto Business School. I also do courses for people/teams/groups interested in this space. 

Society 4.0

Since a number of years I have been more and more intrigued by entrepreneurship and the beauty or ugliness it can bring to local society’s and the people living there. In my work ethical aspects have become more and more important, triggered by the moment I became father, as I want to leave a world behind me that is better than when I arrived :-). Over the years I have seen and witnessed the world turn more and more global driven by technological changes and possibilities. This is good in many ways, but it also has a downside I started to notice. For example in some regions we see just an ageing population and less and less young people and economic/social activities. Also I noticed people are so busy nowadays that they leave (very) important life decisions up to government, especially in the Western world. Also some companies have become so big that their terms and conditions are often conflicting with laws of countries. Anyway, I am more of a doer than a thinker so I decided to contact like minded people and one of them is Professor Bob de Wit with whom I have co-founded cooperative movement Society 4.0 which aims to develop more autonomy in regions in NL, Europe and beyond. Together we have written the book “Regio 4.0” available via this link. If interested to learn more or book me as a speaker on the subject of Society/Regio 4.0 and regional society’s please email [email protected] and/or check out www.society4th.org.