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Interim manager (general management)

Work Experience

2001 – present Aureus Business Consultancy, Bilthoven (The Netherlands)
Senior Business Consultant & Interim Manager
Responsible for marketing the services of 10 management consultants and 25 IT-consultants to clients, mainly large corporations in the banking and insurance sector, the energy sector and the civil engineering sector
Interim management and start up management in projects entrusted to Aureus by client companies
Creating business development plans for client companies

1991 – 2000 Mut. Alarmcentrale EuroCross België vzw, Meise (B)
Managing Director & CEO
From 1991 - 2000 I have been Managing Director & CEO of the most important (medical) travel assistance company in Belgium, which offers assistance in case of medical problems during foreign travel of the membership (a total of 8.3 million members on a 10 million population) of the Belgian social security health insurance organizations, which are the founders and principal stockholders of the EuroCross Belgium organization
Since 1st January, 2000 I have also been charged with the general management of a newly founded company called EuroCross International Belgium, a spin-off of the health fund organization, which offers similar travel assistance services to the subscribers of some important Belgian commercial insurance companies (mainly in the field of vehicle accident and breakdown assistance)
I have been involved in the start of the company in 1990 and have been managing it through a process of growth from 13 employees (1991) to the current strength of over 75 employees (2000)
Annual turnover of the two companies jointly approx. BF 850 million.

1987 - 1991 EuroCross International Noordwijk (NL)
Head of Assistance
Responsible for the operational medical travel assistance to the approx. 15 million insured subscribers in the Netherlands and abroad, for whom the travel assistance during their travel abroad has been entrusted by client insurance companies to the EuroCross International organization.
Managing a staff of 4 Operations Managers and approx. 50 assistance coordinators, most of whom are college or university graduates
Initiating and implementing the design, programming and creation of high end IT applications, tailor made for and within the organization during the period 1988-1989.
Deputy for the Managing Director & CEO during his absence, and member of the EuroCross International Management Team.

1985 - 1987 ANWB Royal Dutch Touring Club Maastricht (NL)
Director, Regional distribution office
Managing director of the regional distribution office of the ANWB Royal Dutch Touring Club, for the region of Maastricht (Netherlands)
Supervising a staff of approx. 12 travel and insurance sales personnel
Responsible for developing and executing marketing plans in the fields of insurance, travel, membership facilities and club articles within the region

1982 - 1985 ANWB Royal Dutch Touring Club The Hague (NL)
Department manager, international assistance in the alarm centern Department manager, responsible for the execution of the international travel assistance to the 2.5 million ANWB membership and the approx. 4 million other subscribers in the Netherlands who are entitled to call upon ANWB Alarm Center when in need of travel assistance while traveling abroad.
Supervising a staff of approx. 30 assistance coordinators, most of whom are college or university graduates
Deputy for the Head of Assistance during his absence

1981 - 1982 Shell Tankers Rotterdam (NL)
Chief Deck & Navigation Officer (Ocean-going)
Serving as Chief Deck & Navigation Officer in a seagoing capacity on two consecutive oil tankers of the Shell Tankers fleet of the Netherlands.
Supervising all deck officers and deck staff

1977 - 1981 Shell International Marine London (UK)Assistant Marine Superintendent & Consultant
Temporary loan assignment by Shell Tankers to Shell International Marine
Marine superintendent function, amongst others in charge of monitoring Port Facilities Information, aimed at safely and efficiently scheduling Shell owned or chartered ocean going tankers to the ports in question.
Also charged with technical research into discrepancies in measured cargo oil quantities between loading ports and discharge ports, and designing and implementing measures and procedures to minimize these cargo discrepancies

1968 - 1977 Shell Tankers Rotterdam (NL)
Deck & Navigation Officer on ocean going oil tankers, climbing in rank from Deck Apprentice to Second Deck & Navigation Officer
Ocean going function as deck & navigation officer on approx. 15 different ships owned or chartered by Shell Tankers of the Netherlands.

Education

1966 – 1968 Nautical College Amsterdam (NL)
Diploma BS (Apprentice Deck & Navigation Officer, Ocean-going)

1969 Nautical College Rotterdam (NL)
Diploma Third Officer Ocean-going
Radar Observer diploma

1974 Nautical College Rotterdam (NL)
Diploma Second Officer Ocean-going

1977 Nautical College Rotterdam (NL)Diploma “Master Mariner”
Radar Navigator diploma

Skills

OTHER SKILLS
Intensive knowledge of and experience with various software products such as: Microsoft Windows (95, 98 en NT), Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, FrontPage and others
Experienced in leading projects of development of tailor made software applications, aimed at improving the administrative and logistic processes of operations.
Well versed in the use of the internet and experienced in web page design and in intranet solutions, with an elementary knowledge of HTML coding
Excellent presentation skills, using multimedia presentations, aimed at introducing and selling concepts of services.

Languages

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Dutch native tongue
English fluency in speaking and writing
German fluency in speaking and writing
French fluency in speaking and writing
Spanish strong verbal command

Other

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
As the son of a regular expatriate Shell employee, I spent an important part of my youth growing up in places such as Curacao (8 years), Indonesia (2 years) and Qatar (Persian Gulf) (1 year). During my ocean going career of approx. 10 years with Shell Tankers, I navigated all the oceans and visited all continents. During my loan assignment to Shell International Marine, I lived and worked in London (UK) during 4 years. From this London base I made frequent and long term travels to ports worldwide for inspection visits of harbor facilities and for other “port audit” activities.
As a manager of different international travel assistance companies, frequent international travel, both scheduled business travel as well as ad hoc emergency assistance missions, have always been part and parcel of my workload. Since 1991 I have been posted to Belgium and I have taken official residence there since 1994

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Since 1995, as a volunteer and on a non-paid basis, I have been Chairman of the Board of YFU Benelux International Exchange, located in Vinkeveen (NL), with subsidiary offices in Leuven (B) and Liège (B). The organization is driven principally by over 250 volunteers within the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg), supported by a small professional staff. YFU is the abbreviation of Youth For Understanding. The organization’s activity consists of organizing, distributing, executing and monitoring international exchange programs for high school students who go abroad or come here from abroad for an entire school year or a semester. In the country of their destination they are hosted by a host family and are placed in a host school and follow tuition in the language of the country of their destination. YFU Benelux International Exchange is the Benelux organization within a growing network of similar non-profit volunteer driven YFU organizations in over 40 countries worldwide. All these organizations are autonomous, but the exchange programs take place in accordance with internationally agreed quality and programmatic standards. These Basic Standards and other policies and procedures are set by an internationally governing and policy making body, the YFU International Advisory Council, an internationally elected body of 14 YFU officials. In addition to my position as Chairman of the Board of the YFU Benelux organization, I have also been an elected member of this International Advisory Council since 1998, and currently I am the vice chair of this body.YFU was founded in the USA in 1951 and its mission statement is “to prepare young people for their future opportunities and responsibilities in a changing, interdependent and multicultural world”

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