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Group Executive - Netherlands & Benelux - Denmark & Nordic - UK & other

Netherlands and Benelux countries

Arnold van der Beek Arnold van der Beek is a business professional with over 25 years of experience in international Marketing and Sales.
His international experience started with a number of years in Asia and led to European management with global responsibilities where he experienced the diversity of business practices and the impact of cultural influences on local2local and local2international businesses.
From heavy industry, he moved to fast moving consumer goods in the B2B and B2C environment. The interactions with the clients were based on projects and complex processes, involving multiple disciplines on both sides.
He enjoys providing leadership to teams, both in house and abroad, and believes in the pro-active management and the value of shaping business relationship.
Current activities include personal improvement, performance and achievement.
Bert Kruijff Bert Kruijff is a Dutch National, experienced Commercial Director, General Manager and Change Manger with international sales experience in FMCG and B-to-B.
From his early career in various marketing positions in Pharmaceuticals and FMCG in the Netherlands and Thailand he was Country Manager for Southern Europe in the medical and personal care markets for 13 years. Since 1995 he has engaged in various challenging interim management assignments and managed an independent Sales and Marketing Consultancy.
His special skills include structuring organisations for profit; transferring knowledge; motivating, stimulating and making business professional.
Being multilingual ((Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Portugese Thai) he now works in German, Anglo-Saxon, Latin and Swiss business environments.
By nature he is an organiser of international commercial projects. Dynamic, inventive, and determined. He lives near the border between Germany and the Netherlands.
Karl Kraaijenzang Karl Kraaijenzang has a strong international sales and marketing background in the metal industry with General Management experience as Managing Director of a Swedish subsidiary in the Marine market in Benelux.
Whilst sales & Marketing Manger Germany for Corus he had full profit responsibility for the German, Austrian, and Swiss market as well as a number of key accounts in the USA. Before that as Sales & Marketing Manager for a Oxy Metal Industries he established subsidiaries in Belgium and France and had responsibilities across Europe and part time in America. As a qualified Engineer his early career was with Smit-Lloyd responsible for mechanical installations for ships and oilrig supply boats.
Karl is now a commercial trainer and consultant and lives in Arnhem, Holland.
Bert van den Berg

Bert van den Berg is a highly successful Salesman and Sales Manager/Director, and an accomplished sales coach and trainer.
With an engineering background his career started in the technical department of Gould Instrument Systems. His excellent customer relationships were noticed and he moved into sales, where he consistently exceeded his targets selling a vast range of medical equipment and devices. Bert held various managerial Sales and Marketing positions in the Netherlands and Belgium for companies like Gould-Statham, Spectramed, Viggo-Spectramed.
As Director of Sales for Ohmeda he was responsible for the company's Anaesthesia, Infant Care and Medical Devices products and within Western Europe he consistently achieved ambitious sales targets with the highest profit contribution. One of his contributions to Ohmeda's sales growth was the successful implementation of an innovative Key Account Management methodology (like an early version of PLANtoWIN) as the key platform to bundle the company's collective customer expertise.

Klaas de Boer Klaas de Boer is an experienced business Manager in ICT and high tech business with a marketing and sales background.
He was General Manager for the industrial automation division of CSS Rocomp BV in Eindhoven a demanding role that built upon his previous experience in project and sales management working for Canon, Rank Xerox, MAI Computers and Océ.
Klaas is a demanding but forgiving people manager / team player, is highly structured, can communicate complex issues with simplicity, and has high levels of energy and personal integrity.
He is a Dutch national who has kept his business education and training up to date. He gained an MBA in 1998 and a Masters in Marketing in 2004.
Marc Doomernik Marc Doomernik is a graduate from Nijenrode Business School's Young Management Programme in Breukelen, Netherlands. He has expertise in Sales & Marketing and an Account and Sales Management background at KPN, the largest Dutch telecom company. After starting his own business in 2001 he has held various interim management positions in telecom and ICT. In addition, Marc is a licensed Commercial Attitude and Communications trainer, in which capacity he has successfully completed assignments in health care, printing, finance and public services. He is a regular guest teacher at Nijenrode Business School and well-known training institutes like ISBW and IMK in the Netherlands. His key areas of expertise are change management, motivational leadership and coaching. Marc's strong people-oriented approach makes him succeed in organisations where skills and expertise are plentiful but the human factor is a barrier to growth.
Nico Nizet
Nico Nizet is an experienced general manager with a very strong financial background and with considerable experience in a variety of industries in Europe and Latin America. He held Financial Manager positions in Insurance, Automotive, Technical Service and Construction companies in Latin America and then Managing Director positions in Shipping, food and consulting firms in Latin America and the Netherlands. Now as a consultant and trainer, Nico is able to draw on his broad and deep business experience managing and handling of business and organisational problems.
A native Dutch speaker, Nico also speaks fluent English and German and lives with his family in Belgium.

 

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