I have dedicated my career to one question: how do you transform organisations and make them actually thrive?
I studied it at Harvard Business School, where I got my MBA. I advised on it for a decade at McKinsey & Company in the US and Europe, spent several years at Bain Capital in London in their portfolio team, and then moved into Management Board and Group CEO roles transforming multi-billion-euro international businesses: TNT Express, LeasePlan, DKV Mobility, and since June 2025 Infinigate Group.
Given my fascination with business transformations, I co-authored the book Unleash Your Transformation (Forbes Books, 2022), and in 2025 gave a TEDx talk on the power of purpose in business.
My purpose: Transform to Thrive.
Ownership: Bridgepoint Private Equity.
I lead Infinigate: a leading cybersecurity value-added distribution platform across EMEA and ANZ, ~€3bn in revenues, 30 countries, 150+ vendors and 20,000+ channel partners. My focus is on building one integrated platform out of the group and positioning the business for the shift AI is bringing to the channel.
Ownership: Family owned, with CVC Private Equity investing in 2019. Successful CVC exit in October 2024.
Group CEO of DKV Mobility, the leading European B2B platform for on-the-road payments and solutions: ~€20bn in transaction value, 400,000+ customers, 50 countries. I was asked to take the role when CVC invested. Over six years transaction value grew 2.3x and EBITDA 2.9x. We shifted the business towards a digital platform, completed multiple acquisitions, and built the leading EV charging network service in Europe.
Ownership: Private equity consortium led by TDR; buyout from the VW Group in 2016. I joined at the moment of buy-out.
COO of LeasePlan, then the largest independent car leasing company in the world. In the Management Board I was P&L responsible for the European business, almost 90% of the group, with €8.5bn in revenues and 6,000 employees across 25 countries. We shifted from a highly decentralised country model to a matrix with a performance culture, built around 50 defined performance cells, each with a named owner, a target and a monthly rhythm. That delivered double-digit CAGR in both top and bottom line.
Ownership: Publicly listed; acquired by FedEx in 2016.
My first Management Board role, at a global parcel delivery company that needed a turnaround and a transformation at the same time. I moved across to TNT in autumn 2013 as transformation leader and was appointed to the Management Board at the beginning of 2014. In the Management Board I was P&L responsible for a global division of €2.6bn, with businesses in the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Chile. We turned a long-term EBIT and KPI decline around within nine months, and I supported the sale of the business to FedEx.
I joined Bain Capital’s portfolio team in London, working hands-on with management teams and Boards across the portfolio to improve and transform their businesses, and learning the private equity toolkit and way of thinking. At the beginning of 2013 I moved to Bain & Company as a partner. TNT Express became my first client, and my full-time focus on its transformation led to my joining their Management Board.
Ten years at McKinsey. I started in Chicago, moved to San Francisco in 2000, then to Amsterdam, where I was elected partner in 2004. My clients ranged from Silicon Valley start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and I specialised in transformation, growth and performance improvement. It is where my fascination with large-scale transformation further ignited, and where a high volume of engagements across many industries built my breadth and depth of experience fast.
First-year honours.
President of the Economic Faculty Student Association (EFR, over 3,000 members) and treasurer of Skadi, the Rotterdam student rowing club.
I gave a TEDx talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on the power of purpose in business, and the five levels at which purpose operates in an organisation.
Author of Unleash Your Transformation, which sets out the Transformational Flywheel. All proceeds go to the Sophie Foundation.
The Reflective Leader (2018), Competing in the Age of AI (2026), and Generative AI Strategy and Execution (2026). All on campus.
Our mission is to help prevent premature birth and to support prematurely born babies.
I served on the Advisory Board of one of Europe’s leading business schools for fifteen years.