Work experience

25+ years across marketing, product, and digital.

Marketing / concept / product · 10+ yrs Data & digital · 15+ yrs Management & leadership · 15+ yrs Sales · 9+ yrs Trainer / coach / academy · 2+ yrs Group fitness · 5+ yrs

Broad IT knowledge across stacks including Microsoft Azure / Power Platform, Power BI, AFAS, SAPSF, Angular, Contentstack, ServiceNow and SharePoint — plus compliance experience with ISO 27001 and NEN7510.

KLM Health Services May 2022 — Present

Digital Manager

Reinventing the role of digital and IT within KLM Health Services and modernising the application, data and hardware landscape.

  • Redesign of department, roles and responsibilities for 15+ FTE
  • Implementing innovation, planning and delivery frameworks — Scrum / Agile, Design Thinking, MDM, compliancy by design, security and more
  • Phasing out legacy software and implementing future architecture
  • Optimising cost efficiency on soft- and hardware
  • Ensuring KHS is up to standard for ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certifications
KLM Corporate HR (digital innovation) Nov 2020 — Apr 2022

Senior Product Owner — Employee communication, engagement & HR data

Product ownership of employee communication applications, engagement tools and HR Data & Analytics — reporting, predicting models, KPI's and product analytics.

Senior Product Owner — my.KLM.com & Hiring team (Feb 2020 – Oct 2021)

my.KLM.com is the personalised dashboard for KLM colleagues to arrange and do their work. Watch a demo ↗

Careers.KLM.com ↗ is the KLM jobsite for employees and potential new talent — the hiring team is responsible for the jobsite, SAPSF recruitment and onboarding tooling, and migrating the jobsite to SAPSF RMK.

Actify — initiative by Zilveren Kruis Achmea Nov 2014 — Jan 2020

Co-founder / Product Marketing Manager

Actify is a health-tech start-up within Zilveren Kruis, the biggest Dutch health insurer, striving to be a top-3 digital behaviour change platform for vitality. As Product Marketing Manager, focus lay on all marketing activity needed to optimise and extend the customer life cycle, supervising product development from concepting to launch.

  • Concept design and validation in co-creation with the target group — Lean Startup, Google Design Sprint, journey mapping
  • Concept validation research
  • Initiating and maintaining "content vitality" partnerships
  • Loyalty systems & content strategy
  • Project and stakeholder management
Achmea Health Centers May 2012 — Oct 2014

Marketing Manager (Brand & Product Strategy)

Fitness company owned by Achmea N.V. — 31 owned and 6 franchise locations, 1,500+ employees, 30,000+ paying customers. Offered fitness, spa/wellness, personal training, running, online coaching, group fitness, yoga, multidisciplinary weight-loss programs and a reward program. Sold in 2014.

  • Product strategy
  • Marketing campaigns and brand strategy
  • Health insurance collaboration projects
Vereniging Achmea Apr 2018 — Jan 2020

Brand delegate, Zilveren Kruis Achmea

Vereniging Achmea is the association of all Achmea customers and its largest shareholder, safeguarding the company's continuity and representing the collective interests of its client-members.

Other roles
  • Jan 2009 – May 2012 — Marketing Manager & Communications, Achmea Health Centers
  • Jan 2008 – Dec 2008 — National Sales Trainer, Achmea Health Centers
  • Aug 2006 – Dec 2007 — Health Club Manager, Achmea Health Centers
  • Aug 2006 – Dec 2007 — RPM Spinning Instructor, Achmea Health Centers
  • 2012 – 2013 — Skydive Instructor, Skydive Blauwe Stad
  • 2004 – Jul 2006 — Les Mills RPM Instructor, Fitness First
  • 1998 – Jul 2006 — Sales Consultant to Store Manager, Electronic Partner: Kuiter
Education, certification & training

An unconventional path.

After high school and starting a trading study, I began working at age 17. Alongside my career, I've followed several studies and courses — and keep doing so.

Career path
Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) NIMA Marketing A1 VODW Academy — Design Thinking AOV — Ondernemersdiploma bedrijfsbeheer Conflict management STIVO
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