You often find him on the water, but even when he is on land, he is always busy with pleasure yachts for others. Okke Hooites is a yacht broker at Orange Yachting and has been proudly trading in the latest Pardo yachts for a year and a half. From struggling at school to being an entrepreneur 24/7. The entrepreneurial blood runs where it doesn't [...]
She was there when the bones of T. rex Trix were excavated in Montana and organized a crowdfunding campaign to bring the dinosaur from North America to the Netherlands. And with success, because the 66 million year old skeleton is currently on display in the Naturalis museum in Leiden. Bouchra Filali, Manager Corporate Partnerships at Naturalis, research institute […]
As a little boy he was already among those top dealers and collectors. Art dealer in Old Masters and son of former chief restorer of the Rijksmuseum, Sander Bijl, did not get his love for art from a stranger. Despite his father's status, Sander has had to forge his own path. And that wasn't possible without the necessary [...]
She started her first company at the age of 17, was a first-class computer nerd and was the driving force behind several leading beauty brands for many years. In 2015, Frauke Hamer launched the originally British brand, Delilah Cosmetics, in the Benelux. We have no doubt that entrepreneurship is in this woman's blood. But who stole her […]
Marc Bienemann is an atypical car salesman. His first part-time job was in a pigsty, he actually wanted to become a bicycle repairman and eventually became director of Jaguar Land Rover Benelux. Who helped this man into the saddle?Text: Susan Poeder Portrait photo: Rahi Rezvani Stand photo: Goed Folk What was your very first job? “The first work I did was […]
Arturo Dalhuisen is chef at The White Room restaurant in NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, which opened barely three years ago. In no time he received his first Michelin star. Who was Arturo's wheelbarrow? In Grand Café Krasnapolsky, the down-to-earth chef from the East talks about his Amsterdam adventure. For him this is actually […]
Franchisee Joost van der Neut has entrepreneurship in his blood. This experienced catering man had a tough time during the first few years when he took charge of the third branch of Anne&Max, but giving up is simply not in his vocabulary. Text: Susan Poeder Image: Joost van der Neut What was your very first job? […]
She is the driving force behind the 300 events that GASSAN organizes annually. Willian van den Horn has been working at the jewelry house for almost 20 years and now knows the world of diamonds and watches like the back of her hand. We speak to this marketing director about what it is like to work for this iconic family business. Text: Susan Poeder […]
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