Heaten, established in 2020 in Norway develops high-performance, high-temperature heat pumps—the HeatBooster, aiming to make your industrial process heat efficient, flexible, scalable and environmentally friendly. In 2023 I joined as CEO to drive the growth agenda and do the fundraising for the next phase of the company. In 2024 the company was acquired by […]
NIZO Food research is a leading company in contract research for better food and health. NIZO is a unique and private independent company with focus on Research & Development for the global food industry. The company was taken over by private equity in 2016 and needed more market focus, better project management and the […]
CEG developed a proprietary technology for the torrefaction of woody biomass to make biocoal, a sustainable replacement for fossil coal. This technology needed to be demonstrated and a new full size plant needed to be built.
Solution
The plant in Derby was developed to the first full size commercial production plant, and we developed the business […]
After the carve out of BioMCN, DGR Dutch Glycerin Refinery needed a new go-to-market strategy for its product. DGR was established during the Restructuring and sale of BioMCN to OCI, and needed to develop its own proposition and market. It was actively buying crude glycerin and selling some […]
Before my involvement, the German shareholder decided to reallocate production to other international sites and close the site in the Netherlands. Subsequently, the decision was taken and communicated without involvement of unions or works council. In addition, at the time of communication the plant had customer obligations for two more years, so the management […]
Merging the organizations of Fokker Services and Fokker Aircraft Services in order to save cost while serving customers.
Fokker Aircraft Services business was declining due to the phasing out of the Fokker aircraft, operations got out of control, and revenues and costs got out of line and new high risk and loss-making projects had been […]
Operational restructuring of a builder of luxury yachts
Jongert Shipyard, a luxury yachts shipbuilder and family business was taken over by an Private Equity company in the boom of the luxury yacht market. The company had moved to a brand new site with high fixed costs, however order intake was slow, and a major project […]
Stork had longtime been the supplier of bogies to Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) for the IRM trains. Follow on contracts VIRM 2,3 and VIRM 4 were secured through the system supplier Bambardier, but completely changing the contractual relationships, and production facilities were already dismantled. The contract was to be delivered, while contract management was […]
