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Programming Director

Work Experience

Experience
(July '00 – February ‘02t) AOL Benelux, Utrecht
Programming Director
AOL Benelux is an AOL Time Warner company, the world’s largest media company, also one of the leading companies in Europe. In the Netherlands the main brand is family Internet Service Provider CompuServe. As part of the senior Management Team and reporting directly into the Managing Director, I am responsible for heading a department of 22 professionals, responsible for initiating, designing, developing & maintaining all online areas, both for members and non-members (www.compuserve.nl).

Among these areas are Channels for affinity groups like Kids, Mobiel, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Nieuws etc. One of my key tasks is leveraging and integrating all Time Warner assets into these Channels, like Warner Bros Movies, Warner Music, Cartoon Network and CNN. Also, my department is responsible for all product development like email clients, search engines, personal homepage builders, Online Zoo, Love@CompuServe, Kids Channel etc. The team consists of multimedia developers, analyst programmers, graphic designers, editors and content acquisition managers.

The objective of this group is to maximize the time spent online by members and to maximize pageviews generated by members and non-members. In order to achieve this I reorganized the group into a clustered approach, outlining new requirements of resources, defining job profiles and hiring staff.

During my time as head of this team online time increased from 6 hours per month per member to 10 hours per month per member. Pageviews accumulated from 60.000 on average per day to 350.000 on average per day.

Among my daily tasks are, creating a strategic overview, developing business cases & plans, overseeing & leading all operational activities, coaching the team and networking with both internal and external product- and content sources.

AOL Europe has decided to stop all new developments and investments per 1 January 2002, basically sun setting the CompuServe brand in the Netherlands. As a result the Dutch organization had to be drastically reduced.

(January '00 – July ‘00) World Online International (Tiscali), Rotterdam
Content Director
I was responsible for procuring content within the Channels of both the pan-European portal and all local portals of World Online in more than 16 countries. I instructed and liaised with all local content procurement managers, editorial staff, web designers, product managers and marketing managers of all international branches of this pan-European ISP.

As a member of the International Management team I shared responsibility in shaping and developing a long-term strategy for the company. To date, these efforts have resulted in making World Online (Tiscali) a pan-European ISP. I was involved in setting up partnerships with key industry players, including: Reuters, YACK!, GlobalNet Financial, Shell, MSNBC, Ziff Davis, CNET, Endemol, MaMaMedia, Universal, Vitaminic and many others.

Further, I headed a department of 8 International Content Procurement Coordinators, a Content Data Manager and a Content Channel Manager. Grouped together with the editorial staff, we formed the Programming Division of World Online International.

(January '99 – January ‘00) World Online International, Vianen
Content Procurement Manager
I was charged with setting up the International Content Procurement Department to service pan-European content to all local sites of World Online. Realizing this goal included setting content procurement priorities and working out business models for partnerships with content providers. Further I secured procuring and implementing content and involving all related departments such as advertising, marketing, etc. Finally, evaluating and managing client relationships ensured a solid cooperation.

(April ’96 – January ’99) Mercury Records, Hilversum
A&R Manager
The Mercury Records label is a subdivision of Universal Music Group, one of the largest ‘entertainment companies’ in the world. Formerly known as PolyGram Records, the label produces and markets CD’s all over the world in all musical genres. I was Artist & Repertoire Manager for over two years.

As a member of the management team I was responsible for maintaining a healthy and successful artist roster through scouting, contracting and coaching new talent. Coming up with new concepts and finding new repertoire I was coordinating with product managers, sales managers and account managers. Some of Mercury’s artists were De Dijk, Jantje Smit, Henk Westbroek, BZN, André Rieu, Normaal etc.

(April ’94 – April ‘96) PolyGram Netherlands, Hilversum
International Exploitation Manager
Dutch artists need to be promoted and marketed outside of Holland. I basically set up this department - unique in the industry at that time. It proved to be very successful; in a short period international income (all-in fees) tripled.
While there I developed my marketing experience, my language skills and my contacts with European media. Among others, I have been instrumental in managing promotional strategies for Marco Borsato in Belgium, André Rieu in Germany and USA and Laura Fygi in Japan.

(June ’87 – April ‘94) Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum
Booking Manager/Mastering Engineer/Studio Assistant
I started out working as technical assistant and developed into mastering engineer. ‘Mastering’ is the final creative/technical process of an audio master tape before it leaves the recording studio and is shipped to the CD press plant.

During the last three years at Wisseloord I was responsible for booking and managing all (7) studios, acquiring new bookings by contacting artists, producers, and record companies and scheduling studios and engineers. I was instructing a team of 6 to coordinate all services to clients and handle all invoicing.

Education

Education

1997
Entertainment Management
Nijenrode University, Breukelen
1995 Course “Intensive German”
1994 Course “Professional English”
1993 Course “Novell Network Management”
1992 Business Administration HEAO level (ISW certificate)
1991 Philips/PolyGram internal courses:
- “Personal Efficiency”
- “Business Administration & Bookkeeping”
- “Logistics for Managers”
- “Base Course Empowerment”
1990 Course “Middle Management” (ISW)
1985-1987 Mechanical Engineering (Werktuigbouwkunde)
HTS, Rijswijk
1983-1985 Mechanical Engineering (Werktuigbouwkunde) Technical University, Delft
1981-1983 VWO, Beta: Dutch, English, German, Mathematics I and II, Chemistry and Physics
1977-1981 HAVO, Beta: Dutch, English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Economics

Skills

Skills/competences
- I can be described as self driven and commercial, seeing opportunities in advance and being able to leverage an experienced ‘gut-feeling’ into professional and successful objectives.
- Outstanding managerial skills, group-oriented as well as individual-oriented, by being able to motivate, support and monitor (international) colleagues that participate in project teams. I am sensible to ways of communication needed, towards different people at different levels in the organisation, locally and internationally.
- Organising skills, by being able to handle multiple and complex projects at the same time, know how to prioritise and keep constant overview. Foresee difficulties in planning upfront.
- Flexibility, by being to able to handle different workloads, stay in control of projects in hectic, changing times.
- Perseverance, by being able to keep seeing challenges in difficult stages of projects and by going on until the job is done as planned. Show energy and thoroughness in bringing each new project to a successful launch.

Languages

Dutch - mother tongue
English - fluently

Other

Interests
- My girlfriend Chantal and I have a son, Silvester, born in March 2001.
- Hobbies are: my home, hi-tech gadgets, music, movies, running, squash, science, sailing and photography.

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