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Meet Our Team
Attitude Driven
- We want to share experience, helping organisations
- By being part of the team
Team of 200+ People
- Senior practitioners, experts in their field
- 20+ years of c-suite in-business experience
- Trusted Network
Impact Focus
- Strategy to implementation
- Ownership of outcomes
- Capability built
Wiljan van VugtTransformation Leader
Founder
Wiljan is a senior leader with over 20 years of experience delivering (digital) transformations. He has a strong delivery focus with a track record of successful implementations at global scale. Complex stakeholder landscapes at boardroom level. Recognized for creativity, innovation and bringing a laugh to the work place. Translating Strategy in large programs delivering long term value. Significant experience In Operations and Commercial in the Energy and Chemicals sector.
Andrea van DuijsePeople and Change Leader
Founder
Andrea is an HR Executive with a big heart, optimism and a human touch. She has 30+ years of experience in people development, leadership, organizational change, dialogue with employee representative bodies, coaching, culture, recruitment and acquisitions and divestments. Andrea’s passion is to align the organizational objectives and the human aspects so that everyone grows.
Nick van KeulenProcurement and Supply Chain Leader
Partner
Nick is a dynamic senior leader with 20+ years’ experience in procurement & supply chain roles across organisations ranging from start-ups to multinationals. His strong technical background enables him to unlock value by connecting technical and commercial worlds. Proven expertise in leading teams, negotiating complex multimillion-dollar contracts, driving digital transformation (including ERP implementations), crafting procurement/supply chain strategies and growing supply chains. Driven to leverage procurement for innovation, business value and sustainable practices.
Ingrid van den BrinkHR & Organisational Change Lead
Partner
Ingrid is a results-oriented organisational professional with a passion for guiding organisations through complex transformation processes. She combines expertise in HR organisational development, project management, and leadership to achieve concrete results and sustainable improvements.
With a pragmatic mindset, Ingrid quickly creates clarity, challenges the status quo, and develops enduring strategies that contribute to a company’s long-term vision. Her approach consistently prioritises the human element at its core, ensuring that organisational changes are not only effective but also considerate of the people involved.
With a pragmatic mindset, Ingrid quickly creates clarity, challenges the status quo, and develops enduring strategies that contribute to a company’s long-term vision. Her approach consistently prioritises the human element at its core, ensuring that organisational changes are not only effective but also considerate of the people involved.
Martijn SmeltFractional Commercial Leader
Partner
Martijn is a senior commercial leader with over 25 years of international experience in building and scaling businesses through marketing-led growth. He operates as a fractional commercial partner, supporting leadership teams in shaping and executing commercial strategy without adding permanent overhead.
His experience spans the full commercial spectrum, including product strategy, go-to-market, marketing, sales, commercial policy, partnerships, digitalisation and transformation. Martijn has worked across B2C and B2B environments, from scale-ups to complex international organisations, across Europe, the Americas, Asia and emerging markets.
Martijn is known for connecting strategy to execution, translating market insight and marketing direction into sustainable business results, and for his ambition to share his experience and knowledge with organisations and teams to help them grow and mature their commercial capabilities during periods of change, transition and scaling.
Andries NelemansContracting and Procurement Leader
Partner
Andries is a senior all-round commercial Supply Chain/ Procurement leader with a wealth of skills and experiences to share. He held Procurement Leadership positions, managing (global) spend portfolios of up to $2bln and achieving savings of up to $80mln p.a. Andries led, developed, motivated and supported international, diverse, (global, virtual) teams of up to 60 FTE, in challenging business environments. Led larger indirect communities of practice. Andries managed a multitude of spend categories, in B2C and B2B businesses, and engaged with a large variety of stakeholders and supply markets.
Sebastiaan van SilfhoutCommercial Leader
Sebastiaan is an accomplished professional with expertise in commercial and general management. He thrives in dynamic environments that require adaptability and strategic thinking. His ability to analyze complex situations allows him to identify key opportunities and issues, resulting in effective decision-making and execution of winning commercial strategies. Throughout his career, he has been driven by his passion for building high-performing organizations that not only deliver results but also thrive through strong collaboration and continuous learning. Sebastiaan takes pride in developing and coaching talented individuals, creating a positive and engaging work environment that fosters growth and success. Sebastiaan has a unique blend of analytical expertise, leadership skills, and passion for organizational development to make a meaningful impact.
Karin BosmanChange Manager
Karin is a seasoned professional in organisational change, HR program management, people development, stakeholder management and coaching. Improving the Return On Investment of change initiatives in organisations by putting people at the heart of the change is her key strength. Karin has ample experience in a variety of change approaches from programmatic to viral change. She has a keen eye on the impact on people and enabling people to make a difference, ensuring that change sticks and delivers the desired results. With her profound knowledge and understanding of organisational development, change management best practices and behavioural change, she delivers fit-for-purpose strategies and pragmatic interventions that make a difference.
Yves MarcianoTransaction & Commercial Leader
Yves is a seasoned deal maker and commercial manager across the Downstream & Renewables value chain, with experience spanning Projects & Technology, Global
Commercial, Manufacturing, Trading & Supply, M&A and Investment Projects.
He is a manager of complex projects and a negotiator of large M&A deals with a strong track
record of value delivery. Yves is a leader in international environments, working effectively
across diverse cultures and multidisciplinary virtual teams.
Commercial, Manufacturing, Trading & Supply, M&A and Investment Projects.
He is a manager of complex projects and a negotiator of large M&A deals with a strong track
record of value delivery. Yves is a leader in international environments, working effectively
across diverse cultures and multidisciplinary virtual teams.
Nina de VriesProject Manager
Nina has an entrepreneurial degree and background. She is our ultimate Project Manager and forward thinker. Her focus is on the objective and the solutions. She is accurate and structured in her work. Nina is a delight to work with because of her energy, enthusiasm and empathy.
Maarten VijftigschildFinance & M&A Leader
Maarten is a Senior Finance & M&A Leader and Interim CFO with 20+ years of experience in renewable energy, infrastructure and capital‑intensive industries. He combines big‑corporate financial discipline with the agility to lead finance and M&A in high‑growth, PE‑influenced environments, with a strong track record in strategic finance, capital allocation, M&A, funding and project finance. He has held CFO, Finance Director, Corporate Development, Head of M&A and Investment Director roles, and has delivered 25–30 transactions annually across offshore wind, hydrogen, storage, EV charging and energy infrastructure, with deal values from USD 25m to USD 5bn.
He brings extensive end‑to‑end M&A and investment experience, deep sector expertise in renewable energy and energy‑transition platforms, and strong private‑equity engagement. Maarten develops bankable investment cases, structures project finance and equity funding solutions, leads lender and co‑investor engagement, and forms complex JV and partnership arrangements. He is a recognised people leader and trusted partner to CEOs, CFOs, boards, investors and lenders.
Anita KotlaLeadership Development and Assessment
Anita is a business psychologist with extensive experience across multiple aspects of organisational behaviour, particularly in leadership development and assessment. She combines expertise with a commercial and pragmatic mindset. Certified in a wide range of psychometric tools, she offers deep insights that are presented in an accessible way and can be translated into workable development suggestions and coaching follow up. She believes in applying assessment methodologies in ways that add genuine value to organisations, teams and individuals. Having delivered work across the globe, she has a good appreciation of a variety of cultures.
Raoul BollenOrganisational Performance & Strategic HR Leader
Raoul is a strategic human resource leader, who ensures the people agenda creates business value. He has a track record of aligning workforce strategies with changing business models. Raoul has twenty five years international experience, living and working in four different continents. Raoul is passionate about learning and development and wildlife conservation.
Jennifer LoughridgeFinance Leader
Jennifer is a Senior Executive Finance professional with 20+ years of global energy
experience, and a specialist in Finance Transformation, ESG and Continuous Improvement.
Her functional strengths include Performance Management, Business Partnering,
Commercial Decision-Making, Corporate Governance and Valuation.
Jennifer delivers exceptional project and change leadership in face-to-face and virtual
working environments, regardless of location or time zone. She is also an experienced leader
of large and complex global virtual teams.
Babette den DaasHR & Change Lead
Babette is a dedicated and results-driven HR professional, with experience in the areas of employee relations, change management, process improvement, coaching & reward. She has a strong track record in delivering pragmatic and business focused solutions that enable businesses to achieve their business objectives. Babette has strong interpersonal skills, ability to build productive working relationships with clients and colleagues at all organisational levels and cultures.
Laura TolenOrganisational Change Lead
Laura creates clarity and momentum in complex environments — whether seizing opportunities or responding to urgent challenges. With a broad background spanning Sales, Operations, People, Projects and Programme Management, she delivers results that are both ambitious and sustainable. She quickly grasps the full organisational landscape connecting strategic priorities with day-to-day realities and brings people along by fostering ownership, trust, and collaboration.
Laura has led large-scale transformation and change across diverse sectors, from healthcare and logistics to utilities and politically sensitive environments. A natural connector and problem solver, she has a track-record in stakeholder engagement and effective people management. Her sharp insight into organisational and commercial dynamics, combined with a calm, structured approach, makes her a valued partner in organisations facing change.
Laura has led large-scale transformation and change across diverse sectors, from healthcare and logistics to utilities and politically sensitive environments. A natural connector and problem solver, she has a track-record in stakeholder engagement and effective people management. Her sharp insight into organisational and commercial dynamics, combined with a calm, structured approach, makes her a valued partner in organisations facing change.
Martijn TeubenDigital Transformation Lead
Martijn has over 19 years of experience in IT, information security, digitalization, strategy, and change management on a foundation of Supply Chain Management, Business Administration and Lean Six Sigma. Thanks to his quick adoption of processes and procedures, he effectively builds bridges between business objectives and digital solutions. Martijn has a passion for continuous improvement and is strong in project management. He has recently delivered an CRM & ERP transformation with related process and people change journeys for an OrangeCoat client.
Serge De BockSenior IT Programme Manager
Serge is a highly accomplished IT professional with over 35 years of experience at Shell, excelling in programme and project management, IT service management, and IT audit management. Known for his strong leadership, resilience, and rapid decision-making in complex IT projects, Serge has consistently delivered results by driving his teams to achieve excellence. He has a proven track record of leading IT audits across various business lines and managing enterprise ERP and MI analytics delivery programmes.
Andrea MantineoChange Manager
Andrea is a recognized global organizational change partner working with leaders and program teams to concretely bring high level strategies to life – identifying the impact a strategy has on all levels within an organization and to external partners. She works seamlessly across functions to engage stakeholders and create an open environment to consider/design options for driving acceptance. She believes the transition and ownership of sustaining the transition is vitally important to the business success and ensures internal change leads have the skills and confidence to continue the way forward.
Julia WeteringsOrganisational Change Lead
Julia’s drive is to illuminate hidden dynamics and transform them into tangible growth. Leveraging a Master in Change from INSEAD Business School and an interdisciplinary background spanning psychology, philosophy, education, law, and finance, Julia excels at bridging leadership gaps and facilitating strategic transformations. Through conflict mediation, scenario planning, and empathic yet results-oriented coaching, Julia helps foster better decision-making, stronger team effectiveness, and heightened organisational resilience.
Chaya MistryHuman Leadership and Communication
Chaya is a human leadership and communication expert with over 20 years’ experience of strategic change communications, ranging from multi-national scale transformation to team culture alignment. She specializes in leadership communications and strategic planning that is focused on human mindset, heart-set and behavior change.
Jogchum PelCommercial Leader
Jogchum is an experienced B2B commercial professional with expertise in Sales leadership, Pricing, Order-to-Cash Process Development, Customer Service, and Finance. He has had significant international experience, and is able to navigate diverse markets and cultures effectively. With a proven track record of maximizing business opportunities and delivering results, he is a trusted leader and team player with strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Boryana BoshnakovaCommercial Transformation and Capability Building
Boryana brings together passion for people development, human-centred change, business growth and operational excellence. She has a diverse background, life and professional experiences, curiosity and creativity in combination with positive energy and optimism. You can enjoy a conversation about vertical development and digital transformation while co-designing a team effectiveness workshop. Coaching certificates are in good company with continuing education ones and CI/Lean Yellow belt.
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