Fontys University of Applied Sciences

EMEA Digital Sales Director at SUSE

Trusted with driving growth and fostering strategic partnerships across regions where SUSE does not have dedicated marketing and sales teams. 🚀 My responsibilities include:

✨ Market Expansion: Strategically identifying and expanding SUSE's footprint in new and emerging markets.
🤝 Partner Collaborations: Cultivating relationships with key partners and stakeholders to drive business growth and deliver exceptional value to our customers.
📊 Market Analysis: Leveraging data-driven insights to assess market trends, customer needs, and competition, enabling informed decision-making.
💡 Solution Advocacy: Promoting SUSE's cutting-edge solutions and services to help organizations harness the full potential of open source technologies.

SUSE

EMEA Commercial Sales Director

In this digital world where we need to simplify, modernize and accelerate our business my team of Digital Account Executives is pro-actively engaged with those that leverage Open Source solutions. Spread across EMEA we have a focus on customer experience as a satisfied customer is what makes the difference.

EMEA Digital Sales Director

SUSE®, a Micro Focus company, provides and supports enterprise-grade Linux and open source solutions with exceptional service, value and flexibility. With partners and communities, we innovate, adapt and deliver secure Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage software to create solutions for mixed enterprise IT environments.

Managing the teams that report into the EMEA North region. Countries are: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Regional Director EMEA North

Country Manager Benelux

Territory Manager Benelux

Novell

Solution Sales Specialist Data Center Solutions

The Business Unit Infrastructure of Fairbanks is expanding rapidly due to the growing marketplace of virtualization solutions. The team must expand their resources, create building blocks and form a convincing and winning team. All the commercial activities of the unit will be my responsibility like setting up business plans, marketing activities, seminars, sales etc. A great and exiting new challenge in my career.

Fairbanks NV

Commercial Unit Manager Infrastructure

Fairbanks gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge on solution based selling in strategic business projects on an enterpise level. By looking at business needs and creating a match between IT virtualisation solutions and IT management costs I am developing business value throughout the complete IT environment. Mostly work with several enterprise accounts in different branches such like education, government and healthcare.

Account Manager

Started my career at CCO as an Account Manager. The last two years I was responsible for the entire sales department.  
Next to managing the sales department and a few large accounts I have initiated different IT implementation projects (for example ERP implementations).

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