Michiel van Gaalen

Michiel van Gaalen is a highly experienced freelance Salesforce Consultant with 13 certifications, specializing in Salesforce Sales, Service, and Marketing Cloud implementations. He excels in leveraging his wide-ranging knowledge of the Salesforce platform, business strategy acumen, and stakeholder management skills to drive successful project outcomes. Michiel thrives on tackling complexity and simplifying solutions, taking on roles such as solution architect, product owner, consultant, developer (low-code), and implementation project lead.

In addition to his professional endeavors, Michiel actively leads the Salesforce Marketing Cloud User Group in the Netherlands and co-organizes YeurDreamin', a prominent Salesforce community event in the Benelux region.

With a diverse professional background spanning industries like Travel, E-commerce, B2B, Media, Legal Aid, Finance, Publishing, Telecommunications, and more, Michiel has contributed his expertise to notable organizations like KLM, Marlies Dekkers, KPN, Vodafone, and Sanoma, among others.

Michiel's educational journey includes studying VWO at Norbertus College and obtaining a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Business Economics with a specialization in Marketing from Universiteit Maastricht.

He has held various impactful roles throughout his career, such as Salesforce Application Architect at Air France-KLM, Salesforce Marketing & Service Cloud Consultant at marlies - dekkers, and positions at companies like Bugaboo, Oxyma, DAS, and more.