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Core team
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Is motivated by creative people, crazy ideas, impossible situations turned into opportunities, great music, basketball and ancient mechanics. My focus lies on the thin line where business process and people meet. This Startup weekend is a great way to experience interaction over innovative ideas and pursuing shared goals, motivated solely on the chance of building a new business. People make and break ideas, a great opportunity is useless without a skilled and motivated entrepreneurial mind. At JongeHonden we nourish/encourage the innovative power of open-minded young-professionals, we motivate our clients to think, by doing their work and simply ask questions.
Chris Glerum
Founder at Jongehonden
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Startup-fanatic,loves to connect innovative ideas, concepts and passionate entrepreneurs. Part of the Memolane team at Copenhagen Startup Weekend 2010. Fan of Startup Weekends,traveling and doing business all over the world! Chief Business Development at Wakoopa.
Don Ritzen
Founder at Rockstart
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Emile has been locked away in a enterprise cellar for far too long. Now ready to take on the world with his new founded company that helps startups build their minimal viable product. His magic skills are Ruby on Rails, C#, PHP and a tiny bit of python. He's also scrum certified and has 10 years of development experience working for clients such as Sony Ericsson, IKEA, Intratuin and Europol. It's rumored that he owns a pet unicorn named Wally.
Emile Bosch
Founder at Stick/Quit/Pivot
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Innovator by nature, loves disruptive change. Motto: nothing is impossible. 12 years corporate intrapreneur at Sara Lee in various business innovation roles. Was responsible for everything from front end innovation to green field start up. Frank is one of the partners in Zero Gravity Movement, a company that drives progress in industries that are at the eve of a big changes.
Frank Wind
Zero Gravity Movement
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I recently joined StartUp Weekend Amsterdam and became part of a winning team. I joined StartUp Weekend London and - taking good advice - discovered that even if you don't win, you can still have a lot of fun becoming 6th out of 63 with some crazy Fripsters on board ;-) Hence, this time I'm organizing... seriously! I love startups. I love organizing. Connecting people in business is what I do best, using some of my networking skills during coffee, lunch or even after dinner drinks ;-) Further more I - once in a while - have brilliant ideas which I happily share with people, always eager to receive some good and constructive feedback. Somehow sometimes those ideas become businesses. At the age of 18, I started my first company and learned that being an entrepreneur is more than creating a business. It's a process of research, creating a product or a service, selling it, improving it, managing people and finances along the way. It's how you act upon failure. It's dealing with success. Yes indeed, Good Things Happen When You Go For it!!!! :-)
Hannah Vera van Drunen
Owner of GetChap
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Marieke Rietbergen is founder of Creative Cloggy, a company that works on the cross roads of design, business and innovation. Creative Cloggy's portfolio includes world famous companies and brands such as OMA, Droog, MVRDV, t&f, Zilver Innovation and XML. Creative Cloggy works on business issues of these creative companies. These issues include business development, business modelling for new services, gaining a financial overview, checking proposals and contracts, introducing in new networks. Creative Cloggy basically takes care that business is done. Startup weekend gives the chance to organise a fantastic pressure cooker in which business people and gaming people learn from each other through collaboration. That and to organise a fantastic event in Utrecht are the main reasons for Marieke to organize and join Startup Weekend Utrecht.
Marieke Rietbergen
Founder of Creative Cloggy
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Business development online concepts, passionate about the notion of connecting people and their ideas with the aim of creating new business. Twelve years of progressive project management experience currently working on some disruptive new business concepts.
Martijn Klein
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Arriving in the Netherlands at the age of 14, Necla Günay quickly learned Dutch and graduated in International Business. In addition to Dutch, English and her native Turkish, she speaks Spanish and Chinese after having spent some time studying and working in Spain and China. Necla is thrilled by the energy and dynamism of start-ups and young emerging markets. After her graduation she has worked as a project manager at the Research Group International Business and Innovation (IBI) at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. Currently Necla is working at the Utrecht Valorisation Center, a portal created to serve the staff of academic and vocational institutions, business enterprises and students. A creative mind and an entrepreneurial spirit. Currently her main interest revolve around emerging markets, economic diplomacy and international affairs.
Necla Günay
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I am an entrepreneur originally from Mexico and currently living in Utrecht. My primary focus is on designing sustainable development models, concepts and strategies that generate high sustainable impacts at the local level. I love startups and the energy of new entrepreneurs. At the moment I am working with an amazing team on my second startup called, "SustentableS”, a global social network for sustainable projects, through which we promote and support sustainable entrepreneurship. Our actions include work on open innovation and open source design technologies and community projects that will encourage sustainable growth of communities worldwide. We are designing amazing tools such as apps, concepts, strategies and technologies so that entrepreneurs can save our planet through sustainable innovation. I have participated as an entrepreneur in the SW Amsterdam, and as it was such an incredible experience, I have decided to get involved with the organization and support all these imaginative and genius startups.
Oscar Velazquez
Founder of www.sustentables.com.mx
Contributors
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A bachelor in Business and a Master‘s of Science of International Development Studies. I have working experience in Peru in the fields of corporate social responsibility, NGO project development, academic research and university teaching. I also worked with entrepreneurs when I was a volunteer in a Peruvian NGO and with fishermen entrepreneurs in India. Now I am looking for a job in The Netherlands, and participating in cool projects like this. I love traveling, trekking or just hanging around nature, learning about new cultures, meeting international people and eating Peruvian food. I am passionate and idealistic, totally convinced to dedicate my professional and personal future to actions that promote sustainability.
Susy Caballero
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