Cover Stories
INTERVIEW WITH VINCENT PRIEM, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF A-POINT
Growing up, and like many kids his age, Vincent Priem developed a life-long love of cars after multiple visits to the AutoRAI in Amsterdam. Employed in the automotive industry for 25 years and countin...
INTERVIEW WITH ERIK MORESCO, FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER OF VICTORY GROUP
Erik Moresco combines a diverse background with experience in investment banking and real estate. With roots from the United States as well as the Netherlands Erik has always had a connection here. He...
INTERVIEW WITH TON GOEDMAKERS, CEO OF VEBEGO
As CEO of Vebego, Ton Goedmakers heads a family business that started out in 1943 as a window cleaning company, founded by his grandfather. Since then, Vebego has grown into a facility services market...
INTERVIEW WITH HELEN VAN EMPEL, FOUNDER YET
If an employee feels unhappy, is not delivering on the job and not communicating well, it adversely impacts everyone around them. More and more companies are visibly shouldering responsibility for the...
INTERVIEW WITH LESLEY BAMBERGER, CEO KROONENBERG GROEP
Lesley Bamberger is CEO of Kroonenberg Groep one of the country’s biggest private real estate entrepreneurs. He gave us a warm welcome at Gelderlandplein, the high-end shopping centre Kroonenberg Groe...
INTERVIEW WITH YVETTE WATSON, CEO of The 2B Collective and co-founder of PHI Factory
Yvette Watson is co-founder and CEO of The 2B Collective and co-founder of PHI Factory and works with organisations to accelerate their transition to the circular economy. She is passionately dedicate...
INTERVIEW WITH JORIS BIJDENIJK, SVH DUTCH MASTERCHEF AT RIJKS®* & WILS* RESTAURANTS
Masterchef Joris Bijdendijk has fast made a name for himself in the gastronomic world. As executive chef of RIJKS®* and Wils* restaurants – both boasting a Michelin star – and of Wils Bakery Café – aw...
INTERVIEW WITH WENDE WALLERT, DIRECTOR OF VU ART SCIENCE GALLERY
With the VU ART SCIENCE gallery, Rialto VU cinema and VU Griffioen theatre, there’s always something on in Zuidas.
INTERVIEW WITH SINAN ÇANKAYA, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
“Put your energy also into the people you’ve got, not the outsiders but the ones who are part of the system,” argues Sinan Çankaya. A cultural anthropologist by training, he sidestepped early on to do...
INTERVIEW WITH MELVIN TWELLAAR, PROFESSIONAL COMPETITIVE ROWER AND EUROPEAN CHAMPION
He scored his first silver medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with crew mate Stef Broenink, and in 2022 was named Dutch athlete of the year. We’re talking, of course, about none other than world-clas...
“RELOCATING TO TRIPOLIS-PARK FITS THE WORKPLACE DYNAMICS OF DE BRAUW AT THIS MOMENT”
Relocations are always a complex puzzle requiring loads of time and effort. But when you’re moving a whole office with a staff of about seven hundred, that’s in a league of its own. As chief of Busine...
INTERVIEW WITH PACO BUNNIK, SUPERVISOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AT ZUIDAS
Renovating, greening, planning, reviewing, approving... Keeping a myriad of projects running smoothly is all in a day’s work for Paco Bunnik, senior urban designer for the City of Amsterdam. He and a...
Interview with Casper Veenman, transportation and automotive sector specialist at Roland Berger
Flying cars, personal transport drones, autonomous vehicles: thanks to rapidly advancing technologies, things that once felt futuristic are no longer looking quite so far-fetched. And maybe we shouldn...
Interview with Jurenne Hooi, Chair of the Black Achievement Month Foundation
If there’s anyone who epitomizes a ‘hands-on, can-do’ mentality, it has to be Jurenne Hooi. She grew up in Curaçao, moved to the Netherlands at age 19, worked hard to carve out a career, starting with...
Interview with Sandra Heymans, director at CBRE Property Management
With the opening of Tower Ten in late summer, the World Trade Center Amsterdam will boast another high-end addition. Responsible for coordinating and optimizing services for the building’s tenants and...
Interview with Annelies van Eenennaam, executive board chair at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is a premier school for the arts, training talent from around the globe for artistic careers. Recently, the academy completed a major addition to its premises on Fred Roes...
Interview with Don Murphy, Architect and founder of VMX Architects
Ever since he first set foot in Amsterdam, Architect Don Murphy has had a fascination with Dutch architecture. The founder of VMX Architects has not only designed his own – quite controversial – house...
Interview with Olivier Otten, Managing Director of Hello Zuidas
This year marks exactly ten years since Hello Zuidas was established as an area organization. Plenty of reason to celebrate! Originally founded by WTC Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, ABN Amro, RAI and the Ci...
Interview with Karen van den Boom, CEO of SIXT Benelux
With its eye-catching orange logo more visible than ever, thanks to a successful carsharing scheme, and in spite of the coronavirus crisis, SIXT enjoys continuous growth. SIXT Benelux CEO Karen van de...