erik veldman

director and owner

About

Experienced business owner/manager in the recruitment, executive search and staffing area. Specialised in recruiting highly educated, experienced and skilled employees on various levels and for various positions ranging from operational to strategic and management level. Certified TMA Professional. Furthermore experienced commercial director with contacts, relations, clients spanning multiple European countries/regions. Specialised in high tech complex deals in different verticals, including finance, insurance, government, services, etc. Result oriented, business driven and focused on continuous business/growth in the accounts. Entrepreneurial attitude. Multilingual capabilities and experienced in selling at the highest levels (CEO, CIO, etc.). Co-founder/Initiator of the first Dutch networking-golf initiative called "Passion for Golf", a growing group of people who enjoy a bi-monthly casual game of golf in a relaxing environment. (www.passionforgolf.nl)

Country

netherlands

City

veenendaal

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

recruiting, account management, business development, management, strategy, talent management, sales, sales management, executive search, new business development, management consulting, coaching, human resources, sales operations, consulting, leadership, negotiation, entrepreneurship, networking, outsourcing, selling, crm, solution selling, start ups, sales process, social media, company management, temporary placement, b2b, talent assessment, customer relationship management, business strategy, recruitment

Experience

sales manager europe

worldweb.net

1999-7 - 2001-1 · 1 yr 7 mos

Position involved the establishment of a European organization and building a customer base. Offices opened in Netherlands and Germany and managing the sales teams. Main technology centered the WorldWeb Content Management System, ExpressRoom. Experienced sales into the Publishing (paper, online, etc.) industry. Onboarding many clients in Benelux, France, Germany in the publishing area, broadcasting industry, newsproviders, and fortune 500 companies in need of content management systems.

territory sales manager benelux and nordic

netmanage

2005-10 - 2008-2 · 2 yrs 5 mos

NetManage is the leading vendor for terminal emulation (Rumba) and legacy integration (OnWeb / Librados). Territory Management responsibilities for Benelux and Scandinavian market with focus on direct sales tothe Fortune 2000 companies in the region and increasing channelsales.

senior account manager

attachmate

2004-1 - 2005-10 · 1 yr 10 mos

Responsible for direct and channel sales of the entire Attachmate product range to customers in the Benelux area, mainly Fortune 500 companies.

sales manager

okc group

2002-2 - 2003-12 · 1 yr 11 mos

Main responsilbility of selling SOA and GRID products and consultancy services throughout Europe, incl. banks, services companies, government, insurance, etc. Team leader for sales team (internal and external).

director and owner

eyecademy

2008-10 - Present · 18 yrs

Executive Search, Recruiting, Staffing

consultant and partner

ahc-detachering

2012-1 - 2015-10 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Adviseur werving en personele dienstverlening betreffende de positionering van verkoopspecialisten voor project ontwikkelaars in onroerend goed (nieuwbouw projecten).

sales manager

x-hive corporation

2001-2 - 2002-1 · 1 yr

* Main responsibility to build up a world-wide customer base centered around the X-Hive XML Database (X-Hive/DB) and development software. Succesful in getting early adaptors on board, including * amongst others * a leading Formula 1 racing team.

sales manager open systems group

attachmate

1992-1 - 1999-6 · 7 yrs 6 mos

Various positions: Systems Engineer (Benelux), Account Manager (Benelux), Business Development Manager (Netherlands), Territory Sales Manager Open Systems Group (covering Benelux, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy (OSG)).