Rudy Banholzer

Scaling our customer experience and digital product design agency by helping brands, governments and top tier consulting firms innovate and design meaningful human-centric experiences and products either by taking on projects or deploying qualified resources.

Supporting the regional growth of C4 Nexus who's mission is to simplify e-commerce technology by blending leading global platforms with local insights, delivering scalable, high-quality, and tailored cost-effective solutions.

Developing an AI sports ecosystem starting with an AI powered Sports Buddy: a platform, containing everything a fan needs around sports. A simple gamification concept rewards fans and enriches the collected data that is made available to sport brands.

Angel Investment Fund where all the partners are sourcing, evaluating, investing and advising early stage tech start-ups as per interest and availability. Flagship investment is in Amigos, a social media application for spontaneous company launched in The Netherlands that recently closed Series A.

Following Merkle’s acquisition of Your Social, I re-branded building the Merkle brand externally and culture internally, grew the team to 80+, expanded the offering to Merkle's customer experience management proposition, further built the partner eco-system (Google, Salesforce ...), accelerated revenue growth and improved profit margins while integrating into dentsu (holding company).

Worked on the company set up, definition of service proposition and go to market strategy. Opened and led our Regional Head Office: growing revenue, increasing margins, building the brand, recruiting and training a team of 30+, setting up the partner eco-system. Continuously looking for and evaluating fund raising and strategic opportunities until we sold the agency.

Part of the Regus International Opening Team launching new serviced offices locations and boosting low performing ones by overseeing operations, generating demand, increasing revenue, recruiting and training local teams. Overachieved targets on all projects and continuously ranked in the Top 20 of 250 sales managers in EMEA.

Simultaneously managed up to four projects and eight consultants with P&L responsibility, defined the projects and targets, continuously hired and trained consultants in group sessions and one-on-one. Added a new magazine to the portfolio and built the brand.

Developed the strategy and led on project management for the production of economic country reports. Conducted in-market research, interviewed high profile government officials and business leaders, planned the content and negotiated advertising opportunities.

Database development and maintenance.

Market research, conference organization.