Working on sustainability since 2001 Michiel visually enjoys connecting people in projects and making challenging ambitions happen.
Complex projects need people with different backgrounds and different areas of expertise to work together. Not only in a team of people, but also in a team of companies (like in production chains) cooperation sometimes needs to be explorative and sometimes result-orientated. From time to time the team needs to be able to dream, solve analytical problems, be critical, be creative, build on each others ideas or just be functional and productive. As a consultant and process manager Michiel challenges and guides project members and stakeholders to step up the plate and play their part in the project.
The powerful combination of physics and business administration prove to be valuable assets in steering and facilitating innovative processes. With his technical background and analytical mind Michiel is quick to understand complex systems and relations. His business background and entrepreneurial mindset push him to come up with creative yet pragmatic solutions.
Michiel has an MBA, a Master of Science degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor's degree in Physics. He started his career as a researcher in the R&D center of Océ-Technologies and printed the sharpest lines ever seen within Océ's R&D center. He graduated from his MBA / Msc BA in Vermont, USA, writing the business plan for a Zero-waste Eco-industrial Park of the Intervale Foundation.
The last nine years Michiel worked at the Dutch government and at Ecofys on energy conservation in product chains, energy visions, feasibility studies for renewable energy solutions, sectoral sustainability roadmaps and integral sustainable urban development. His broad background and working experience shaped him into a versatile project manager. In september 2009 Michiel became a college of millions of other independent entrepreneurs and almost immediately joined Except.
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