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Marcel Timmer
Partner
Marcel Timmer graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master's degree in Business Economics, with a major in marketing.
Marcel joined United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1993, where he held several marketing and sales positions in the Benelux region, Germany and the United Kingdom, leaving the company as Marketing Supervisor for the Benelux region. He joined KPN in 1996 and successfully launched a new commercial pan-European parcel service for PTT Post Parcel Service and PTT Post International. He was named Manager International Parcels for PTT Post International, where he was responsible for the marketing and new business development department, and managed PTT Post's complete international parcel products portfolio. Following the acquisition of TNT, he was involved in an early stage of the integration of the parcel, express and logistics business units of PTT Post and TNT Benelux. He co-authored the integrated marketing plan and led the team that trained major accounts and field sales staff on the integrated product portfolio. Just prior to the de-merger of TPG from KPN in 1998, Marcel joined TPG's Corporate Strategy Department as a project manager, where he worked on strategy development and played a key role in several large acquisitions and joint ventures in Europe and Asia. He was project leader and one co-authors of TNT's Logistics Strategy and TPG's new corporate strategy. Marcel identified venture capital as an investment and strategic opportunity for TPG, and initiated and supported the establishment of Logispring. He joined LogiSpring as a senior investment analyst in February 2001.
Marcel is fluent in Dutch and English. He is an all-round sportsman, mostly enjoying tennis, running, playing soccer and skiing. Marcel is a Dutch citizen and lives in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
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Brad Corrodi
Partner
Brad has been involved with Logispring since its inception in 2001, serving initially as a member of the fund’s Advisory Board. As of March 2007, Brad is joining as a Partner specialising on evaluating the strategy and technology capabilities of new investment opportunities, and leading Logispring’s domain knowledge competence center.
Prior to joining Logispring, Brad was a Managing Partner at Rosetta Marketing, an integrated interactive agency and marketing strategy firm based in Princeton, NJ, where he led the company’s work in the Travel & Leisure industries. Brad’s experience as a strategy consultant includes twelve years at Booz Allen Hamilton, based in New York and London, serving clients on a wide range of product strategy, restructuring, organization and technology issues.
Brad received his MBA with concentrations in marketing and finance from the Wharton School, where he received the Dean’s Award of Excellence. Prior to attending business school, Brad was Director of Management Information Systems at Trans World Airlines. Brad received his bachelors’ degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. He currently resides in Princeton, NJ, with his wife and two daughters.
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Frans van Schaik
Managing Partner
A graduate from the University of Amsterdam Law School, with a diploma in International Relations from the University of Vienna, he served the University of Amsterdam five years in various academic and support roles. In 1986, after a year with OCE as a project manager and member of the M&A team, he started his own Corporate Finance Advisory Firm (Intermatch, later amalgamated with Corporate Development International), followed by interalia, a high-tech/large ticket lease brokerage (Reloc & Duter), a Middle East Technical Contracting Company (IME) and a Software Support business (Florijn). The latter failed in 1991, and triggered the sale of the other – successful – businesses. From 1991, Frans concentrated on corporate finance and advising a venture capital investment he made in Singapore.
In 1993, he joined Gilde Investment Funds as a partner. During his 4 years at Gilde, he was involved in numerous new investments and portfolio companies, both in venture capital and buy-outs. He also assumed the position of temporary Managing Director for an existing portfolio company, Haag Food Services, in high care food processing, and successfully guided it through a turn-round. Having joined the other partners and shareholders in selling all Gilde Funds, the management company and the carried interest vehicles to Rabobank, he left Gilde in 1997.
Operating from his own investment and management development company, Nielaster, he then restructured, as their CEO, all the European pet food companies of Rafino Holdings (seven sites in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy). In 1998, he restructured in the role of Group Managing Director, the Industrial Division of the BCE Group (operating companies in Germany, Austria and Italy). In 1999 he initiated, in a joint venture with Goldman Sachs International, the “buy-and-build” of a Global Supply Chain Company in the Consumer Products Industry. In November 2000, TPG and Booz Allen Hamilton contacted Frans to discuss their ideas for establishing Logispring.
Frans speaks fluent English and Dutch, and very reasonable French and German. He is an enthusiastic offshore regatta sailor, plays the cello and holds a Commercial Pilot’s Licence with Multi Engine and Instrument Ratings. Frans is a Dutch citizen and lives in New York, NY.
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Robert Mullins
Partner
Robert holds a MSc. with distinction in Operational Research from the London School of Economics where he focused on System Dynamics. He used this methodology to advise the Venezuelan government of the effects of oil price volatility on its economy. He also graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he obtained a B.A. in Engineering Sciences and a minor in Mathematics.
In 2000, Robert joined Schroder Salomon Smith Barney's investment banking division in London, UK. He was part of the Telecom team where he participated in the execution of M&A, debt and equity financing transactions in the pan-European telecommunication space. In 2002, Robert transferred to Madrid, Spain to join the Iberian Investment Banking team, where he executed the highly publicised sale of Auna's RTV-Audiovisual and explored consolidation opportunities in the Spanish energy sector.
Robert returned to Geneva in 2004 and founded Enersid Association with the objective of promoting renewable energy micro-solutions for isolated rural communities in developing countries.
In addition to his interest in development policy and international affairs Robert enjoys mountaineering and adventure travel. Robert speaks fluent English, Spanish and French, good Portuguese and reasonable German.
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Hau L. Lee
Hau L. Lee is Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business since 1983; Director, Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum; and Director of Managing Your Supply Chain for Global Competitiveness. Dr. Lee is one of the world's leading experts on supply chain integration and coordination, and has published widely on the subject. BS, Univ. of Hong Kong, 1974; MSc, London School of Economics, 1975; MIS, Institute of Statisticians, 1976; MS, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1979, PhD, 1983; Lecturer, Univ. of Hong Kong, 1975-77; Lecturer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982-83; Asst. Prof.-Prof., Stanford Univ., 1983-; Project Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1989-90.
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Peter Mensing
Vice President MFT Consumer & Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Economics and immediately joined Booz Allen Hamilton. In 1993 was elected partner and Vice President, and became responsible for the Dutch Office and for the European Consumer products Practice Group.
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Peter van Laarhoven
Graduated, in 1982, with honours (Cum Laude) in applied mathematics at the Delft University of Technology, and holds a Ph.D. in combinatorial optimisation from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. After six years as a researcher at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, he joined the Centre for Quantitative Methods of Philips as Senior Consultant Operations Research. In 1991, he joined McKinsey & Company, where he concentrated on international strategic issues in distribution logistics.
In 1996, Peter was appointed full professor in International and Distribution Logistics at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he was to stay until mid 2000. During that period, he also was Logistics Counsellor to KLM Cargo, and a member of the Advisory Council for Transport, Infrastructure and Water Management, the advisory board of the Dutch Ministry of Transportation. In September 2000, Peter was appointed Director Corporate Strategy and Business Development for TNT NV. Peter has published over thirty articles and papers in numerous international scientific journals and is the author of two books.
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Jim Watson
Jim Watson joined CMEA Ventures as General Partner in 2001, and is on the Board of Directors of: Apriso, the world's premier provider of plant manufacturing and warehouse automation solutions for the industrial sector; iSuppli Inc., a supply chain procurement firm; Key Research, creating a new category of servers through the convergence of processor, networking and storage technology; and Stratum8, a web security system. Jim also serves on the Board of Advisors to Symbius, a leading supply chain consulting company. Prior to joining CMEA, Jim was consultant to several professional services firms and venture capital partnerships in the areas of strategic planning and partnering, board development and supply chain management. Mr. Watson was also one of the Founders of Monterey Bay Partners, a venture management firm specializing in high technology start-ups. Prior to that, Jim founded Skyway Systems, a high technology logistics company. Jim's tenure with Skyway included company President and leader behind the supply chain strategy that twice landed Skyway on the Inc. Magazine list of fastest growing U.S. companies in the 1980's. In 1993, Inc. Magazine named Jim as one of the Entrepreneurs of the Year. That same year, Skyway, with over 1,300 employees, hit revenues above $100 million. Skyway was subsequently acquired by Union Pacific Corporation in 1994. Prior to Skyway, Mr. Watson was with IBM's large computer systems division where he worked with several large companies, such as United Airlines, in designing and marketing computer systems for all phases of business. Jim graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and served five years as a Navy pilot from 1969 to 1974.
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Geoff Eisenberg
Mr. Eisenberg founded the Eisenberg Company in 1996 and has advised numerous companies in the areas of organizational development, strategic planning, CEO coaching, and the installation of professional management systems. Mr. Eisenberg serves on the Board of Directors of LiveOps Inc., Mitrix Inc., MailExpress Inc., and West Marine Inc. (wmar). He also served West Marine in numerous senior executive positions from 1976 until 1994. Mr. Eisenberg served as CEO of Salz Leathers Inc., a leather manufacturing company, from 2000-2007 and as CEO of Greenhorn Creek Associates, a real estate and golf development company, from 1997-2000.
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Keith Oliver
Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton. His main area of expertise is management of the supply chain in manufacturing and distribution businesses, and he is regularly credited for having coined the phrase "supply chain management." In more than 30 years of experience with Booz Allen, he has undertaken assignments at the boardroom level cross the total value chain, with a particular emphasis on strategy and management control. These have covered overall industry supply chains, from material procurement and purchasing through all aspects of the manufacturing processes, to distribution and the marketplace interfaces of demand capture and customer service. More recently he has focused on the applicability of many of these underlying supply chain concepts to service businesses.
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Hennie Wesseling
Dr. Hennie Wesseling, Chief Information Officer, TNT Mail Division, studied physics at the free University in Amsterdam. He joined TPG Post in 1980 as a project manager, responsible for the automation of the post offices in Holland. He introduced the first automatic teller machines and helped develop the PIN-code verification system in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he joined the logistics and distribution side of TPG Post, where he was responsible for completely reengineering the group’s IT systems. At the same time, he oversaw the introduction of a new client server network covering more than 500 distributed sites. In April 1996, he was appointed Director Technology & Informatics, responsible for TPG Post’s IT-policy. Since January 2001, he has also been responsible for the all ICT-operations within the Mail-division.
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David Anderson
David Anderson is Managing Director of Supply Chain Ventures, LLC, a venture capital and consulting company specializing in software and biotech investing and is a retired managing partner from Accenture. Since retiring from Accenture in 2002, Dr. Anderson has focused on angel and early stage investing in innovative marketing and supply chain businesses. He is on the Board of Directors of LeanLogistics and Control Group. He is also on the advisory boards of Logispring and TrueDemand. Dave is a member of the board of Trustees of the University of New England. At Accenture, he was instrumental in building the company’s $2 Billion supply chain management practice in North America, Asia and Europe. Over the past thirty years, he has helped numerous global corporations transform their supply chains into world-class organizations. He was also global lead for all Accenture alliances with supply chain software companies, including i2, Manugistics, Ariba and CommerceOne. Dr. Anderson is a frequent public speaker and has published numerous articles on supply chain strategy and management in leading journals and websites, including the Supply Chain Management Review and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence Through Technology. Before joining Accenture, he was vice president in charge of logistics consulting at Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc. (now Mercer Management Consulting) and a vice president of Data Resources, Inc., where he founded the Firm’s transportation and logistics consulting practice. Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport in the United Kingdom and a Member of the Council of Logistics Management in the United States. Dr. Anderson received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Econometrics from Boston College and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
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Joost van Heijningen Nanninga
Executive Vice President, Egon Zehnder, brings in a huge international corporate contact network, through several high profile board seats (Exact, United Services Group) and advisory boards (CVC Europe). He joined the Egon Zehnder in 1979, after having previously worked for Pierson, Heldring & Pierson Bankers and Elsevier. He was also Deputy Director, Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier in Amsterdam. Joost holds an MA in Economics from Rotterdam University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Hadi Barkat (with Logispring until June, 2007)
Hadi holds an Executive Master in Management of Technology (MoT) from the Swiss Federal Institute of technology at Lausanne (EPFL), HEC Lausanne and UT Texas. He also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from EPFL, where he concentrated on software engineering and information systems’ architecture.
His professional experience has ranged from working in technology companies, starting up projects and consulting. He was Chief Software Architect within the startup company Shockfish where he contributed during three years to the development of a wireless communication product for the events industry and its successful commercialisation.
In 2002, Hadi participated to the launch of Cod-It, a startup company in the field of computer security after winning the Venture 2002 Business Plan contest organized by McKinsey and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich.
Prior to joining Logispring, Hadi consulted for the startup company IP01. He designed and implemented software architecture for a hosted retail cold chain monitoring service.
Hadi speaks fluent English, French, Arabic, and basic Italian. He enjoys reading, mountaineering, mountain biking, tennis, and travelling. Hadi lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Jean-Yves Quentel (with Logispring until August 2006)
Jean-Yves is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), one of France's Grandes Ecoles of business. Jean-Yves started his career in 1992 as the Moscow-based financial and administrative manager of Locarus, a small French company that had purchased the Avis Rent-a-Car franchise for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, offering both short-term car rentals and long-term fleet leasing. Jean-Yves returned to France in early 1994 to work as an advisor to the CEO of Locarus. In August 1994, Jean-Yves joined the Paris office of Atlas Venture, a trans-Atlantic, high-tech venture capital firm, as an Investment Analyst. From 1994 to 1997, Jean-Yves worked on European software and media transactions such as Ilog (Nasdaq: ILOG), AlloCine, now owned by Vivendi, and SpotFire, a successful US-based software company. In 1997, Jean-Yves transferred to the Boston office of Atlas, where he was part of the team that concluded such investments as Castle Networks (later sold to Siemens) and Omnia Communications (sold to Ciena). Promoted to Investment Manager, Jean-Yves returned to Paris in 1998.
In 1999, Jean-Yves left Atlas Venture to join the expanding Europatweb as a Senior Vice President and one of the Internet holding company's first European employees. While at Europatweb, Jean-Yves, in addition to being actively involved in establishing several new offices, led and monitored a number of investments, mostly in the consumer-to-consumer auction space. One of his deals, EachNet, was sold to eBay in 2002. In 2001, Jean-Yves left Europatweb to join the Paris office of ETF as Director, a position he left to join Logispring as a Partner.
Jean-Yves speaks fluent French and English. He is an avid downhill skier with the scars to prove it, as well as the proud and busy father of three boys. Jean-Yves is a French citizen and lives near Paris, France.
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James Brown (with Logispring until April 2004)
James holds a BA in Marine Affairs from the University of Miami and an MSc in Sea Use and Marine Policy from London School of Economics. He was the regional director from 1994 to 1999 for Westerlund Group in Singapore, Indonesia and China. In 1999, James returned to Europe to join Depot Net Holdings N.V., where as managing director he was responsible for defining and establishing ContainerControl.com, a collaboration platform for empty container repositioning. James subsequently joined the Logispring team in February 2001 as an investment manager and then became a partner in 2002. While at LogiSpring James was very active in the establishment of Origins/VC Africa, an initiative to stimulate prosperity in Africa through venture capital investments. While James left LogiSpring in the summer of 2004, he still is an advisor to the Origins/VC Africa Fund and maintains a close relationship with his LogiSpring colleagues. James then went onto restructuring a Moscow based group of seven business units with activities in procurement, warehousing, fulfilment, distribution, oil & gas logistics and express parcel delivery for the Russian and CIS countries. James now is a partner with Sirocco Partners, a consultancy firm focus on the logistics and renewable energies sectors. James speaks fluent English and French, and basic Bahasa Indonesian. James is an accomplished polo player and a successful regatta sailor.
E-mail
JamesLBrown68@yahoo.com
Phone
+44 771 897 2488
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Ludo Oelrich (with Logispring in 2000)
Ludo Oelrich is Director Moving the World with TNT NV based in Amsterdam. TNT is a global player in Express, Mail and Logistics, with 162,000 employees, covering 200 countries worldwide.
In the nineties, he has been involved as managing director in the development of TNT Logistics in the Benelux and the pan European logistics business development. During the year 2000 he founded TNT’s venture capital company Logispring. From 2002 onwards he is responsible for the development of TNT’s social leadership programme ‘Moving the World’.
He is board member of the Holland Distribution Council since 2000.
He has an MBA Transport & Logistics Management from the University of Brabant and an engineering degree in Transport and Town and Country Planning.
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