ADMINIUS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Partner and Co - Owner of Profirm B.V

Mr. Timmers started his career in 2005 after finishing his Master of Science degree in Business Administration at Tilburg University. As a financial consultant, he worked at Royal Philips, NXP Semiconductors, SPAR International, and Ericsson where he successfully completed the migration of the financial administration to a Shared Service Center in Poland and the implementation of a new ERP system. By means of an open, direct, and hands-on approach he always achieved the desired result. He held several positions as financial and business controller. During an assignment at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in 2010, he started working in the intellectual property business. It was during that time that he was asked to design and set up a back-office for the financial administration of several patent pools. Two years after the back-office, called Adminius, was completed and fully operational, he joined forces with Mr. Menken and Mr. Wiersma in setting up their new company, Profirm.

Job Titles:

• Managing Partner and Co - Owner of Profirm B.V

Mr. Wiersma started his career in 1991 at Royal Philips, a Consumer Electronics company located in The Netherlands. He held several positions in finance, varying from business unit controller within the Philips Components Division and LG-Philips Displays, and CFO of the business group Molecular Diagnostics to Global Process Owner Finance for Philips Corporate Technologies within the Philips Finance Excellence Network. His main achievements were, amongst others, relocating factories to low wage countries, setting up a Shared Service Center in Poland, and forming a start-up company for a new product. During his last assignment at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards he became involved in the world of intellectual property. It was at that time that he founded his own company called Adminius, which performs back-office services specifically in the area of intellectual property. Three years later he joined forces with Mr. Menken and Mr. Timmers and they jointly set up their new company, Profirm.

Job Titles:

• Managing Partner and Co - Owner of Profirm B.V

Mr. Menken started his working career in 1997 after finishing his Master of Science degree in Business Economics at Tilburg University. He held several positions as Accountant, Head Financial Administration, and Controller. He worked in various areas (Medicines, Automotive, Textiles), for various types of companies (Manufacturers and Wholesalers), and with different size companies (SME's and Multinationals). In 2007 he started working as a Finance & Control consultant and successfully completed various assignments for ENECO in Rotterdam and Royal Philips in Eindhoven. It was at his last assignment at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in 2009 where he acquired in-depth experience in the field of intellectual property. In 2011, he graduated from the ‘Executive Master of Finance and Control' program at TiasNimbas Business School in Tilburg, with his thesis about setting up a control framework for a back-office for the financial administration of several patent pools. As he really believed that this back-office would become a success, he decided to end his career as consultant and to work fulltime for this back-office, called ‘Adminius'. After two years, he joined forces with Mr. Timmers and Mr. Wiersma in setting up their new company, Profirm.