RUBIO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Social Enterprise & Impact Finance Advisor
Astrid started her career at McKinsey and ABN AMRO Corporate Finance. After her MBA at London Business School she decided switch to ‘business and capital as a force for good' and has done so for the past 18 years.
She is an experienced advisor, investor and leader of business transformation journeys. She worked as impact finance director GoodBrand and most recently as consultant at IMAGINE (now SYSTEMIQ), Astrid also worked on the entrepreneurs side in disruptive Social Enterprises (like Belu Waters and Tiny Miracles) to scale innovative solutions, and was part of the Rubio team during its early years (2014-2016). Next to her current impact advisory roles Astrid serves on the board United World Colleges - a movement that makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for a sustainable future.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Professor, Expert Advisor on Social Impact
Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is an Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School, and Director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute.
Lisa is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and impact investment. She is a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Social Business (GECES) and of the OECD's Social Impact Investment Expert group. She served on the French National Advisory Board and the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Task Force established by the G8. She was the Research and Policy Director of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) and now serves as their strategic advisor.
Edward van der Hout Associate Is: Associate at Rubio Has: A background in Sustainability and Industrial Ecology from Leiden University and the TU Delft. Focuses on: Anything that can help us make a meaningful difference when it comes to the Climate Crisis. Works: By getting into the weeds and getting to know everything about founders and their ideas. Previous experience: Interned with a climate focused fintech, led a student consultancy, and had a brief stint as an engineer. Side Deals: The alumni association of his Bachelor's. At Rubio: Edward brings the memes. Guess what: Edward loves to read and learn about all the things - the easiest way to get him on board is to come up with something new.
Eline searches through haystacks to find needles aka promising deals for Rubio
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Manager
Gearte Noteboom Investor Relations Manager is: An Investor Relations Manager driven to make impact has: Gearte has an engineering background and did a MSc Complex System Engineering & Management in Delft focussing on energy system optimization. Focusses on: Fund III investments Previously worked at: Worked as an investor relations manager at Lightyear and later as a freelancer on the commercial side for several sustainability driven start-ups and projects. Side deals: All kinds of sports, like volleyball, surfing, boxing & running. At Rubio: Taking the sport/win mentality into work - highly motivated to make fund III successful and make impact investing possible. Guess what: As a student Gearte participated in several Solar Challenges, the world championships for solar cars in Australia, Morocco or South Africa.
Job Titles:
- Founder of DQ & a Media Group
- Social Investor, Entrepeneur and Business Professional
Heleen is the founder of DQ&A Media Group, a successful online marketing firm, and co-founder of Peak Capital, a VC fund for the online and media sector. In addition, she is a board member at ‘Jong Ondernemen', member of the jury at Accenture Innovation Awards and a mentor at Rockstart and startup bootcamp. She is also an investor in Hummingbird Ventures and EVA Africa Fund and a supervisory board member at Catawiki. She was elected Dutch business woman of the year 2013.
Helmer Schukken Managing Partner is: engineer turned consultant turned entrepreneur turned investor has: about a decade experience as co-founder and CEO in two start-ups in cleantech focuses on: companies with real physical products, production, operations works: hands-on, personal, creating structure and helps making (big) decisions previous deals: Arthur D.Little, Quintel, GF Energy, Sungevity side-deals: Advisory Board SIDN Fonds, guest lecturer VU University Environmental Economics at Rubio: As managing partner, makes sure each individual team member develops to his/her full potential aligned towards Rubio's mission. Also active in deals, fundraising and portfolio management (a.o. VanderSat, Black Bear Carbon, Sympower and alumni Marqt, GoodFuels, Afval loont) guess what: is a sucker for romantic comedies
Jaap Maljers is a serial entrepreneur in the health care sector, in which he has more than 25 years of experience. Jaap has founded and successfully build multiple businesses, among which Bergman Clinics (focus clinics for specialized care), ZorgDomein (a systems integrator platform), Plexuc (a consultancy company) and Incision (online surgical training). Moreover, Jaap was chairman of the Dutch Children Cancer research foundation (KiKa) and served on the board of Amref Flying Doctors. He is an Investor Committee member at the investment fund Holland Capital.
Jelle excels at deal sourcing & international deals
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Investor
- Member of the Board
Jolanda successfully built the online travel empire Otravo for many years. (WTC.nl, Vliegtickets.nl, Vakantiediscounter). In a time when the Internet was still brand new, they seized the opportunity to pioneer in this unknown online world. Upon exit Otravo was the largest online travel company in the Benelux with 700 million in revenue and 250 employees. Since then Jolanda makes her knowledge, experience and financial resources available to ambitious entrepreneurs. Jolanda is particularly committed to impact investing and philanthropy.
Kirstin Valkonet Senior office manager is: an experienced hospitality entrepreneur and office manager/ executive assistant of Rubio has: worked quite some years as an entrepreneur in hospitality and organizing events with a can-do mentality focuses on: making sure the organization runs smoothly, supporting finance, legal, agenda management, IT, events, and travel support previously worked at: co-owned Café Smit & Voogt & café Stevens, hospitality manager Café Koosje at Rubio: making sure that the operations run smoothly guess what: Kirstin still dreams about her own bed and breakfast somewhere in Europe
Job Titles:
- Experienced Executive & Board Chair
- Non - Executive Director at Amongst Others Teijin Aramid
Koos is a non-executive director at amongst others Teijin Aramid, Royal Smilde and Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, and the Advisory Board Chair at BridgeHead. Moreover, he is a member of the Investment Committee of TBL Mirror Fund, a private equity fund for high growth businesses in Africa. From 2000 to 2007, Koos served as the CEO of Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, where he was involved in a period of heavy restructuring and subsequently a period of growth. Before that, Koos worked for 24 years for Philips, amongst others as Managing Director of the consumer electronics department in Asia, and has been knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Social Investor, Entrepreneur and Business Professional
Leendert founded Gilde Investment Management, one of the longest-standing diversified VC/PE funds in the Netherlands. He is also the co-founder of the Dutch Venture Capital Association. Before founding Gilde, he worked at McKinsey and Shell/Billiton. Currently, Leendert is CEO and owner at 1000 Steps, and he is an active (venture) philanthropist & impact investor e.g. through his positions as board member at the Gieskes Strijbos Fonds and the board Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance.
Maarten is a serial tech entrepreneur who has founded and successfully build numerous internet companies, among which 2dehands.be, the Makers Channel and ClubCollect. Maarten is an active investor and serves as board advisor for Temper, Ace and Tate and the Next Closet. He was elected Amsterdam entrepreneur of the year in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Investor
- Member of the Board
Maarten Vervoort is an experienced investor and boardmember. He was a Managing Director, global head of primary fund investments at AlpInvest Partners. He joined the firm at inception and served as a member of AlpInvest's Investment and Operating Committees.
Additionally, Maarten represented AlpInvest on the Boards of numerous private equity funds, including Accel, Alpha, Bain Capital, CVC, Index Ventures, and Waterland, among others.
Maarten is the Chairman of the supervisory board of Gilde Equity Management ("GEM") and serves on the investment committee of the Graduate Entrepreneur Fund. Maarten joined AlpInvest from PriceWaterhouseCoopers Management Consultants ("PwC"), where he was a senior management consultant in corporate strategy.
Maarten received an M.Sc. in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a Dutch national.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Board
Natascha van Boetzelaer is a Dutch national and a true cosmopolitan. Born in Malaysia, she grew up in London and the Netherlands, studied in Canada and the UK and worked across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Natascha started her career path as an early stage investor at Arts Alliance Ventures, then joined Gilde Invest before she decided that her heart was really in the people business.
Natascha is an expert at discovering, developing and transforming leaders. As a partner at Egon Zehnder, she is specialized in all aspects of digital talent and organizations. Natascha advises disruptive and disrupted companies on digital capabilities globally, across sectors.
Job Titles:
- CEO Royal Swinkels Family Brewers
As a descendant of the 7th generation, Peer Swinkels is part of the Brabant brewers family Swinkels. Peer graduated as an econometrist from Erasmus University. He began his career in 1999 as Brand Manager at Unilever. In 2003, he started working for Royal Swinkels Family Brewers as Director Marketing and Product Development. After having fulfilled management positions in Marketing, Communications and Sales, he became Chief Commercial Officer in 2015. Since April 2019, Peer has embarked on his ultimate mission: as CEO, to pass on an even better brewery to the next generation.
As a board member and supervisory director, Peer is involved in various other organizations ao Bolsius, impact brand Tony's Chocolonely and FNLI (Dutch Food Industry Federation). Here too he is characterized by his accessibility and sincere interest in the people around him. On the basis of good personal relationships, he steers towards sharp business results. Always with a nod to the unique entrepreneurial spirit of the Swinkels Family.
Pier is a professor Climate Change at Wageningen University Research and VU University Amsterdam. He was one of the earliest scientists to publish on climate change and is an international authority in this field. Pier is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dutch Development bank FMO and serves as a board member of a number of research organisations and environmental ngo's and such us Urgenda, until 2019 and the True Animal Protein Price Coalition (TAPPc). He is an expert on climate, water, energy, food and their synergies.
Job Titles:
- Investment Professional & Board Advisor
Rohit worked in the investment world (both as m&a advisor and private equity principal) for almost 20 years. Previous employers include Morgan Stanley, ABN AMRO, ING Barings and Waterland. Currently he works together with Bencis and Avedon. As an active shareholder in two (succesful) Dutch businesses, he supports the executive boards in strategy, mergers & acquisitions and financing. He has an MSc (with honors) in economics from the University of Amsterdam.
is: a systems thinker, entrepreneur at heart, and fierce believer in the power of entrepreneurship to drive impact at scale
has: worked in six countries, built two startups (one with real postcards-very vintage, failed miserably), sat on too many investment committees, and still sculpts in her spare time.
focuses on: bold founders tackling messy, meaningful problems with speed and heart.
works: like a Swiss army knife-strategic, sharp, and always ready to jump in.
Tijl Hoefnagels Venture Partner is: a creative investment professional who likes to devise new plans and initiatives has: been investing in several stages of the food chain in Europe and South America for > 10 years focuses on: companies that change the value chain farm to fork. forever works: as a coach in the corner to help realize the ambitions of the entrepreneur previous deals: Phenospex, Foamplant, Pieter Pot side deals: Tijl gives training to Start-ups on fundraising and is on the EIT food advisory board at Rubio: Tijl provides thought for food guess what: Tijl recently implemented a circular waste system by raising his own free-range chickens, Tik, Tok and Donald
even Warner's kids make fun of how bad his jokes are!
Willemijn is responsible for impact screening and fun