Pieter Smits

Current

• manager France at International Hydro
• Consultant at JS-Vosges Search & Consultancy
• Owner at JoliSoleil - Holiday rentals in the Vosges, wine tastings in the Alsace.

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Past

• Managing Director at Disk@d
• Team member at VSOM
• Manager co-op advertising at Cebuco

• Marketing assistant at Reed Elsevier

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Education

• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• Rhedens Lyceum

Connections

161 connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

• Holiday Lets in the Vosges
• Wine Tastings in Alsace
• Blog Alsace Wines (dutch)

Pieter Smits’s Summary

I am a ‘electronic publishing’ consultant, with over twelve years of experience. Now and then I contribute to interesting projects on the French market for (inter)national clients.
Apart from that, I assist International Hydro in penetrating the French hydro-energy market.

In 2003, after emigrating to France, I started the Sarl JoliSoleil, an investment and renting company for chalets, apartments and farms in the French Vosges mountains. Please check out: www.jolisoleil.com and/or the 'Jolisoleil weblog' at: http://jolisoleil.blogspot.com

JoliSoleil Alsace is organizing (Alsace) wine tastings and wine tours. Please check out http://wijntoer-frankrijk.com and my 'Alsace wine weblog' at: http://elzaswijn.blogspot.com

Finally check out the many photos on the 'Vosges, France Group' on Flickr! (and of course 'Flickr JoliSoleil')

Pieter Smits’s Specialties:

Negotiation skills, creativity, flexibility, overview, management skills. Speak four languages fluently.

Pieter Smits’s Experience

• manager France

  International Hydro

  (Environmental Services industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Consultant

  JS-Vosges Search & Consultancy

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Via JS Search & Consultancy I am doing my 'old' job: consultancy on ‘electronic publishing’. I added ‘search marketing’, sharing my practical experience on that matter.

• Owner

  JoliSoleil - Holiday rentals in the Vosges, wine tastings in the Alsace.

  (Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Via 'JoliSoleil' I let several vacation houses and organize winetastings. I am developing the brand 'JoliSoleil' to be a label for quality. Goal is to make 'JoliSoleil' an exclusive brand: a quality label for fine wine, food and restaurants, but also things like clothing (fine linnen from the local LinVosges factory for example). You will find me on the website 'Luxury Lifestyles'.

• Managing Director

  Disk@d

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1992 — May 2003 (10 years 6 months)

  Started diskette advertising at the end of 1992. Soon we added Cd-rom and Internet technology. Worked for large companies like Philips, Canon, Seat and BMW.
  From 1996 onwards we concentrated on publishing technology in a standardized way using standard production tools like the inhouse developed Publish One and search tools from Verity (Autonomy) and Nextpage (Fast/Microsoft). Worked for Kluwer, Brill, IBFD and many other companies.

• Team member

  VSOM

  (Information Services industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years)

• Manager co-op advertising

  Cebuco

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 1986 — December 1992 (6 years 2 months)

  Developed joint promotion programs to be used by dutch newspapers (members of Cebuco). Organized yearly dutch Co-op conference. Developed contacts with English and American colleagues and organized yearly incentive programs and study trips to England.

• Marketing assistant

  Reed Elsevier

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; REL; Publishing industry)

  March 1983 — 1986 (3 years)

  Worked for book- and magazine publishers of UME. Also delivered data and reported to headoffice in Amsterdam.

Pieter Smits’s Education

• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

  drs. , Economics , 1976 — 1981

  Geinteresseerd en afgestudeerd op het vakgebied, cq. het raakvlak tussen marketing en informatica.

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice-voorzitter Nima MIT groep. 1985- 1994
  Mede organisator congres MIS '86

• Rhedens Lyceum

  1970 — 1976

Additional Information

Pieter Smits’s Websites:

• Holiday Lets in the Vosges
• Wine Tastings in Alsace
• Blog Alsace Wines (dutch)

Pieter Smits’s Interests:

internet, new technology, investing, search technology, tourism, marketing, wine, creativity, passions in people, music, twitter

Pieter Smits’s Contact Settings

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