Patrick van der Valk

Current

• Executive Consultant to the CEO at Archimedes Inc.
• Chairman of the Spirit of the Game Committee at World Flying Disc Federation
• President at BULA

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Past

• Business Development Consultant at Innovation Capital
• Head of Planning at 2020
• Business and Marketing Consultant at Stabvida Lda

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Education

• York University Toronto - Canada
• Van Leeuwenhoek Instituut Delft - Holland

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Patrick van der Valk’s Summary

Ample experience in fast growth start-ups, (temporarily) bringing in a broad skill set to get things done and build solid foundations.

Created, and worked for, start-ups in the US, Canada, and Portugal. Highly professional, creative, pragmatic, analytic, execution oriented. Enjoys life.

Patrick van der Valk’s Specialties:

Fast growth start-ups, strategy, marketing, operations, (event) organization, execution.

Patrick van der Valk’s Experience

• Executive Consultant to the CEO

  Archimedes Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Leading a broad range of projects, including:
  
  * Organizational Dashboard - Giving better insight into the organization and measuring execution
  
  * Strategy Plan - Working on Vision/Mission of the company, a full internal assessment, and gathering market data. Developed a software model that accepts subjective knowledge input from the management team as well as objective market data to determine the ‘low-hanging fruit’.
  
  * Company MBO Map - Mapping out all high-level organizational needs, projects, and dependencies to set priorities, assign ownership and improve operational efficiency
  
  * Marketing Activities - Planning and coordinating webinars, press releases, presentations, interviews, collateral creation, direct mailings, sponsorship, print ads, and the website upgrade.

• Chairman of the Spirit of the Game Committee

  World Flying Disc Federation

  (Sports industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Led a group of 10 volunteers to develop a Spirit of the Game scoring system for Ultimate and Beach Ultimate that has been adopted in 30 countries worldwide. Currently working on developing programs to improve the SOTG in Latin American countries

• President

  BULA

  (Sports industry)

  December 2000 — Present (8 years 8 months)

  BULA is a non-profit organization that promotes and develops the sport of Beach Ultimate worldwide. Responsible for:
  * Founding the organization in 1999
  * Organizing the World Championships in 2004 and 2007
  * Organizing the 1st European Championships in France in 2008
  * Creating a sponsorship guide for tournament directors
  * Creating marketing material
  * Currently organizing the 1st Asian Championships to be held in 2009

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