Ralph Michels

Current

CMO/CTO at EasyWineShopper.com BV
CTO at Vinologix

Past

CEO and co-founder at EasyWineShopper.com B.V.
Shop Manager and founder at Delicasa.com
Owner, Software & Product Developer at Silverback

Strategic Alliances Manager Mobile Internet at VNU World Directories
Sr. Consultant Marketing Strategy and Business Development at Beam' IT
Management Consultant at Twynstra Gudde

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Education

Bisschoppelijk College Weert
Delft University of Technology

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500+ connections

Industry

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Ralph Michels’s Summary

Ralph Michels’s Specialties:

e-Commerce, e-Marketing, e-Fulfillment, e-Logistics, e-Innovation, Software as a Service (SaaS) business models, wine distribution, wine marketing, Bridging Wine & Technology

Ralph Michels’s Experience

CMO/CTO

EasyWineShopper.com BV

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Co-founded EasyWineShopper.com at July 2007. Currently responsible for business development and product development

EasyWineShopper.com is a Dutch based e-Commerce service provider for the wine-producing industry. EasyWineShopper.com offers turn-key e-Commerce solutions via SaaS (Software as a Service) to wine producers world wide, enabling them to enter the business to consumer market establishing or increasing their Direct to Consumer trade.

EasyWineShopper.com is the most powerfull platform in the market enabling Direct to Consumer trade for wineries due to its superior, flexible and best practise architecture and functionality.
CTO

Vinologix

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Co-founded Vinologix in 2005. Initialy responsible for business development and today responsible for technology and product development making Vinologix the nr. 1 e-fulfilment platform in the B2C wine industry

Vinologix is a leading e-fulfilment company in the wine industry fulfilling ten thousands B2C wine orders a year for over 400 wine retailers and importers in the EU market.
CEO and co-founder

EasyWineShopper.com B.V.

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Co-founded EasyWineShopper.com at July 2007. Responsible for initial business strategy, platform design and acquisition of launching partners.

EasyWineShopper.com is a Dutch based e-Commerce service provider for the wine-producing industry. EasyWineShopper.com offers turn-key e-Commerce solutions via SaaS (Software as a Service) to wine producers world wide, enabling them to enter the business to consumer market establishing or increasing their Direct to Consumer trade.

EasyWineShopper.com is the most powerfull platform in the market enabling Direct to Consumer trade for wineries due to its superior, flexible and best practise architecture and functionality.
Shop Manager and founder

Delicasa.com

(Wine and Spirits industry)

October 2003 — December 2008 (5 years 3 months)

Delicasa.com is one of the largest online wine retailers for high quality wines in Europe. To ensure portfolio and revenue growth, Delicasa.com is as from January 2009, one of the key aggregator shops on the EasyWineShopper platform targeting the wine connoisseur audience.
Owner, Software & Product Developer

Silverback

(Computer Software industry)

1992 — 2004 (12 years )

Software and product development as a solution for complex business management problems through advanced database and Operations Research techniques.

Fields: Inventory Management, Forecasting, Wayfinding, Critical Path analysis, Network Problems, Business Simulations, etc.
Strategic Alliances Manager Mobile Internet

VNU World Directories

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Sr. Consultant Marketing Strategy and Business Development

Beam' IT

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Management Consultant

Twynstra Gudde

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Ralph Michels’s Education

Bisschoppelijk College Weert
Delft University of Technology

MSc. , Civil Engineering

Graduated at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Specialization fields: GIS, Expert Systems and Operations Research.