Roald Schoenmakers

Current

General Manager at Traffic4u Spain
Advisor at Modera Europe

Past

Google Adwords consultant (Self-employed)
Interim Regional Manager Europe at CEA
Business Consultant at Nido Viajes de Idiomas and MRS Group

International Business Consultant at don Quijote, Spanish Languageschools
General Manager at Galileo Spain
country manager Spain & Portugal at Lufthansa AirPlus

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Roald Schoenmakers’s Summary

Traffic4u is a renowned Search Engine Marketing company. Due to its broad experience, reliability, and a result driven attitude, Traffic4u has become the most professional player in the search engine marketing field in the Netherlands. In 2007 it has launched it Spanish offices in Madrid and Salamanca.

Search engine marketing focuses on getting a visible placement of a website within search engines. Traffic4u makes sure that the websites of companies become and remain optimally visible within the most important national and international search engines like Google, Live (formerly known as MSN) and Yahoo!.

Traffic4u has very diverse client base including renowned companies such as Philips, L’Oreal, Akzo Nobel, Speurders, Mercedes and ING.

Roald Schoenmakers’s Specialties:

Lead generation campaigns, Google Adwords certified, travel distribution, online travel,
BtB sales, general management, sales and marketing management. Country management for Spain and Portugal and working in Pan European organisations.

Roald Schoenmakers’s Experience

General Manager

Traffic4u Spain

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Traffic4u is one of the 5 leading SEM companies in Europe, based in the Netherlands and Spain. Traffic4u provides SEO and SEM services to a wide range of companies in Europe ( see: www.traffic4u.es/recomendaciones.html )
Advisor

Modera Europe

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

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Modera is an Estonian based, SEO friendly, Web Content Management System ( CMS ), with a fully owned programming back office in the Ukraine. With direct presence in the USA (Miami) and Spain (Salamanca), Modera has agency agreements in the Americas, Asia (Hong Kong) and in most European countries.

End customers vary from Small and Medium sized companies to big multinationals. The partner network consists mainly of s&m sized web development and design companies.

Modera has a suite of products for Internet, Intranet, Extranet and is launching an integrated cost effective CRM (customer relationship management) that provides a very handy and cost effective tool for those companies that sell or do lead generation on the web.
Google Adwords consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — November 2007 (2 years)

I am a freelance Google Adwords consultant (Certified Adwords Individual). I give advice on how to run international, national and/ or multi-lingual campaigns. My main support is for the partners in the Modera network.
Interim Regional Manager Europe

CEA

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA) was founded in 1996 to provide international education opportunities for U.S. and Canadian college students of all language levels and majors. Today, CEA sends thousands of students on study abroad programs at multiple universities in 15 countries including Argentina, Australia, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia and Spain.

The mission of CEA is to create and facilitate opportunities for personal growth and global understanding through quality international education and cultural experiences. To do this, CEA focuses on the 'service first' experience, which includes providing personal attention to students before, during and after their experience abroad.
Business Consultant

Nido Viajes de Idiomas and MRS Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 4 months)

I helped set up and launched www.nidolanguagetravel.com and www.nidoviajesdeidiomas.com , 2 languagetravel websites with full sales and backoffice support.
International Business Consultant

don Quijote, Spanish Languageschools

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

December 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 1 month)

I worked in areas related to sales and marketing, especially webmarketing (1 staff) and managing the international telephone sales follow-up (8 staff), for the leading Spanish languageschool. I also managed the Dutch office in Rotterdam, with 4 staff. I left this company in december 2005 the day it was sold to a competitor.
General Manager

Galileo Spain

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; cd; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

August 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 11 months)

I managed the Galileo sales and marketing office for 3 years, with considerable succes in the online travel sector. 25+ staff (incl external) and 6.000.000 € turnover.
country manager Spain & Portugal

Lufthansa AirPlus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

August 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 11 months)

I was responsable to set up the sales representation office for Spain and Portugal. Selling payment and business travel management solutions to large corporations and
business travel agencies.