Start-up & Turnaround Executive
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Program manager at Energy4Life
- Founder at Urgency Flow
- Past
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- Concept implementor at Syssitia
- Implementation manager at Nationale Nederlanden
- Project and Implementation Manager at Blue Jonah TOC Consultants
- Chair of Steering Committee at Godrej and Boyce Tooling
- Client Director at Goldratt Consulting
- Operations Director at Emrys
- Operations Director at Vivacadena
- Portfolio Manager at Air France KLM
- Senior Project Manager at Emrys
- Owner / Managing Director at Throughput Resultants
- Consultant / Project Manager at Juris Kennismanagement
- Consultant / Trainer at Sierksma Consulting Group
- Internal Consultant at Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways)
- Education
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- Theory of Constraints
- Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland
- Instituut voor Eclectische Psychologie
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Roel Smelt’s Summary
I'm a start-up and turnaround executive based in the netherlands.
My core concepts are:
- Flow is the number one consideration
- Brilliant ideas do excist in abundance
- It is all about getting the job done
I have realized significant bottomline results for large and mid-sized organizations like Nike, Air France-KLM and ING Insurances. As Director of Operations I have developed the IT-startup VivaCadena to maturity. For Goldratt Consulting I've supervised the operations for Viable Vision projects in India.
Flow is the number one consideration
Whether it's personal effectiveness, operational execution or company strategy. On all these three levels the optimization of the flow is the number one consideration.
It starts with concentration, expressing itself in elementary principles.
While focussing on the big picture (and not local optima) always trying to improve the flow in the totality of the system.
Brilliant ideas do excist in abundance
I believe in brilliance. Brilliance to solve problems, to see solutions and to bring current possibilities into a new perspective. Brilliance is not scarce in this world, it is there in abundance. The reason that it doesn't always lead to quantum leap improvements, is the application of brilliance.
It’s all about getting the job done
The application is a challenging and difficult task. And this is where I like to work. In a field with abundance of brilliance, translating brilliance into quantum leap improvements.
Roel Smelt’s Specialties:
Chairing boards, Crisis & turnaround management, High-tech industries, IT, Supply chains wholesale & Retail
Roel Smelt’s Experience
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Program manager
Energy4Life
(Environmental Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (3 months)
Energy4Life focuses on the realization of a number of third generation energy technologies. Third generation means that these technologies are based on harnessing the forces of nature such as magnetism, gravity, high voltage electrical fields, the Coriolis force to name but a few.
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Founder
Urgency Flow
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Turnaround executive serving private equity firms and venture capitalists
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Concept implementor
Syssitia
(Management Consulting industry)
June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)
Syssitia applies a partnership model to build long-term relationships with clients and prides itself in its approach to deliver real business value. The focus is on deriving business benefit in merging people, process and technology. This is done through experience, knowledge, and expertise and the application of best practice.
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Implementation manager
Nationale Nederlanden
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ING; Insurance industry)
February 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 4 months)
Full scale implementation of Critical Chain Project Management at the IT-department of 800+ people.
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Project and Implementation Manager
Blue Jonah TOC Consultants
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Delivering reliability and cycle time reduction of IT projects within financial services.
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Chair of Steering Committee
Godrej and Boyce Tooling
(Machinery industry)
February 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 9 months)
The Godrej Toolroom is one of the largest and most sophisticated tool rooms in India. Established in 1935, we have grown to become one of the most organized and professionally managed tool room facilities capable of handling any challenge in design, manufacture and testing of any kind of tool. No wonder we boast of an impressive client list from India and abroad as well.
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Client Director
Goldratt Consulting
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Overlooking and auditing customers in India, and internally setting up portfolio management.
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Operations Director
Emrys
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
April 2004 — March 2006 (2 years)
Daily operations of a worldwide operating consultancy company in supply chain synchronization according the principles of the Theory of Constraints.
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Operations Director
Vivacadena
(Management Consulting industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years)
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Portfolio Manager
Air France KLM
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
September 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Portfolio manager of all IT projects for KLM Internet Services, based on the principles of Critical Chain Project Management (Theory of Constraints).
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Senior Project Manager
Emrys
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 3 months)
Emrys is a strategic service provider that offers companies innovative solutions for process changes within the supply chain.
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Owner / Managing Director
Throughput Resultants
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Setting up with a partner a consultancy company specialised on TOC Project Management.
Successful implementation at coach producer Bova. -
Consultant / Project Manager
Juris Kennismanagement
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
De Kennis Management Groep (voorheen Juris) levert consultancy voor de aandachtsgebieden projectmanagement, kwaliteitsmanagement en kennismanagement.
Als Project Manager gedetacheerd bij (Getronics) Raet Personele Systemen en ABN-Amro. -
Consultant / Trainer
Sierksma Consulting Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Adviseur op het gebied van organisatie-ontwikkeling
- integraal veranderingsmanagement
- strategisch management
Trainer op het gebied van organisatie- en persoonsontwikkeling
- persoonlijke-effectiviteitstrainingen (leidinggeven, projectmanagement, vergadertechnieken, time-management, onderhandelingstechnieken)
coachen & assessment
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Internal Consultant
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Interne adviseur participatief management
- laten participeren van machinisten en conducteurs in het overleg met hun leidinggevenden
- geven van workshops
- creëren van draagvlak bij management en ondernemingsraad
- opzetten overlegstructuur
- coachen van vergaderingen
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Dhamma Leadership
