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- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Onze Lieve Vrouwe Lyceum, Breda
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Thomas Schuurmans’s Summary
“When you need drive inside your organisation getting innovations towards the market, Thomas is the man to hire! He is an innovator, marketeer and sales person all for the price of one.”, according to Raymond Pijpers (see recommendation)
Thomas Schuurmans’s Specialties:
marketing strategy, product/service concept creation (related to sustainability/cradle-2-cradle, base-of-pyramid, vitality), B2B partnering, business modeling.
Thomas Schuurmans’s Experience
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reggs
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
reggs' core business ranges from brand strategy to designing industrial products, packaging, corporate identities and motion.
I am responsible for new business development. In the case of reggs, this means developing the design firm into a pro-active creative firm: pro-actively develop new product-ideas and concepts. Those concepts are based on at least one of four pillars: Sustainability (Cradle-2-Cradle), the potential of the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP), Eternal Childhood and Vitality.
Existing and new partners are approached to co-develop these concepts into successful new business. -
TNO Information and Communication Technology
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
- Project & team leader of the development of a high-tech innovation; a low-power wireless sensor network technology. Responsible for strategy, partnering, technical and commerical project leading. The first application for effective water management is launched: www.sensiplant.com.
- New business development manager Europe. Responsible for acquisition of new contract research and consultancy projects for Telecom Operators in Europe.
- Account manager of first international client: responsible for turning new European client into the first international strategic client of TNO ICT.
- Business consultant: team member of two major European consultancy projects ‘Next Generation Networks strategies amongst European telco’s’ and ‘xDSL performance optimalisation’. -
TNO Information and Communication Technology
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 6 months)
- Board member of incubator within TNO Telecom: responsible for the evaluation of internal innovation proposals and coaching of the invested projects.
- Market Intelligence manager: responsible for market research and the development of a market penetration strategy for the international market, including a multi-level approach strategy per potentiel client.
Thomas Schuurmans’s Education
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Technische Universiteit Delft
M.Sc., Applied Physics (major), business administration (minor), 1995 — 2003
ADDITIONAL COURSES
2006 NIMA Marketing-B
2006 Talent Development program of TNO
2005 Personal Effectivity
2005 Pricing Strategy
2005 Account Strategy for Major Sales
2004 Pyramid Principle
1996 Jazzpiano
BUSINESS COURSES
2001 Heineken, Heineken Stargame.
2001 The Boston Consulting Group, Masterclass.
2001 Accenture, eMarketplace for B2B automotive market.
2001 Procter & Gamble, Technical business course.
2000 KPN, Hoe krijgen we heel Nederland online?
2000 Monitor Company, eHealth.
2000 Arthur D. Little, eCommerce in the Take-Away Food Branch.
CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
2002/3 Thesis 3D live audio recording system, Physics, Delft.
2001 Roadmap for mobile services, internship at KPN Mobile, Düsseldorf.
2001 Business plan for start-up, coached by Arthur D. Little, Delft.
1999 Study Tour, Japan
1999 Research project, Thorax centre Dijkzigt Hospital, Rotterdam. -
Onze Lieve Vrouwe Lyceum, Breda
Additional Information
Thomas Schuurmans’s Interests:
Innovating for Base of Pyramid, Sustainability / Cradle2Cradle
Thomas Schuurmans’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
