Vincent van Wylick

Current

Analyst at Fiduciare du Kiem S.a.r.l.
Strategic Consultant (freelance) at No Title
Management-assistant at Circulart Publishing

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Past

Business Developer at Vardetun B.V.
Thesis-author at Master-thesis on bridging the equity gap for high-tech start-ups
Research assistant at Tornado Insider

Research assistant at Virtunaut
Project manager at Tradelink
Co-founder at C-Walls
Management-trainee at Sony COCE Europe
Student at University of Manchester
Bar-administrator at La Tour Rose
Entertainer-promoter at UCI, The Filmworks
Entertainer-promoter at Sony Entertainment Europe
Market-researcher at Bespoke Channels

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Education

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
The University of Manchester

Connections

66 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

Vincent van Wylick’s Summary

Responsible, resolute, and growth-focussed Dutch national (born 28.03.1977 in Bonn, Germany), with an international and multilingual (Dutch, English, German, and French) background, and with work-experiences in the fields of market analysis,
business planning & development, sales and marketing, as well as an educational basis in strategic management and new business venturing. Interested to work in the fields of technology and retail, and specifically in the area of business development in an entrepreneurial and corporate environment.

Vincent van Wylick’s Specialties:

startups, strategic planning, business development, venture capital, project management, event management, information management, ICT, internet, communication, storytelling, publishing, blogging, entertainment.

Vincent van Wylick’s Experience

Analyst

Fiduciare du Kiem S.a.r.l.

(Financial Services industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

* Analysis and design of financial structures for companies setting up in Luxembourg
Longer job description to follow shortly.
Strategic Consultant (freelance)

No Title

(Utilities industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Consultant, with a client portfolio in the food and entertainment industries, company-incubation, and financial services. Offers the following services:
* Executive consulting
* Transforming ideas and concepts into commercial products and services
* Strategic analyses of company activities and stakeholders
* Conducting due diligence on investment opportunities
* Executing market intelligence campaigns
* Supply and distribution chain development
* Identifying and attracting relevant sources of funding
* Some IT and design support
Management-assistant

Circulart Publishing

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)

This is a side-project, in which I act as a consultant and assistant to the founder and manager, my father. The company's initial focus is art-publication, though dealing in art takes more precedence now. Activities involve general business-advice, business-planning and financial forecasting, and setting up meetings. Apart from these activities, it has given me an insight into the world of business angels, the business of art, and the mechanics of a publishing-business.
Business Developer

Vardetun B.V.

(Consumer Services industry)

September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

In a team of 3, developing a business case to launch a start-up in the wine-industry
Thesis-author

Master-thesis on bridging the equity gap for high-tech start-ups

(Publishing industry)

June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years )

In co-operation with the ESA, the Erasmus Medical Centre, Area010, and Tornado Insider Media, interviewed ca. 500 entrepreneurs, investors, and incubators, and other parties, with the aim of finding a financial solution for long-term (3+ years) innovative projects. E-book-version available on request.
Research assistant

Tornado Insider

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)

2 month project, conducting research and writing a report on the investment climate for Dutch high-tech start-ups for the organisation TechnoPartner.

Tornado-Insider is an Amsterdam-based media-company that tracks venture capital-deals in Europe and Israel.

TechnoPartner is an organisation that supports high-tech starters financially, by setting up seed-funds, and by supplying information and guidance to them.
Research assistant

Virtunaut

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

June 2005 — March 2006 (10 months)

9-month contract, to conduct marketing- and operational-study and write marketing-section of a business-plan for a European launch of this start-up. Also acted as liaison between Virtunaut-founders and the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, NL.

Virtunaut was a start-up in the space-tourism industry, bringing affordable space-related services to "people on earth." The technology was developed in a partnership with the ESA. The company was discontinued due to the death of the founder.
Project manager

Tradelink

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

October 2004 — July 2005 (10 months)

Coordinator of projects and accountant for Tradelink. Projects were mostly entrepreneurial, and involved setting up a software-project for supply-chain management in shipping; setting up a pipeline-project in the Rotterdam-harbour; developing a operational plan for a "spin-off," involved in trading-projects between the US and Europe. Left voluntarily due to unrewarding work-relations.

Tradelink was a consulting-company in the area of logistics and supply chain, based on a partnership of several specialists in that field and several Dutch universities. Company discontinued in 2006 due to personal circumstances of the founder.
Co-founder

C-Walls

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

C-walls was a student-project, which we took slightly too seriously. The idea was to develop a business-plan on the basis of a patent from the European Patent Office (Espacenet). Instead we (3 partners) decided to search for business-ideas through our network, found an interesting idea in the shape of cardboard-based office-walls, and tried to convince the paper-industry to go into this new market. In the end it failed because of the low-margins related conservatist attitude in the industry and because it was an ill-fated idea.

The project involved setting up a strategic plan, marketing study and plan, financial prognosis, and winning a business-plan competition. We came third.
Management-trainee

Sony COCE Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 2001 — July 2002 (10 months)

Learned about how the web-based sales-division of Sony, located in Heerlen, the Netherlands, was run. Worked on promotion and sales-campaigns, human-resource planning, logistics, and on the mid-stages of a project to better co-ordinate multiple back-office databases with the web-front-end. This division, as far as I know, no longer exists.
Student

University of Manchester

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Bar-administrator

La Tour Rose

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 2001 — August 2001 (2 months)

My final stint into entertainment, I worked at a hotel in Lyon, France, for several months, running a wine-bar in a restaurant. I brushed up on my French and my manners (although those were impeccable already). Some accounting and running staff-experience as well.
Entertainer-promoter

UCI, The Filmworks

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Entertainment industry)

September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)

Decided to follow my drive to entertain and worked as a promoter/animator/bar-keeper at UCI, The Filmworks, Manchester, UK. Taught me a little more people-skills and gave me an insight into the economics of running a cinema, as well as corporate culture.
Entertainer-promoter

Sony Entertainment Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Entertainment industry)

December 1999 — June 2000 (7 months)

Learned a little about "crowd-control" and animating people. Some promotion and sales of Sony-products and an insight into the corporate structure and innovation-culture at Sony. The Berlin-based project, "Music Box" ultimately failed because it was misaligned with the (German) market.
Market-researcher

Bespoke Channels

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

October 1998 — May 1999 (8 months)

Telephone-research and translation-work. Some MS-access. Found out a little about trends in IT- and network-equipment, the gatekeeper-phenomenon in market-research, and how small (research) companies are run in the UK.

Vincent van Wylick’s Education

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

MScBA , Entrepreneurship, Finance, Strategy , 2005

Learned about early-stage and international expansion of businesses, as well as a variety of funding-mechanisms

Activities and Societies:

EUR-Roadrunners
Entrepreneurship-society (Entreur)
The University of Manchester

BSc , International Management

Learned about basic principles of business: accounting, corporate finance, retail marketing, business strategy, how to (not) structure mergers and acquisitions.

Activities and Societies:

Student-newspaper
Grosvenor-hall representative
kickboxing
Salsa

Additional Information

Vincent van Wylick’s Websites:

Vincent van Wylick’s Interests:

business development, project management, retail, e-commerce, internet, software, technology

Vincent van Wylick’s Groups:

Tech IT Easy

KIVA
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Alumni
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) / The Netherlands / Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam / Nederland
FD Career Challenge
The Global Business Development Network
The University of Manchester Alumni Association
LEAN THINKING
Dutch Young Professionals