Quintin Schevernels

Current

• COO Online Media & Co-owner at VNU Media

Past

• Managing Director at Telegraaf Classified Media
• Business Unit Manager at De Telegraaf
• Various Management Positions at Randstad

• Tennis at VEP

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Education

• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• Hogeschool van Utrecht
• Dr. F.H. de Bruyne Lyceum

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Industry

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Quintin Schevernels’s Summary

I have been working for the last 8 years in online media in various senior management positions. Mainly managing growth and launching new initiatives. I can best be described as a passionate and ambitious manager. I strongly believe that strategy, excellent people, clear goals, measuring performance and keeping focus are the golden combination for success. These are the five building blocks for me.

Quintin Schevernels’s Specialties:

General management, (online) media, change management, strategy, (online) recruitment, interim management & consultancy, marketing & sales and coaching.

Quintin Schevernels’s Experience

• COO Online Media & Co-owner

  VNU Media

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  I´m responsible for all the online activities and ambitions of VNU Media. Some of the sites of VNU Media are www.intermediair.nl, www.tweakers.net, www.nationalevacaturebank.nl and www.computable.nl. These sites all have dominant positions.
  
  I´m member of the VNU Media board of directors.

• Managing Director

  Telegraaf Classified Media

  (Online Media industry)

  November 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  I was founder of Telegraaf Classified Media in the summer of 2004 and managed it until I left to VNU Media. I was responsible for all the activitities of TMG in the classified markets. These activities consisted of events, print (both newspapers and magazines) and online products for the dating, real estate, automotive, boat, recruitment and leisure-markets. The Business Unit Directors of these units reported to me. The brands www.speurders.nl (in 2005 named as the best site introduction ever in The Netherlands), www.relatieplanet.nl and www.autotelegraaf.nl were among others part of Telegraaf Classified Media.
  
  I was member of the board of directors of De Telegraaf.

• Business Unit Manager

  De Telegraaf

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 8 months)

  Responsible for all activities of Telegraaf Media Groep in the recruitment market. Including the launch of www.vacaturekrant.nl (named as fastest growing jobboard in The Netherlands in 2005 & 2006)

• Various Management Positions

  Randstad

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RAND; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 1994 — August 2000 (6 years 8 months)

  In almost 7 years I´ve had different management positions managing up to 120 fte's in sales and marketing.

• Tennis

  VEP

  (Online Media industry)

  1985 — 2000 (15 years)

Quintin Schevernels’s Education

• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

  Economics

• Hogeschool van Utrecht

  Communications

• Dr. F.H. de Bruyne Lyceum

Additional Information

Quintin Schevernels’s Interests:

Golf Tennis Alpine ski Travelling Good food & good wine

Quintin Schevernels’s Honors:

Winner of the most prestigieus Dutch Marketing Prize `Gouden Effie 2006´ for Speurders.nl
Nominated for the "Young Captain Award 2007"
Winner LOF-prijs 2009 with "Computable"