EUKEP consists out of a small core staff, a network of senior associated consultants and an R&D Council.
These EUKEP consultants all have a combined background in two or more of the following areas: Enterprise R&D and strategy, Research Institutions & Governmental Policy. All of our consultants are of senior level and share a passion for regional economic development and sustainability.
EUKEP has an R&D Council to combine regional Think-tank results and develop new tools, methods and opportunities for Europe to pursue. The R&D Council welcomes students to do research and invites pensionates and enthusiasts to share their knowledge to these youngsters.
EUKEP has a flexible organisation of a small core team surrounded with many experienced associated senior consultants. This ensures a small overhead while keeping high quality and tailor services intact.
The core consists out of the following people:
Henk de Vries (Chairman) ''Prepare Europe for next generations''
Henk de Vries is employed at NXP (former Philips Semiconductors) as Director Energy Systems. Using his engineering skills in speech technology, the Compact Disc and other innovations, Henk brought a career up to the Strategic headquarters of the Philips Divisions. He pioneered inter-firm cooperation in EEC-projects and thanks to his academic background in Marketing he created strong networks for the development of a prosperous European Knowledge Economy.
Carel Rutteman (Secretary) “Nothing can stop a good idea”
Carel worked at Getronics when he found himself to his own surprise at the start of a revolution called Internet in the early nineties. He got the responsibility within this company, who lead the market in the Netherlands, to deploy the infrastructure of this new medium. Soon he discovered that the future of IT would be in services rather than products, so he changed his focus to innovation of services and outsourcing. “When we are young, we try to realise our ideas without thinking about it, but we miss experience on how to do it. When we grow older, we become sceptical and sometimes don’t even try. In fact, if you’re committed, nothing can stop a good idea”.
Harry Arkesteijn (Finance) “Coming to action by joining people”.
Harry Arkesteijn has over 25 years of experience in talent development, business development and strategy in the banking sector. He was responsible for start-up of the Rabobank Academy. He acquired special knowledge and experience in scenario writing and has also been active in business development as manager and senior consultant in the Strategy Department of the Rabobank Group.
Harry has a remarkable background in Philosophy, Theology and a master degree in Economics. Combined with his vast practical experience he is able to shift between the conceptual and practical level at a fast pace. Recently his focus was on innovation the emerging industries. For instance, he was involved as moderator and process facilitator for the Dutch Province of Noord-Brabant when they wanted to spur bio-energy development in their region. His motto is “coming to action and business by joining people”.
Job ten Bosch (Manager Impact Initiatives) “Making connections work”
As an Engineer in Technical Management Job ten Bosch was involved in the introduction of bioethanol in the Netherlands and other clean vehicle technology. Bringing parties together around sound business cases was key. Realising that knowledge and technology are nothing without persuasion and passion he became owning partner and marketing director of Debatrix, a successful international Debate training and consultancy firm. During his second study in Innovation Management he was editor-in-chief of RSM Interface Magazine for which he wrote with leading business professors and interviewed distinguished people such as Ruud Lubbers and John P. Kotter. “I am passionate about the innovation of business itself. How we organize ourselves may very well be the key to getting a technology or business to succeed.”
Bernard Verlaan (Chairman R&D Council) “Storms of knowledge”
Fountains of knowledge are purposefully created by Benard Verlaan on any topic thinkable. Bernards unique combination of knowledge of both IT and Databases gives him the ability to access and harnest enormous amounts of information. His Master level degrees in both Social Psychology and Philosophy gives him the ability filter and analyse with remarkable speed and thoroughness. As an Internationally operating science policy advisor he has access and knowledge of up to date science policy. He is secretary of the Horizonscan, moderator of the Science portal www.bjernv.dds.nl and fulfils a number of advisory positions in the information domains of schooling and research. “Sometimes a storm is needed to make people see that the solution was hidden beneath the surface all along”
