At a young age I already had a huge interest in IT and entrepreneurship. I was one of the few girls to follow an IT education and when I was eighteen, I joined my brother’s company: eXpertise-IT. We quickly grew into a serious company with large customers and a big revenue.

Six years later my life took a drastic turn when my brother passed away suddenly. Not only my private life was a huge mess, but also my business life was turned upside down. It was a very challenging time and learned the hard way how to run a business and how to survive.

With the necessary ups and downs, I successfully grew my business over the next four years as a female entrepreneur among all the ‘male violence’ of the IT world. After these four years it was time for a new challenge and I wanted more freedom. In my search for that freedom and the desire to do something new, I sold eXpertise-IT to one of the largest IT service providers in the Netherlands and became financially independent.

In the years that followed, I worked as the only female director on George Banken’s management team. The dynamics of a fast-growing organization and the developments that Detron went through have been extremely educational for me. Yet after three years it was time for the next step…