The following is concise profile information about Laurens Blommendaal tailored for the Business Market. Should you wish to know more or contact me, please send your mail to laurens@blommendaal.com Qualitative and Personal Summary Laurens Blommendaal   Solid experience in B2B markets having lead pan-European development programs for a number of companies.   Also experienced in the European logistics market having worked with shippers & operators in optimising their supply chains.   I have lead a number of projects in restructuring the delivery capability of companies (shared services, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing) and bringing them to world-class service & cost performance levels.   Also led client engagements that redesigned customer-facing processes and implemented organisational changes brought about by new technology.   Innovative ideas and effective presentation skills before CEO-level audiences.   Excellent people and project management/consulting experience coupled with strong presentation and influence skills.   Creative, independent. Excellent motivator, teambuilder, organisational skills. Prime commercial instincts and know-how, entrepreneurial. Decisive, firm. Strategically smart and experienced. Lateral thinker. Practical. Career:  Current Position Company : Teleroute BV, Amsterdam Period : present Position : Commercial Manager Management Team member, joint with the Controller and Managing Director Reporting directly to the Managing Director What is Teleroute?   At the core of Teleroute is the international Freight & Vehicle exchange on the Web at www.teleroute.nl where freight and vehicle offers are traded, real time, across 12 European countries, everyday. For the customers this means increased revenues and optimum efficiency. Teleroute is market leader with a 95% market share. The emphasis is on the selling of the content and subsequent client penetration. This strategy leads to exemplary revenues, an increase in TO and sales every year of operation and ROS in excess of 62%. Teleroute comes from a Videotex background but started 2 years ago to migrate its business to Web, and now operates as a true E-Business. www.teleroute.nl is an integral part of www.teleroute.com. Commercial Manager Teleroute BV: Function Summary   Enabling an optimum market positioning for the Teleroute services in the broadest sense   Strategic leadership E-Commerce and E- Business planning, to business development; and implementation of the Teleroute services and its content   Development & implementation of marketing 1to1 strategy   Realising of the quantitative and qualitative sales targets   Guarding and maintaining of the quality of the customer DB   Maintaining quality of product and services   Direct management of Account Managers and inside sales staff   Personal responsibility and involvement for sales and development at Premier Accounts and relations   Strategic lead and detailed content contribution of annual Business development Plan and Marketing / Sales planning, plus Budget   As Management Team member contributing to development and implementation of corporate strategy in respect of services, pricing, sales and marketing   Direct contributor to development and implementation of international commercial strategy   Creating content and co-producing of interactive sales & marketing instruments such as Load & Go CDR   Direct involvement and lead in Web site developments and content based products for Teleroute BV Company name : Roha Intertrans, Waddinxveen, NL Period : 1993 - 1994 Position : Marketing & Project Manager Company name : Stamford Group, Manchester, England Period : 1991 - 1993 Position : Marketing, Sales & Product manager Company name : Own Marketing & Sales consultancy, B2B and B2E strategies and implementation, England Period : 1989 - 1991 Position : Managing Director Among clients in UK : Makro (SHV), Leyland DAF, Drugasar, Trolex, GEC (Key Leasing) Company name : Norfreight Ltd., Manchester, England Period : 1982 - 1989 Position : General Manager, Location Director, Freight, Services Logistics & Warehousing Company Name : P&O Ferrymasters, Manchester, England Period : 1980 - 1982 Position : Operational Logistical Planning, Marketing & Sales Manager Education 1972 - 1977 : Rijkspedagogische Academie Utrecht 1977 - 1980 : Manchester University, Manchester, UK: English, Anthropology 1980 - 1982 : All Saints College Manchester: Business Administration, Marketing, Sales & Business Development Further Education Manchester M.I.T. : Artificial Intelligence Cognitive psychology and Human Computer interaction Marquet bedrijfstrainingen : Werk Verkopen (CRM course, the Netherlands) Wolters Kluwer / Peppers & Rogers : Marketing 1to1 (London) Wolters Kluwer / Peppers & Rogers : Marketing 1to1 in practice (Nijkerk, the Netherlands) Languages English : Fluent, spoken and written. Native speaker level Dutch : Fluent, spoken and written. Native speaker level German : Moderate speaker Additional information   I have written two books, both of which have been published. The first book is a science fiction thriller, written in English and published in the UK in 1991. The second book is about England and English football, written in Dutch, and published in the Netherlands in 1996 by Contact / L.J. Veen. From 1980 to 1993 I have taught Dutch in the evenings at the Manchester College of Adult Education