Accomplished in game tech and data.

Product builder at heart.

Skilled in development and entrepreneurship.

Past (ad)ventures

Newzoo

Senior product manager

Jan 2024 - Oct 2025
  • Integrating the team, tech and processes after the acquisition of Steam Data Suite.
  • Transitioned app to support platforms beyond Steam. Pivoted to focus exclusively on AA and AAA, and rebranded while we're at it.
  • Overseeing a small team and, with little resources, achieved 30% YoY growth.
Steam Data Suite

Founder & CEO

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
  • Building a platform that helped 6.000 Steam games perform better by making it easy for publishers to understand and improve their visibility and marketing.
  • Growing the company from solo-ing an MVP, to raising a six-figure seed round, building a team, increasing valuation, and completing a successful exit.
  • Building innovative campaign attribution, discount impact prediction, competitor analysis and BI dashboarding.
Ludens Labs

Owner and consultant

Feb 2013 - Jan 2020
  • One-man boutique game data and marketing consultancy company for companies in casual, applied, and entertainment games.
  • Providing advanced retention modeling, surveys and white-label dashboarding.
  • Helping translate data into actionable insights and consulted on telemetry integration.
Intelligenz

Engineer #1

Aug 2013 - Dec 2015
  • Consulting renowned institutions on marketing and data strategy, then setting the tech up to make it happen.
  • Hacking the CRM and dashboard platforms we supplied to exceed clients expectations.
  • Working with the founders to triple revenue in two years by increasing revenue per client and leveraging word-of-mouth from jobs well done.
Azerion

Product manager

Jun 2011 - Feb 2013
  • Ensured continuity for Youdagames' online game store and portal by overseeing content strategy, marketing, and technical operations.
  • As part of a lean, ultra-agile team, improved conversions, managed a redesign, and expanded relationships with developers and publishers.
Activision Blizzard

Trainee brand manager

Aug 2010 - Feb 2011
  • Within the Benelux marketing team, managed licensed titles including James Bond, Spider-Man and Transformers.
  • Initiated tracking games' online buzz and sentiment (before it was cool).
  • Assisting execution of PR and promotional events for Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero.

On the side

Build websites

  • Built over 50 websites for charities, friends, and professionals of all kinds
  • From creating effective usability, design and branding to technical implementation (PHP, Wordpress, Django or simple HTML)

Appear in public

  • Speak at industry conferences (NG22)
  • Attend trade shows worldwide
  • Be a guest in podcasts (IGB, IGM)
  • Teach workshops and the minor “The art and business of games” at University Inholland

Build apps

  • Created own CRM and email system to keep track of contacts, hours, mailings and invoicing
  • Built app used in ambulances to research quicker stroke triage
  • Built app used in ambulances to research more efficient acute neurology treatment

Points of skill

Entrepreneurship

Ownership

  • Pro in reporting to internal and external stakeholders
  • Pro in setting targets and exceeding them
  • Good at identifying value with end users, nailing requirements and prioritizing work
  • Experience with all the fancy Scrum rituals and Atlassian tools

Leadership

  • Skilled in defining vision and translating that to strategies and tactics
  • Good at making team members more successful in their day-to-day
  • Competent people manager, including hiring
  • Affinity with legal and financial basics, like contracts and forecasting

Getting things done

  • Love learning tools and skills needed to get things done. Includes Ubuntu, Photoshop, GTM, AWS console and even flipping Sharepoint
  • Strong pragmatist, at my best when working around technical limitations
  • Good at creative (budget) problem solving

Product

Data

  • Pro at user behavior-, market-, and marketing data analysis
  • Pro at abstracting complex data into meaningful dashboards
  • Proficient in various telemetry and dashboarding tools
  • Comfortable with pipelines and database structures

Marketing

  • Pro at building strong brands and materials that truly stand out
  • Solid English for both copywriting and client communication
  • Experienced editing for various media
  • Degree: Media & Entertainment Management (bachelor of communication)

Sales

  • I can sell you a pen
  • Skilled in setting up smart sales workflows, SaaSy and 1:1
  • Strong network with game developers and publishers
  • Competent in identifying and capitalizing on co-op opportunities

Development

Frontend

  • Pro at HTML, CSS and LESS
  • Skilled in JS and jQuery
  • Good with various data vis and charting libs
  • Comfortable with ActionScript 2 (LOL)

Backend

  • Skilled at Python and Django
  • Experienced with APIs, crawling and web scraping
  • Good at SQL, Postgres and BigQuery
  • Comfortable with PHP

Ops

  • Experienced in managing VPS for apps and websites
  • Experienced in AWS (console)
  • Competent with Git, containerization and CI/CD

My person as a dashboard

Age
Kids
Pets
BBs shot while airsofting
Steam games owned
424
Boardgames owned
62
Photos snapped
164 GB
Lego sets owned
367

People call me

A pragmatic tinkerer who is

structured, honest, a quick learner

and resourceful

Worked with

Activision Blizzard Astragon AWS Azerion Bandai Namco CCP Games Dutch Games Association Focus Entertainment Greenpeace Kabam KLM Leiden University Medical Center Nacon National Geographic Newzoo Paradox Plaion Plarium Sanoma Media Scopely University of Amsterdam

And over 200 other companies

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