Albumprinter's management team
Kees Arends (1960), CEO
Kees joined Albumprinter in April 2009 as the new CEO to take Albumprinter to the next level. He has extensive experience in building international companies.
- Invested in 2002 - Medical Datacare (data processing company) where he redefined the company’s strategy and sold it in 2007.
- Founded Vancom in 1994, the 1st Dutch privately owned operator in Public Transportation. He expanded Vancom through multiple acquisitions, increased the work force to 4,200 employees and turn over to €220m then sold the company to ARRIVA plc.
- Founded CPM Nederland Field Marketing B.V. in 1993. Sold the company in 1997 to DAS, a subsidiary of the publicly traded Omnicom Group.
- Founded a management consultancy firm in 1989, today known as “& Samhoud ”.
Wouter Staatsen (1974), CFO
Wouter joined Albumprinter in 2009 as CFO. He has a background in Private Equity and Management Consultancy.
- Till 2009, Wouter worked on various finance projects as an independent interim manager.
- From 2003 till 2007 he managed due diligences, turnarounds and buy-and-build programs at H2 Equity Partners, an independent private equity firm.
- From 2000 till 2002 he worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant.
- He holds a law degree from Leiden University (1999) and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (2003).
Jacco Buurman (1968), Plant Manager
Jacco has a background in the automotive industry and has managed operations at various multinationals.
- Prior to working at Albumprinter he worked at Kverneland Group, the main European manufacturer of agricultural and viticultural machinery.
- Prior Kverneland Group he worked at Crawford and Alfa Laval.
- His key competency is performing operational structural improvements.
Frank van Run (1967), Marketing & Sales Director Albelli
Frank joined AlbumPrinter mid 2010 as Marketing & Sales Director Albelli, AlbumPrinters own consumer brand.
- In 2003 he joined Vodafone the Netherlands to lead their Value Added Services department until 2007 when he joined greeting card market leader Greetz as their Country Manager NL and later became responsible for their International business.
- In 2001, Frank joined UCP as Managing Director in London, targeting both B2B as B2C audiences for mobile services
- He joined AND International Publishing in 1996 after which he started his own company Future Friday in 1999, where he launched an online consumer portal offering mobile services to approx 400.000 end-users.
Barbara Henkelman (1976), Marketing & Sales Director
Indirect Sales
Barbara joined Albumprinter in August 2007 as Account Manager for Albumprinter’s private label partners and was promoted to Marketing & Sales Director Indirect Sales in April 2011.
- Immediately prior to joining Albumprinter Barbara took a yearlong sabbatical in which she travelled through India, South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the US.
- During her five years in London, she held various sales roles in the hospitality industry and her last position was Director of Sales for 3 Holiday Inn hotels.
- Barbara started her career as a marketing & communications executive at an internet start-up in 1999, before moving to London in 2001.
Maarten Wensveen (1979), IT Manager
Maarten has been involved with Albumprinter since the early days.
- Prior to working at Albumprinter, he was director of an SME IT company Quantes IT.
- In 2004, he joined the start-up Albumprinter and developed the IT infrastructure to support its exponential growth.
- Currently he’s responsible for all customer facing, workflows and other software development. The IT infrastructure is mainly residing in the “cloud”.