Outcome-first, role by role, from export desk to the board table.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Tekle Holographics B.V.

• Founded a deep-tech company developing glasses-free (“brilvrije”) holographic display technology, taking it from concept through working prototype, intellectual property, and international commercialization.
• Won and delivered paid programmes with a multinational defence organisation, Navantia, a Gulf national energy company, Bristol Myers Squibb and Erasmus-related programmes, every institutional relationship established at C-level and board level.
• Participated in REPMUS, the allied maritime exercise in Portugal, in 2023 and 2024, with a deployed six-person team at two sites, working on multinational data interoperability inside the command-centre environment.
• Directed the company’s intellectual-property strategy; named inventor on four patent applications covering the core display technology.
• Structured a venture financing round: cap-table design, investor terms and an employee participation vehicle (STAK), supported by a full investor documentation suite and data room.
• Recruited and led a cross-functional team spanning engineering, solutioning and commercial functions.
• Currently leading the company through a structured restructuring and recapitalisation.

Chairman of the Board

Tekle Holographics MENA Holding Ltd

• Chairs the board of the group’s DIFC-incorporated MENA joint venture, operating within the DFSA’s oversight context and English common-law corporate practice.
• Provides board-level oversight, governance and strategic direction for the group’s Middle East expansion, meeting the conduct and compliance standards required of a regulated financial-centre entity.

Founder & Managing Director

Tekle B.V.

• Founded and single-handedly ran an IT firm supplying data-center and office hardware to enterprise clients.
• Generated €19 million in annual turnover, as a one-person company.
• Recognized as the largest Microsoft Surface partner in the Benelux, operating solo.
• Identified the potential of holographic display technology in 2020, wound down the IT business and reinvested fully to found Tekle Holographics in 2021.

Founder

UNAS

• Founded a mission-driven video platform enabling charity and aid workers to share their work and earn through advertising revenue and follower donations, a “YouTube for good.”
• When outsourced development failed to deliver a workable platform, taught himself to code, becoming a technical founder, a capability central to his work today.

Export Manager

Globility Connect

• Joined as a junior account manager and was promoted to Export Manager within three years.
• Created, hired and led the company’s export division from the ground up, its largest and most productive unit, growing it to 45 people.
• The export division came to account for 60% of company sales and 70% of purchasing volume.

Media Relations, DACH Region

TomTom

• Led press and media relations for the German-speaking (DACH) markets.