Niek Van Hengel

Niek Van Hengel

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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-- About TwoPurpose --
We are dedicated technology specialists focused on creating impact for our clients. With a passion for innovation, we help organizations build better relationships with their stakeholders and collaborate more efficiently using Salesforce technology.

-- About me --
Advocate of social entrepreneurship, digital transformation and innovation. Consultant with strong business background, MSc Strategic Management and Finance and Investments from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (NL) and Bocconi Milan (It). Multiple Salesforce certifications. Besides work a passionate amateur chef, WSET II certified wine drinker and golf player (hcp. 17).

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    TwoPurpose

    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

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    Benelux

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    Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

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Education

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    Activities and Societies: Board member of Master study club Strategic Management 2010

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Awesome Foundation Rotterdam Graphic

    Trustee

    Awesome Foundation Rotterdam

    - 2 years 5 months

    Making Rotterdam even more awesome through community-focused micro-grants. Each month we award a €1000 grant to realize crazy, wild and innovative ideas.

    The Awesome Foundation Rotterdam is a local community that boosts ideas to make Rotterdam more awesome, cool, fun, loving and social. Multiple evenings a year, idea owners pitch their awesome idea to the audience. These evenings are called “Pitch Nights” and are free to attend.

    Find out who won the previous editions on our…

    Making Rotterdam even more awesome through community-focused micro-grants. Each month we award a €1000 grant to realize crazy, wild and innovative ideas.

    The Awesome Foundation Rotterdam is a local community that boosts ideas to make Rotterdam more awesome, cool, fun, loving and social. Multiple evenings a year, idea owners pitch their awesome idea to the audience. These evenings are called “Pitch Nights” and are free to attend.

    Find out who won the previous editions on our website: www.awesomerotterdam.org

    #awesomerotterdam

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    Jurylid Wereldprijs 2015 & 2016 Categorie Zorg en welzijn

    ASN Bank

    - 1 year

    Social Services

    Wedstrijd van ASN Bank voor slimme ideeën voor een betere wereld.

  • RET Graphic

    Jurylid Aardig Onderweg Award 2015 & 2016

    RET

    - 1 year

    Arts and Culture

    De Aardig Onderweg Award is voor mensen die iets bijzonders doen, ontwikkelen of betekenen in de stadsregio Rotterdam en hiermee al aardig onderweg zijn, maar nog wel een (extra) steuntje in de rug kunnen gebruiken. De Aardig Onderweg Award bestaat uit een vakjuryprijs van €10.000 per categorie en één publieksprijs.

  • Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam Graphic

    Guest Lecturer

    Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam

    - Present 7 years 5 months

    Education

    Gave two workshops about the fashion brand Granny's Finest and how design functions as a means to the end of preventing social Isolation among elderly.

  • Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing Graphic

    Guest Lecturer

    Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing

    - Present 8 years 2 months

    Education

    Lecture on Social entrepreneurship and preventing loneliness

Courses

  • Growforce Academy 6-week growth marketing evening course

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Honors & Awards

  • Radicale vernieuwer

    Kennisland

    Radicale Vernieuwers is een initiatief van Kennisland, Vandejong enVrij Nederland om mensen met radicaal positieve, duurzame en sociale initiatieven in de spotlight te zetten.

  • Finalist Join our Core competitie Londen (winnaar voorronde Nederland en 2e plek in Londen)

    Unilever & Ben & Jerry's

    Join Our Core was inspired by Ben & Jerry's co-founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who back in ’78 decided to launch a business with an economic, product and social mission, all of equal importance.

    At the same time Ashoka’s Bill Drayton was creating a movement of people all over the world who were using business to create social and economic change, he even coined the phrase ‘social entrepreneur' - “business with a heart & soul”!

  • Finalist Ketelbinkieprijs

    Stichting Ketelbinkie

    Aanmoedigingsprijs voor een jonge Rotterdamse onderneming die zich in het afgelopen jaar op een originele en innovatieve manier heeft geprofileerd. Een positieve uitstraling op het Rotterdamse karakter vindt de stichting hierbij erg belangrijk.

  • RET Aardig Onderweg Award

    RET

    Winnaar RET Aardig Onderweg Award 2012 (€ 10.000)

Languages

  • Italian

    Professional working proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Nederlands

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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