Minds of Tomorrow Mentorprogramma

Minds of Tomorrow (MoT) is het mentorprogramma van de DBRT Zürich waarbij young professionals gekoppeld worden aan executives die actief zijn in het Zwitserse bedrijfsleven met als doel de carrière en persoonlijke ontwikkeling te stimuleren.

Over een periode van 1 jaar wordt er op individuele basis gewerkt aan persoonlijke, professionele en leiderschapsdoelstellingen. De DBRT hanteert strikte selectiecriteria en ondersteunt mentoren als ook mentees gedurende het traject om het succes van het programma te waarborgen. Het programma sluit naadloos aan op de ambitie van de DBRT om meer te betekenen voor young professionals en de uitwisseling tussen junioren en senioren te stimuleren.

In 2018 zijn we gestart met 10 mentoren en 18 mentees. Elke maand stellen de mentoren tijd beschikbaar voor persoonlijk overleg en begeleiding met 1-3 mentees. In 2019 hadden we 25 mentees in ons programma.

Voorwaarden voor deelname

Om voor 2020 in aanmerking te komen voor een positie als mentee, dien je te voldoen aan een aantal voorwaarden, waarvan je de belangrijkste hieronder vindt:

Je bent tussen de 21 en 35 jaar oud, woonachtig in Zwitserland en betalend lid van de DBRT Zürich.
Je bent op de hoogte van de meest recente ontwikkelingen in je vakgebied en spant je in om deze kennis te onderhouden.
Je hebt je uiterlijk 1 februari definitief aangemeld bij voor het DBRT Minds of Tomorrow programma compleet met de volgende informatie: Motivatiebrief, het vragenformulier voor mentees, CV en top-3 beoogde mentor.

Deelname is (behalve je lidmaatschap van CHF 37.50 tot CHF 75 per jaar) geheel vrijgesteld van kosten. Laat je interesse aan ons weten bij en stuur het vragenformulier mee.

De mentoren van Minds of Tomorrow 2020

Elk jaar is voorafgaand aan de nieuwjaarsborrel de gelegenheid om op laagdrempelige wijze kennis te maken met de mentoren. Dit geeft je de mogelijkheid om beter te kunnen bepalen welke mentor nou echt bij jou als Young Professional past en hem/haar vragen te stellen die je kunnen helpen bij het schrijven van een gerichte motivatie.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van onze mentoren die zich voor 2020 geheel belangeloos inzetten voor onze Young Professionals:

Katja (1972) werkt sinds 2013 voor Van Lanschot Kempen en is sinds augustus 2018 CEO van Van Lanschot Zwitserland. Na haar studies Economie en Filosofie werkte Katja 15 jaar bij ABN AMRO in diverse functies. Bij Van Lanschot Kempen was zij verantwoordelijk voor de kantoren in Amsterdam en Haarlem, voor de centrale administratie van de bank en voor de aansluiting van Asset Manager Kempen bij de Private Bank van Van Lanschot. De kennis van de Nederlandse Van Lanschot Kempen organisatie zet Katja nu graag in voor de klanten van Van Lanschot Zwitserland.

Katja is getrouwd met Paul, samen hebben zij vier kinderen. De jongste twee zoontjes wonen hier bij hen in Zwitserland, de oudste twee dochters studeren in Nederland! Zij houdt van buiten zijn en geniet met volle teugen van de natuur in Zwitserland.

Naast haar werk is Katja lid van de Raad van Toezicht van het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest en lid van de Raad van Toezicht van Plan Nederland.

Hanneke has an extensive background in organizational development with a focus on Innovation in an organizational context and culture change/transformation management.

As enterprise coach she helps senior managers, leaders and teams to understand and adopt an agile and lean mindset. She is a Big Picture Thinker and works as a strategic facilitator encouraging colleagues to design, initiate, carry out and communicate their vision, mission, goals and objectives in order to execute on the day-to-day tactical level.

Hanneke likes to look at the larger picture and find smart solutions with colleagues. Her motivation is to uncover hidden insights and utilize these to define strategy, road maps and vision to move a program, product or service to successful implementation. She also values collaboration. The best work she has done has been as part of a team.

In haar huidige functie richt Marianne zich op strategische marketing projecten en business development projecten binnen de diagnostische product groep Point of Care, dit zijn diagnostische devices die aan het bed van de patient gebruikt worden en door Roche ontwikkeld en verkocht worden.

Voordat Marianne bij het hoofdkantoor van Roche Diagnostics aan de slag ging heeft zij voor het lokale kantoor van Roche in Nederland gewerkt als Product Manager. Daarvoor heeft Marianne meerdere jaren gewerkt in sales en marketing functies binnen de farmaceutische industrie.

Als International Marketing Manager is Marianne gespecialiseerd in alles wat met product/marketing management te maken heeft: van product ontwikkeling, business development, marketing en sales tot trainen en workshops ontwikkelen voor en met klanten. Het geven van presentaties op internationale bijeenkomsten, bezoeken van klanten om meer inzicht te krijgen in de wensen en benodigdheden om een toekomst visie en strategie te kunnen ontwikkelen voor het product portfolio. Marianne heeft haar drs titel behaald in de Sociale Psychologie en daarnaast diverse marketing en business cursussen gevolgd.

Bekijk het volledige profiel van Marianne Mulder op linkedin.

Arnout Ploos van Amstel has over 25 years of business experience in the bio-pharmaceutical business in a wide variety of leadership positions. Until recently, Arnout was Head (Senior Vice President) of the Global Business Franchise Immunology Hepatology & Dermatology (IHD, ~$4.5Bn) at Novartis Pharma. The IHD portfolio of products includes the game changing biologic Cosentyx –the best Novartis launch ever- in the diseases Psoriasis and Spondyloarthritis. IHD further includes Orphan Diseases, Transplant, and Liver Diseases. In all disease areas, assets are managed from early clinical development to late stage commercialization. Regular portfolio enrichments are added through in-licensing and acquisition deals. Arnout joined Novartis in July 2010 as President Novartis Greece and navigated the affiliate through the challenges of the economic crisis. Before joining Novartis, he headed for ~2 years a Global/US operational Business Unit (~$2bn revenue) of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in the US and was President Wyeth Canada for ~3 years. Prior he had this role at Wyeth the Netherlands after having exercised a career in various marketing and sales roles with increasing responsibility.

Arnout excels in building high performing teams. He develops solid strategic roadmaps with clear goals to deliver results that exceed expectations. He is passionate about converting science and products into sustainable value for customers and patients, through the initiation and implementation of fully integrated Development-Medical-Commercial strategies.

He was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he earned a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Groningen.

Hans is the People & Organization (P&O) practice leader for Switzerland based in the Geneva office. He joined PwC in the Netherlands in 1998 and moved to Switzerland in 2002. He has strong experience in providing advice in international individual taxation, complex international payroll structuring, set up of global and regional employment companies, mobility policies as well as compensation & benefits strategy.
As the P&O Swiss practice leader, Hans is a speaker in many national and international seminars on global mobility challenges, talent management and more general HR matters. Hans is a graduate in Law from the Leiden University. Hans is a Dutch native speaker, fluent in German and English and at conversational level in French.

Gerben Schreurs is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and the Global Head of Change & Controls for Financial Crime Compliance, based in Zurich. In this role he is responsible for the global oversight and management of all FCC projects, technology initiatives, project management, and strategic control design. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in April 2018, Gerben was a Forensic Partner at KPMG Switzerland specializing in the technology aspects like data analytics, eDiscovery and computer forensics in the context of fraud investigations, bribery and sanctions issues and information leakage. Next to the Swiss role, he was responsible for Forensic Technology services for KPMG globally. Before joining KPMG Switzerland he held a similar role at KPMG in the Netherlands where he started his career in 1996.

Judith has over 20 years experience in the FMCG industry and Market Research. She is a trusted advisor to CEO’s, board members and executive teams with her deep expertise in understanding the trends in the exciting and continuously changing world of the FMCG industry globally.

Judith is also a member of the employee resource group Women in Nielsen (WIN), dedicated to making Nielsen’s highly diverse workforce the most engaged in the world. Colleagues also appreciate her as a positive, inspirational, approachable leader & mentor/coach.

Coen’s is an independent senior executive with more than 20 years international management experience in industrial companies such as Bucher Industries AG (stock-listed), SR Technics AG and Hilti Corporation. Coen has extensive international general management experience and has developed expertise in various areas such as strategic management, internationalisation, sales & marketing, operations, emerging markets and M&A incl. post merger integration.

Currently, Coen has his own Management & Strategy consultancy firm and is non-excecutive Chairman of the Board of Schaeff Holding AG, an international group of medium sized industrial companies.

He is an alumnus from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Master of Science in Business Administration) and holds in addition 2 Bachelor Degrees in Mechanical Engeering and Industrial Sales.

Robert Oudmayer is CEO of Cembra Money Bank AG in Switzerland, a financial services provider and a leading consumer finance business in Switzerland.
Prior to this role he worked 15 years for General Electric. He joined GE Capital in 1999 as Managing Director Benelux at GE TIP Trailer Services (Rotterdam, Netherlands). He then joined GE TIP Trailer Services European Headquarters in 2000 as Chief Operating Officer TIP Europe. In 2001 he was promoted to Managing Director TIP Europe and Rail Car Europe. In 2003, Robert started a new role as Managing Director auto and sales finance at GE Capital Bank in Switzerland (Brugg AG). In 2005, he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer for GE Money in Portugal. Four years later, in 2009, he transferred back to Switzerland and took over the role as Chief Executive Officer for GE Money Bank AG.
He led the Initial Public Offering of GE Money Bank in 2013. Since then the company is listed at the Swiss Exchange as Cembra Money Bank AG.

Robert Oudmayer holds a B.A. at Hotelschool Den Haag, International Hogeschool voor Hotel Management.

Prior to joining GE, he worked four years as consultant and subsequently over 10 years for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Automotive Group in both Netherlands and France.

Taco is since 2016 CEO of Randstad Schweiz AG. A leading company in the flexible HR industry combining quality, innovation and strong engagement towards all our stakeholders.

Till end 2015: Senior board member at Randstad Switzerland, responsible for the in-house business-line as well as for our staffing operations in the French speaking cantons.
Focus on profitable growth, being recognized as global & local thought leader and sustainable partnership with our clients.

From 2011 till July 2014: Vice-president and senior board member of a > 1100 fte company, located in Japan. Responsible for successful merger and integration of a very Japanese, local oriented company into a global Dutch multinational. After integration, revenue and profitability went up, while outperforming the market.

Marco is director at Deloitte AG leading the Small Medium sized Entity practise for Central and Eastern Switzerland. His team consists of students up to experienced senior managers. He is working for over 15 years for Deloitte in Switzerland and used to work before at PwC in the Netherlands.

He has a broad experience in all types of clients (except FINMA regulated banking) and supports his clients in all different aspects which are relevant to SME companies. He is specialized in consumer businesses and manufacturing and is a licensed auditor (register accountant) for Switzerland as well as for the Netherlands and also a member of the Art & Finance Group within Deloitte.

Marco is an alumnus from Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a master in business economics.

Over the past 20⁺ years Mark has worked in different markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the US. For 15 years he worked for a top 5 Multinational Pharmaceutical company in a broad range of roles and the remainder of the years he worked for start-up/smaller to mid-sized companies. He gained experience in a broad range of roles including general management, global and regional leadership roles. Passionate about creating high performing teams with a strong focus on engaging, achieving the same overarching goal, independent of their background or direct responsibilities and making them successful.

In his current role he is partnering with executives, teams and organisations who want to make a difference – for themselves and for others. With a strong belief that, while keeping the end goal in mind, change should start with the smallest of steps leading to a major and lasting impact. The main challenge however is to define together the right initial, critical steps.

Martin’s 25-year experience in finance spans over corporate M&A, IR and Capital Market Transactions in executive and non-executive board roles, in sectors such as healthcare, software, telecom.
Prior to Xeltis AG, he co-founded, is Chairman of the Board and CFO at Avalia Systems. Previously, Martin was CFO at P&I AG and deputy CFO at Temenos. Earlier on, he spent 10 years at Nokia and started his career in the Dairy Industry at Campina Melkunie.
Martin is an alumnus from IMD Lausanne and holds an Executive Master of Finance and Control from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Koos is the CRO, deputy CEO at van Lanschot Switzerland. An executive with broad domestic and international experience. A skilled CEO with a proven track record in transforming, building and expanding businesses. A questioning strategic thinker, progressive, a positive attitude, hands-on and a strong ability to connect stakeholders. Valuing high customer statisfaction, client relationships, teamwork and employee development.

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Minds of Tomorrow Mentorprogramma

Voorwaarden voor deelname

De mentoren van Minds of Tomorrow 2020

Katja Kok

Hanneke Gerritsen

Marianne Mulder

Arnout Ploos van Amstel

Hans Geene

Gerben Schreurs

Judith Kuiper

Coen van Rosmalen

Robert Oudmayer

Taco de Vries

Marco Hoogendijk

Mark Ypinga

Martin de Groot

Koos Vink