Our people

Brigitte van der Maarel studied in Rotterdam at the Erasmus University. She finished her Master (drs) Business Economics (Finance & Investments) in 1992. She has over 25 years of experience in Investments, Leveraged Finance, M&A, Strategy and Governance. Brigitte worked at ABN AMRO, ING, as Corporate Finance Director at VEON, as Venture Partner for INKEF Capital and as Investment Director for Convent Capital. Brigitte is head of the Investment department of NIBC and furthermore serves on the Supervisory Boards of Innovation Quarter and Meerlanden and has a seat on the Investment Committee of Karmijn Kapitaal. She is also a member of the Dutch Level20 Committee.

Hubert Verbeek is managing partner of Holland Capital. As an investor, Hubert is strong in understanding growing companies and developing business strategies. We are proud to be involved with Holland Capital and to have the opportunity to work together with Hubert and his team. Holland Capital is one of the first independent private equity firms in the Netherlands. They have been successfully and responsibly investing in promising small and medium-sized Dutch businesses with growth ambitions for almost 40 years. With a clear investment strategy, they anticipate long-term trends in attractive growth markets, focusing on the Healthcare and Technology sectors.

At NEWCRAFT we help companies understand the new customers’ digital attitude. We use our craftsmanship to support companies in their digital transformation. We help businesses achieve results faster through digital acceleration. We help develop future-proof strategies, to innovate a proposition, optimise performance across all channels and make sure the client possess the digital capabilities to keep moving things forward. We believe in a pragmatic, result-driven approach and working together to get things done.

Caspar works for one of the biggest e-tailers in The Netherlands. He is an experienced e-commerce and retail professional with strong knowledge of building B2C propositions in an on and offline environment. Digital en technology is his world.

Rutger has 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. He has built and managed asset-intensive infrastructure businesses that provide vital logistical services to the international oil & gas industry. First with Dutch Vopak and later as former CEO of the German Oiltanking group, the world's second largest independent tank storage provider. Since 2013 Rutger is a partner at Coloured Finches, a hands-on investor in the downstream energy business in Europe and Asia. He also is the CEO of Alkion Terminals, a partnership between Coloured Finches and infrastructure fund Infravia Capital Partners.

Reender is a financial and operational manager with a commercial focus in medical devices. His objective is to build entrepreneurial companies with strong growth potential in digital health (IT) and medical devices. Reender is CFO for Forcare but also worked for Sapiens, Nucletron and Baker McKenzie.

As Managing Director of the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (NRG) in Petten Niels is responsible for all international commercial activities regarding nuclear technology. Before NRG he worked as Managing Director at Royal Vopak in Hamburg in the Oil & Gas industry.

Rogier is working for Haelok, a privately held high-tech company based in ​ Switzerland ​. It's main focus is on the development, production and distribution of unique metal sealed pipe connector systems​. Rogier is a true entrepreneur and active in several sectors like Industry, Energy, Maritime and Oil & Gas. ​ ​For him, the personal touch ​is important. That makes the difference, especially in this digital era. Not the ‘what’ but the ‘who’. Reflecting on how he initially got engaged with Navigator Network. ​We did talk much about persons and matches. After all, at the end of the day it’s much more about who you match than what you match.

Since 2014 owner and General Manager of SoFine Foods. They produce meat substitutes, or as Bart prefers to formulate "high protein plant based vegetable soy". Bart started his career at the beginning of the 1990s at Heineken. After that he was commercial director at Mars, general director at Royal Verkade, interim director strategy and commerce at Westland Kaas Group and commercial director at The Greenery. At SoFine he is responsible for general and commercial management.

Maurice is an experienced business manager with an international mindset and a trackrecord in a medical environment. Currently he is Vice President Clinical Systems at The ELITechGroup which manufactures and distributes diagnostic products for clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunology, and molecular biology though direct sales and a distribution network encompassing more than 100 countries. Maurice has a lot of experience in business development & business partner acquisition and a proven track record in the (re)structuring of commercial departments & creation of effective sales strategies. Strong in developing a customer & market oriented organisations. He knows a lot about strategic enterprise account management, marketing management, product launches, strategic planning and people management in the areas of Medical devices & diagnostics, laboratory IT & automation, biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry.

Alexander is investment manager at Nimbus. He likes to pick up companies that have reached a stage where a new conduct of business is required in order to obtain and maintain structural continuity. A fresh and sound view can be of use when it comes to product development, production methods and efficiency. With his hands-on approach with financial backup, relevant expertise and management support he puts companies firmly back on track. Alexander studied Business Administration at Groningen University and attained his MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Marc is one of the well known Internet advertising pioneers in The Netherlands and in Europe. After early success at World Online and Ilsemedia (now Sanoma), Marc joined Google as Country Director Benelux in 2002, notably as one of Google’s first employees outside the U.S and one of the European Board Members of Google for several years. At Google he drove strong international success and supported several countries in the emerging markets. After Google Marc was involved with setting up LinkedIn in The Netherland, has held several board positions (Inshared, Relay42 and Vonq), was the CEO of funda for several years. Currently Marc has been involved with AMZ Consultancy (Amazon, marketplace agency) and ReAge Health Supplements (anti aging supplements).

Unfortunately, Joost Rethmeier passed away on August 15, 2022, after having previously suffered a stroke. We have enjoyed working with Joost and will miss him as a partner in Navigator Network. He loved his work and was always interested in people in general. With his humor, passion and professional drive in mind, we will continue our work and hope he will be living in everyone's heart.