Advisors
From Australia, Silicon Valley, New York to Amsterdam, our advisors built and sold companies, created and scaled global marketing teams and advise to Fortune 100 boards.
Willem van der Mark
Utrecht, Nederland
Super seasoned sales leader with over 25 years of experience. Led Sales in Northern Europe for GitHub, who got acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Prior and after Willem’s time at Github he built and scaled sales teams across Europe, often for enterprise tech platforms headquartered in the US.
“I learned in my long career that marketing and sales needs to connect like “Yin and Yang”. The balance between storytelling, persuasion and conversion is instrumental to successful company growth. Many companies, particularly SMB’s, struggle with marketing and as a result with sales.
The HelloMaaS platform provides direct access to marketing skills, tools to create and manage a flexible marketing team and direct access to trusted freelancers. A one stop shop every company, big and small should benefit from!“
Ellen Bark – Lindhout
Utrecht, Nederland
Seasoned corporate marketing and innovation leader with roles throughout Europe at Heineken, Sara Lee and Henkel. Switched the corporate world four years ago to lead Collider.io, a marketing technology accelerator in Amsterdam. Selecting, coaching and scaling over 30 startups since 2016, Ellen brings a wealth of strategic and hands-on experience.
In my role at Collider I scout hundreds of marketing technology startups. The space is busy and full of smart innovation. To close the gap between innovation, startups and execution, companies need access to brain and execution power to understand and implement all these new marketing channels and tools. Specialist skills on demand delivered by HelloMaaS in a turnkey platform helps to drive marketing innovation smarter and faster, just what most companies need today!
Scott Doniger
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Scott has two decades of experience in strategic marketing, consulting, analysis and leadership roles, in which he specialized in connecting brands and people through forward-thinking technology. As member of the founding team and Chief Strategy Officer at Social Media Management Platform Sprinklr, Scott was involved at the start that led to a $1B+ valuation today.
“Beyond my admiration and respect for Louise as leader and builder — and just a wonderful person to know and work with — it is the architecture behind the vision for hellomaas.com that I have become so intrigued with. The market-network hybrid model is brilliant!”
Jeremy Brook
Melbourne, Australia
Business Innovation x Technology x Marketing = Creative Magic. Jeremy works at Google as Head of Creative Business Northern Europe. Prior he was at Heineken as Head of Digital Strategy and Social Media. Earlier in his career he worked in leadership positions at global agencies including 180 Amsterdam, Draft FCB and Lowe. Jeremy is a regular public speaker on leadership and people development.
“Marketing is increasingly experimentative: small and nimble teams being formed in new ways, at high speed, and across borders. This new ways of working will unlock huge value for those willing to give it a go. I am very excited to support HelloMaaS in their role to help people succeed in this world.”
Charlene Li
San Francisco, USA
Charlene is a principal analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet company, and author of the New York Times bestseller, “Open Leadership”, “Groundswell” and “The Engaged Leader”. Frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Associated Press. She was on “60 Minutes” and is a highly-sought-after public speaker at conferences such as World Business Forum, World Economic Forum, TED, and SXSW.
“HelloMaaS brings the diversity and depth of a platform coupled with the intelligence of a network to meet both the complex needs of an enterprise marketer while also creating the scale needed to address the needs of a mid-sized company marketer.”
Charles Whittingham
New York City, USA
Charles is a senior executive with 35 years experience in media, advertising, and digital marketing. From print at Time Inc. to advertising at JWT, McKinney to online at About.com and Advertising.com. He was the founding Chief Revenue Officer for Brightroll and helped build over $500M in revenue and $100M in profit until Yahoo! acquired BrightRoll for $640M in 2015.
“HelloMaas understands the changing nature of how the most talented people want to work while giving clients a more efficient, innovative and technology-based option for collaboration in marketing. I share their view of this changing world and believe deeply in the founder’s vision. HelloMaas will be a winner by many measures.”
Jeroen de Bakker
Amsterdam, NL
Brand transformation leader since 1996. Currently at Talpa Radio as CMO and Board Member Juke. Prior, he advised top-tier European companies on branding, disruptive business planning, go-to-market, growth strategy, PR, e-commerce, technology and startup culture. He co-founded and managed several upstarts, agencies and was a mentor to startups at Rockstart.
“I’m excited to support HelloMaaS; a future-forward approach to making smart marketing accessible to all companies – small and large. A much-needed disruption in the marketing industry. I’ve known Louise for over 10 years as a passioned, curious, very component professional with deep experience in strategic thinking and global marketing and enjoy supporting her and her team.”
