
Klaas excels at simplifying complexity, driving collaboration, and catalyzing change to deliver results and being a translator between deep technology and business/finance.
What I offer

Coaching
Coached and advised businesses on
* Technology strategy (early stage and turn-around)
* Entrepreneurship (product market fit, financial modeling, fundraise)
* M&A (buy&build, valuation, due diligence)

Audit / due diligence
I use a proprietary 5 point framework to assess technology in a business. Focused on current state, future capability, security and compliance concerns and operational processes.
Think of it as an MOT for your technology team.
Experiences

edtech coach
Coaching the companies going through the WISE edtech accelerator.
My coaching focuses on the intersection of business & technology. I work typically with CEO, CTO and/or CPO over a 3 month period to focus on technology strategy & processes and product-market fit

CTO (full time / 10 yrs)
as CTO my strengths have been
* structuring technology teams, driving outcomes
* the intersection of technology and finance
* digital change / transformation of "legacy" organisations
* early stage "0 to 1" scenarios as well as later stage scaling challenges
worked in B2C edtech/media and B2B SaaS