Stefanie Bertram

Stefanie is an experienced, visionary leader with global experience across multiple industries. She has more than 30 years of experience working with international companies like Gerber Technology, McAfee and Symantec. She held positions such as Director Sales, Service and Regional Vice President Commercial Operations EMEA within software and technology companies targeting a variety of industries such as  Software, Technology, Manufacturing, Clean Tech, SMART materials/composites, Creative Industries.

Stefanie is also a mentor of international Startups in The Netherlands and abroad. She is building bridges between business needs, technology and employees with an eye for quality, sustainability and diversity. Stefanie is an emphatic leader with a holistic, multi-dimensional approach, caring about social responsibility. She is part of the Dutch Top Women initiative 'SER Topvrouwen', enhancing the visibility of highly qualified women.

• Few persons made such an impression on me when it comes to strength, willpower and delivery.
• She has a clear mind and goal setting and works for the future.
• She is strict but very creative. She has a passion for her work and always aims at growth and the profit.
• Her wide international experience and understanding for business across the borders has made her a very good networker.
• Dedicated and highly motivated professional leader.
• Challenges her colleagues to make sure they are delivering and bringing their best.
• Highly engaged and brings strong positive energy.
• Established close and effective relationships with business partners, colleagues at all levels.
• Her ability to communicate and work effectively in foreign business cultures and to achieve results has earned her respect among business partners and within the organization.
• Her managerial skills, flexibility, motivation and commitment has enabled her to respond to changing market needs effectively.
• She is a hands-on-manager with an eye and ear to the market, clear and simple in her directions.
• She is able to look at a problem situation and comes up with a solution.
• When faced with challenges out of her control such as economic and political aspects, she is able to develop a plan and execute against it.
• Stefanie has implemented business plans effectively, embarked on them and when bumps came up she manoeuvred the team to be in a position to achieve the goal. Her eyes are always on hitting the objective.
• She is well organized, working hard and enjoys the game, using her strong organizational and strategic business skills and staying focused on collective success with a good view for business development opportunities.
• She is a well respected person and effective leader.
• Under Stefanie’s management my effectiveness grew both as an individual and as part of a team.

" Boards will benefit from my fresh approach, understanding multi-cultural team dynamics and decision making processes, leading to long term results, effective strategic alliances and customer satisfaction. Balancing a drive for growth and team motivation generating EBITDA improvement. When faced with challenging situations, my focused approach lead to collective success. "

Stefanie Bertram