1999 to present; Managing Director for Festo Netherlands - full responsibility for all related Festo business in the Dutch market. In this capacity, I do report to the Board of Directors in Festo AG & co in Stuttgart, Germany. Festo NL is a market leading industrial Automation Company in the area of pneumatic and electromechanical based motion controls with ca. 140 employees and ca. €65M annual turnover in The Netherlands. Festo is a part of Festo AG & Co, Esslingen, Germany