time-line
narrative
spearheads
Summary time-line
1984
Drs. business economics
1984-1990
RA (Dutch CPA) Accountancy studies combined with senior accountant position at Arthur Andersen.
1990-2005
corporate finance including flotations and de-listings + turnarounds, restructurings, refinancing processes and projects + takeovers, divestitures
2005-2010
incorporation of Wunder-inc. and involved in a series of
business development and transformation processes and projects.
2010-now and continued…
online consumer credit sector (wehkamp.nl/Lacent, Vodafone Netherlands, Vodafone Financial Services B.V., Thuiswinkel.org, BKR/CKI: strategy-in-actions advisory plus senior leadership positions plus Management Board roles.
Business sectors
Accountancy, +Postal services, +IT solutions, +Telecom, +Online Consumer Credit.
2010-now and continued…
senior management positions in online consumer credit products and consumer financing companies plus advisory positions in some of this business sector’s Institutions.
Narrative
1984-1990
Gert-Jan Wunderink’s professional track record dates back to his Arthur Andersen years (he left the company as a senior accountant, RA (Dutch CPA),
1990-1992
directly followed by two years of turning around HCS Networks (Financial Director).
1992-2005
Gert-Jan’s next steps within KPN were: PTT Post (1992 - 1994 - Manager Group Control), InterPost Group of Companies (1994 - 1995, Financial Director), Vision Networks (formerly: KPN Kabel, 1995-1998, Financial Director), KPN Royal Dutch Telecom (1998 - 2005, Senior Vice President Divestments, Mergers & Acquisitions and International Participations).
2005-2016-and continued
Since 2006, and following the incorporation of his one man’s stand specialist boutique Wunder-inc., finance in action, Gert-Jan Wunderink has been engaged on a series of business development, general management and large scale change management processes and projects for wehkamp.nl (2006-2015) and the consumer financing company Lacent (2010-2015).
From 2015-2017, his next complex change management projects
were for Vodafone Netherlands. Incorporating and setting-up Vodafone Financial Services B.V., as a consumer credit company for handling mobile handsets. Plus leading a M&A-team divesting Vodafone Thuis, in order to enable the VodafoneZiggo merger in the Netherlands.
These are the five spearheads of his work between 1998 and 2016:
1998-2005
KPN Royal Dutch Telecom, senior vice president divestments, mergers & acquisitions and international participations
2007-2008
Getronics, numerous major mergers & acquisitions projects
2006-April 2015
RFS Holland Holding (RFS), the holding company for, amongst others, wehkamp.nl, the single largest independent on-line retailer in The Netherlands
2010-April 2015
Lacent B.V., RFS’ consumer financing company and major profit contributor within RFS (2010 - 2015), as Managing Director ad interim
2015 – September 2017
Vodafone Netherlands, notably as their
Director Consumer Credit of Vodafone Financial Services B.V.
(Summer of 2015 – August 31, 2017).
Supported the successful transformation of the company’s core business by becoming a fully accredited consumer credit company.
Gert-Jan was a leading team member of the M&A project team which sold Vodafone Thuis. This divestiture was a formal precondition by the EC for the merger of Vodafone Netherlands and Ziggo into VodafoneZiggo.
Often times he has been involved in such activities as mergers, leveraged buy-outs, acquisitions, divestitures, refinancing and credit facility extensions, deal negotiations. But also in leading IT related projects and process improvements in the online consumer credit businesses, making these more visible and transparent.
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