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Andre Maljaars (48) - CEO and co-founder of founder contact, is responsible for daily management at foundercontact. He worked 22 years successful across borders for both multinationals (Philips Consumer Electronics and Ingram Micro) as well SME companies and internet start-ups. Most in senior executive positions with bottom-line responsibility like sales director, managing director, vice president, CCO and CEO. Managed the bottom-line of companies with combined sales growth from 30 Million to 1 Billion successfully. Has a MSc degree for studying business economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has a bachelor degree in marketing. Has own internet companies with foundercontact.com and leaderboard.nl and is specialized in innovating and running business concepts through the web.
The company is operated by an international team of 4 entrepreneurs with co-shareholders Andre Maljaars (The Netherlands) Steve Howard (United Kingdom), Vivek Kalyan (India) and Douglas Gordon (United Kingdom) that worked now for 4 years successful together. Combined they have a large and rich experience in the field of entrepreneurship, setting up, expanding fast new companies, growing revenue fast, managing and running back and front office services from remote locations, profiling investment opportunities and investment (advisory services). read more
founder contact is now a web 2.0 community of more than 12,000+ entrepreneurs and investors coming from 103 different countries. With capital markets and banks alien to early stage entrepreneurs, founder contact enables business owners, ceo's and investors to exchange business profiles and interact on business, networking and capital requests with like-minded individuals. We help entrepreneurs to articulate their investment opportunity by well researched questions at the investment community. The Investment Summary allow investors a quick decision as to viability within the parameters of their investment portfolio. It means a significant saving in time and cost due to a smart online matching process (ps. we are not deal making). Either the entrepreneur or the investor could request for an additional premium Industry and Market Analysis from kMatrix and Steve Howard as one of the world’s leading profiling authorities.
Steve Howard: “The profiling knowledge we build at our companies is the result of a 20 year research programme across 5,800,000 businesses worldwide, initially with Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar of Harvard University who joined with me some 19 years ago to form today’s company kMatrix. The profiling process takes account of some 10,600 industry sectors worldwide, and has approximately 9,500 measurables, per sector. In addition the system is able to track technologies across sectors, for example water jet cutting for cutting coal in the mining industry, through to the use of water jets in medical instrumentation and surgery. All data is geo-positioned world wide. It is this three dimensional ability which enables the process to make relevant comparisons company to company, and country to country for each element of the business”
