Marco Gianotten

Founder

Favorite saying: “Do or do not. There’s no try.” Sharp. Disruptive. Pioneer of the Experience Revolution. Likes to speak at home and abroad. Pushes change into overdrive with compelling arguments to act.

Karel Helsen

Chief Operating Officer

Favorite saying: “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Gives direction to Giarte's growth. Led several large companies. Knows like nobody else what is really going on in the business.

Marthijn Brouwer

Head of Customer Success - Strategy Consultant

Favorite saying: “To infinity and beyond.” Marthijn is our human octopus, juggling our training and consulting offerings. He makes the impossible possible. His mission is to develop and grow XLA as a skillset. He is the master of teambuilding and radiates positive energy.

Linda van 't Klooster

Head of Research

Favorite saying: “Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.” Responsible for Giarte's Insights branch. Combines her years of research experience and broad background in the IT market for actionable insights for continuous improvement.

Zoi Manesi

Research Specialist

Favorite saying: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. Let’s work together!” Zoi’s PhD in psychology gives her an extraordinary sense of perspective when it comes to what makes people tick when interacting with IT. Our key person in methodology and actionable insights.

Anke van de Kerkhof

Senior Strategy Consultant

Favorite saying: “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” Anke is our Curly Consultant. She has a background in ITSM and is devoted to improving the user and employee experience. She is connecting the dots in tech and touch. She works with our clients to embrace XLA. While keeping her curls on fleek.

Darko Spijkers

Accountmanager

Favorite saying: “Never look down on someone unless you’re admiring their shoes.” Darko’s background as a bartender and a bachelor in finance makes him a good conversational partner for our clients. Besides this, he is also obsessed with numbers. When he is not being a superman in the office, he works out in the gym. A lot.

Peter-Coen Koppert

Delivery Manager

Favorite saying: “Embrace uncertainty.” Full-time IT aficionado, part-time hippie; Peter-Coen is all about the balance. He flourishes by positivity and is a sucker for teambuilding. He gains energy when he creates order in chaos. When he can transfer this energy and structure to his clients, his day has been a successful one. He thinks 'outside the box’ but cannot say this without gagging.

Mark Leuverink

ServiceNow and Technical Consultant

Favorite saying: “If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don’t, raise your standards.” Mark keeps the ServiceNow solutions up-to-par for all our clients. Where there is the smooth-running of technology, there’s Mark. The thing he loves most about working at Giarte is the confidence and support he gets to develop new measures. His experience in IT makes this smartass your favorite data geek.

Rinia Verschoor

Office Manager

Favorite saying: “Who run the world? GIRLS!” Rinia is our raging rocket. Engaging passionately with our clients and co-workers to make sure our office is a happy-place. She is our Jackelyn of all trades: finding an answer to all of your questions.

Aileen Oosterling

Researcher

Favorite saying: “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” Aileen is our Excel Fetishist, mastering the art of spreadsheets. She is part of the ITX research team, focusing on customer experience. Besides researching and analyzing data, she prepares presentations. Preferably in Excel. Obviously.

Sarah Rouwendal

Digital Marketer

Favorite saying: “How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.” Sarah is our little power lady. She is extremely goal minded and thrives by planning and organizing. She combines a hands on mentality and structure with hospitality. As long as a company has capacity and quality, she blends it quite easily into a plan.

Misha Weber

Favorite saying: "No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió.” (Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened). Misha has traveled through almost every country in Latin America. His experience abroad has helped him to develop the ability to connect with people from varied backgrounds quite easily. His main goal is to improve the connection with clients as much as possible in order to make them feel like they’re not treated as a number but as individuals.

Justin Mensah

Junior Consultant

Favorite saying: “Hard work pays off.” Probably the best-dressed office tiger there is. A star when it comes to connecting the dots in a complex analytical consulting engagement. He always takes initiative so there is a pretty fair chance the task is already done before the client notices anything has to be done. Very easy to talk to.

Ahmed Baniyassien

Researcher

Favorite saying: “In God we trust, all others bring data.” Ahmed is our fulltime data geek. He was born in Jordan, studied in Germany and is now our unsung hero in data science. He is obsessed by learning new things. He loves challenging himself both as a professional and as a puzzler.

Yaser Norouzzadeh

Data Scientist

Favorite saying: “Do good and good will come to you". Yaser designs and builds our brand-new data platforms. He speaks English, Farsi and Arabic and understands dangerously more Dutch than he likes to admit. Yaser's favorite movie is Inception since it is as confusing and mesmerizing as data can be.

Hannah van der Vegt

Copywriter

Favorite saying: “Not all those who wander are lost.” Hannah is our disarming pirate, wordsmithing our content (blogs, books, trainings, podcasts, and customer cases). She likes stepping onto uncharted territory exploring the unknown with her can-do attitude. To her, it all boils down to find hidden treasure maps.

Erica Jenks

Project Management Officer

Favorite saying: "I have never tried that before so I think I should definitely be able to do that". Erica is our pillar: providing the overview and insights into our projects. Efficient. Systematic. Pragmatic. Likes to keep it honest and simple. When she is not planning & organizing, she runs. Or she is kicking ass in the hockey field.

Rob Herings

Xperience Management Trainer

Favorite saying: "Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world". Rob is our tech & train sensei. He has trained both CEO's and Interns, in about every country you can imagine: South-Africa, India, Iceland, the USA, Japan, Australia, the United Arab Emirates. To name a few. He is what we call a real Globetrotter. Besides training, his true passion lies with outdoor climbing and exploring mountains.

Cansu Bas

Business Intelligence Specialist

Favorite saying: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". Cansu is our Computer Whizzard. Her degree in mathematical engineering fits her daily work as a data analyst. It also makes her a badass. Besides crazy computing skills, she masters the art of cooking, silversmithing, and playing bass. Used to love the idea of ‘walking in the rain’ until she moved to the Netherlands.

Teresa Morins

Business Intelligence Specialist

Favorite saying: "Beauty may be dangerous but intelligence is lethal". Dexterous with data. Ingenious with climate science. Inventive when it comes to designing. When she is not constructing dashboards, she designs and fabricates her own furniture. To her, data reads like a novel: numbers are unknown and chaotic in the beginning but change into familiar characters once you figure out the story behind them.