Meet our Entrepreneurs in Residence

After working at BinckBank for 10 years, Chris founded Ohpen in 2009, the first cloud-based core banking company in the world. After leading the company as CEO for ten years, Chris stepped down, sold his shares, and founded Whangai to help entrepreneurs scale their company. It is the merger of his creativity and knowledge of technology and dealmaking that helps his clients, network, and partners achieve their ultimate business goals and lifelong dreams.

He is also the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling Monkey Money Mind and Banking the Cloud. 

Fields of expertise:

• Technology;
• Entrepreneurship;
• Culture;
• M&A;

After a successful career in hospitality and tech, Frans founded ticketscript, a tech startup disrupting the events industry with a Saas solution for (mobile) ticketing. Frans led the business as the CEO for the next 10 years, turning it into a pan European organisation with offices in 5 countries, before it was successfully sold to San Francisco-based Eventbrite. After the acquisition, he stayed on leading the European team while the company went public in 2018 at the NYSE.

Fields of expertise:

• SaaS
• B2B
• International expansion
• Go-to-market
• Organisation

Joe Wilson is the CEO of Risenu, a Netherlands-based company focused on investing and ensuring startups can succeed and give back. His vast experience in the startup environment, combined with managing billion-dollar global businesses, brings a unique view on both strategy and results.

Fields of expertise:

• 3D platforms
• HR tech
• Logistics & martech across cloud
• SaaS & on-premise

Daniel Gebler is CTO of Picnic, the fast-growing scale-up from Amsterdam that reinvents how people buy their food. Entrepreneur by day and geek by night. He is also an avid angel investor and loves to coach. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA.

Fields of expertise:

• Entrepreneurship
• Technology
• Artificial intelligence
• E-commerce
• Logistics

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