Our Team
We are seasoned strategists with a top tier consulting background, passionate about helping businesses find their blue ocean. We are result driven, challenging the status quo. At the same time we are easy to connect with, gain trust quickly from the people in your team and are open and honest in our communications. We combine experience in top-tier strategy consulting, with hands-on business management and entrepreneurship: We know first hand what you need.
Saeske van der Pas
Partner
Saeske has 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation and business management at McKinsey and Company, KPN, Dept (internet agency) and her own consulting boutique. She holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a MSc in Applied Physics from TU Delft.
She started her career at McKinsey and Company, where she learnt the trade of strategy consulting. After a few years in consulting, she decided it was time to get first-hand experience in execution. At KPN, Saeske was at the forefront of new developments, first as manager innovation and new business marketing of KPN Mobile international, and later as the Manager of e-business within the MT Retail of KPN. At DEPT, the online agency, she led one of the business units.
In 2009 Saeske returned to strategy consulting and set up her own practice. She works mostly with executive boards of medium to large enterprises and with private equity with a base in The Netherlands, helping them prepare for the future and growth.
Saeske is also part of the mentoring network of O3NL (MIT), mentoring founders of technology start-ups, and serves in the board of a charity fund.
Anne van Loon
Partner
Anne is a seasoned strategist, who started her consulting career at The Boston Consulting Group. After multiple international experiences with BCG, she joined the in-house strategy team for vaccines at Johnson & Johnson (Crucell back then), to be closer to the action.
A move to Sydney enabled her to join the strategy team of Qantas Airlines where she was a strategy manager. 5 Years later, upon her return to the Netherlands, she started her own consulting practice which allowed her to work with multiple executives of mid to large size Dutch companies, to help define their strategy.
Anne is a quick learner, and enjoys new challenges. She believes in the collective solution more than individual solutions and hence loves to work in and with teams. She is result driven and has a clear need to see recommendations getting implemented. As an engineer by background, she is focused on an efficient process with data as a key input.
Anne holds a MSc in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Delft.