Founder, Owner, Investor and CEO

Roland works for corporate clients as an independent executive coach, mentor and facilitator. He likes to leverage his broad business and personal skills, network and experience as a former founder, owner, investor and CEO of tech companies and combine this with his passion for personal and organizational transformation. His mission is to inspire and support business leaders around the word to live successful and meaningful lives.


Managing Partner of WARP Equity Partners

Before Roland surrendered to his inner calling to be a catalyst of transformation, he was the founder and Managing Partner of WARP Equity Partners, a team of three entrepreneurs who have been working together for over 14 years. He started his career at Shell, where he held several marketing and sales positions before he became active as an entrepreneur in 1992. His passion at that time was acquiring, starting and building growth companies, hiring and supporting leadership teams, while being actively involved in the companies’ strategies.


Founder of Twinspark

He founded Twinspark, a leading Web consultancy firm in the Netherlands, grew the company to over 120 people, including 2 acquisitions and merged the company with Agency.com, after which Agency.com was listed on the NASDAQ in 1999. At the same time Roland founded Tridion, a leading global Enterprise Web Content Management Software Company, hired an experienced management team and raised Euro 30 million expanding the company across Europe. In 2007 Tridion was sold to SDL, a listed UK company.

Before building technology companies he acquired and turned-around a niche distributor, selling into the electronics industry, which he sold to a French pan European group. Roland holds an engineering degree of the Technical University of Delft, where he founded his first company.

Roland is married to Linda. Together they have two daughters. They live in Hilversum, the Netherlands.