Bart Bakkum

Having started several companies in completely different industries provided me with a wealth of experiences and insights. After I sold my last venture in 2019 I did experience that those insights are valuable to other people and for that reason I love to be involved as advisor / partner to companies who can benefit from it.

Even though situations and stage at every challenge seems to be unique, there are lots of commonalities over all.

I help and advise entrepreneurs, investors and management team members to untangle the knots of the challenge, and as such enable discovery of openings and routes on how to translate a challenge into an actionable opportunity.

My style is open, creative and engaging. I am hands-on if needed or requested.
My mindset is international, inclusive and data & growth driven.

Fields of expertise are:
- strategy counselling (problem/solution fit - product/market fit)
- business model review (pricing/gross margin/opex)
- sales development in b-to-b markets
- operations & supply chain scalability
- team composition / strengths
- international contexts incl those with/in China
- legal & financial structuring

Industries operated in are: (multi) media, design & engineering, manufacturing, high tech, energy infra.

Please contact me if you want to have an open first discussion on your challenge and how we togehter might be able to untangle your specific %27challenge knot%27.