Amsterdam · 2026
Experience is not soft. It is causal. How people feel, decide, recover and perform is shaped by the systems they operate inside. Organisational, spatial and behavioural systems quietly determine whether strategies succeed or stall.
For years I worked inside large organisations - leading customer and experience practices at Capgemini, Jumbo and Unilever - where one pattern kept repeating: we invest heavily in plans, structures and assets, while underestimating the lived reality required to make them work over time. That gap is where risk accumulates.
Today my work sits at the intersection of organisations, environments and capital. I work with founders, developers, investors and boards to assess whether the systems they build can actually carry the ambitions placed upon them. Increasingly, this work focuses on housing and living environments - because the home is the most repeated environment in a person's life. It shapes behaviour, focus, recovery and wellbeing every single day, and small systemic decisions there compound into large outcomes over decades.
In this context, experience is not branding. It is not decoration. It is not methodology. It is infrastructure.
Through advisory work, experience architecture (REDE), the operating layer for resident identity (Tenure) and residential development initiatives such as Liven World, I focus on one question: how do we build places where people can actually live well over time?
Three categories. One craft. The time horizon changes the stakes — and where the lived experience finally lands.
Stores, aisles, checkouts — where experience has to land within a single visit or never. Years inside Jumbo, Unilever and Capgemini, leading customer and experience practices across categories. The period where the pattern that defines the current practice first became visible.
Hotels, short-stay, hybrid stays that blur into months. Lead experience work with hybrid hospitality brands like The Social Hub — where the room becomes a residency and the residency becomes something close to a tenure. The first category where housing started speaking in.
Districts, tenure, living infrastructure. Lead experience partner for area development at NEOM. Co-founder of Liven World. Where the practice now mostly operates — because home is the environment people repeat most often, and where small systemic decisions compound the hardest.
A better retail experience: good. A better hospitality experience: better. But the real impact lives where people spend the most time — at home.
Working from the Amsterdam Area, primarily in EU markets.
Selectively in housing and adjacent place-making.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Member of the invitation-only community for senior technology executives and advisors.
Via User-Centered Real Estate. IC briefings, board sessions, public-sector convenings, industry stages.
Residential development. Designing next-generation residential environments around how people actually live.
Amsterdam. livenworld.nl
Independent conceptual platform on experience as system architecture.
Built around lives, not just buildings. rede.design
Operating layer for resident identity. Advisory and digital platform for institutional BTR owner-operators.
The promise that survives the handover. tenure-co.com
Keynote platform for developers, investors and public-sector leaders.
Invitation-only advisory community for senior technology executives. Contributing perspectives on housing, lived experience and systems.
Leading the experience work for one of the most ambitious area-development programmes underway. Where the housing thesis met its largest scale, and where the four-system framework was first applied across the full vehicle of an entire region.
Saudi Arabia · Programme-scale gebiedsontwikkeling.
Lead experience work with hybrid hospitality brands where the room blurs into a residency and the residency into something close to a tenure. The category that built the bridge from hospitality experience to residential infrastructure.
The Social Hub · hybrid hotel + residency operators.
Experience Director Europe at Unilever. CX Director at Jumbo. Practice Head CX at Capgemini. Years across sectors and categories, where the pattern that defines the current practice first became visible.
Educated at MIT. Based in Amsterdam.