Hugo van Wijk
Co-CEO
Hugo van Wijk is founder of Vallstein and responsible for product and methodology development. He is a distinguished expert in WalletSizing® and has extensive experience in deploying WalletSizing® solutions and in related consultancy assignments.
Hugo started his career at the Dutch De Nationale Investeringsbank (now known as NIBC Bank) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He subsequently worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after which he worked for Citibank in Tanzania. After this Hugo was employed by Citibank in Germany where he fulfilled various regional positions for Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He joined the ABN Amro Bank in Lisbon, Portugal before becoming joint founder of Vallstein in the year 2000.
Hugo graduated in Economic Sciences at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in 1990.
Titus Cunnen
Co-CEO
Titus Cunnen is founder of Vallstein and responsible for solution delivery and finance. He has built up broad expertise in WalletSizing® projects.
Titus started his career with SHV in Utrecht, The Netherlands in various functions within finance and IT. These included the position of controller at Makro Cash & Carry and CFO for Maxis Hypermarkets in the Netherlands. After a short period with Makro Cash & Carry in Warsaw, Poland he was appointed CFO for Makro Cash & Carry (now known as Metro AG) in Portugal in 1997. He co- founded Vallstein with Hugo van Wijk in June 2000.
Titus graduated in Economic Sciences at the University of Tilburg in 1989. He then gained his Controller’s certification (RC) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in 1996.
Patrick Adams
Chief Commercial Officer
Patrick Adams brings over 15 years of experience in international management with publicly traded enterprise software companies and market-making start-ups and is responsible for sales and marketing.
Patrick joins Vallstein from price optimization provider Vendavo, where he was responsible for the European sales management, thereby achieving substantial growth across their international business.
Prior to that Patrick held several senior positions in an eight year engagement at spend management provider Ariba, such as GM for the Central – and South European regions respectively and GM for the European business process outsourcing services, thereby being instrumental within a core team in building the European business from the ground up to the leading player in their field.
Previous to that he was responsible at enterprise resource planning provider Baan for their Swiss business and beforehand he was at Hewlett-Packard.
Patrick holds bachelor degrees in electronic engineering and in computer science.
Loek van den Boog
Chief Strategist
Loek van den Boog is an IT industry veteran with 25 years of experience in the software and services industry and is responsible for business strategy. Loek also serves on the supervisory board of various other companies in the IT industry in Europe and Asia. He frequently acts as an independent advisor on areas ranging from overall strategy and positioning to go-to-market strategy, international expansion, sales models, incentive schemes and other operational topics.
Loek is also Founder and Chairman of Net4kids Aid Foundation, an innovative charity for child aid.
During 2008 and early 2009 Loek served as Executive Director and interim CEO at Patni Computer Systems Ltd, headquartered in Mumbai. From 2006 to 2007 Loek was CEO of Cordys B.V., and from 1996 to 2004 he worked for General Atlantic Partners as Special Advisor. From 2001 through 2002, Loek was also CEO of Meta4, a GAP portfolio company developing and marketing HICM software.
From 1984 to 1996 Loek worked at Oracle Corporation; in his last position he was Head of Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Before Oracle Loek was CFO and CIO at the Dutch copyright association Buma/Stemra. Before then he worked at Deloitte as an auditor and management consultant. Loek also lectured at the Free University of Amsterdam for three years.
Loek holds university degrees in Business Economics (graduated with honours) and in Public Accounting (graduated cum laude).