HUMANITARIAN · FOUNDER · SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Building the infrastructure between impact money and resilient local markets.
I work where values have to become practical systems: where capital is spent, suppliers are selected and markets are shaped.
The missing infrastructure between money and impact
Funding commitments do not create impact by themselves. Money reaches real economies through procurement, contracts and suppliers. My work focuses on that overlooked layer: making suppliers visible, opening opportunity and helping spending build lasting local capacity.
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LATEST ARGUMENT
After the grant: the missing infrastructure between impact money and local markets
Why funding is only the beginning and how spending decisions determine what impact money ultimately builds.
MARKETS AND POWER
We can create the world we want to see
Markets are not neutral. They reward what we design them to reward and determine whether capital strengthens resilience, inclusion and local economies.
SYSTEMS AND ACTION
Moral ambition and good intentions don’t shift systems, levers do
Why values must become criteria, systems and practical choices.
PERSONAL STORY
Forty years after Live Aid: bread for Ethy and Jopie
From childhood solidarity to changing the systems behind aid.
HUMANITARIAN
20+ years in practice
Experience spanning frontline humanitarian operations, global health, logistics and supply chains across Africa, Asia and Europe.
FOUNDER
From MSF logistics to building Solvoz
Turning problems witnessed into infrastructure that strengthens markets across sectors and regions.
ADVOCATE
Making the systems behind impact visible
Speaking and writing about procurement, localisation, market access and how spending decisions shape real economies.
FROM IDEAS TO INFRASTRUCTURE
What I have learned, I have tried to build.
My work has always moved between field reality and systems design. What began with recurring frustrations in humanitarian logistics now extends across global health, sustainability, energy transition and preparedness, different sectors facing the same challenge: turning ambition into working market infrastructure.
Different organisations. One consistent question: how can spending leave stronger markets behind?
SOLVOZ
Building the technology
I founded Solvoz to build configurable procurement and market infrastructure for humanitarian aid, global health, sustainability and other impact-driven markets.
SOLVOZ FOUNDATION
Protecting the public-benefit mission
Through Solvoz Foundation, which I chair, we advance open procurement knowledge, fairer market access and mission-led programmes for non-profit organisations and local suppliers.
MAWARED MENA
Making localisation operational
Mawared MENA puts this thinking into practice through shared regional procurement infrastructure, local coordination and stronger access for suppliers across the Middle East and North Africa.
SPEAKING
Moral ambition needs machinery.
I speak about what it takes to turn values and ambitious commitments into systems, decisions and markets that work differently.
01. Markets are not neutral
02. The missing infrastructure between money and impact
03. Sustainability is not a reporting problem. It’s an inferastructure problem.