Marcel Zijp
Senior Investment Manager Agrifood at Brightlands Venture Partners
Marcel Zijp
Senior Investment Manager Agrifood at Brightlands Venture Partners
Aarle-Rixtel, North Brabant
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Investment Manager Agrifood
2021 - Current
Support innovative start-ups and scale-ups in agri-food transition domain. Focus: Optimal production and use of biomass towards healthy nutrition: Smart and sustainable farming, green biotech, circular economy, alternative protein, personalised nutrition towards healthy and sustainable nutrition. Amongst others: Greencovery: upcycling food side streams Pectcof: coffee pulp sidestream valorization Grassa: grass valorization into plant-based protein Verdify: SaaS solution personalized nutrition with menu swap application Bioactor: validated natural neutraceuticals from natural sources S&DB: Agtech, seed embedding technology AVL: AgTech: rorbotized harvesting
CEO and co-founder
2015
Food supply chain FMCG, organic plant-based protein, from a green field production and logistics we grew the organisation to the nr 1 market position in Brasil.
Specialist strategic marketing and implementation
2007 - 2021
Focus Food & Agri chain ( transition towards sustainable business models) FMCG: Champetit International, Jeurgens Biscuits & chocolate factory, Paresto catering (Minstery of Defence), Carpigiani Icemachines, CRV genetics & data, Bodec food processing innovation, Ellips visual grading & sorting for food, Dutch bite restaurants, Animeal factory petfood, Marvu installaties equipment. Nutraceuticals, Pharma, Ingredients: Boehringer Ingelheim, Reudink biologische producten, Trouw Specialty ingredients, Selko natural ingredients, Perstorp Ingredients, Amusca Insect production, Coppens-Innofeed Health & Care: ORO care, Lavans hygien system, Capability, Cooperatie Hesterhuizen Sustainable building & energy: Kuijpers Installaties Ecopartners, Energy Poort Peelland, Manders Totaal, Promeco, Sbadvies, Holten-Van de Wal Concept Food Industrial areas: Food Capital Helmond, Food business park Deurne, Glastuinbouw log Deurne Services: Joanknecht van Zelst accountants, Recht-direct, Goorts & Coppens advocaten, Rechtshuis advocaten, We provide, MBadvies, Rabobank Clubkas Campagne Consumer electronics / FMCG: Replace-Direct online B-t-C, Twindis B-t-retail (winner ChannelAward 2018) Education & labour: ROC's, HRM servicecentrum, Servicepunt Leren & Werken Industry: Swanenberg hydrauliek, Verbi matrijzen, SKM 3D printing
Director Global Marketing CMO
2012 - 2017
Nutriad is a strong player in the global functional and nutritional ingredient market. After a period of organisational and financial restructure Nutriad would like to refocus on the market. My task: Create a sustainable growth strategy in a changing global agro-food market. Repositoning, organisation adaption & implementation, a.o. align product development & global sales, margin management improvement program. After this restructuring Nutriad was sold to Adisseo end of 2017 .
Strategic Marketeer to the board
2014 - 2017
ORO is active in human health service, with more than 1200 employees and as many volunteers, more than 80 locations is the south of The Netherlands. Health market changes quickly, role of the government, customer demand and increasing competition. Main question: How can ORO create a sustainable, more market oriented organisation. Starting with market research, a marketing plan for the whole organisation, implementation plan and transfer-roadmaps.
Board member business unit Feed Ingredients Specialties and CEO organic acid division
2002 - 2007
As member of the management team we developed additive activities as a seperate business unit within Nutreco, which became one of the core activities within Nutreco at later stage
CEO and co-owner
1993 - 2002
In the organic acid business we grew the company from a 4 person business in 1993 to a global technological leader and a top-3 position global market share with several production locations and sales offices around the world. My role: global sales & marketing and at later stage managing director. In 2002 the company was sold to Nutreco.
Productmanager
1989 - 1993
Product manager feed additives Benelux Brand manager petfood-line