Since 2020 Willem is active as consultant and board member in the healthcare industry with his own company VDBMC bv.
He has been active in the healthcare industry for over 30 years.
He started as a plant manager at Gobuplast and 6 year later became a Managing Director. In 2002 Willem was appointed as CEO of Medisize Medical group. Under private equity ownership Willem managed the expansion of the company and was appointed by Ratos private equity as CEO of Medisize Oy Group in 2008. In 2011 he managed the merger with Phillips Plastics and took the role of President Phillips-Medisize Europe, reporting to the CEO of Phillips-Medisize. In this role he was responsible for the business in Europe including sales, engineering, operations, quality, HR, finance and managed 5 production sites with 900 people.
During his time at Phillips-Medisize, Willem was heavily involved in developing and implementing the strategy including M&A. He has managed significant growth with high volume drug delivery device programs and developed solid customer relationships at executive level.
Willem holds a BSc degree in Marine Engineering, MBA from Business School Netherlands and followed Management Trainings at IMD Business School in Lausanne.
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