About Lionate
Lionate enjoys getting innovations at the right places. To do so, Lionate has in-house skills to act on different levels within an organisation. Both in large and small organisations.
Furthermore, Lionate is strong in unthreading complex situations, themes and technical solutions. This combination makes that Lionate can link needs on different levels to suitable opportunities.
Founding Lionate
Lionate is founded by Gerben van der Werf (1978) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In his professional life, he worked in different fields all over the world. In his early days Gerben had an acting career, playing in multiple award winning TV-series, theatre plays and short movies.
Later he obtained his Master degree in Mechanical engineering at the Technical University Delft – with honour – and an EQF level 6 degree in marketing.
He started working at the multinational ThyssenKrupp in Hamburg, Germany and made a fast career from leading projects at the R&D department to a supervising staff function, working on board level. After ThyssenKrupp he made a career switch ending up as the VP Marketing and Sales of Motek Medical, where he built up and maintained a global marketing and sales network for their medical innovations.
Still in good contact with all his former employers, Gerben made his wish come true and founded his own company: Lionate BV.