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Our Team

Core Faculty:

Prof. dr. Jan Cobbenhagen (Director)

Jan Cobbenhagen (1963) is Robert Noortman Professor in “The Art of Entrepreneurship” at Maastricht University and director of the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship. Jan is also CEO of Maastricht University Holding B.V. (corporate venture firm of Maastricht University) and managing partner of Smart Capital Network (venture capital firm). Some additional functions are chairman of the Supervisory Board of Balansmeter BV and member of Supervisory board of MAASTRO Clinic. Previously he was Programme Leader Innovation Management & Innovation Policy at the research institute MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology), Managing director of BioPartner Center Maastricht, Associate Professor at the Université de Liège (Belgium) and visiting professor at the Carlos III University Madrid (Spain). Jan holds a Bachelor degree in Hotel Management, Master degrees in Business Administration and Quantitative Economics and a PhD in Business Administration.

You can contact Jan by email j.cobbenhagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 043-3885827.

Dr. Ing. Wynand Bodewes (Senior Lecturer)

Wynand Bodewes (1966) joined the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship in January 2009. Wynand holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master degree in Business Administration (both obtained in Groningen) and received his PhD in General Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. From 1998 until 2009 he was an assistant professor at RSM . He co-founded the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship and developed and coordinated its internationally acclaimed MSc BA programme in high-impact venturing. Wynand has very extensive experience in teaching a range of issues that relate to new business venturing, yet, his intellectual passions are growth, scalability and business modelling. At the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship, Wynand’s main responsibility is directing the “educate” initiatives of the MC4E. His duties also entail the “grow” initiatives aimed at helping ambitious entrepreneurs to shoot for the moon. Wynand coaches several entrepreneurs and speaks regularly about innovative entrepreneurship at seminars and workshops (e.g. for ABN AMRO Private Banking, Provincie Limburg, Deloitte, ING, Athlon Carlease, Rotary International, Port of Rotterdam, Gemeente Maastricht, and Emergis). He acts as an academic advisor to PeakValue, a Rotterdam based investor and growth catalyst. Wynand has a part-time position as a Visiting Professor at the KU Leuven in Belgium where he teaches Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation.

You can contact Wynand by email w.bodewes@maastrichtuniversity.nl or by phone at +31641362124

Dr. Gert Poppe (Senior Lecturer)

Gert Poppe (1964) joined the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship in juli 2009. He studied Physics at the University of Antwerp and received his PhD from Twente University. After having worked for DSM Research for a number of years he became active as a consultant and (team)coach  in creativity and innovation. Gert has extensive experience in helping companies and individuals to grow their creative and entrepreneurial skills. He is particularly interested in the interface between universities (and other knowledge institutes) and business, and in what both parties could do together to boost innovation. At the MC4E he will be teaching, but also develop all kinds of initiatives within the other areas of the Centre : “Inspire”, “Create” and “Grow”.Next to his work for the MC4E Gert has his own company, CuinQ Consulting, and he gives workshops on the relation between entrepreneurship,
business and jazz-music. He also wrote a book (in Dutch) on that topic : “De Improviserende Organisatie”.

You can contact Gert by email g.poppe@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 06-53619984.

Dr. Veroniek Collewaert (Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship)

Veroniek Collewaert joined the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship in September 2009. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Ghent University (Belgium). During her PhD, she also spent one year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Visiting Researcher. Her research focuses on the relationship between angel investors and entrepreneurs from a team perspective. At the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting, she received the William H. Newman Award for her dissertation “Conflict between angel investors and entrepreneurs:Perception, reality and impact on innovation”. The Academy of Management awards the prestigious William H. Newman Award to outstanding and recent dissertations.

You can contact Veroniek by email v.collewaert@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 043–3884623.

Thijs Geradts (Project Coordinator)

Thijs Geradts (1989) has always been an active student at Maastricht University from the first day he started his studies at University College Maastricht. Having been active in various student and study associations he has been project manager of student NGO MUSTANGH and has been in the board of Management and Marketing Study Association 3MA in the past. After finishing his bachelor University College Maastricht, he started his masters in International Business and Applied Cognitive Psychology. Meanwhile Thijs is working at the Maastricht Centre For Entrepreneurship in order to create and coordinate new events that seek to inspire Maastricht University students to become more entrepreneurial minded. Furthermore he is actively involved with developing initiatives at the MC4E in order to stimulate entrepreneurship at Maastricht University and on a broader scale in Limburg. Besides work and studies, Thijs is also board member of a student representation party and he is still active in student NGO MUSTANGH. With a strong interest in co-creation, social value creation and social entrepreneurship, he is now in the process of starting a social venture aiming to support the development of healthcare in Africa.

You can contact Thijs Geradts by email t.geradts@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 06-40214854.

 

Ana Mihail (Design and Communications)

Ana is the designer and promoter of the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship. From social media platforms to web updates and communications, she takes care of the MC4E image and actively promotes all our activities. After graduating with honors from the International Academy of Design in Toronto, she worked as a freelance designer and also as a junior web designer with Maclaren McCann Canada.
In 2010, she decided to continue her studies and start a Bachelor of Science in Economics at Maastricht University and at the beginning of 2011, she started working at the Centre for Entrepreneurship.
She is actively involved in promoting regional entrepreneurship and is a strong supporter of cooperation and interdisciplinary activities.

You can contact Ana Mihail by email a.mihail@mc4e.nl or 06-43266327.

 

Jan Lamkin (Entrepreneur in Residence)

Jan Lamkin is a locally based entrepreneur and informal investor who acts globally. Jan is affiliated with the MC4E to teach classes together with the other faculty and to mentor and inspire enterprising students and alumni. Jan is a prototypical self-made entrepreneur who enjoys to interact with young, eager and energetic individuals who will become future entrepreneurial leaders.

You can contact Jan by email: j.lamkin@mc4e.nl

 

 

Affiliated Faculty

Several faculty members at Maastricht University participate in the activities of the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship and/or conduct scholarly research that is directly instrumental to our teaching.

Staff

Hanneke Wiermans (Administrative & Financial Controller)

Hanneke Wiermans (1976) completed the study “Business Economics & Management Control” at the University of Nijmegen. Within the Maastricht Centre of Entrepreneurship and the Universiteit Maastricht Business School, Hanneke takes care of all the administration and financials and also the procedures and support that is needed for the staff. She takes care of the daily administrative and staff procedures and supports the management of MC4E with all the financial details needed and financial reports. Before starting this job at the University of Maastricht in 2006, Hanneke worked in a commercial environment within an employment agency. With her knowledge and view of seeing solutions instead of problems, she enforces the Maastricht Centre of Entrepreneurship from within the office.

You can contact Hanneke by email j.wiermans@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 043–3884622.

 

 

MC4E Alumni

Several talented professionals have helped the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship to start-up and grow. We honour them as our alumni.