Hardy Schuerhoff. I live near Amsterdam, where I like to shape the future of companies.

High-performing, senior product management leader with 15+ years of in-depth industry expertise with full product lifecycle from Strategy to R&D to production launch. Hands-on, results-oriented and focused, actively led, created, and launched best-in-class product offerings in partnership with sales, marketing, IT, user experience, and support. Proven success leading complex projects, figuring out client needs to deliver client-driven solutions, not just products. An influential leader builds consensus among stakeholders to provide breakthrough product strategies and transform complex project initiatives into achievable goals.

Achievements

  • Former CEO and entrepreneur, building five companies simultaneously. Any company profitable through organic growth. The group of companies has grown to a total of 35 professionals.

  • Over time, the only person with ultimate responsibility (Business) for all three ABN AMRO apps.

  • Guiding the transition to Agile and in case of Tikkie and the Grip app, realizing High Performance BizDevOps teams (also known as DevOps 2.0).

  • Attracting A players, creating an unambiguous mindset with an increase in velocity as a result and last but not least, employees who often find pleasure and passion in their (team) work with a smile on their face.

  • Accelerate by realizing collaboration based on commitment and shared ambitions. Implementation of Validated Learning and application of fact based development, lean startup and MVP thinking.

  • Realizing traction that customers, employees and stakeholders can associate with. Often fed with an attractive vision, strong positioning and the best user experience imaginable. Resulting in achieving objectives and raising investments based on evidence (from both entrepreneurship and for the three ABN AMRO apps).