Arjen Heeres

Chief Operations Officer

Arjen Heeres joined Quintiq as chief operations officer in 2000. He works closely with fellow co-owner Victor Allis and CFO Mike Coluzzi to manage the rapid growth and expansion of Quintiq. He is also a member of the Quintiq board of directors, alongside Victor Allis, Greg Case, Mike Donahue, Marc Lederman, Ed Blechschmidt and Paul Winn. As COO, Arjen Heeres's focus is on the European business units, marketing, sales & alliances, and human resources management. Arjen has almost twenty years’ experience in the IT industry. He is based in Quintiq’s European headquarters, in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Career Highlights:

• During Arjen’s twelve-year tenure as COO, he has seen Quintiq grow from a small group of computer scientists to over 300 employees in offices around the globe. Thanks to the continued hard work of Victor, Arjen and the Quintiq team, Quintiq reported record revenue of €34 million for 2010, the same year in which Gartner named Quintiq a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning for Process Automation.
• Arjen Heeres started his career at Esso Benelux Head Quarters in Breda, the Netherlands, where he held business analyst and commercial functions. In 1994 he joined Bolesian, a daughter company of Capgemini specialized in developing advanced systems based on Artificial Intelligence. He was commercially responsible for the manufacturing markets and was promoted to country manager of Germany. It is here that Arjen first met the five co-founders of Quintiq: Victor Allis, Wido-Bart van Steenbergen, Seppo Pieterse, Patrick Frants and Paul-Erik Raué.
• After Capgemini, Arjen joined Imtech, a stock market listed technical service company with more than 20.000 employees, as Managing Director of its IT daughter company, Turnkiek IT systems.

Education:

Arjen holds a Master’s degree in Management Science from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.