AREA OF EXPERTISE: Dirk has over 25 years experience in hotel operational consulting with a focus on database management & customer loyalty programs and hotel reservation systems in the global market. Dirk is a specialist in strategic management & marketing projects with clarity in vision and strategy, leading to tangible results. Focus on cross border assignments, leveraging extensive entrepreneurial expertise in Europe, the Middle East, India, Brazil and Russia. Dirk has expertise in fields such as multi country assigments, strategic marketing, International Business Development, International Private Public Initiatives, hospitality consultancy and corporate finance assignments. Spending 3 years in hotel development and real estate financing related areas he combined his expertise as a hotel operations specialist in his new role since late 2009 as Director Hotels for Colliers International in the Netherlands. Dirk incorporated the current Hotels division of Colliers International in the Netherlands and is a Partner at Colliers in the Netherlands. He also heads the Colliers EMEA hotels team within the Colliers EMEA region. Since September 1, 2017 he is the Chief Executive officer for Colliers in the Netherlands leding a team of 330 professionals and 6 offices.

Joost was the founder in 2002 of MD Hotel Investments, a succesfull niche hotel corporate finance advisory based in Amsterdam and the co-founder of European Hotel Capital, a private equity international hotel fund. Since June 2013 Joost joined Colliers in Amsterdam as Director Hotels and specialised in hotel developement advisory, operator search and hotel financing. 

After completing my Bachelor in Business Administration at the Hotel Management School in Maastricht in 2010 I have lived and worked in London for a year. At the time I was responsible for the (pre-)opening of a new catering facility for the Emirares airline. After a year, in 2011 I decided to get back to the university to complete my master studies Finance and Investments at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2013 I graduated as a MSc in Finance and Investments  and directly started my career as a M&A consultant at Marktlink Mergers and Acquisitions. At this firm I have worked for 3 years and I've been involved in many transactions most of them in he staffing industry and machine factory industry. In june 2016 I joined the Colliers EMEA hotel team as a Manager Hotel Investments. The last couple of years I was involved in a great number of hotel transactions and consultancy assignments.  

After completing the Msc. Financial Management  at TIAS Business School, Vincent started working as fund accountant at Citco Fund Services. Here Vincent was responsible  for the periodic calculation of the Net Asset Valuations (NAVs) of various hedge funds. 

After 1.5 years getting aqcuianted with the accounting profession at Citco, Vincent continued his professional carreer at KPMG Management Consulting. Here Vincent worked for 5 years as Financial Advisor. His areas of expertise where: Financial Modelling, Data Analysis and Process Decomposition. He was an active member of the KPMG Hospitality team and was closely involved in various 'Finance Transformation' projects for larger European hotel chains.

As of October 2017, Vincent is part of the Hotel team  of Colliers International in the Amsterdam office. Here he is involved in both hotel consulting as well as buy-side and sell-side hotel transactions.  

During his final year at Hotelschool The Hague Sander performed his internship at the Hotel Department of Colliers International, which included working for the company and executing a research. During those six months Sander supported his colleagues at the Hotel Department with all kinds of projects. Additionally he executed a research in which he tested the relationship between certain macroeconomic indicators and the demand for hotel rooms in Amsterdam.

Halfway through his internship Sander was offered a job at the Hotel Department. As he mentioned: “I did not need a long time to overthink this decision. From the moment I started my internship I experienced a good base at Colliers where hard work is combined with the right amount of fun.”

Since September 2017 Sander is a full-time member of the hotel team focussing mainly on feasibility studies, hotel transactions and valuations.

Inge started her career in the tourism branche working for a touroperator at the office and as a flight attendent for a dutch airline. After spending 1.5 year in Jakarta, Indonesia she worked for 7 years as a recruiter for a Recruitment company.

Inge works at Colliers International Amsterdam for about 14 years. She first joined the Valuation Department for 6 years and after that she started working for Hotel Department as a  Team Assistant for 8 years.

In June 2018 her new job as Personal Assistant to the CEO began.

As part of the last course at the Hotelschool The Hague, I executed and finished an internship at Colliers International in the Hotel department in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During this six month internship period, I supported the team during projects ranging from valuations, feasibilities, hotel sale transactions, operator search and selection and contract negotiations. Besides my supportive role within the team, I was asked to investigate the impact Airbnb in the European hotel market. 

After my internship, I finalized and defended my thesis on the impact of regulations on Airbnb in the top European hotel markets. After succesfully defending my thesis and obtaining a specific grade, I was offered the job as Junior Hotel Consultant. Of course, I could not reject this offer. Two months after my graduation on the 1st of June 2018, I started my professional career at Colliers International.