Team

Sander Vessies

CEO - Co-founder

Sander is an experienced tech-entrepreneur with core expertises in marketing, growth strategies and management. He is former CMO and co-owner at Symbaloo. This bookmark management tool grew from scratch to 11 Million users worldwide in 10 years while Sander was leading the marketing team.

Erik Zeilinga

CMO - Co-founder

Erik is a marketing specialist with a broad skillset ranging from design to analytics, accountmanagement to reputation building. 14 years experience in advertising industry with an advertisers, networks and publishers perspective. At a young age he founded an internet company selling design & CMS systems.

Coen Baars

CTO - Co-founder

Coen is a full stack software engineer with over 15 years experience in building digital products such as platforms and apps. He is former Head of Product and co-owner at Symbaloo where he worked together with Sander for 10 years.

Elroy Peters

Software Engineer & investor

Elroy is software engineer with experience in different programming languages and frameworks. Elroy works on back-end development and is investor in Giftomatic. Besides Giftomatic he runs a successful crypto trading bot company.

Arian Stolwijk

Head of engineering

Arian is a full stack software engineer, he’s the creator of many brilliant features and algorithms that contribute to the success of Giftomatic.

Hugo Noorlander

UX Design

Hugo is our UX designer, he is continuously performing user tests to validate new features, designs and userflows. He works on freelance basis for Giftomatic and together with the development team it is his mission to make the online redemption proces for card holders as smooth as possible.

Maureen Koudhoofd

Commercial & affiliate

Maureen focusses on all commercial partnerships, optimizing the performance and generating the best match between Gift card holders and retailers.

Julia Bähr

International Affiliate specialist

Julia is our experienced international freelance affiliate manager. She is able to speak five different languages and has worked on all sides of affiliate marketing (advertiser, network and publisher).

Mike van den Hoek

Visual & Video designer

Mike professionalized many aspects of Giftomatic and created many hilarious videos in the Giftomatic mobile application. 

Advisory board & growth partners

Julie van de Ven

Janneke Köllner and Julie van de Ven were at the forefront of building up the gift card market in Europe as we know it today. In 10 years they have built leading gift card propositions, represented many well-known gift card brands and worked with all leading retailers, resellers and digital sales channels in Europe. Together they help Giftomatic accelerate its international growth.

Janneke Kollner

Janneke Köllner and Julie van de Ven were at the forefront of building up the gift card market in Europe as we know it today. In 10 years they have built leading gift card propositions, represented many well-known gift card brands and worked with all leading retailers, resellers and digital sales channels in Europe. Together they help Giftomatic accelerate its international growth.

Tim Lorijn

Giftomatic has a strategic partnership with Label A and the company invested in Giftomatic. Tim Lorijn is CFO and coach at Label A and helps Giftomatic with strategic decisions, data management opportunities and support on financial forecasting.

Outsourced development

Stefan Weck

Label A Software Engineer

Stefan Weck played a significant role in the app developement as lead front-end developer.

David

Label A Software Engineer

David is Full stack web developer at Label A and has worked on Giftomatic as one of the key app developers.