Introducing Cecile Veerman

Introducing Cecile Veerman

Your enthusiastic and experienced food innovation professional

Cecile has over 20 years of industrial innovation experience, acting at the interface of R&D and business. She gets much energy from connecting people, exploring new opportunities and removing roadblocks in innovation trajectories to realize viable agri, food and biotech innovations. She has a MSc and PhD in food technology from Wageningen University and is a certified innovation driver from Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Cecile's Core Toolbox reflects her diverse capabilities.

• Focus: Cecile can guide you in focusing on matters that will make the most impact. She provides clarity and insight on prioritizing, which choices to make and what road to follow.
• Structure: She can support structuring and managing your innovation activities using her extensive experience leading global, multi-disciplinary, multi-client innovation programs. This will help you to have a focused overview leading to better decision making which will accelerate the process from idea to creating value.
• Innovation: Cecile has a broad skill set in innovation comprising, for example, a structured approach to scout and evaluate new opportunities, a diverse innovation toolkit with practices and frameworks, and she is an experienced facilitator of front-end innovation workshops.

Cecile's Personal USPs highlight her professional skills

• Organization and planning: Organizing and planning are natural habits that fit Cecile perfectly. She enjoys supporting others in creating structure.
• Analytical and strategic thinker: She can provide clear insights and a helicopter view to create focus and the next steps to take.
•  People-focused approach: Cecile is a connector and people-focused leader, always considering different perspectives and the human side.

Characteristic of Cecile:

Creating value with high energy and enthusiasm, by empowering people, connecting the dots and delivering results

Cecile wants to support companies that drive the development of agri-, food and biotech innovations towards a more sustainable and healthy future. She is a connector, a strong organizer and an analytical and strategic thinker with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach and a strong drive for results.