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As CEO of Vebego, Ton Goedmakers heads a family business that started out in 1943 as a window cleaning company, founded by his grandfather. Since then, Vebego has grown into a facility services market...

If an employee feels unhappy, is not delivering on the job and not communicating well, it adversely impacts everyone around them. More and more companies are visibly shouldering responsibility for the...

Lesley Bamberger is CEO of Kroonenberg Groep one of the country’s biggest private real estate entrepreneurs. He gave us a warm welcome at Gelderlandplein, the high-end shopping centre Kroonenberg Groe...

Yvette Watson is co-founder and CEO of The 2B Collective and co-founder of PHI Factory and works with organisations to accelerate their transition to the circular economy. She is passionately dedicate...

Masterchef Joris Bijdendijk has fast made a name for himself in the gastronomic world. As executive chef of RIJKS®* and Wils* restaurants – both boasting a Michelin star – and of Wils Bakery Café – aw...

With the VU ART SCIENCE gallery, Rialto VU cinema and VU Griffioen theatre, there’s always something on in Zuidas.

“Put your energy also into the people you’ve got, not the outsiders but the ones who are part of the system,” argues Sinan Çankaya. A cultural anthropologist by training, he sidestepped early on to do...

He scored his first silver medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with crew mate Stef Broenink, and in 2022 was named Dutch athlete of the year. We’re talking, of course, about none other than world-clas...

Relocations are always a complex puzzle requiring loads of time and effort. But when you’re moving a whole office with a staff of about seven hundred, that’s in a league of its own. As chief of Busine...

Renovating, greening, planning, reviewing, approving... Keeping a myriad of projects running smoothly is all in a day’s work for Paco Bunnik, senior urban designer for the City of Amsterdam. He and a...

Flying cars, personal transport drones, autonomous vehicles: thanks to rapidly advancing technologies, things that once felt futuristic are no longer looking quite so far-fetched. And maybe we shouldn...

If there’s anyone who epitomizes a ‘hands-on, can-do’ mentality, it has to be Jurenne Hooi. She grew up in Curaçao, moved to the Netherlands at age 19, worked hard to carve out a career, starting with...

With the opening of Tower Ten in late summer, the World Trade Center Amsterdam will boast another high-end addition. Responsible for coordinating and optimizing services for the building’s tenants and...

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is a premier school for the arts, training talent from around the globe for artistic careers. Recently, the academy completed a major addition to its premises on Fred Roes...

Ever since he first set foot in Amsterdam, Architect Don Murphy has had a fascination with Dutch architecture. The founder of VMX Architects has not only designed his own – quite controversial – house...

This year marks exactly ten years since Hello Zuidas was established as an area organization. Plenty of reason to celebrate! Originally founded by WTC Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, ABN Amro, RAI and the Ci...

With its eye-catching orange logo more visible than ever, thanks to a successful carsharing scheme, and in spite of the coronavirus crisis, SIXT enjoys continuous growth. SIXT Benelux CEO Karen van de...

The newest building to rise along Beethovenstraat has everybody talking. With its complex design, Valley marks MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas’ first development in Zuidas. His architecture firm is well kn...

In January 2020, just before the pandemic broke out, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) settled in Zuidas. It became apparent why we need EMA’s expertise in the review and approval of new medicines....

As president of the Executive Board of VU Amsterdam, Mirjam van Praag can look back on three inspiring and educational years. She enjoys leading the university and mapping a direction for its future,...