Startlife Mentor
Bart Trautwein is a widely experienced entrepreneurial General Manager and Strategist, who combines a broad perspective with strategy, professional knowledge and business sense. With a sense of relationships, without losing sight of goals. Often surprising and innovative because of his creativity. When appropriate with a touch of humor.
Self-funded and self-powered Bart and his partner developed The BrandParents successfully from startup into scale-up. The BrandParents is a full-service consumer brand distributor in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) serving offline clients such as Ahold and online clients such as Drogisterij.net.
Bart has a broad experience in B2C and B2B in different industries such as FMCG, Leisure, Publishing and Advertising.
Skills and field of expertise
- Strategist
- General Management
- New Business
- Sales & Marketing
- Advertising & Social Media
- Relationship management
- Fast Moving Consumer Goods
- Retail
Offer and interest
Offer: Sharing my personal experience successfully building my own startup into scale-up. In specific: Strategy, roadmap, Sales (e.g. introducing products on the shelves of big retailers), Marketing (e.g. creating consumer preference and demand), Logistics and Finance. If you want to reach out to corporates, I can share you valuable do’s and don’ts. I am happy to share my successful approach in relationship management with you and provide you with feedback on your proposition to corporates.
Interest: Being a universal and general strategist widely experienced in different fields, I would like to support any promising startup to achieve the most out of a brilliant idea. Following my own startup the most likely sector would be the FMCG (Food & non-Food).
Personal quote
“There is only one boss; the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” – Sam Walton (founder Walmart)
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