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stecc group.

Willem-Jan is the founder of Stecc and is a successful entrepreneur on the edge of innovation, technology and energy. Willem-Jan has worked over 20 years as initiator, senior manager and board member at various international technology advisory and investment companies. Willem-Jan is supported by an extensive and high leveraged network of private and institutional investors from Europe and the USA, mainly Silicon Valley.

Daniel is responsible for financial due diligence, modeling and analysis. Prior to Stecc he worked for the Capital Markets Team of Cushman & Wakefield in Amsterdam and for Fakton, a Rotterdam based financial consultancy firm. Daniel holds a Master Degree in Construction Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Prior to university Daniel attended the flight school of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

Andries has profound experience with growing ventures, investing and business development. After co-founding two technology start ups, he has worked on a wide variety of transactions and deals. He is currently involved with Stecc Group’s impact portfolio, focusing on high growth technology, impact & cleantech companies, aiding them with strategic partnerships or growth capital. Andries holds a Master in Business Administration from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Xuehan is involved in Return’s energy practice, including Energy Storage and Solar and EV-charging. He is mainly focused on M&A, financial structuring and business development. Xuehan joined Sunrock (a former portfolio company) as its first employee in 2013. At Sunrock he helped build the Belgian rooftop portfolio and a 1 GWp Dutch SDE+ pipeline and was involved in M&A and Project Financing. Furthermore, he helped transition the company from an investor/asset manager to a leading solar developer and supported management and shareholders in the sale to COFRA.

Xuehan holds a Bachelors in Finance from Xiamen University and a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance and Banking from Duisenberg School of Finance.

At Stecc Johannes is responsible for growing our solar platform Sunrock, as well as financial modeling, due diligence and analysis. Realizing a more sustainable world is his main driver. He focuses on developing innovative financial concepts for renewable energy projects and supports our ventures that require in-depth financial modeling experience. Johannes holds a Master Degree in Business Administration (Finance & Investments) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Erik leads a software team that will accelerate important business processes including prospecting, sales, planning, calculations, modeling, procurement, project management, monitoring, billing, and invoicing.

Erik previously held the roles of technical director, co-founder, and CTO in various startups and scale-ups. His career in IT spans more than two decades. He has co-founded several companies and worked for international customers in the EU and US creating innovative, scalable, and reliable platforms including a bespoke payments platform that processes more than hundred million euros per year.

Fedde is responsible for Return’s fundraising and investment practices alongside general structuring and operations. Fedde has been involved in numerous corporate finance activities ranging from Series A funding and M&A to project finance and bank financing.

He has a background in M&A (Oaklins) and holds a Master in Finance from the VU University Amsterdam.

Marcus is partner at Stecc investments, his focus are investments in sustainable technologies, assets and infrastructure. Marcus started his career as management consultant at Bain & Company’ private equity practice. He gained extensive experience in private equity and infrastructure investments working for companies as H2 Equity Partners and Rabobank PE. Later in his career, Marcus was responsible for the design and execution of the global M&A strategy of Arcadis. During this period the firm experienced strong growth with more than € 1 billion of acquired revenues. Marcus holds a Master Degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Maastricht.

Bas is partner at Stecc. He has a 22 year track record in international corporate finance and business development. Bas lived and worked throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific and Mexico. During his career he has advised on transactions with a combined enterprise value over EUR 100bn. In recent years, he has been combining his drive for sustainable innovation with entrepreneurship. Outside office hours Bas contributes to IJbaan (ijbaan.nl), NDSM Energie (ndsmenergie.nl) en Rugbyclub Amsterdam (rugbyclub.amsterdam). Bas holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Nijenrode University.

Floris is a sr. investment manager at Return. He is active in the development of ventures and new investments/strategic partnerships.

Prior to Return Group, Floris has gained experience in corporate finance and strategy consulting at Stecc and Accenture, respectively. Floris started his career as Trading and Investments Associate in the Saxo Bank Financial Markets team.

Floris holds an MBA from the University of Amsterdam Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from VU University Amsterdam.

Bosco engages in Business Development for the Spanish EV and Energy Storage activities. Prior to joining Return in 2021, he worked at CaixaBank as Head of Development of Corporate and Strategic Projects.

Bosco holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. Furthermore, he played in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he represented the Spanish national field hockey team.

Tomi engages in Project Finance and M&A transactions. Prior to joining Stecc in 2018, Tomi spent time at Boer & Croon CF (Deloitte Corporate Finance) working on transactions in the Healthcare and Business Services markets.

Tomi holds Bachelors degrees in Law and Business Economics, as well as a Master degree in Finance from the University of Groningen.

Jasper is active in Return’s M&A and Project Finance practices, alongside venture development and fundraising. Before Return, Jasper gained M&A experience at Rabobank and Stecc, as well as Structured Finance and Corporate Development experience at Natixis, Hong Kong.

Jasper holds a Bachelors in Business Administration and an MSc degree in Financial Management from Nyenrode Business University.

Emel is responsible for the accounting and control at Stecc and its subsidiaries.

As analyst Flip is involved in project development, financial modelling and technical due diligence. He started his professional career at Stecc and gained financial and venture building knowledge during his first official year. Meanwhile, Flip engages mainly in the space of Energy Storage by running simulations for proving new and innovative business cases. Flip has a strong technical background with a Bachelors degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Sustainable Energy Technology at Delft University of Technology.