Willem Wijnans
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building at Ashby
Netherlands
Résumé
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founding teamAshbySep 2020 - Current (6 years 2 months)ashby customer #7 and early member of the ashby team, growing ashby emea through community, events and education.- helping companies scale 🚀Willem WijnansDec 2016 - Current (9 years 11 months)currently at: ashby
worked with: vanmoof, aula, improbable, gitter (acq by gitlab), slite (yc w18), backbase - head of talentVanMoofJul 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 9 months)i had the privilege to lead the global recruitment team at vanmoof whilst we grew from 200 to 800+ employees.
- ta leadAulaFeb 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year 5 months)aula is a remote-first edtech company building a social learning platform
- ta leadSliteOct 2018 - Feb 2019 (5 months)
- Co-FounderGymifyDec 2017 - Feb 2019 (1 year 3 months)Connecting sports and gaming.
- Senior Talent PartnerImprobableMay 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 9 months)hiring the first 300 at improbable, mostly web and infra roles
- mentor 🔎RockstartFeb 2015 - Feb 2018 (3 years 1 month)Mentor to founders on technical hiring / recruiting.
- Lead Technical RecruiterBackbaseJan 2015 - May 2015 (5 months)Launched the London office
- Senior Technical RecruiterBackbaseJun 2014 - Dec 2014 (7 months)Launched the Backbase Atlanta Office
- owner 📈sourcingmonkJan 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 5 months)Used to be my own company helping founders hire their first developers & training developer teams how to source their next colleague. Since joining Improbable in 2015 it only functions as my blog.
- Technical RecruiterBackbaseJan 2014 - May 2014 (5 months)
- Technical Recruiter 💻Spotzer Media GroupAug 2010 - Dec 2013 (3 years 5 months)The early days: hiring people for a startup.
Education
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- Cultural AnthropologyUtrecht UniversityJan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)
- Bachelor, Human ResourcesHU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht Hogeschool UtrechtJan 2004 - Jan 2009 (5 years 1 month)
Projects (professional or personal)
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- RRockstart Accelerator ProgramTraining the new and freshly funded startups from the Rockstart accelerator program how to go about their first tech hire(s). Learning them to leverage the Github, Stackoverflow, Couchsurfing, Airbnb, Strava, Hackernews, Angel and other sites, so they can go and hire without interference of recruiters.
Training days:
- March 10 2014
- August 13 2014