EviDimensional.

Roelof Vuurboom is a software engineer turned operator turned mentor, with a forty-year career spanning operating-systems engineering, enterprise programme leadership, and structured-assessment platform building.

He began his career as a systems developer at Philips, where he wrote (in C) the distributed file system for the operating system that ran in ASML wafer steppers — the foundation of modern semiconductor lithography. He went on to product management roles at Digital Equipment Corporation, founded the internet consultancy practice at Atos, co-founded Siennax, and served as Business Unit Director at Mphasis with a €10M P&L across financial services clients including ABN Amro, Rabobank, and ING.

From 2003 to 2007 he built and led QA Systems, a SaaS platform for automated software quality assessment built on the ISO 9126 framework, with eleven global distribution partners. The intellectual lineage between QA Systems and EviDimensional is direct: the same methodology of structured, multi-dimensional assessment, applied first to software quality and now to ventures. He later directed the eighty-five-FTE Shell / Baker Hughes Radiant programme — a $50M subsurface-modelling project that received the first “no improvement required” rating in Shell IT audit history and won the Shell inter-company cooperation prize. A peer-reviewed paper on data provenance was published at the SPE Annual Technical Conference in Dubai in 2016.

Over the past several years he has mentored hundreds of founders through Dutch institutional programmes, focusing on AI and machine-learning ventures. Current and past associations include Rockstart, YES!Delft, Startupbootcamp, the Amsterdam Business School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tilburg University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in Den Bosch. He holds an MSc Computer Science (cum laude) and a BSc Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Twente.

He is the founder and creator of EviDimensional, based in Driebergen, the Netherlands. LinkedIn →

John Bailey is co-founder of EviDimensional. He is an international COO and programme director with more than twenty-five years boosting operational excellence, digital transformation, and go-to-market execution in highly regulated deep-tech, medtech, and SaaS ventures.

Across a career begun in 1997, he has been repeatedly selected by the executives of world-class companies to lead their most demanding initiatives — mandates of up to 350 people, €30M P&L, and up to €500M of revenue-growth responsibility — working full-time, fractional, and interim across the EU, US, MENA, and Asia. His client list spans T-Mobile, Essent, Colruyt Group, DeLaval, Euroports, and Wallenius Wilhelmsen, among more than twenty-five others.

Representative engagements include turning around a global telco’s strategic B2B product launch in five months; building and launching a mobile-data product portfolio generating over €100M per product life cycle across twelve markets; serving as COO of a medtech scale-up through a multi-country manufacturing expansion across Portugal, Egypt, Mexico, and the US with over 55% global growth; and advising a CEO through a multi-billion-euro private-equity exit, coordinating more than 400 initiatives across 24 countries.

Since 2013 he has held advisory-board, non-executive-director, and business-angel roles, making early-stage investments in mobility and health & wellness and mentoring more than twenty founders and senior executives on strategy, fundraising, scaling, and governance.

A dual American/Belgian national based in Brussels, he works across English, German, Dutch, and French. He holds a Master’s in European Studies (cum laude) from KU Leuven and a Bachelor’s in Management Studies from the University of Maryland, with executive education at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, INSEAD, and Vlerick, and a Financial Times Board Director Diploma. LinkedIn →