Bas van Essen

Speakap is a social platform for business, operating in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain. Clients include MediaMarkt, Nikon, Rituals and Selfridges.

Responsible for content ideation and productions for corporate companies, like Damen and ING, and SME's, like Kreditech.com.

Savedo is a smart new savings alternative: an online financial marketplace that allows savers in Europe to effortlessly invest in safe and high-return term deposits within the EU.

Co-managed MT Mediagroep's platform for innovative entrepreneurs. Editor behind news articles and long-reads about business and finance models, promising startups, (international) entrepreneurship, investing and innovation.

Co-managed a website for the creative Dutch class. Topics: web, tech, design and architecture. As content manager I was responsible for the content formula, daily news letters, content (marketing) partnerships and a network of bloggers. As an editor I wrote news articles and long-reads about designers, start-ups, scientists and architects.

Responsible for the selection, production, planning of branded content for a professional sports club. Content channels: a magazine for home games, a quarterly 'glossy' club magazine and a weekly sponsored (business) club page in the regional newspaper.

Research proposals, setups, reports and marketing recommendations for companies like KPN, PepsiCo, Fortis, APG and RTV Utrecht.

I have been taught how to edit videos and how to film and interview simultaneously. I subsequently worked for Novum/Zoomin TV, Campus TV (Now known as The Post Online) and NOS Headlines.

Big Data & Business Analytics