Richard John Van Der Aa

Currently, I am a business analyst at Capgemini. A French born international enterprise level company with 340.000 employees and a focus on digital transformations within the Public, Private and Financial Services sectors.

I am building business cases and performing in-depth analyses for a subsidiary of a top 3 Dutch bank.

In 2023 and 2024, I worked on improving scalable commercial processes and operations at Optiply (AI-powered purchasing and inventory management platform, Bootstrapped B2B SaaS) with the company being in the scale-up phase and expanding internationally.

At Optiply my responsibilities had been extended to those of Chief of Staff. I joined the bi-weekly MT meetings with the three shareholders and created the MT agendas.

I was being mentored by the experienced business veteran (>40 years of experience) who is the Chairman of the Board of Optiply and opened up over 53 countries in Europe and Africa (0 -> 1 in new business and setting up teams) as VP of Growth of Cognizant between 2002 and 2020.

• Created a financial growth model to predict revenue and costs until 2030 for a B2B e-commerce company growing from 8 digit revenue to 9 digit revenue.
• Presented the model with the CEO at the 10-person shareholder meeting