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Toon Simons has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. Toon began their career as an Accountant at PwC from 1991 to 1993. Toon then moved on to work as a Controller at Organon Teknika, a subsidiary of AkzoNobel, from 1993 to 1996. Following this, they joined Privver, a digital mail distribution startup, as a Controller and later became the Operations Director from 1996 to 2002. At Privver, they were responsible for overseeing operations, ICT, and finance.
Toon then transitioned to Cendris in 2002, where they worked as a Program Manager Backoffice until 2005. During this time, they focused on managing back-office operations. Toon later joined PostNL - Cendris Customer Contact in 2005 as a Manager Business Control. In this role, they handled performance management, financial strategic solutions, commercial negotiations, and the planning and control cycle. Toon also led a team of three employees and successfully developed a proposition for banks and insurers.
Toon's next position was as a Finance Manager at Novagraaf from 2014 to 2016. Here, they managed the financial aspects of the company's operations. Toon then took on the role of Director Finance & Operations Novagraaf Nederland from January 2017 to June 2017. In this role, they were responsible for the finance and operations of the Dutch division. Finally, they became the Managing Director IP Services TM at Novagraaf in July 2017. In this role, they focused on trademark processes, process improvements, and driving organizational change towards new technology.
Overall, Toon Simons has demonstrated their expertise in finance, operations, and management throughout their career in various companies in different industries.
Toon Simons pursued their education from 1984 to 1990 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. During this time, they obtained a Drs degree in Business Economics with a focus on Finance. In addition, Toon Simons also attended Adelbert College in the year 1900, but no specific degree or field of study information is available for this experience.
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Novagraaf
Novagraaf is an international IP consultancy firm and part of the Questel group. As patent, trademark, design and domain name specialists, we are able to assist clients with all their IP strategy, legal and management needs. Our expertise and day-to-day work includes advising on new ideas, discoveries and inventions, on protecting new brands (trademarks) and innovative new products (design), and on creating and exploiting strong trademark, design and patent portfolios. Whether patents, trademarks, designs or domain names, Novagraaf specialises in the international protection and management of IP rights, including identifying abuse and acting decisively if and when infringement takes place. With more than 130 years of experience, we have a long and distinguished heritage in the IP field, but we do not rest on our laurels. We are constantly innovating to provide clients with tailored and intelligent solutions to help them to protect, manage, enforce and exploit their IP rights worldwide. Driven by a strong tech culture and broad IT expertise, the Questel group has been digitalising and streamlining the IP industry for more than 40 years. As a result of both organic growth and 15 acquisitions made over five years, the group has expanded to include 1,500 employees and 30 countries, and to achieve a leading position in the provision of software and tech-enabled services on a global scale. Across 19 offices, including six European countries and representative and services offices in China, Japan and the US, Novagraaf's team of more than 330 IP professionals consult on a wide variety of IP challenges every day. Our clients include innovative start-ups and small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), organisations operating at national and international level, and multinationals with major global brand and technology portfolios.