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Martijn A

Legal Executive

About Me

Martijn is a legal executive with 30 years of international experience in EMEA and APAC. During this period, he has been responsible for any and all types of legal affairs internationally and built, managed, expanded, changed, and optimized legal departments across the globe. He is known for being a practical, pragmatic, solution-oriented businessman, combining legal responsibilities and requirements with commercial- and company-objectives, safeguarding and securing both, and not jeopardizing either of them. Martijn is used to operate in large, medium, small or start-up companies both in stable or matured environments; as well as in fast-growing or hyper-growth situations. Martijn has been primarily working in the software industry in both pre-IPO as well as publicly listed companies and has been part of the (pre- and post-IPO) successes of companies like webMethods, ServiceNow and CrowdStrike. Additionally, Martijn serves as (non-executive) boardmember; advisor and mentor (for example PressPage, Antesz Management and PersonalityWise) and is also co-founder and director of triMar Vision. Most recently Martijn has been doing interim roles, contractor roles and providing consultancy, mentoring, and advice through Dandelion Holding BV.

Jurisdiction

Netherlands | United Kingdom

Notable Employer

  • VP Legal EMEA at CrowdStrike
  • VP Legal EMEA/APAC at ServiceNow

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Fractional (General) CounselDandelion Vision
2024 - Present

Providing interim legal leadership, fractional general counsel roles, interim legal counsel roles, strategic legal advisory, contractor, project-based support and mentoring to start-ups, scale-ups and VCs.

SVP Legal EMEA/APAC & Deputy General CounselAvePoint
2021 - 2023

Built and professionalized the EMEA/APAC legal department; supported the transition from a privately owned company to a public company through a SPAC exercise, and led international compliance efforts and ongoing expansion afterwards

VP Legal EMEANotableCrowdStrike
2019 - 2021

Established a European Legal Department and related policies; assisted in the hyper-growth of the company involving significant organic growth, through acquisitions and IPO. Be an extension of the US executive team and responsible for all legal issues in EMEA. Member of European Management Team

VP Legal EMEA/APACNotableServiceNow
2012 - 2018

Oversaw legal operations outside North America during (quarterly double-digit) hypergrowth and IPO. Built an international legal team and managed daily operations. Set up international subsidiaries and corporate structure. Implementation works council.

Skills

Core skills7
Interests1
Languages2

Skills

Legal solutions
General Counsel experience
Commercial contracts (drafting, standardizing, and negotiating)
Developing legal departments
Expanding legal departments
Enhancing legal departments
Managing legal departments

Interests

Tech

Languages

English
Dutch

Services