Alumni Week: What if you spot the next great UvA entrepreneur?
Thursday 8 October | 17:00-19:00 | REC Impact
- Date
- 8 October 2026
- Time
- 17:00 -19:00
- Location
- Roeterseilandcampus - gebouw J/K
- Room
- REC Impact
Jim Stolze is an entrepreneur, author and pioneer in digital strategy. Since 2016, through his company Aigency, he has been developing AI solutions for organisations including Heineken, the City of Amsterdam and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Nowadays, he teaches AI strategy to executives at TIAS Business School and is a faculty member at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Through his National AI Course, he reached more than half a million people in the Benelux. As a long-standing columnist for the FD, he wrote dozens of articles on AI, culminating in a management book that reached the top ten in 2018.
Maribelle Mampaeij is COO of Seenons, the European platform for circular waste management, where she leads international growth and scaling. Previously, she held leadership positions at Metabolic, Laudes Foundation and VEON, focusing on strategy, transformation and organisational development. As a jury member, she closely assesses demonstrable delivery capability: is the growth supported by evidence, is the model scalable, and is its impact on people and the planet measurable?
Anouar El Haji is the founder and CEO of Veylinx (B2C pricing) and RevFixr (B2B pricing), and holds a PhD in Marketing from the Amsterdam Business School at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he remains affiliated as a visiting researcher. As a “pricing doctor”, he links academic research on pricing and willingness-to-pay to commercial practice and is a sought-after media expert in the field of consumer behaviour.
Anthony de Vries is an entrepreneur and co-founder of De Pizzabakkers. After completing a Master’s in Communication Science at the UvA and an MBA at Bradford University, he worked in various positions, before starting his own company, De Vries Eten & Drinken, in 2006. In 2009 he opened the first De Pizzabakkers on the Haarlemmerdijk; since 2016 this has grown into a franchise organisation with 32 locations, four of which are still operated directly by the company.
After living in the United States for a year, Lotte Schipper became active in politics at the age of 18. She first became involved in national youth politics, and later also in European and Amsterdam politics. In between, she studied at the University of Amsterdam, where she completed both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in European Studies. She has (temporarily) stepped away from politics, but remains actively engaged in society. Lotte currently works at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and runs her own business as a moderator and presenter.
