Pieter Parmentier

Pieter A. Parmentier Is originator and chairman of ENF Foundation, which has been developing sustainability projects and knowledge networks successfully since 2000, e.g. for food research, environmental experts, selfhealing materials and sustainability. In 2011 ENF started developing events and sustainability centers for entrepreneurs. The first two opened January 2012 in Apeldoorn and Zwolle.Earlier in his career he worked for the city-council of Rotterdam as an economic policy and company consultant and was at the same time guest lecturer at Erasmus university.Afterwards he was the marketing and communications manager of the TAUW Group, one of the largest and the fastest growing (environmental) engineering companies in the Netherlands.As an interim manager he was responsible for, among others: a consortium of companies that assisted in the development of the Dutch HighSpeedRail project, a feasibility study of the Utrecht public-transport-terminal development project, an ICT project for secondary and higher vocational training, as kickstart manager for the Business & Science Park Environmental Technology Valley and director of a rural development organisation.In his spare time Pieter is an enthusiastic sportsman (sailing, cycling up and down mountains), author and publisher of articles and books about networking, art, nature, cycling expeditions (Himalaya, Andes and some other mountain ranges) and a book for children on climate and sustainable development, member of a number of advisory committees, originator & organiser of several foundations and sponsoring projects in a.o. Tibet and Peru.During his studies (human geography) he worked for some time in an African development project.In short: Pieter Parmentier is an authentic manager whose ambition it is to develop innovative, sustainable and effective ways to improve organisations and our society in general (and if there is any spare time left, to climb the highest mountains by bike).