Borrel Organizers
Anna has been coordinating the borrel since 2005. She enjoys searching out new restaurants, cocktail bars and exploring the Netherlands. She welcomes all suggestions to share in your favorite places. Member suggestions brought us all over Amsteram and as far as Enschede, Paris and London! By daytime Anna is a research and development chemist specializing in hardware and software debugging. She has been recently involved in quality control and quality assurance for an instrumentation manufacturer but her personal life required (1) a sabbatical and (2) relocation to Friesland: summer is coming and she is a passionate sail racing crew. Her specialty is trimming the spinnaker and winning races! focus focus focus concentrate concentrate concentrate hold your course
Catherine joined the borrel team in February 2009. She is happy to meet and greet EuropeanPWN women in the Hague the third Wednesday of the month. Catherine is a Strategic Relationship Manager working for Royal Dutch Shell as a Supplier Manager. Catherine joined Shell in 1997. Over the years she has held various positions all focused on alignment, integration, transformation and customer service. Key achievements are design and establishment of a global technical support service, which involved integration of processes across internal service delivery organizations and outsourced service providers, and most recently as a Supplier Manager for T-Systems, with a focus on establishing the next generation of strategic relationship management in a multi-sourced environment. This reaches beyond traditional relationships with a goal to align the companies’ strategic goals and objectives so as to deliver bi-lateral value to both parties.
Sustainability and meaningful engagement are at the heart of what Catherine does, whether it is her professional work or working with others to help create more sustainable life-styles, personal relationships and careers.
When not at work, Catherine is out exploring the Netherlands, reading mystery books and enjoying time with her husband Jim.
Erika loves to network and to bring international people together. After having lived and worked 10 years in the Algarve in Portugal and 7 years in the City of London, this Dutch born girl returned to Holland in 2004 and is therefore known as a “Repat”. In 2006 she started her own company, 'BOTH Assistance & Support', which offers a wide range of administrative support to companies, to individual households, and also to Expats. No job is too big or too small. She works both “on location” and provides virtual support from her own office. She creates and manages effective and efficient administrative systems while providing coaching for the administratively-impaired. She teaches and implements self-sustaining organisational systems for individuals and for companies. Fluent in Dutch, English and Portuguese, Erika joined the borrel team at the end of 2009 when we combined efforts with Connecting Women in The Hague.
