Picturae

Tristan Teunissen came to strengthen Picturae’s management team in March 2022, in the new role of Director Product & IT ad interim. Aside from the daily management of the IT & Product organisation, being the quartermaster and a business transformation specialist, he laid the foundation for the person coming to fill the fixed position. In conjunction with Picturae, he developed the strategy and set course to a scalable product and a customer-centric organisation. In this, the goal is to make sustainable commercial growth a reality, and to do this, the pragmatic and entrepreneurial character of the organisation have been well-examined.

Bas Blokpoel started in the permanent position of Director Product & IT halfway through November 2022. His goal is to keep developing and executing the Product and Tech strategy and roadmap based on Picturae’s overall strategy. Aside from this he is also responsible for:

• Creating the model whereby product development happens based on customer needs and whereby a scalable product is built instead of a customised product where possible;
• Gaining an insight into the pricing of various products and propositions or the development of these, with the goal of achieving an improved pricing strategy and being able to put the products on the market in a better, more commercial way;
• Leading the Product & IT team and ensuring this keeps developing. This team is responsible for software development that digitalises collections, storage for collections and the development and management of websites where there are digital exhibitions of these collections.

Building SaaS products, teams and organisations. He thinks in solutions and always has high levels of energy.

Building SaaS products, teams and organisations. He thinks in solutions and always has high levels of energy.

Bas has experience in a B2B environment and with platform business (SaaS) models and is also experienced in drawing up a roadmap to execute the product and tech vision. He has a track record in leading technology and product teams. Bas is a strategic thinker, combined with a strong focus on execution. He looks for the pragmatic short-term solution that fits with the long-term strategy.

Bas is an outside-in thinker that places the customer at the heart of what they do, uses data and shapes Picturae’s ecosystem and when it comes to growth, understands the dynamic of an international MKB organisation in a private equity environment. Bas fits in the culture of Picturae and complements the Board/Management team.