Our team
Sustainably driven, connected together.
Behind every successful project is a strong team. Meet the people who work every day with passion, expertise and dedication to create a better future.
We are proud of our circular economy experts - from ambition to practice, conducting measurements, positively changing behavior and setting up coalitions.
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Management
Geerke is co-founder of PHI Factory. Geerke has the ambition to support organisations through actualization power to accelerate towards circular business operations. Her strength lies in her focus on opportunities and solutions. In recent years, she has gained extensive experience in circular procurement, circular facility management, as well as, vision and strategy processes within business operations. She uses her project management skills to tackle projects from start to finish in a structured manner and ensures tangible results. These projects often transpire in complex political organisations. Geerke can structure complex content into accessible information and comprehensible visuals. This way, she translates theoretical circularity and puts it into practice.
Laura is a director and partner at PHI Factory. She draws energy from connecting people, ideas, and ambitions, and helps organizations turn their sustainability goals into action and results. With her extensive experience as a team lead, project manager, and executive, she oversees both the big picture and the path forward. In her role, she provides direction for the team and PHI Factory’s strategy, while remaining involved in client projects. Her strength lies in acting as a partner for organizations seeking to transform. By truly understanding organizations, she knows how to translate sustainability ambitions into concrete steps and lasting impact. On behalf of PHI Factory, Laura is active within the Dutch Association for the Circular Economy. With infectious enthusiasm, clear communication, and confidence in people’s individual qualities, she drives sustainable change.
Yvette is a co-founder of PHI Factory and the company’s mission guardian. Analytical. Creative. Driven. With passion, she helps organizations take concrete steps toward sustainable business operations and facilities. She sinks her teeth into ambitious goals and enjoys contributing ideas to the development of circular concepts. When reality gets tough, that’s when Yvette really shines. She doesn’t stop when things get difficult; she only stops when it works. What truly sets her apart is her ability to bring people, organizations, and systems together into something greater than the sum of its parts. She’s someone who drives real change. She regularly gives inspirational sessions and actively participates in programs that accelerate sustainability.
The Team
Michael is an innovator with extensive experience in the service sector and chain collaborations. He enjoys using his energy to restore the world towards regeneration, by connecting and enthusing people. He has developed proven successful coalition programs in which different market players work together towards a common sustainability ambition. Examples include: Circular Coalitions at ASML and Nationale-Nederlanden, the FM Circular community, Buyergoup IT Software and large programs aimed at making entire product chains more sustainable such as the Coffee Cup Pact. Here he makes the link to the SDG ecosystem he has set up, an ecosystem full of sustainable solutions from startups & scale-ups. This has created wonderful chain collaborations between corporates, startups and government.
From intern to working student and now a full-time role as a Project Support Specialist. Kai has a background in European Studies and Tourism, which has helped him understand the value and importance of sustainability. Inclusion is particularly important to Kai, because he believes everyone deserves equal opportunities and should be seen.
At PHI, Kai handles operational tasks, such as maintaining the office and updating the website, purchasing supplies, designing graphics, editing videos, brainstorming strategies, and supporting colleagues with their projects.
Since his college days, Joost has been actively committed to sustainability and has inspired others to join him in this effort. In recent years, he has supported organizations across a wide range of sectors in clarifying, quantifying, and achieving their sustainability and circular economy ambitions and goals. In doing so, he has worked for government agencies, the education sector, the healthcare sector, the cultural sector, and the business community, among others.
Thanks to his strong analytical skills, Joost is able to translate complex sustainability issues into clear insights and measurable results. He makes sustainability concrete and practically applicable, enabling organizations to make well-informed choices and translate them into effective actions. With a combination of subject-matter expertise, strategic insight, and a forward-looking perspective, he helps organizations achieve sustainable impact and accelerate progress together.
Sandra is our jack-of-all-trades. She really is the go-to person for the team members when it comes to the ins and outs. You can come to her with questions about communication, finance and human resource related issues. She is sharp, creative and pragmatic with a Rotterdam mentality. With her sense of humor and sociability she ensures a good atmosphere in the office and a pleasant working environment. She is also part of the MT and helps PHI keep its operations in order. According to her, creating a more sustainable world through cooperation is really going to make a difference.
Remon is an experienced consultant with a tireless drive to contribute to sustainable solutions. His passion for sustainability and his talent for making complex topics easy to understand come together in his role as team lead of the PHI Data team. He is creative, solution-oriented, and empathetic, and helps organizations use clear insights to shape their sustainability policies. In doing so, he knows how to connect data, strategy, and practice in an accessible way. With his analytical eye and collaborative approach, he builds support, fosters cooperation, and translates ambitions into concrete steps with lasting impact.
Lynn discovered her passion for sustainability while pursuing her master’s degree in Circular Economy, where she focused on sustainable and circular design. She is originally from Zeeland, where her love for nature and the environment took root, and she now takes great pleasure in applying that expertise and creativity at PHI Factory. Lynn is a true jack-of-all-trades: she supports both the Procurement team and the Operations team. As a result, she has gained knowledge and experience across a wide range of topics, which she consistently translates into practical solutions and sustainable impact for various clients. Whether it’s making procurement processes more sustainable or overseeing projects on the shop floor, Lynn tackles every project head-on and makes it her own. With a fresh perspective and the necessary creativity, she’s constantly looking for ways to make a positive impact.
At PHI Factory, Eva has found the ideal place to channel her enthusiasm and strong motivation toward creating a world where nature thrives and people can live in prosperity. Her connection to the outdoors was sparked as a child, and her time in Sweden led her to become actively committed to creating a better world.
Eva uses her drive, determination, and enthusiasm to inspire others to become part of the necessary systemic change. Her role on the sustainability team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a great example of a position where her aforementioned qualities are combined with her interest in different countries and cultures. With her strong passion for behavioral change, infectious enthusiasm, and collaborative style, she helps teams take steps toward a world where we live in and with nature and have everyone’s best interests at heart.
Annabel is an optimistic and intrinsically motivated change-maker. Her mission is to make the world as sustainable as possible, preferably in collaboration with clients and colleagues. She helps organizations with a variety of topics, such as making the built environment more sustainable, behavioral change, and refining organizational strategy and ambition. She’s a jack-of-all-trades.
Her passion for sustainability began during her bachelor’s degree in architecture and continued to grow during her master’s program, where she wrote her thesis on sustainable behavioral change. In the years since, she has put that knowledge into practice. Her strength lies in getting people on board, ensuring that the focus isn’t just on talking about transitions but that real change actually takes place. This experience, combined with her eagerness to learn, ensures that she always completes projects successfully. And most importantly: Annabel’s enthusiasm means that, in addition to success, there’s also a lot of fun to be had.
Vera works at PHI Factory at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and execution. She thrives on unraveling complex issues and translating them into concrete, actionable solutions.
Her passion for sustainability stems from a deep commitment to the world around her and the conviction that things must and can be done differently. It is precisely the complexity of sustainability issues that motivates her to contribute to solutions that are not only well-thought-out but also make a real difference in practice.
Vera combines a sharp analytical eye with a hands-on approach. She connects people, ideas, and perspectives and thrives in environments where collaboration and positivity are central.
Tammo’s enthusiasm for sustainability was sparked during his university studies at VU Amsterdam, where he pursued a minor in sustainability and dedicated his theses to sustainable business models. His fascination with nature, systems thinking, and transition issues drives him to look beyond short-term results. Through his experience in the aviation sector, he translated that into concrete ESG expertise. As a consultant, he makes sustainability measurable and understandable for large organizations, from (CSRD) reporting to double materiality analyses. At PHI Factory, he continues that mission: making data transparent and helping organizations move toward a more sustainable future. His goal is to guide organizations in an energetic and positive way toward lasting, sustainable impact.
Lotte is a passionate innovator. She draws immense energy from connecting people and building relationships, whether in group settings or one-on-one situations. She does this proactively, and thanks to her vibrant personality, it comes very naturally to her. Trust, openness, and cheerfulness are important values to Lotte. Lotte is highly goal-oriented and sees opportunities everywhere to contribute to a better world. She is confident and disciplined when it comes to achieving goals. Lotte approaches new projects and challenges with an open mind, intellect, and a constructive dose of out-of-the-box thinking. Outside of work, you’ll often find Lotte in nature, preferably on or near the water.
Mira is an Italian architect, engineer and has a PhD in the environmental and economic sustainability of the built environment. With her ongoing research, she consults on carbon and energy and develops full financial life-cycle analyses using her self-developed modelling tools. She is currently part of EIT Climate-KIC under the initiative 1 Million Near-Zero Energy, Near-Zero Carbon Homes in Europe. She is also an initiator and collaborator at GearCraft, an architecture and property management studio that specialises in adapting buildings to (near) carbon neutrality. In her role as ambassador for the International Future Living Institute, she advocates for regenerative communities and a circular economy. At PHI, Mira is the mastermind behind the carbon₂ calculations of the PHI Impact Calculator.
