Mr. Harry van Dorenmalen Country General Manager IBM Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg - IBM
Mobility - Award Ceremony
Innovation challenge on Water Management & Mobility
The Dutch Ministry of Traffic and Water, IBM and Dutch research institute TNO have organized a challenge, related to the themes mobility and watermanagement. Participants were students from Universities across the Netherlands, as well as young graduates from large international companies.
Participants were asked to come up with solutions that would help the Dutch metropolis of the Randstad (a conglomerate of large cities in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Rotterdam) to stay safe and mobile in the next 18 years. This area, that is responsible for 70% of the year´s GDP, is below sea level and is experiencing large mobility challenges. The worldwide rising sea level and the ever growing traffic volumes might cause problems to this economic vital area. To the background of all this, the Netherlands is aiming to organize the Olympic Games in 2028. Such a logistic challenging event will demand a lot of this metropolis regarding infrastructure and mobility of goods and people.
All participants have issued their solutions. A jury is currently selecting who will win this challenge. The winner will be announced during the World Congress on IT, May 26th in Amsterdam.
About Mr. Harry van Dorenmalen
Harry van Dorenmalen (1955) is General Manager of the IBM Integrated Market Team (IMT) Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. This IMT was founded per july 2005.
He combines this role with the General Country Manager role for IBM Nederland N.V. which role he took on per the beginning of January 2006.
Until July 2005 he was Vice President, Industrial Sector, IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), covering major Industries like automotive and electronics. Before that he was the Managing Director for Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, one of IBM's largest and most highly valued customers.
Mr. van Dorenmalen also served as Director of Service Delivery for EMEA. In this role the consolidation of data centers and IT- optimization for both IBM as well as external customers in EMEA was achieved.
Other former assignments include the implementation of the regional model in EMEA, transformation and globalization assignments on a global scale, as well as international assignments in the area of consultancy, professional services, application development and manufacturing.
Mr. van Dorenmalen holds a degree in business administration from the University of Delft in the Netherlands. He is married and has 2 daughters.
Other positions and commitments: e.g. board positions, committees, etc:
Member of the General Board of VNO NCW
Member of the Advisory Board of ECP.NL
Member of the General Board of ICT Office
Member of the Board of Opportunity in Bedrijf (OiB)
Member of the Advisory Board of International Business Foundation Amsterdam (IBFA)
Member of the General Board of Kenniskring
Member of the Board of AmCham