BigMile, supplier of software for calculating and analyzing transport-related CO2emissions, announces that Dyon van Gaans (58) will take over from Jack Pool as CEO from February 1, 2022. With the arrival of Van Gaans, BigMile is entering a new phase in realizing the company's global growth ambitions.
Van Gaans comes from PTV Group, where he gained more than thirty years of experience in various positions. In his last position he was VP North West Europe. He is known as a pioneer and entrepreneur. Under his leadership, the Benelux region has become the most important sales market for the globally operating PTV Group. Partly because of this, Van Gaans and his team have made an important contribution to the development of PTV's software for trip and route planning.
BigMile originated from Top Sector Logistics and Connekt and has been an independently operating international company since the summer of 2020. Van Gans will take the company's international expansion to the next phase. 'We are very happy with the arrival of Dyon van Gaans. With his knowledge of software development in combination with the extensive experience within the logistics industry, he is the right person to lead our fast-growing organization and to manage the further expansion in a professional manner', says Jack Pool about his successor.
About his choice for BigMile, Van Gaans says: 'It may sound a bit cliché, but thanks to my daughters it has become crystal clear to me that we all have to contribute if we want to leave a better world for our children. It is therefore extremely important that we are all aware of our emissions. BigMile supplies a fantastic product for this. It holds up a mirror to every company that has something to transport and provides them with a good benchmark. Sometimes the results are confronting, but sooner or later every company will have to take responsibility. And luckily a lot of companies are already working on this.'
It is therefore not surprising that BigMile has built up an impressive customer portfolio in its relatively short existence. 'BigMile is the standard platform for transport-related carbon footprint optimization. I am very much looking forward to further expanding the success of BigMile worldwide', says Van Gaans.
Photo: Dyon van Gaans – © BigMile BV
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