Entrepreneurship

A European expert on migrant entrepreneurs, Dr Issac Acheampong, recently gave a guest seminar to undergraduate and MBA students at Wittenborg Amsterdam. Acheampong is the Program Manager of the European Regional Development Funds Program (ERDF) at the Amsterdam City Council. He has more than 20 years' experience working with migrant entrepreneurs in areas that have been targeted by the EU for urban renewal. The seminar was for the course Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Amsterdam Zuidoost.

Dutch warehouse expert, Emiel van Gijzen, shared his tricks of the trade with entrepreneurial students from Wittenborg Amsterdam during a recent Procurement and Production seminar in the capital city. Van Gijzen has worked for big logistics companies like DHL, XPO and Panalpina, and has 25 years' experience in warehouse management.

During her ongoing journey as an entrepreneur, MSc student Pahal Nopani has learned many lessons - including that failure is an important element to growth and that "a start-up might fail, but an entrepreneur never does".

Indonesian student Bertha Tanaem launched her company at the recently held International Fashion Week in Amsterdam. She was one of several Wittenborg students involved in the event.

Norwegian Student, Hanne Garnvik, has grown up learning all the beauty secrets of Norwegian women. Now she wants to share the Scandinavian skin-care routine with the rest of the world by starting a franchise business with exclusive rights to sell all-natural skin-care products in the Netherlands and Belgium from award-winning Norwegian brand Marina Miracle.