About Cooll
Cooll is a spin-off company of the University of Twente (UT) and located in Enschede. Our adventure started in 2009. You can digitally meet our management team, engineers and advisory board below.
Management team
Johannes Burger
Founder / CTO
Initiator Johannes Burger has been working at the UT on innovative cooling and heat pump systems since the mid-1990s, including in projects for ESA (European Space Agency).
Stefan van Uffelen
Founder / COO
Co-initiator Stefan van Uffelen has a lot of experience in sustainability projects. As such, he was quartermaster and, until 2014, the director of the Dutch Green Building Council, a successful initiative to make the built environment more sustainable.
Maarten Kool
CEO
I am an entrepreneurial Managing Director/CEO with a broad expertise in international technically oriented B-to-B markets. I have a track record in realising accelerated international expansion through autonomous growth (mostly with local presence) and through acquisitions.
Engineers
The engineering team consists of the following people.
Tom
Sven
Ronald
Onno
John
Carlo
Ben
Arnold
Arno de Jager
Bas van Laar
Erwin Hondebrink
Jan van Buuren
Jelmer Dijkstra
Marc Gort
Sebastiaan van Vliet
Wietse Offringa
Anton Verbeek
Bart Custers
Eva van Beurden
Hassan Firouzbakht
Henk Kolk
Marco Stempher
Quirijn Eppinga
Reinier Heeres
Ronald Brinks
Sven de Ridder
Ursula Huiskes
Baidaa Ibrahim
Coen Berning
Jan Bouwhuis
Kevin van der Poel
Marko Sofijanic
Martijn Al
Reinier Imhoff
Warner Hoekstra
Willie ter Heide
We also regularly have graduates and interns joining our team.
Advisory board
Cooll is supported by an Advisory Board, which includes many experts from the field.
Jaap Gillis
Chairman
Former CEO Bouwfonds REIM, owner ECOnomic Real Estate
Daan van Vliet
Board member
Owner Unica
Niels Peteri
Board member
Director-owner Quooker
Henk Willem van Dorp
Board member
Estate manager Van Dorp Installaties
Jonathan Moed
Board member
Energiefonds Overijssel
Radboud Dood
Board member
Energiefonds Overijssel
Peter Pelt
Board member
De Stiho Groep
Albert Jochems
Board Member
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Boele Braaksma
Board member
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