Gijs is the Managing Director of Sedico in Germany and is responsible for managing the German team and Sedico’s international business development activities.

In 2005 Gijs started working as a mergers & acquisitions consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Amsterdam. At the end of 2008 Gijs then changed industries and became a business development manager at the financial services firm Page Group, first in Amsterdam and then in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he headed the interim financial services team.

Gijs joined Sedico as Business Development Manager in 2012, he then became the Managing Director of Sedico in Germany in September 2015. 

He has an MBA in Financial Value Management from the University of Groningen.

His native language is Dutch but he also speaks fluent German and English.