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The practitioners

Named consultants. Not a vendor desk.

Chris Jobse

Co-founder & PIM architect

Chris is co-founder of PIMvendors and a PIM architect with more than twenty years in product data. He leads independent selection and RFI/RFP work for retailers and wholesalers, including Action, Ahold, De Bijenkorf, and Blokker, and sits as Shopping Award Vakexpert.

Stephan Spijkers

Co-founder

Stephan is co-founder of PIMvendors, bringing operator experience from scaling e-commerce businesses including Westwing Benelux. He advises on omnichannel retail, catalog operations, and the real cost of getting product data live at pace.

René Cleijpool

Senior data architecture consultant

René is a senior data-architecture consultant with three decades of moving organisations from scattered files to a single product record. He specialises in ETIM and ETIM-MC classification, PIM setup, and the integration work that makes those models run.

Nadim Wardé

Senior product data consultant

Nadim is a senior consultant with more than twenty-five years in product data and broad experience in GS1, ETIM, and FabDis. He supports manufacturers and retailers through the full lifecycle of product-data transformation — from scoping, design, and build through go-live and change management.

Marianne Swank

Product data & PIM consultant

Marianne is a product-data and PIM consultant with more than fifteen years across retail and e-commerce, including bol.com, ANWB, Profuomo, and Little Dutch. She translates messy catalogues into practical PIM strategies that business and IT teams will actually run.

Anna Orlova

PIM & PXM implementation consultant

Anna is a certified PIM and PXM implementation expert with more than a decade of e-commerce experience at My Jewellery, HBM, and Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS). She combines technical data modelling with an MSc in Strategic Management to tighten ineffective product-data practices, improve customer product experiences, and streamline multichannel integrations that can scale.

Ronald Muller

Senior PIM/MDM consultant

Ronald is a senior PIM/MDM consultant, affiliated through Contakt Consult, with more than twenty years in product information, master data, and e-commerce. He specialises in B2B technical classification, GS1 programmes, and selecting PIM for wholesale, construction, and installation.

Monique de Jeu

Interim programme manager

Monique is an interim programme manager and founder of Torus-Advies, with an Executive MBA from Nyenrode and more than twenty years across ICT, policy, and organisation development. She leads complex change programmes, translating strategy into operational results in demanding public-sector settings.

The studio

Marketing and accounts.

Eduard Lakhno

Marketing & account management

Eduard works on marketing and account management at PIMvendors, keeping conversations with buyers and partners moving. He handles outreach, follow-up, and the practical coordination that sits around selection and advisory work.

Nathalie Paniuta

Content & marketing specialist

Nathalie is content management specialist at PIMvendors, covering the site, articles, and social channels. She turns PIM and product-data topics into clear copy for both specialists and buyers.

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