meet our team

Hans van der Weide MCM
Entrepreneur, CEO Sustenso
Expertise in management consulting, business strategy and development, change management.
CEO start-ups, SME
SIOO, Master Change Management
Business Consultant
Project Management
Lecturer Strategic Management IMB

Rene van de Kieft
Co CEO Sustenso, RC MAC
Engaged in issues concerning socially responsible enterprise, also contributes in other ways to social developments.
Rotterdam Erasmus University, Business/Sociological Economics
University of Amsterdam (UVA), Register Controller
Washington University, Master Accounting and Control, experienced operational and
financial manager and regulator at various corporates, strategic management,
corporate finance sustainable investments, project development.

Prof. Dr. Joost Teixeira de Mattos
Research & development
Emeritus Professor of Quantitative Microbial Physiology (UvA), cofounder of Photanol BV.
As a researcher he has extensive experience with fermentation processes in general and his knowledge of the physiology of photosynthesising microorganisms is extremely useful for large-scale growing of these organisms.

Jan van Bodegom
Entrepreneur
Makes major social contributions in the fields of roadside grass and reuse of grass waste. He participates in numerous experimental initiatives aiming to generate energy from green grass.

Piet Klaver
Co-founder of Sustenso
Entrepreneur, founder and former owner of Klaver Kaas BV, Klaverkoe and Klavergeit. He was managing director of Klaverkaas BV and is highly interested in and engaged with making the agrarian sector more sustainable. He still regularly consults for dairy projects in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Dr.Ing. Jop Klaver
Consultant
Geologist, civil engineer, researcher at the RWTH Aachen University and cofounder of MaP – Microstructure and Pores GmbH. As Piet’s son, for many years he was closely involved in all aspects of dairy farming.