Mario van Hamersveld

Director, van Hamersveld MC

Mario van Hamersveld is Director of van Hamersveld MC specialising in international marketing, management and research. Prior to his present role, he was Marketing Development Manager of the Consumer Electronics Division of Royal Philips in Amsterdam.  He served as management consultant in the strategy team and was Manager Marketing Research & Support for the Consumer Electronics Division. He has also held other marketing and research positions with Philips at a corporate level. He has been engaged in a variety of international management, marketing training and development activities and contributed to various international publications. He has been active in ESOMAR as Council Member, 1990-1996, President, 1996-1998 and Acting Director General (2001-2003). In September 2005 he was awarded the ESOMAR Excellence Award for Standards of Performance in Market, Opinion and Social Research, the “John Downham Award”