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about us

What does Early Friday mean?

Everybody knows the friday feeling. You’re positive, there’s a promise in the air, everything is as it should be. That’s the feeling we aim to give our clients: the reassurance that everything is under control. You can count on us to make every day feel like a friday.

Meet the team and our partners

At Early Friday, we are excited about our new plans, expanded potential, and enhanced offerings. We continue to support businesses in making informed decisions based on relevant and reliable data. Additionally, we now provide agile business professionals to drive transformations in thinking, working, and organizing. Our goal is to help organizations become more agile, enabling them to respond flexibly and quickly to changing circumstances.

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Core team-members

Frits van den Berg
Founder & CEO

Arie van Bennekum
Agile thought leader & partner

Vincent Wijma
Data Consultant

Frits van den berg

Founding Father of Early Friday. With his endless energy and positivity, backed by years of experience in different technological companies, Frits knows how to turn any problem into a solution. He’s moved through all the different corporate levels, and is the best at making lasting connections and overseeing large challenges.
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Arie van Bennekum

Arie goes by “The Agile Wizard.” His journey from healthcare and military life to co-authoring the Agile Manifesto is legendary. Today, he’s a guru in Agile transformations and Business Agility, guiding teams worldwide with his practical wisdom.
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VINCENT WIJMA

Vincent was involved in the idea that build Early Friday. He mostly performs in the role of business consultant or business analyst. Helping translate ambition, whishes and strategy into execution-able work. He’s good in creating new relations, creating new functionalities, creating new insights and doing that together with and for other people.
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Lusinda Brizzolari
Data analyst

Alexandre Martins
Data engineer

Esteban Martinez-Querol

Sparring partner & executive coach

LUSINDA BRIZZOLARI

With more than 20 years of experience ranging from data quality specialist to system owner and everything in between, Lusinda lives and breathes data. Her special power is to keep everything simple and clear, while never losing sight of the ultimate goals and the relevant parties she needs to make things happen.
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Alexandre Martins

With a master’s degree in physics engineering, this highly motivated, organized and result-oriented data engineer is obsessed with the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of almost anything. He’s motivated by the implementation of new technologies to solve complex data needs and loves to orchestrate multiple data pipelines.
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Esteban Martinez-Querol

Esteban is an expert in digital transformation, AI, and enterprise agility. With 25 years of international experience, he helps organizations embrace agility and optimize IT governance. His mantra? Transforming businesses by harnessing the power of collaboration.
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Rogier Serré
Agile coach

Patrick Belgareh
Agile master & transformation coach

Hanno Verloove
Senior Agile coach

Rogier Serré

Rogier guides you to your authentic self. As an enthusiast Agilist, he has empowered numerous teams and individuals to reach their full potential. In addition to coaching various organizations and people, Rogier also leads his own retreats focused on personal development. Growth, energy, and connection are the core elements that drive his work!
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Patrick Belgareh

This experienced transformation expert helps organizations become agile and effective. Patrick is specialized in agile methodologies, team coaching, and leadership development. He achieves successful transformations with his holistic approach that integrates people, processes, and systems at government agencies and multinational corporations.
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Hanno Verloove

This man is a long-time internationally experienced agile expert. with a strong focus on teams and visual management. He loves to bring people, teams, projects and organizations forward, he will use his full potential: experience, knowledge, creativity, anything pragmatic that works! He can handle any situation, and wherever he is placed, he connects and achieves results.
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Eugenie van Emden
Brand & Design lead

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Senior coach & transformation lead

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Eugenie van Emden

A versatile creative mind operating at the intersection of innovation and aesthetics. With a broad skill set encompassing strategy, graphic design, 2D/3D, web design, animation design, (re)branding, and online marketing, Eugenie brings a unique blend of creativity and technical expertise to our team.
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Ms Senior coach

This coach is a seasoned international coach with 30 years experience in the agile domain. She is a transformation lead, a management coach, a team coach and an internationally certified process facilitator (CPF). She is a strong advocate of simplicity, ensuring that strategies and frameworks remain clear and effective.

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Key partners

TRUE AGILE
Partner Early Friday

TrueAgile provides training and certifications to implement agile values and principles across organizations. Early Friday partners with TrueAgile to help companies adopt an agile mindset and apply these principles effectively, enhancing flexibility, innovation, and resilience.
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TOMORROW X
partner Early Friday

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IT SchooL
Partner Early Friday

Early Friday collaborates with IT School to share insights on strategies for business agility and project management. Arie acts as the host at events organized by IT School, leveraging his more than 30 years of experience in Agile and Lean transformations to help companies become more flexible and future-proof.
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