Drs. Rob Waardenburg - the founder and managing director of the Rowaco Group has a long and diversified experience in both teaching, company management and company consultancy. After his studies at the State University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) resulting in a Master's Degree in Economics and Social Geography, Rob was appointed as a senior lecturer in economic geography and tourism at the State University of Rotterdam (Erasmus University). He has been a guest lecturer at several other universities in a.o. Gothenburg (Sweden), Pittsburg (Pennsylvania, USA), Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
Apart from his teaching activities, Rob Waardenburg has had several appointments in transportation and tourism related companies like:
1972-1976 - Founder and managing director of UTS-Netherlands, an organization for international Study Tours and Language Courses.
1972-1983 - Founder and managing director for Stena Line BV in the Netherlands with marketing and Sales for Continental Europe (excl. Germany).
1983-1987 - Joint managing director and member of the executive board of Stena Line AB in Sweden. Responsible for development and execution of a management training program and re-engineering of the old shipping company into an International Travel Service Organization.
1997-1991 - Managing director and CEO of the new Stena Line BV in Hoek van Holland after the acquisition of the state-owned Dutch ferry company SMZ. After two-years of re-engineering and training programs the former loss-making company showed a healthy profit.
1992-present - Founder and CEO of the Rowaco Group
Mr.Rob Doeven - enjoyed an impressive career in the hospitality industry, which has taken him all the way up to senior management levels where he has been responsible for complicated international projects worth millions of dollars. However, he also has been self-employed and, at times, felt the deep frustration of many people who realize that they are making no tangible difference to anything around them. Perhaps that is why he finds coaching, reorganizing and training so attractive.
There is something wonderfully empowering about guiding people in order that they can maximize upon their own potential and thereby their lives.
1978-1983 - SMZ Steward/Purser, car ferry Hook of Holland-Harwich
1983-1989 - Hotel and Restaurants owner and Entertainment and Artists management, Knokke Belgium.
1989-1994 - Euromill Group of companies, Thailand Ocean World, Gaastra Sails International, Future World, Central Bangna ; GM/MD
1994-2009 - Owner of Amadeus Hotel, Sawadie/Siam Thai Restaurants, the Netherlands, Consultant for Friesland Foods.
1995-2009 - Lecturer, trainer and mentor on Cultural Management issues; Thailand, Hong Kong and Cambodia specialist at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam for a,o, the following companies/clients; Ahold, ING, Rabobank, Unilever, Philips, Shell, KLM, DSM and Friesland Foods. RE/MAX real-estate.
2009-present - CEO Majestic Oriental Hotel, Siem Reap Cambodia.