Yvo Schaap
I am an experienced tech entrepreneur, now focused on bringing value as part of senior management, most recently serving as the CTO of Holland's leading property portal.
My core strength is a combination of a creative mind, a strong analytical approach to business and deep technical knowledge and experience. That unique combination allows me to help develop business strategies, setup technical roadmaps and bring people to successful execution.
Skills and knowledge
- Multiple successful business experiences as founder and CTO
- Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with complete web stack (server, cloud, code, browser, devtools)
- Strong advocate of Lean, the MVP model and SCRUM for effective product development
- Experienced in negotiating business agreements (biz dev, M&A, advertising, marketing)
- Financial savvy (reporting, forecasting, budget setting)
- Focused on crafting efficient processes and teams
Experience
Pararius
CTO, 2015 - 2017
- The leading online rental property platform in The Netherlands, visited by over 1.2M visitors/month
- Leadership role responsible for the companies' tech strategy, partnerships, product roadmap, development process and development team (10 FTE)
- Launched our entry into the property for sale market, expanding our listings by 6x.
- Including the SaaS product used by 1,200 estate agents, resulting in €2M revenue/year
Fanity
Co-Founder / CTO, 2010 - 2013
- Start-up focused on a building an innovative music and entertainment platform
- Responsible for building and launching a successful beta version of our product
- Build the back-end engine that crawled and analyzed thousands of entertainment related media content a day
- Setup partnership with Universal Music and Radio 538
Greenbookings
CTO, 2009
- VC backed sustainable travel business
- Build online hotel reservation platform
Directlyrics
Founder, 2008 - Present
- Reached a total of over 1 billion visitors worldwide (November '15 attracted 20M visits)
- Acquired licensing deal for lyrics distribution
- Setup multiple multi-year partnerships
- Sold minority stake to Spin Music, Inc.
Kiesjestudie.nl
Founder, 2005 - 2008
- First online higher education review website in The Netherlands
- Sold to Centrum Hoger Onderwijs Informatie (publisher KeuzeGids)
Completealbumlyrics.com
Founder, 2003 - 2008
- Grew quickly to one of the most visited lyrics website in the world
- Sold to LiveUniverse, Inc. (by the founder of MySpace)
Education
Master of Science Finance & Investment
- 2008 - 2009 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Minor: Business Ethics
- Thesis "The impact of merges and antitrust decisions on bidding firms"
Bachelor of Science Business Administration
- 2003 - 2008 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Minor: Port of Rotterdam
VWO
- 1997 - 2003 at Laar & Berg, Laren
- Including 3 years of bilingual education (English and Dutch)
Personal activities
- Hacker by night e.g. State.of.dev, Economist Search and the Product Hunt leaderboard
- Open source contributor e.g. Google AMP
- Active in security research e.g. Facebook, HackerOne
- Product innovation e.g. Winner of the Sanoma NUlab Innovation challenge (€10,000 price)
- Involved as start-up mentor e.g. Rockstart
- Enjoy reading and running
- Dad of two