Joost, one of our enthusiastic founders. He would rather stand on two skis than on one board. You can wake him up at night for some classic Dutch ‘stamppot’ (stew), or for lunch, too. With a small dose of humor from under the rivers, he tries to achieve the ambition he and Philip always wanted to start a company for: creating impact by doing. Pushing the transition towards a sustainable economy.

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Joost’s mission is to change the world in such a way that Greta Thunberg can go to bed with peace of mind by at least 2030!

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Imme is our Senior Sustainability Expert and enthusiast about timber-construction and biobased-construction. She has a broad background in sustainability and specialized in the sustainable built environment since her master's thesis. Besides in a professional way, Imme also likes to engage in construction activities as a hobby; she enjoys building walls and repairing roofs, as long as she can work with her hands.

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Sustainability is a big motivation for her, to make sure that her beloved ArenA does not end up below sea level.

Philip, the other founder. Together with Joost he started this journey, guiding organistions towards real and effective sustainability. Creating impact by acting: that's the aim. Nature is beloved by him, he likes enjoying it while hiking, kite-surfing or snowboarding.

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Philip's love for the animal the hedgehog started while growing up close to the Dutch forests. When facing dangers, hedgehogs curl up and protect themselves against the threat ahead. When confronted with climate change, humans are doing the same. Philip wants to change this by offering a perspective.

Zoë is a born sustainability queen. With her background in bio-based innovation, she’s mostly analysing the life cycles of products and materials in this field. Zoë loves far travels and good food, of course flying on bio-based fuels…

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Her ambition? To be a driving and supportive force in adopting bio-based materials replacing non-renewable materials.

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Rik is a fanatic basketball and office-pingpong player. Unfortunately, winning from his colleagues is still a dream. In his free-time, he likes reading books on his e-reader. Having a positive attitude and an analytical performance, he supports solving sustainability issues in a wide range of sectors. He likes to dig deep into the different components and materials of different products.

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Rik’s mission is localizing as many environmental hotspots in company’s supply chains. This makes our  goal-driven support in improving environmental performance of our customers almost easy.

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Saro, life cycle specialist, both boxing- and chess enthusiast (not at the same time) and a big fan of the Italian kitchen. His sustainability journey began at his bachelor years ago together with Joost and Philip. After a few years of LCA experience, he is ready to support companies in their transition towards sustainability. He knows best the added value of sustainable performance.

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His mission is ensuring sustainability becomes the norm. In this way, he hopes he doesn’t have to explain to his aunt every time during family birthdays that sustainability is more than solar panels on the roof.

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Chiara is originally from Italy, and she has a background in Materials Science. After her bachelor, she was working in the world of NGO’s and there she learned a lot about sustainability. She did her master in Sustainable Development, and LCA’s will now be the working field where she can unite her different backgrounds.

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Chiara is curious and has many different hobbies. Just to name a few: spending time in nature, visual arts (everything around drawing), crafts like knitting (already working on a cardigan for next winter), gardening, swimming, and nice food (more eating it, than cooking).

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Fun fact; in Italian, a Hedgehog is called a Riccio, meaning “curly”. Do you see the perfect match between Chiara and our company?

Max writes articles, is podcast-host and is doing research for our Hedgehog Knowledge Base. He is interested in almost everything, but if he had to pick just one thing, he would be -the whole day long-eating good food. The combination of food and sustainability makes him obsessed with the origin of our food products. No surprise that he knows all episodes of his favorite television program “De Keuringsdienst van Waarde” by heart! He also likes to go outside with his binoculars around his neck, and see if he can find some rare birds hiding in nature.

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His mission is to help educate people about the importance of taking care of the planet, because 'when you don’t know, you can’t act!'

Ricardo, our nitrogen sensei, loves to either shred waves or golf courses. On Saturday evenings, you will most probably find him in one of his favorite Jazz cafés in the city centre of Amsterdam. By having an out-of-the-box attitude and a holistic approach, he tackles sustainability challenges head on, thriving on teamwork. During the week, he dedicates himself mainly to calculating nitrogen emissions and conserving nature reserves.

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Although the idea of surfing to work appeals to Ricardo, he rather would keep surfing at the beach, and devote himself to keeping Amsterdam above sea level for the coming centuries.

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François is our Sustainability Manager; he manages our projects & processes. Very motivated with a lot of interests and passions, he loves to cook for the people he cares for and to do all kinds of sports (running, fitness and handstands). Also, he is learning how to play the piano. In general, he loves learning; an example of this are his excellent Dutch skills!

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François feels good about contributing with his job to our world in a meaningful way and having an impact in fighting climate change. This aligns well with his conscious and vegan lifestyle.

Mees, Junior Sustainable Construction Expert, is a sports-man. He likes soccer (both playing & supporting) and is currently training for his first half-marathon. With joining our team, he can now also sharpen his ping-pong skills in our Hedgehog-after-lunch-ping-pong-competition. Besides this, Mees has a lot of creative talents; he enjoys making (animated)videos, drawing and illustrating.

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Sustainability is an important topic to him. He wishes to see a nature-inclusive future for us all, where we humans take care of our planet instead of just consuming and eroding our environment.

Marijn, Junior Sustainability Expert, has a background in Moleculair Neurosciences; she loves numbers. She has a long list of things she enjoys doing in her free-time: taking pictures, making her own clothes, walking in the rain, bouldering, reading, cooking or doing tastings (wine/beer/coffee/whiskey). She also sometimes volunteers in an initiative for refugees.

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What drives her for sustainability is climate-justice. It feels unfair that the climate-crisis hits the countries the hardest, who didn't contribute much to our planet being in this crisis. Let's use our chances to shift this dis-balance!

Victor prefers to spend his days off on his boat on the Amsterdam canals. His entrepreneurial spirit has already developed a brilliant concept. This allows him and his fellow boat owners in Amsterdam to continue sailing carefree in the future, as soon as this has to be done on batteries. In addition, he remains a driving force in our team.

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His mission: The Netherlands (almost) emission-free by 2030, so Victor knows for sure that he can continue to enjoy the Amsterdam canals in the distant future without having to use a submarine!

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Joël, Sustainability Expert with a long-time drive to move society to exist more sustainably. Joël likes to explore his city Amsterdam: on sunny days you can see him paddling around the canals on his SUP. Or admiring the beauty of the city from behind his camera-lens. He also really enjoys visiting exhibitions, the theater, cinema etc.

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Ever since he was a child, he had the ambition to make the world a more sustainable place. At Hedgehog Company Joël is happy to help organisations take their steps towards sustainability and prevent us from continuing to damage our planet by sticking to the business-as-usual approach.

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As a die-hard Arsenal fan, Nata is either really happy or really sad on Mondays. Nata's hunger for knowledge and her curiosity never sleep. Her passion for pubquizes and philosophical discussions make this rather clear. In her free time she likes to sing (sometimes also at work), teach English and cook.

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Nata's mission is to help companies getting insight into their impact on the climate. Sustainability can be quite daunting at first, but Nata can make it understandable and interesting for clients.

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Casper is one of our NOx Experts and aspiring web developer: he is currently taking a coding course. With this, he will help develop our Hedgehog Carbon Platform. Casper likes sports, he has a lot of plants at home, he loves nature, walks and likes to read; both science fiction and more philosophical books.

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He really likes the problem-solving part of his work; he likes puzzles and that ties in nicely with coding.

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