Name:
Willem Tijssen
E-mail:
eecevents@yahoo.com
Location: Monrovia
Birthday: 23 November, 2008
Bio: Willem is an ?event-engineer? and marketing consultant from Hilversum in The Netherlands. Over the years, he has been involved with a truly broad range of marketing projects and activities for a wide variety of commercial clients e.g. Blaupunkt, Bosch, Swatch International, EuroDisney, Nestle Germany, MTV, Sky Channel, Super Channel (NBC), Nike Europe, Giant Europe, Bonaire HiH, Peter Ustinov (UNESCO), Philips Car Stereo and Rigid Airship Design. After a first trip to West Africa in 1998, he specialized himself in trade and business with West Africa and since 2004 Willem resides in the Mano River region, mainly to service governmental bodies in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone and consult European and US companies entering the mentioned markets. His never ending ambition to understand everything about "the world of his clients and employers" drove him to study: - new technologies - airship technology - and the present history of Africa. To communicate and produce efficient and cost effectively, he taught himself how to design and create html Internet Sites, and how to film and edit professional video productions (dvcam) on his computer. In the past decade he has been successful in purchasing and selling iron ore, bauxite and steel originating from West Africa. Willem has knowledge and experience of the nature of mineral and metal mining and with assistance from the national authorities, local experts and paramount chiefs, he has selected areas over which he obtained exclusive prospecting rights. Since 2003 he has been actively involved in prospecting metals and minerals in the West African Mano River region.
Interests: Africa in general and West Africa specific -Football/Soccer - F1 racing - Video - Writing
Blog Created: Saturday, 8 April 2006
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