Ief Winckelmans is Founder and President of Ocean Impact Alliance, since November 2014, an alliance of experts, entrepreneurs and investors that actively contribute to ocean-friendly entrepreneurship and sustainable investing. This month, December 2017, he launched a new initiative, 3Q Impact, to help more people with sustainable ideas.

He has a big admiration of China and its culture. His story with China started more or less when he got an opportunity at Huawei (big global Telecoms company) and was invited to set up their European Sales Organization in 2004. A very interesting period learning how Chinese do business, and it allowed him to build a strong network in China. In 2008, he went on to found his own company in China.

He has been extremely successful. But he also lost it all. We get a glimpse into his unbreakable mindset and how what he learned from doing business in China and spending time with the most successful people in the world, made him see his failures as a lesson, to become better and thrive. Now focusing on his passion for eco-friendly entrepreneurship, helping to make a transition from the parasitic species that humanity is today to a more symbiotic species, where we live in harmony with the eco-system around us and keep it sustainable. A big and purposeful goal!

Ief Winckelmans takes us on his exceptional business journey!

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