Niels Wijnen

✉️  [email protected] • 🔗  nls.pub • 📍 Hoogstraten, Belgium • 📅 43 years

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Entrepreneurial leader with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, innovative problem-solving, and venture building. Founded, scaled, and successfully exited an e-commerce and food production company focused on healthy, sustainable products.

Combines systemic thinking with hands-on operational expertise. Passionate about transforming food systems through innovation, collaboration and experimentation with a strong foundation in community development and teaching.

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1. Current activities

• Participant Kickstarter4Good incubator Central question: How to help food transition organizations access new funding through meta-fundraising. Building an AI system that combines movement-specific fundraiser expertise, organizational data, and automated workflows to overcome funding barriers.
• Board Member ProVeg Belgium Supporting plant-based food system transformation
• Board Member Pit&Pit Guiding sustainable business practices in food industry

2.  Professional Experience

My entrepreneurial journey has taught me how to build mission-driven ventures that create lasting impact. I understand the challenges of transforming food systems from the ground up, allowing organizations to accelerate their transition without repeating common pitfalls.

2021—Present

Board Member Pit&Pit

• Provide strategic oversight for sustainable business operations
• Guide long-term strategy focused on circular economy principles