I am a committed and accessible person which makes me a good sparring partner and network partner. As an all-round manager I have extensive experience in the public domain, water sports and the hospitality industry. Specialties are general management, market strategy and performance improvement.

After an entrepreneurial career, I have decided to shift my focus towards philosophy and poetry.

• Writer, essayist, public speaker
• Initiator knowledge aggregation projects in watersports industry
• Head of regional tourist information centre
• Regional representative of Holland Yachting Industry
• Owner yacht sailing school, owner strategic advisory company, owner restaurant.
• Professional sailor, professional chef

• Father of two
• Living in Rotterdam
• Rider, reader and restless
• Student of Philosophy, Erasmus University

Reach out to me via e-mail: rptpholmes@gmail.com

Buy me a coffee at Sherlocks Place.

Let's meet me at the Hannah Arendt Center conference Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media at Bard College, NY, October 13-14, 2022. Read more.