John van den Bosch has been an entrepreneur ever since his twenty’s, and has successfully owned, developed and steered an engineering-consultancy company, a sign-company, and a sign-franchise company. John studied mathematics, business organisation & economy, Engineering, Communication, and Personal Leadership.
As one of the larger signmakers in Holland John not only served big customers as Shell, General Motors, Centerparcs and Eneco but also realised large projects as turnkey delivery of all the signage of bungalow parks in Holland and UK (Centerparcs) or turnkey restyle sign projects (Eneco)
John was the first one who started sign-franchising in Holland and successfully introduced the World market Leader in the sign industry Sign a Rama to Holland, expanding into Belgium and Germany.
Fluent in Dutch and English.
Achievements
Entrepreneurship
Founded and developed a sign company from scratch up to 3 million guilders in annual sales.
Founded and developed the “Coöperatieve Inkoopvereniging Visionline” a Dutch Sign Association.
Was a board advisory member of SiBon (a Dutch Sign Association).
Founded and developed a Sign-Franchise company up to 19 stores in Holland, Belgium and Germany.
International oriented.
Project Management
John has lead several large (international) sign projects from design, planning, engineering to realisation.
Business Broker
John has gained knowledge in Buying and selling of company’s within a franchise system.
Sales & Marketing
John has a proven record in Sales and especially in building trust in large projects and/or franchise sales.
Specialist in Direct Marketing (Cold Calling).
Specialist in one on one communication.
Training
Has a passion for training (self and others).
Trained most of personnel and franchise owners first hand.
Studied works of Don Hudson, Brian Tracy, Ron Hubbard, Paul Meijer.
Developed a “Communication Workshop” for personal use.
Role in Buffin Leadership International
John's role in Buffin Leadership is to expand and build our Associateship capability and client base into Europe. This will enable more businesses wanting to develop their people and secure greater results to make contact and gain from our experience and expert resource.
