Associates in the EU

David Binnerts

David Binnerts has worked as an international consultantant since 1990. He started by consulting on project management in development co-operation and then worked for 7 years as a business strategy consultant in the media industry – mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since Ing2000 David  has been helps companies with the implementation of lean production, both in service and in industrial environments. He likes to bring simplicity back to working practice and so works both with top management and shop floor staff. David is co-founder of the Netherlands Lean Initiative (NLI) and of TAKT, the Rubicon representative in Holland. His working languages are Dutch, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Current and recent clients include: Nestlé, Friesland Food, Sonneborn Refined Products, Libbey, the City of Groningen, the province Friesland, Wereldkinderen Foundation, the Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO).

David can be contacted at +31 626 250 175

Andree de Miranda

Andree has studied political science and has worked as an organization and IT consultant in a large Dutch bank. For the last three years he worked as a Lean adviser to clients in The Netherlands and Germany, in sectors as diverse as automotive parts suppliers, hospitals, municipal social security departments and courts of justice. In his approach the employee is the real expert on work content. Improvement that comes from the workers themselves is more likely to be sustained in the long run. He facilitates this with action learning programs aimed at direct improvement of the work processes, where learning the Lean principles and optimizing the way the team handles ideas for improvement, go hand in hand.

Andree is based in Zeist, The Netherlands and is one of the founders and members of the board of the Netherlands Lean Initiative (NLI).

Andree can be contacted on +31 626 010860

Ton Hodes

Drs Ton Hodes is founder and director of Hodes-Binnerts Rubicon Associates in the Netherlands. He has been a guide for Lean transformation since 1994 in industrial, construction, product development and service organisations. He has worked with large companies including Philips, Nestle, Stork, Fokker, Friesland Foods, ABN/AMRO, but also for smaller organisations like Heembouw, De Meeuw, Gemeente Zeist, etc. He studied and still studies MBA and Psychology.

Ton can be contacted on +31 620 360975

Christian Lucke

Christian is an economist and works as an organisational development consultant and a trainer. He has been advising and accompanying his clients in complex change processes for the past 16 years. His approach is characterised as an integration of changing and optimizing the working processes and the company structures with the development of the skills and abilities of the managers and co-workers. He works in different areas such as Healthcare, Service and Construction. His special interest is to apply the Rubicon Lean Construction Method to the German Construction Market. From 1993 until 2000 he lived and worked in The Netherlands. Nowadays lives in Germany and works in both countries. He is an active member of the Netherlands Lean Initiative and of the Association for Social Development

Christian can be contacted on +49 2181 4955165

Rainer Nemitz

Rainer Nemitz (Master of Engineering in Telecommunications) has run his own consulting company “Nemitz Consultants” since 1999. His network comprises of specialists who focus on strategy, organizational and human resources development. Rainer has acquired 16 years of industry experience, whereof he spent 12 years in leadership positions, namely as head of two training centres and as head of the HR department. Due to his technical background Rainer focuses his consulting energy on supporting clients in the technical industry such as power supply, civil engineering, trade fair construction and DIY centres. Rainer delivers, dependent on client demands, both consulting and training with coaching. His expertise centres on Change Management, Leadership, Team development and Communications. When working on long range projects he includes project management, process improvement and sustaining change. Rainer emphasises practical approaches to deliver change successfully. He bases his approach on a quote by Albert Einstein, who once said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."