Our team

Anne-Marie Bor

Founder and process manager

Anne-Marie has been active in the field of sustainable design and chain collaboration since 1990, first as a consultant and later with the national government. She has 30 years of knowledge of sustainable entrepreneurship and 25 years of experience in facilitating joint strategic processes. Anne-Marie works on projects with companies, financial institutions, governments, and NGOs.

Creative thinking, future-oriented, learning together

Hermen Groenendijk

Process manager

Hermen facilitates sustainable transitions with frontrunners. He supports cooperation and involvement in process management. With a background in philosophy and environmental sciences, he enjoys contributing to support for sustainable transitions. He also has a small-scale multifunctional care farm and knowledge and experience with reflexive monitoring.

Communicative, solution-oriented, curious, and meticulous.

Martha Bailon

Process manager

Martha supports process management and facilitates effective partnerships between frontrunners to accelerate sustainable transitions. With a background in environmental management and international policy and experience working on the SDGs, Martha is driven to advance biodiversity and climate action.

Collaborative, goal-oriented, and honest

Richelle de Jong

Project/management assistant

Richelle ensures that all administrative and project support processes run smoothly at NextGreen. With more than 15 years of experience in office support, facilities management, and events, she is a connecting link.
She is passionate about improvement to ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible.

Structured, determined, honest, and curious

Irene de Jong

Communication and Process Manager

Irene has 15 years of experience as a sustainability consultant at the intersection of nature and economics. She previously worked as a project leader and facilitator of sustainable transitions and green area development.
With her multidisciplinary experience at financial institutions, companies, and the government, she supports innovative coalitions. Her background as a biologist and communication scientist comes in handy here.

Enthusiastic, disarming, analytical, and connecting

Jaco Leijdekker

Project manager innovative financing

Jaco previously worked in the financial sector, particularly in banking. In 2016, he launched a sustainable crowdfunding platform with the aim of financing sustainable investments and new initiatives.

Jaco supports NextGreen on a freelance basis with the development and provision of financial instruments for climate adaptation for both the public and private sectors.

Analytical, communicative, honest, curious

Alessa Bor

Project Assistant

Alessa recently graduated with a degree in urban planning and specializes in climate adaptation in public spaces. Drawing on this background, she has recently joined the team as a project assistant. She also has years of experience maintaining the website, and her attention to detail proved invaluable during the launch of the new site.

Creative, precise, and curious