Edwin van Rest CEO

Edwin is one of the founders of StudyPortals. Apart from his overall management tasks, he seeks strategic partnerships and focuses on further developing our products and services together with large - but also small clients.

Edwin was educated in Industrial Engineering and Management Science where he specialised in knowledge-intensive processes and innovation management. He gained project management and analytic experience as a strategy consultant for a multitude of large corporations.

As part of his Master´s degree he spent one year at Osaka University Japan and he worked in the IT services team for the Olympic Games both in Athens and Torino.

Edwin is a strong believer of international and intercultural experiences for the benefit of Personal and Professional development - through StudyPortals he wants to stimulate and help others to broaden their horizon.

Favourite StudyPortals element/experience

Winning the New Venture competition for most promising, social start-up. New Venture is an initiative by McKinsey&Co and supported by the Dutch ministery of Economic affairs as well as many large multinational firms.

There were hundreds of inspiring start-ups competing in three rounds, the jury was tough, we knew we were doing well, but we never dared to hope for the first prize...

Apart from an unexpected cash contribution, this was great recognition for the whole team".