van Woerkom joins venture studio Flagship Founders as sales director

Flagship Founders, the venture studio for maritime technology companies, today announces an important new hire. Joris van Woerkom has now joined the company as Sales Director. In this role, the sales expert will support all startups in the Flagship Founders portfolio in their sales strategies and activities.

The core of Flagship Founders' business model is to assist its startups in all key business areas such as product development, marketing, fundraising, network building, and sales. The latter is a crucial success factor for any company, but especially for companies in the early stages. Joris van Woerkom will now take sales to a new level for Flagship Founders' startups and support them in both European and global expansion.

Joris van Woerkom brings a decade of experience in building SaaS sales operations in maritime and maritime-related sectors. Most recently, he was Vice President of Revenue at DeepSea Technologies, a maritime AI startup that was acquired by the Nabtesco group in mid-2023. This extensive expertise in building and scaling sales operations for fast-growing startups is another critical building block in Flagship Founders’ mission to develop global leaders in the maritime tech space.

"Joris van Woerkom is an important addition to the Flagship Founders team," says Fabian Feldhaus, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Flagship Founders. "He has already proven his experience and influence in other important management positions in our industry and especially in the maritime technology sector. With Joris van Woerkom, the core team of Flagship Founders is now able to provide practical and strategic support to our startups at all levels and in all phases of the business development process."

Sales Director Joris van Woerkom comments: "The maritime tech sector is undergoing rapid and vital development at the moment – and this process is being driven by startups. Flagship Founders plays a key role in the genesis, development, and support of these important companies. It’s an amazing opportunity to be part of this disruptive force and to help empower the next generation of maritime tech leaders in building and scaling their commercial operations, delivering meaningful, quantifiable impact to the whole industry.”