I love airplanes and airlines, I always have, so when I became a project leader in 2007, I realized that I wanted to work in the industry I have such a passion for.

BCG believes in charting your own course, so when they gave me the opportunity to become dedicated to the airline industry, it was an offer I could not refuse!

The last 12 months have been the most exciting of my tenure at BCG. I have worked on high impact airline projects in Europe and Australia and covered a wide range of topics, including a high profile sales process, a growth strategy for the client's freight division and the development of a more active corporate center that could better manage the different divisions.

Dirk-Maarten joined BCG in 2000, after receiving his masters of law from the University of Leiden.

Since then he has worked on projects in the airline industry, financial services, consumer goods, telecoms, industrial goods, railways and the automotive industry for BCG offices in Amsterdam, Sydney and Madrid.

In 2005, he graduated from Columbia Business School (Beta Gama Sigma honor society, Dean's List) in New York, focusing on finance and economics, and pricing.

Dirk-Maarten is married and has a son and a daughter.