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Dr. Ir. Linda Kester

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Founding Partner at JigsEye
📍 Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nederland, Netherlands

Dr. Ir. Linda Kester is a Founding Partner at JigsEye, an award-winning researcher, and an expert in strategic portfolio management. With a PhD from Delft University of Technology, she helps organizations bridge the gap from strategy to execution, focusing on digital transformation and innovation. She is also a renowned speaker for various executive programs.

Outside of her primary work, Linda is a mother to two sons and serves on the advisory board for Waterly, a social enterprise focused on providing clean drinking water. Her personal outlet is dancing, especially at sunny festivals, and she enjoys traveling with her sons to new and adventurous places.

Her research on Strategic Portfolio Decision Making was selected as one of the top 20 case studies worldwide in the field of Innovation Management over a twenty-year period.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Founding Partner
Job Level
Junior
Location
Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nederland, Netherlands
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Strategic Portfolio Management
This is the core of her academic research, her PhD, and the central focus of her consultancy, JigsEye. She is a recognized scientific expert in this field.
Corporate Innovation
She specializes in helping organizations with (radical) innovation and lectures on New Product Development & Innovation at Nyenrode Business Universiteit.
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Career

Work history

1-2018
Founding Partner
JigsEye
1-2018
Affiliated Researcher & Executive education
KIN Center for Digital Innovation
4-2017
Lecturer ExecutiveMBA and Examiner MSc
Nyenrode Business Universiteit
4-2014
Lecturer Executive Master Program
EURIB
12-2015 - 1-2018
Advisory Board Member
Waterly
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Education
2007 - 2011
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Delft University of Technology
2004 - 2006
Master's degree
Delft University of Technology
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