Mission
Creating the future from today's opportunities
Services
Idexim provides business consultancy services and has a focus on strategy development and innovation, corporate development, technology and process improvement. Specific expertise in life-sciences and CRO sector.
Method
No cookie-cutter approach, but tailored to the specific situation. But two building blocks are crucial most of the time. First is a proper understanding of the market. Who do you want to sell to, what are the needs of that customer, and how does the product fulfil those needs? Second is an understanding of stake/shareholder goals and objectives. Stitching these two together usually provides an initial roadmap. Then starts the exciting part of creating ideas, developing solutions and searching for innovations. Followed by the biggest challenge of selecting the best ones and (more important) discard the not bad ones. Then get the ball rolling. Start executing, create results and re-think, re-adjust and refine. Because in the end the delivery is to achieve maximum impact.
About us
Founder and CEO of Idexim is Willem Jan Drijfhout, PhD. Willem Jan studied Pharmacy and obtained his PhD (with honours) in pharmacology from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The title of his 1995 thesis, 'Melatonin On-line' was indicative for being an early adopter of technology and the way it can improve the things we do. He came in contact with the CRO-industry and got inspired by working according to the strictest quality standards and the GxP methods of doing research. He started as a project manager at Pharma Bio-Research ('Perfect or nothing'), a phase I Clinical Pharmacology and Bioanalytical CRO. He held positions of increasing responsibility in project management, sales and science. After being acquired in 2006, he ran the global business unit Early Development Services (EDS) within PRA Health Sciences. As Executive Vice President he was a member of PRA's Executive Team. Under his leadership the EDS business unit grew to one of the largest early clinical development organisations in the world with 8 clinics and 2 laboratories spread across the US and Europe employing around 1000 people. In 2018 he founded the company Idexim to provide strategy and innovation consultancy services to benefit a much wider range of companies and industries.
With a solid background in science and a strong commercial sense, Willem Jan has always been working between client demand and product offering. In particular finding solutions where the two don't match are his strength. He holds a finance certificate from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and has been actively involved in acquisitions and mergers in the private equity and public markets on both buying and selling side. He implemented numerous innovation and strategy initiatives, repeatedly resulting in outperforming the competition.
Technology changes the world at an unprecedented pace and Willem Jan is passionate about applying it's possibilities to improve the world.
There is more in life than work and Willem Jan loves spending his time with his family and enjoys his hobbies music, photography and astronomy.