Marco Kuiper is an experienced event organizer and founder of Maverick Events. He has over 20 years of experience organizing successful large-scale events in the Netherlands, including the Indian Summer Festival which he founded and later sold. Kuiper is skilled in developing new event concepts, securing sponsors, and executing events. He is currently the director of NYE Alkmaar, an annual New Year's Eve dance event, and has previously organized various concerts, markets, and festivals.

1. PROFILE
Name:
Marco Kuiper
Date of birth:
05 August 1972
Website:
www.maverickevents.nl
Skills
 ENTREPRENEURIAL
 INNOVATIVE
 CREATIVE
 COMMUNICATIVE
 STRUCTURED
PERSONAL PITCH
As a successful organizer, pioneer and expert of Dutch youth cultures I know how to
translate market needs into new, sustainable and large-scale events in a creative
and sustainable way. Due in part to my business administration background, I am
not only able to develop new concepts, but also to implement and execute them
successfully. My large business network and knowledge of brand perception and
positioning help me to engage sponsors and make the new concepts financially
feasible.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1999 - to date | Maverick Events
Event Organizer, Director and founder
After selling the Indian Summer Festival I founded the event organization Maverick
Events, focusing on company and public events and participating with others.
Maverick Events is co-responsible for NYE Alkmaar and the municipal public
celebration party for Dutch soccer club AZ in 2009, all in close cooperation with the
city council of Alkmaar. My responsibilities included:
 Organization
 Production
 Event Management
 Entertainment
 Programming
31 December 2014 | NYE Alkmaar
Event Organizer Dance Event
Together with E&A Events from Amsterdam, I organized NYE Alkmaar, an annual and
regional dance event for young people between the ages of 18 and 25. Holland’s top
deejays spin exclusively in the venue of Sportpaleis in Alkmaar (approx. 3500 visitors):
Dirtcaps, FeestDJRuud, Girls Love DJ’s, The Flexican&SEF, The Partysquad.
My responsibilities included:
 Organization
 Event Management
 Promotion (www.nyealkmaar.nl)
November 2103 - May 2014 | Life 072
Organizer
Cultural centre LIFE072 in Alkmaar is a venue in which I organized several projects. In
addition, I also breathed new life into its organization and management. Life072 has a
large exhibition hall but also a large space fit for music and other cultural events (up to
800 persons). I revived its restaurant and managed to attract sponsors and partners. I
also launched quite a few new creative concepts:
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CONTACT
Address:
Prinsengracht 16
1722 GM ZUID-CHARWOUDE
The Netherlands
E-mail:
marco@maverickevents.nl
Phone:
+31 6 22 95 10 33
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2. WORK EXPERIENCE cont’d
 New Years’ Eve party (sold out)
 Ludique (600 people)
 Ilse de Lange (sold out)
 De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (sold out)
 Bløf (sold out)
 Monthly local market
 Debating club
September 2010 - September 2014 | Oktoberfest Alkmaar BV
Director
Each year, I organized this 3-day event with a total of 5000 visitors. My
responsibilities included:
 Organization
 Security and municipal licensing (in co-operation with the local council)
 Event Management
 Production and Promotion
 Programming
 Staging and sponsors ( in co-operation with Heineken)
 Catering
 Financial administration
January 2000 - November 2013 |Indian Summer Festival
Founder, Organizer and Director
I am the founding father and organizer of the ‘experience’ festival Indian Summer.
In November 2013 I sold the festival to the German concert and festival promotor
FKP Scorpio. The festival offers a mix of music, theatre and dance. My
responsibilities included:
 Organization
 Marketing and Promotion
 Programming
 Budget
 Sponsors (400K)
 Licenses
 Contact for local administrators.
Indian Summer takes place during the 3rd weekend of June at the recreation area of
Geestmerambacht in Langedijk (NH). Specs:
 Target group: 18 to 35 years
 30.000 visitors
 3-day event
 Music, theatre and dance
 Responsible for the sustainability aspects of the festival
 Festival won the Greener Award, an international prize for being the most
sustainable festival in Europa
 Festival won the prize for Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Lets DO Award 2013
 Festival became 2nd
in the Entrepreneurs Contest of the Chamber of Commerce
in the province of North-Holland in 2012, www.ovnh.nl
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EDUCATION
1992 - 1997
Hogeschool Holland Diemen
HBO Business
Administration
1988 - 1992
MDS Alkmaar
Retail
INTERESTS
 Deejay
 Music & Concerts
 Golf
 Travelling
CONTACT
Address:
Prinsengracht 16
1722 GM ZUID-CHARWOUDE
The Netherlands
E-mail:
marco@maverickevents.nl
Phone:
+31 6 22 95 10 33