Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp is a management advisor, global entrepreneur, Real Estate Guru, PropTech, Tech and MetaVerse expert. The goals and views of Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp is unique and inspiring, where he aims to maintain balance in life with work ethics, honesty, and trust. He has a “helping” nature and feels that one should follow their intuition. He is an inspirational and motivational figure who focuses more on positivity in life which is highly visible through his social media handles on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Our interview with him made us realize how he thinks that staying focused, being innovative, creative, and continuous learning can help one move forward in life. Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp is the owner and MD of Thai Realty Group, Yalla Limited and Yalla Properties, EMEA & Asia. He’s also a leading partner/owner of several other companies that we can see through our interview with Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp below.
Explain the background of you and the company in detail.
My Executive Profile
Top-tier International Business Development, Sales & Marketing C-Level professional
Renowned Investor and specialist in UAE, GCC, Europe, and Asia. I have high expertise in Real Estate & Technology and a proven record of setting up, launching, creating and re-structuring developments and companies.
Reputed advisor for major groups, institutions, UHNWI’s, Governmental bodies and investors.
Speaker and panelist at crypto, blockchain, innovation gatherings, and Think Thank
Entrepreneur, (co-) founder, private (co-) investor, and (co-) business owner, operating from Europe, MEA and Asia.
Co-Founder & CEO or Advisor of Multiple Enterprises:
- Chief Real Estate Officer Blockchain Valley, Global
- Chairman and co-founder of PalmFusion Technologies Holding, Dubai, UAE
- Owner and MD of Yalla Limited, Thai Realty group, and Yalla Properties & Technologies, Europe, MEA and Asia
- Senior Associate with Newfields Group in DIFC, UAE
- Advisor to Wrene+Ames, Europe & Middle East
- Advisor to YesWeTrust
- To be announced second quarter 2022, co-founder, co-director of a new digital Real Estate platform
I contribute unique experience and knowledge tailoring into synergies combined with the deep, in-house advisory, structuring, creating, funding, and delivering major Technology, Biometric, Hospitality, and Real-estate projects across global markets.
My senior involvement has significantly transformed the outreach and sales volume of multiple significant projects well above levels that might otherwise have been achieved. This was achieved by masterminding the restructuring, expansion, and training of sales teams, bringing clarity to the marketing messaging and orienting the sales drive in a much better-defined direction aimed at the most prospective buyer/investor segments.
Restructuring work at Bloom Holdings over 2015-2017 in the Middle East lifted the trained active e-broker network from some 40 to 275, increasing annual sales from $100m to USD 750m yearly. Prior to that, I played a key role in the success of highly-acclaimed “Al Barari” development in Dubai, where Dereck was responsible for setting up and managing the entire sales team involving 800 active brokers at its peak and even marketing, launching, and generating record-holding sales of hundreds of millions of USD within days for each individual project.
Over the decade of the 2000s, Dereck worked on several multiple billion mega-resorts, he was a key partner through the Plaza Naranja group, which leveraged strong cross-linkage between several hotel chains, developers of major mixed-use projects internationally, and the Jet Republic. Among others, one of the leading networks for UHNWIs is centered on concierge and private jet services. Dereck has maintained a strong linkage to these networks and investor groups.
Over the years, Dereck also have been a successful entrepreneur setting up several successful hospitality venues, telecom, blockchain & crypto-related ventures.
Dereck a was born and raised in The Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao and educated in The Netherlands and Sweden, holding master’s degrees in Science & Business. Furthermore, he can speak several languages and am a true internationalist and cross-culturalist, having lived and worked across the globe, including South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Dubai in UAE which has been my primary residence for the last 15 years.
What are your goals?
My main goal is to balance life, work with ethics, trust, honesty and help others.
What do you feel is the biggest strength of yourself/company right now?
I believe in following my intuition, letting things come to me, and not chasing searching or pushing anything.
What was the path you/your companies took to get to where you are today?
Learning daily and doing good to everything and everyone. Learning advances the horizons of our knowledge which tends to make us more capable of achieving our goals. That’s why I’m standing here, with my hard work and eagerness to keep learning new things and trying being good to and respect everyone.
Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp ,Why did you start (or want to be the head of) these companies?
To develop a better world for Technologies and Real Estate.
What have been the biggest challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Staying focused and not letting the hurdles or bad influences put you down.
Give us one word that describes you the best.
Honest, direct, trustworthy, dedicated, driven, hard worker, powerful, high values, morals and ethics.
Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp , What makes you excited about Mondays?
Any day is exciting on its own, not specifically one day.
What do you value most about your culture and vision?
Being able to educate myself and learn from them.
Tell us about a project that forced you to be innovative and creative.
I was born to be innovative and creative, every project was a learning curve.
What are your company’s strategies, and how do they stand unique from your competitors?
I combine the newest and latest technologies, missions, visions to a seamless better world & surrounding.
What are the key values that helped you overcome the roadblocks/challenges in your career? Tell us something about your memorable incident in your leadership?
There are no incidents; everything happens for a reason. Roadblocks and challenges are there to overcome and not even see them as a hurdle.
How do you see the company changing in two years, and how do you see yourself creating that change?
Creating new eco systems for a better life and world with the help of the latest technologies, digitalization, metaverse, biometrics. Keeping privacy is key and having high standards of health and lifestyle.
Drs. Dereck A.J. Hoogenkamp ,Where is your leadership going? What benefits do your clients get from your company in this competitive world?
What they get is unique and one of a kind, so if people want to grow with me, they are more than welcome.
What services/solutions or products are offered by your company at par with the current industry standards? Tell us something about your upcoming products or services?
There are two things that our services primarily aims to focus on, which include:
- Metaverse Banking and Traditional & Digital Real Estate
- A New Digital completely regulated Eco System
We aim to help people get a better immersive experience of banking and real estate services.
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