Category: Team

Patrick

Patrick Kulsen is managing director at PJK International and Downstream/PortStorage Group, collectively belonging to the Insights Global brand. He currently has the role of general manager and senior consultant. In 2006, Patrick joined PJK as the second person alongside his father Pieter Kulsen. Together with his father he managed to grow the company to its current form. In 2013, he officially acquired the company.

Curiosity to understand commodity industries and the ambition to grow the business are his main professional drives. His broad academic and technical education highlights this intrinsic motivation to look at subjects from all angles, to innovate and to seek intellectual challenges.  

As general manager, Patrick is responsible for daily and long term business of the whole group. After integrating and reorganizing Downstream/PortStorage Group and PJK into one coherent business, the accelerated growth of the new company is now his main focus.

For  clients which are active in oil trading, oil products/chemicals distribution and  tank storage, Patrick heads market research and consultancy projects. Recent projects focused mainly on market and commercial Due Diligence of tank terminal assets up for sale.

Patrick has degrees in Quantitative Finance (MSc.), Industrial Engineering (MSc.) and Mechanical Engineering (B).

Kim

Kim Kulsen is responsible for the finance department, furthermore she plays a partial role in human resources and has many general responsibilities at Insights Global.

She is part of the team since 2010. At that time, the team consisted of Pieter Kulsen and Patrick Kulsen. Kim previously worked at an intermediary specialized in the mortgage and insurance sector. Once she decided to pursue her career within the family business she started in Patrick’s former bedroom responsible for the administration and some online marketing activities.

The company expanded one year later and they moved to an office building in Breda. She was so happy to have more colleagues again.

She loves to work within a dynamic work environment. And her goal is to create a good overview and structure within the company. Mainly to provide a comfortable and good work environment for the Insights Global team. She believes that as a team we can do more.

In her free time she spends a lot of time with her family, she has 3 children. She likes to run with friends and she likes to go to the gym. 

Lars

Lars is working within Insights Global since January 2015. Starting as a market analyst covering the barge freight rate markets, he has overseen the Operations team since 2018 and starting as Research & Consultancy Manager in 2022, covering fields of expertise on market and data gathering, analysis providing in depth insights for a wide range of clients.

His key objectives include overseeing the transparent, unbiased and reliable assessments of the various services and products and to get the most out of the team. He also overlooks the delivery of consultancy assignments and reports.

Lars holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Management of Rotterdam School of Management and has followed various courses in Data and Business analytics, which he has put to use to support Insight Global in its transformation to a data-driven organization.

Prior to working at Insights Global, he has been working as trainee at an European vegetable oil refiner. In his spare time, Lars provides chess trainings to youth players and tries to get in the snow and on the ski slopes as often as possible.

Ricardo

Ricardo is an in-house online marketing expert. He is co-responsible for TankTerminals.com frontend marketing, email marketing, digital analytics and media kit management; among other internal data management tasks.

Onboard in the company for 9 years, he has had an active role in consolidating the company’s industry-known newsletter, growing and segmenting the email lists, structuring a web analytics measurement model and writing content for different online channels.

As a freelance online marketer, he has helped his clients achieve better conversion rates across multiple industries (Oil & Gas, Translations, Ecology, TV Entertainment, E-Learning, Architecture, Advertisement and more).

Always working from remote, he also manages to create solid teamwork relationships to meet the goals set by his clients.

Since graduating as Marketing professional (Universidad del Valle de México) in 2005, he has continuously looked for marketing-specialized studies; which includes a Postgraduate Degree in Strategic Planning and Creativity, granted with a scholarship by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2007). In 2008, he concluded an Online Marketing Degree in the Istituto Europeo di Design (Madrid). Finally, in 2014 and 2017 he finalized two, highly specialized, online marketing degrees of Web Analytics (Market Motive) and Qualitative Research (Ask Method Company).

Pieter

PJK International was founded by Pieter J. Kulsen. He has a commercial economic background and made a career in international oil trading before he started his own business. He worked for two major oil companies and two oil trading organizations. He worked in cities such as, London, New York and Hamburg. In 1978 he founded PJK International and in 1985 started to work full-time on his own. Eventually he specialized in the analysis and interpretation of market developments within the international petroleum industry.

Currently Pieter is associated to the company as an advisor.

Felipe

As a database administrator, I strive for the consistency and accuracy of data. My routine as a researcher includes regular and extensive search for news, articles and documents in various languages, as well keeping in touch with terminal managers, particularly among the Caribbean, South and Central American countries; making sure that the database is always fresh.

Besides data hunting, I also collaborate as a creative intern for media and marketing content.

Rick Veringmeier

My name is Rick Veringmeier. I joined Insights-Global on 2 months ago on the 17th of July as a market analyst. Previously I worked in the financial industry, namely at ABN AMRO and Robeco.

At my old workplace I worked as a know your client/customer due diligence analyst. I decided to switch careers because I wanted to experience working for a smaller organization, and to apply my analytical skills outside of a financial environment.

At Insights-Global I can achieve both of those goals, and I hope to learn a lot more about shipping and energy markets.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in international business administration from Tilburg University, I also studied abroad for a semester in Dublin, Ireland. In my spare time I like to do sports such as squash, and I like travelling a lot.

Rudi

Rudi is the Managing Director of ener8 limited, our strategic partner in the Asia Pacific.

Rudi has a strong background in the Asia Pacific dating back to 1992, with more than 20 years of experience in liquid bulk and chemical logistics, supply chain management, business development, and safety management.

He worked for an oil and chemical major, one of the largest tank terminal operators, a global chemical shipbroker, and logistics companies. Rudi has experience in parcel tanker shipping and barging, tank containers, flexitanks, forwarding services, tank storage, chemical warehousing, and secondary distribution services.

Starting his career in 1996 with Expeditors in Belgium, he moved to Asia in 1998 when he joined Vopak in Taiwan and gained experience offering integrated supply chain solutions, including storage, freight, and transportation management. In 2002 Rudi returned to Belgium, joining Total Petrochemicals (now called TotalEnergies), where he held various logistics posts. In 2005 he went back to Asia for Total, where Rudi was Logistics Manager for the Asia Pacific in Hong Kong, responsible for developing Total’s regional bulk chemical logistics. In April 2010, Rudi joined SPI Marine in Singapore as General Manager Integrated Logistics Solutions to develop liquid bulk shipping and logistics activities to complement parcel tanker shipbroking. Early 2014 he assisted SPI Marine in forming Contralo Asia (now called Manuport Logistics), a company active in forwarding services for bulk liquids, including Isotanks and Flexitanks.

In 2015 Rudi founded ener8 in Hong Kong and also set up an office in Taipei.