Team Member Monday: Jeroen

Here’s another Teeeeam Member Monday.. on Thursday!

Today’s a treat because we he have the man behind the interviews- the man himself, Jeroen van Boxtel!

So your usually the guy doing the interviews! Now how does it feel to be interviewed?

Hah! Weird, but I guess it’s about time!

Well let’s start with, how did you find out about jovoto and what made you decide to apply?

After I finished university I knew one thing, I wanted to go to Berlin, I had been here before and I liked the city.. I think, I’m pretty sure I found out about jovoto by just googleing.

What were you doing before?

I was a student in The big city of dreams, Tilburg, Holland. Nah, just kidding. Well I was in Tilburg. I studied Commercial Economics.. but they have a fancy name for it which is International Event, Music & Entertainment Studies. Which really means marketing and communications, with focus on the entertainment and media industry.

That sounds pretty interesting. And where were you before that, where did you grow up?

I’m from a really small village in the south-east of Holland. It’s called Haps. I lived there the first 17 years of my life. It can be such a quiet and beautiful place, but at the same time also incredibly boring.

So I guess I can understand why you wanted to move to a big city. What did you like when you visited Berlin & what do you like about living here?

I like the atmosphere in the city, the people in Berlin. There is more of a creative vibe, I hate that word but yeah, “vibe”. The beauty of Berlin is really the creative atmosphere. In Holland there is a creative scene but it seems over-structured and more money driven. It’s less of this free culture that you find in Berlin.

Besides that, the start-up scene is currently exploding here, so that makes things even more interesting at the moment.

And about jovoto, what do you like about working here? And what’s your job exactly anyway?

Above all the work and all the cool stuff we do, its the team! I think the team really kicks ass. We are a young team but we all work our asses off to move this thing forward. And everyone here gets the oppertunity to grow and take chances. It’s a really open structure and that’s really nice.

And what’s my job? I’m a community manager, and do a lot of stuff with our social media channels. And besides that I spend a serious amount of time in Google Analytics.

So enough about work, what’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not here?

Making music.

What kind or what do you like to make?

I would like to make singer song writer music but I have a terrible voice.. I used to be a drummer in a band, but all of that ended when I moved to Berlin. So yeah, since I also have a passion for electronic music, I’ve been making electronic music for the last couple of years.

And now, one of your questions, what’s the first thing that you’re going to do after this interview?

Rating monitoring!

Well thanks Jeroen, that was a nice little interview!