Rosalie van Rijk is an experienced M&A broker with over 25 years of expertise in SME business transfers. As a key force behind MKBase, she connects entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors to enable successful acquisitions and management buy-ins.

She combines deep market knowledge with a strong focus on the human and strategic aspects of ownership transitions. Rosalie previously served on the board of Transeo and remains actively engaged in the European SME transfer community.

At the Transeo Summit, she shares her insights on Management Buy-Ins, based on decades of hands-on experience supporting both entrepreneurs and MBI candidates

Martijn Westerlaken is a business broker and the Director of MKBase.

MKBase owns a large database of companies offered for acquisition and for sale in Europe.

MKBase is a matchmaker that actively brings different parties together. Through an extensive network of more than 550 affiliated advisors (accountants, merger and acquisition offices, banks, etc..) MKBase has more than 4,000 purchase and sales profiles.
The center of gravity of the companies in the file has a turnover between € 750,000 and € 10,000,000.

MKBase focuses on total takeovers as well as arranging financing. One can think of participations/investments as well as attracting loan capital.