About
Roland Siebelink helps tech founders go big without going corporate. He specializes in mid-stage Internet, software and technology startups. He works with Silicon Valley-style companies in the Americas, EMEA and Asia/Pacific.

Roland’s purpose is enabling founders of tech companies to scale so that they can keep growing their company, while keeping the unique startup zeal and culture.

Roland’s clients have (or are seeking) venture capital backing and target a trade sale or IPO. His programs target restoring growth momentum, slashing the burn rate, upskilling the team and sustaining a 10X advantage.

Programs include annual and quarterly offsites, monthly deep-dive meetings and weekly CEO coaching. Some include large employee events that ensure priorities cascade to middle management and below. Roland also develops specific one-page tools to complement the Gazelles toolset with Silicon Valley best practices.

Roland has been coaching tech CEOs since 1999, earned his MBA in 2001 and Gazelles coach certification in 2016. He is a 25+ years veteran of Internet business, entrepreneurship and digital marketing and a former landslide winner of the Silicon Valley Founder Showcase (2011). He was CEO and co-founder of Topicmarks, acquired by Tagged, and has served in executive, strategy, operational and product support roles to tech CEOs.

Professional Highlights
• Roland has worked and lived in four countries and speaks six languages
• Author of "Scaling Silicon Valley Style", "Astute Metrics, Apt Results" and multiple white papers, translated into seven languages.
• USCIS-recognized "Alien of Extraordinary Ability"

Personal Highlights
• Only coach in the world having lived through three successive scaleup journeys (10-1000 people in three years; two IPOs)
• Brought Topicmarks from Silicon Valley, raised funding from scratch, sold to Tagged
• Landslide Winner, Silicon Valley Founder Showcase
• Founded and led first e-mentoring venture, shortlisted for Fast50
• Launched first-ever consumer broadband Internet in Europe

Coaching Regions
US - West

Industry of Expertise
Computer/IT/Software Development
Marketing