EU Business News- Benelux Enterprise Awards 2026 Best High-Stake Valuation Advisors 2026 Value Drive is a Dutch valuation boutique that focuses on high-end valuation engagements for critical management decisions in the Benelux mid-market. The company primarily serves mid-market private companies in the non-financial sector across the Netherlands, in addition to Dutch-listed companies on occasion, as well as high-net-worth individuals and foreign companies with Dutch interests. Following Value Drive’s recent recognition in the Benelux Enterprise Awards 2026, we heard more from Founder and Managing Partner Jeroen Weimer. May26051 the University of Twente, graduating in 1991 with a thesis in the combined field of strategy and finance. In 1995, Jeroen completed his PhD thesis cum laude, combining his PhD work with project-based activities for ABN Amro Bank for two years. Over the course of his professional career, Jeroen has leveraged his impressive education to advise large corporates, PE firms, medium-sized private companies, and shareholders on multiple issues with major value impact. He has provided services including fairness opinions, strategic valuations, board room advice, value-based modelling for managerial decision-support, IP valuations, tax-related valuations, and portfolio valuations for PE firms. Through the last two decades, Jeroen has applied his unrivalled expertise to valuations for dispute resolutions, including court cases, arbitration, and mediation cases. As a partner with final responsibility, he has engaged in almost 60 dispute resolutions. Jeroen has been involved in civil court cases both as an independent expert and a party-specific expert, acting in major arbitration cases both nationally and cross-border. This includes the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and smaller cases through the Dutch arbitration institute (NAI). In 1999, Jeroen entered KPMG Corporate Finance Netherlands as an M&A Advisor. He built up his experience over the years, particularly within the consumer markets and the energy and natural resources sectors. In 2003, Jeroen established the Dutch Valuations practice for the firm, which grew from four FTE in 2003 to approximately 30 FTE in 2017. He was promoted to formally head the practice as Equity Partner in 2005. Jeroen became the Head of KPMG Corporate Finance Netherlands in 2014, responsible for M&A, valuations, and debt advisory. Between 2013 and 2015, he held the role of Head of EMA for KPMG’s Global Valuations Services. Jeroen served as lead partner on a number of major client cases, including Wolters Kluwer, Asics Europe, and the major Dutch PE firm Egeria. This varied work has allowed Jeroen to build expertise spanning a number of sectors, developing no fully-fledged focus on a particular industry. After a successful career with KPMG, Jeroen felt that it was time to embark on a new journey. He left the firm in 2018, deciding to start a valuation boutique that would allow him to enjoy more focus and entrepreneurship in his work, including the hands-on approach he was used to and passionate about in the beginning of his career. Jeroen established Value Drive B.V. on November 1st, 2019, with the aim of engaging in speciality valuations and disputes to support critical management decisions in the high-end market segment. Today, Value Drive combines decades of senior experience with the unique perspectives of its younger team members to deliver a seamless valuation experience to its clients. The firm has demonstrated the market’s demand in the Netherlands and the Benelux for a high-end, specialised valuation service that offers the quality of the Big 4 with the personalised approach of a boutique. Jeroen is a hands-on leader at Value Drive, spending at least 50% of his time on the engagement based on flexible accessibility by email, phone, and sometimes WhatsApp. There is always a younger, yet senior, team member involved in the case, typically 30 to 40 years old, who serves as both an outstanding modeller and a sparring partner based on their sectoral experience. All these team members have been working with Jeroen in their joint Big 4 setting for many years. This unique combination ensures that clients benefit from a varied perspective, propelled by specialist expertise and a united commitment to success. Based in Amstelveen, North Holland, Value Drive engages in specialty valuations and disputes to support critical management decisions in the high-end market segment. The company is characterised by pursuing effective valuation angles to resolve client issues, applying new approaches to strengthen common practice, and providing value-based advice based on factual information. With this approach, Value Drive offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes M&A valuations, including value impact analysis of strategic alternatives, purchase price allocation and goodwill impairment testing, and valuation of financing instruments. Its tax-related valuations include valuation of intellectual property transfers and marketbased royalty rates, company valuations for family succession, and asset valuations for the emigration purposes of HNWIs. Value Drive’s dispute resolution services cover about 50% of the business and comprise valuations related to commercial litigation and damage quantification, including acting as a party expert, serving as an arbitrator or mediator, appointment by the Dutch civil courts as an independent valuator, and procedures through the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. “Our core mission is to support critical management decisions by providing solid solutions to resolve client issues based on effective valuation angles which can withstand scrutinism,” said Jeroen. “We achieve this with a team of skilled people who provide positive energy and ambition, who dare to apply new valuation approaches to strengthen common practice iof and when required.” The Founder and Managing Partner of Value Drive, Jeroen Weimer is a seasoned former Big 4 Advisory Partner boasting more than two decades of experience in valuations, modelling, and corporate finance across industry sectors. He earned an MSc in Business Science from
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