Marcel holds a Master's Degree in Business Economics (Drs) and during his career successfully finished the 3-year Register Controllers Program (RC). During his professional career, Marcel has been involved in various Finance functions.

In 2003 he became part of the management buy-in team that, together with private equity partners, purchased De Telefoongids from KPN. During the years with De Telefoongids, Marcel became responsible as CFO/COO and in that function managed next to Finance&Legal, the back office and ICT departments. He led the merger with Gouden Gids, building a company of 1400 employees.

After stepping out of DTG/GG, he settled as a financial consultant/interim CFO and as such has held CFO positions in various international companies involved in online marketing, startups/scale-ups and publishing.

In the most recent years, Marcel was responsible for the financial due diligence for Airbridge and has completed a large number of FDDs.