{"id":6576,"date":"2026-05-18T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/speakers\/iwan-spekenbrink\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:55:53","slug":"iwan-spekenbrink","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/speakers\/iwan-spekenbrink\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwan Spekenbrink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iwan Spekenbrink is a Dutch sports entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Team Picnic PostNL. He has led the team since 2008, guiding it from a small ProContinental squad (then known as Team Skil-Shimano) into a successful WorldTour organization with multiple top results and major Grand Tour successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spekenbrink began his career in sports management and sports marketing, building the team around a clear vision in which innovation, collaboration, and long-term development are central to elite sport. Under his leadership, the team evolved through identities such as Argos-Shimano, Giant-Alpecin, Team Sunweb, and Team DSM into its current structure with multiple partners and a strong international reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within the cycling world, he is known as a strategic and forward-thinking manager, with a strong focus on performance improvement, team culture, and maintaining a clean and professional sport. In addition, he is active within international cycling organizations and is committed to the continued development of cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6575,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"event_category":[83],"class_list":["post-6576","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-boardroom-network-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/6576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}