Who we are
Rob Landeweerd (1970) obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Hotel & Hospitality Management. He worked in various roles in the Hospitality Industry and later at Randstad Group for some years. He joined '30days' (currently called Badenoch and Clark) in 2001, which was at that time a start-up Recruitment and Personnel - Search company. He successfully developed the company, running it between 2002 and 2007 as Managing Director.
Jeroen Macco (1971) graduated in Business Administration at Nijenrode Business School and got his Masters Degree in Business Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Jeroen worked as Strategic Management Consultant at both the Royal Netherlands Air force and at ING Group. At this financial services company, where he has worked in total for over 7 years, he has also performed several other managing roles relating to Human Resources and Business Management in the international context of the company. Lastly, Jeroen has worked as an independent Consultant for the Russian, Kazakh and Romanian Consumer Operations of ABN AMRO Bank, just before moving to Italy. Early 2010 Jeroen obtained registration as acknowledged real estate agent in Italy.
We have developed our professional careers and networks in international corporate environments whilst enjoying the wonderful city and natural environment of the city of The Hague in the Netherlands, the international capital of Justice and Peace.
Over the past 15 years we have developed a passion for Italy in all its senses: good food, fashion, its mountains, hills and sea landscapes, its art and culture and above all, great friendly people. We have travelled through the entire country from North to South and found our home in the so called “green heart”, Umbria. We enjoy offering good food and hospitality, making people feel at home, whether in the company of our families and good old friends or with new acquaintances and business friends.
The Netherlands is a wonderful country to live in. This has given us all the opportunities so far to learn, enjoy and live our lives the way we wanted. We had wonderful service-oriented jobs in which we both were able to work with people from all different kinds of nationalities and therefore speak many different languages in addition to Dutch (English, German, French and Italian). It was, however, the irresistible temptation of the treasures of the Italian life that made us make up our minds and change our life style.
We chose to get involved in the real estate and property management services for clients who have their second home here in Umbria and need assistance in every single detail. In 2009 we have added an extra service to our activities with this website: Renting out exclusively beautiful villas, apartments and country houses. Luxury places to stay in Umbria...in all senses.
And why do we like to do this? Because we are enthusiastic of the unique combination among the progress of our own building project, living in Italy and enjoying the fun from our former positions: offering high quality services and working with people from all over the world.
For our other activities here in Umbria please visit: www.viadeicollipropertyservices.com.