Dr Rene Moolenaar

Post:	Emeritus Associate Professor (Strategy and Marketing)
Location:	JUBILEE BUILDING
Email:	R.Moolenaar@sussex.ac.uk

What is this?

Biography

Currently:

2024: Navigate Video (navigatevideo.com) - Non-Executive Director

2023: Crunch (www.crunch.co.uk) - Non-Executive Director

2011: University of Sussex Business School - Associate Professor Strategy (Emeritus)

2004: Prism Strategy & Management - Director

Career history:

2000: Invaluable: Chief Executive Officer

1998: Line One (Tiscali): Marketing & Commercial Director

1996: United News & Media: Marketing and Commercial Director

1994: Philips Media: European Head of Marketing

1989: Philips Media: Product Manager (The Netherlands)

1986: Philips Research: Research Assistant (The Netherlands)

Education/qualifications:

2023: Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)

2017: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

2013: Blue Ocean Strategy Simulation certified instructor and MarkStrat certified instructor.

1993: Masters in Marketing from the Dutch Institute of Marketing (NIMA A, B and C)

1989: Post Graduate Degree Control Engineering (The Netherlands)

1986: BSc engineering (The Netherlands)

Role

I am a senior academic in strategy & marketing, conducting and translating research & scholarship into practical insight whilst applying innovative pedagogy.  Alongside this, I am a senior industry executive with extensive board-level and NED experience across innovative and creative businesses. I skillfully operate across these two ‘worlds’ to benefit both.

Community and Business

Moolenaar R.W.J. and Gagliesi G. (2025). SAISA study presentation. QMUL 4th International Conference in Education and Scholarship.

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2024). Proactively seeking research/scholarship impact - a case study. University of Sussex Business School Strategy & Marketing Scholarship Fest 

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2024).  Learnings from creating a bespoke module GPT. Sussex Education Festival. 

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2024). Professional Services at the forefront of carbon reduction. University of Sussex Business School Sustainable Learning and Teaching festival. 

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2024). Learnings from two AI projects. University of Sussex Business School Sustainable Learning and Teaching festival. 

Pearson A., Faruque M. and Moolenaar R.W.J. (2023). Carbon Literacy Training. series of four workshops. University of Sussex Business School Professional Services. 

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2022). Developing University-Industry relationships via placements – a new framework for additional value co-creation. University of Sussex Business School Teaching & Learning Festival 

Moolenaar R.W.J. (2019). Developing the first ODL module – a blank sheet of paper. University of Sussex Learn to Transform: The Pedagogic Revolution, TED Talk.

Moolenaar R.W.J. and Ricca-McCarthy (2020-2024), various webinars on strategic management.