Living faith, revealing Christ

Walking beside you to meet, share, support and inspire you on your journey.

Why? Because we care.

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we are all on a journey to reach our personal goals, to realise our ambition, to make a difference and take care of our loved ones. This can be challenging and difficult, but also incredibly rewarding and exciting. Sharing with friends doubles the pleasure and halves the load. Together you will gain insights that you would never find on your own.

Fellow entrepreneurs and business leaders from Europartners would like to come and walk beside you. To encourage, share and celebrate. To help you to get to know and to understand the source of abundant life and love, because we value and care about the family of people whose common language is business.

Walking together

We create places and experiences where you can meet yourself, God and peers. We hope to inspire, equip, and mobilize you to become a channel for well-being to others through your business, your community and your family life.

Our focus – business leaders and entrepreneurs
We are Christian entrepreneurs and business leaders. Our work and education is in business, therefore our heart is to serve this community. Business is the language we speak and the environment we work within.

Our foundation

Our trust is in the God of the Bible. We point to Jesus as the key for an abundant life
and to his words and example as a guide for our life and business.

Our goal

That you as a business person
discover the blessings and abundant life
that God wants to share with you.

Our team

WOUTER DROPPERS

PRESIDENT

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DENNIS DE GRAAF

VICE PRESIDENT

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OLIVIER BAUMANN

BOARD MEMBER / CHAIR

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YASEMIN LUPO

COMMUNITY MANAGER

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SUNIL RAHEJA

BOARD MEMBER

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Daniel LAR

BOARD MEMBER

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ArãO TOMé Guerreiro

BOARD MEMBER

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JOOP EGMOND

BOARD MEMBER

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Māris Dižgalvis

BOARD MEMBER

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STEFAN VAN EERDE

GROWTH MARKETING COÖRDINATOR

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ANNELIES LUKEN

OFFICE ASSISTANT

PETER LUKEN

ACCOUNTING

DAVID MARTIN

EUROPARTNERS AMBASSADOR

About Wouter Droppers

Wouter Droppers has come alongside leaders in the business world for more than thirty-five years. He has served as the president of several companies in the automotive sector and currently is president of Europartners, a European movement for Christian Business leaders, where he advises, supports, and encourages Christian entrepreneurs throughout Europe about the topic faith and business.

He studied theology, as well as, and he is also the author of the book, ‘The Jerusalem entrepreneur, becoming a source of well-being.’ He is married, has two children and lives in the Netherlands.

Wouter’s Curriculum Vitae (PDF format) 

About Dennis de Graaf

My name is Dennis de Graaf, now reaching the beautiful age of 50. Married for 26 wonderful years to my wife Danielle. Together we are blessed with four beautiful children.

Danielle and I are passionate about discipleship and sharing the gospel. We have a great love for people and our goal is to see them through the eyes of Jesus.

I have been an entrepreneur since 2005 and have had the opportunity to contribute in various companies and positions. I am also active in several business associations and foundations, both past and present. The most valuable lesson I have learnt in my entrepreneurship is that everyone is looking for connection. There is nothing more beautiful than being able to connect people with Jesus and with each other.

My further life purpose? I sincerely pray to bear fruit for the Father, in line with what Jesus said in John 15:8: “In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and are My disciples.”

My desire is to achieve this not through hard work, but by staying in close connection with Him, despite the challenges of trial and error that come with it.

For my work, I have travelled a lot and I love other cultures. Being genuinely interested every time and letting yourself be amazed. I look forward with anticipation to working with Wouter and what God is going to do through us and Europartners.

About Olivier Baumann

Olivier was born in Berne, Switzerland. At the age of two his family migrated to Australia, therefore he spent most of his obligatory schooling years “Down Under”. At home it was natural to talk about Jesus and Christian faith. Already at an early age, Olivier started his personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a decision he has never regretted making.

After moving back to Switzerland in 1994, Olivier completed his tertiary education, graduating with an MBA at the University of Berne. He commenced his professional career at the Swiss Government, working in and leading various projects until 2012. During this time the desire to live a life that testified completely to Jesus grew and led to a unique journey of faith.

Olivier has a passion for helping people of all ages perceive and walk in their true calling. He also has a longing to see Christian entrepreneurs and executives being equipped and living out their faith 24/7. Olivier is married to his wonderful wife Linda and loves engaging in different sports.

About Sunil

Sunil is a psychiatrist and coach who, through his Dancing With Wisdom Coaching Programme, equips overwhelmed, frustrated and distracted high performers to figure out their next best step so that they can create the life they hunger for and still have time for family, friends and fun! 

He also has a podcast and youtube channel on the theme Dancing With Wisdom.

It is his privilege to work with senior leaders who feel stuck–empowering them to re-engage with deeper purpose and live life in crescendo, so their best days are still to come. 

Sunil has worked as a psychiatrist for over 25 years.

About Daniel

Daniel Lar is a senior software executive with expertise in software development, working in the corporate world in outsourcing, scaling professional services organizations as well as doing Mergers and Acquisitions in Eastern Europe. 

He is co-founder of Guild, an NGO that aims to support the professional and spiritual development of professionals in Romania. 

He is also part of the church leadership team at Teofania Church, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 

He is passionate to invest in young leaders, equip and mentor people holistically, and leading organisations by creating a healthy culture on aligned objectives. 

His education includes a Computer Science Degree from Cluj Technical University and a Master Degree in Entrepreneurial Management from Griffiths School of Management, Emanuel University Oradea. 

About Arão

Arão is a born entrepreneur passioned about creating businesses with purpose and generating impact. He splits his time between his homeland, Portugal, and Angola, where he is venturing in agriculture.

About Māris Dižgalvis

Māris lives in Riga, Latvia. Explicitly, he calls himself ‘I am a child of God’, as being his identity. He is married and father of 4 children.
He is the owner and founder of an engineering company offering services in Latvia and Estonia. Māris is also chair of the CBMC ministry in Latvia, a movement to help the entrepreneurs and professionals to reach out and be connected to Christ!  
His passion is to follow Christ and to be salt and light, in the environment he is acting in. He likes others to discover and see Jesus, as well as.


He tells: ‘My motivation to be a board member of Europartners comes from remembering the time when crises hit companies and people were looking for additional courage and motivation to go forward. The connection with Europartners and CBMC helped me to establish a right Biblical mindset that I am not the owner of everything I have. Only God has ownership on everything and I must be a trusty steward. I can rely on God in all circumstances in life as He controls everything and provides in His grace with peace in all situations’.

About Stefan van Eerde

Stefan (1982) is a Dutch entrepreneur, living in Portugal. He has a wealth of experience having sold his own company, worked with prestigious universities, and held positions in both large corporations, as well as small startups and NGOs. His expertise lies in strategic marketing, where he assists entrepreneurs and business leaders as a fractional CMO.

Beyond his professional endeavours, Stefan is actively involved in his community, volunteering in various roles within his church.

He also serves as an advisory board member for several Higher Education institutions.

At Europartners, Stefan contributes to the “Surpassing Success” project, with his expertise.

About David Martin

David is married to Helen, and together near Belfast, N. Ireland, they are parents to Catherine and Tom. Having come to faith in Jesus Christ as a child, David has enjoyed the adult lifetime journey of experiencing the truth of promises such as “In all your ways acknowledge God, and He will direct your paths.”  Proverbs 3:6. And even when not acknowledging God as we should, God constantly provides His children with paths back to Him.  

A month after finishing university David commenced self employment rather than taking the usual paths through large employers.  Business flourished even in the first year, and over the next few years David sensed that the business of financial planning and wealth management was where he was meant to be. In the very first month of business he was also introduced to marketplace ministry, and so business and business ministry have become inextricably linked throughout 35+ years.  

The purpose of those first marketplace ministry events remains David’s own purpose, “To present Jesus Christ to business and professional people, and to train them to carry out The Great Commission.”

David says,
“A love for business, ministry and travel have been bound together with the joy of being able to meet and serve Christian business and ministry leaders in 40 countries.  

Most recently this has included a Europartners project with Christian business leaders in The Balkans. The project’s primary objective is help leaders come together, build community together, and minister together for The Great Commission.”

Selling his business in 2017 and then finishing a period of consultancy has opened some new opportunities, with the peace that God will continue to provide and direct along good paths. 

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