Our Team
Supreme Secretary - KIM IL ZOOM
CFO - PAREL
Parel studied Finance at the Sorbonne, and as a chocolatier at the Sorbonbon. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a husband’s degree in Rubenology. Before joining the Humble Bumble Society, Parel gathered extensive experience at companies like Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Enron and Wirecard. She was voted amongst the Top Ten Most Influential Women in Business by the readers of the Winschoter Koerier and had a feature article in the Grachtengordel Gazet, in which she laid out her plans for the revitalization of the appelstroopindustry. In her spare time, Parel engages in horizontal oceanfront exploration and in deep-sea mountaineering. She has four cats, one of which keeps insisting he is human.
Research & Development - MARGRIET
Margriet is one of the leading experts in the field of melittology and palynology. She is a regular lecturer at the Massachusets Institute of Technology and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the University of Tokyo and the Calimero in Goirle. In her groundbreaking 2007 article in Apiology Monthly, Margriet outlined the correlation between pollen-count and the fertility of the yellow baboon. Margriet is married to a misanthropist with a tree-pruning-disorder, whom she often refers to as a ‘Dick’. Margriet owns a vineyard in Tuscany, which specializes in red wines and which her sister therefore refuses to visit.
Creative Director - MAIKEL vdBee
Maikel claims he studied at the University of Life, which either pleases or upsets groups of people in Maastricht. Maikel started his professional life as a roady for the death metal band The Fragrant Cadavers, before forming his own goth band; Hope’s Obituary. Whilst touring with the Obituaries, Maikel discovered Buddhism, which someone had forgotten on a train in Austria. In gratitude, the Dalai Lama instilled Maikel with so much positive karma, that he was no longer welcome in the goth community. Maikel then took up a painting, but was asked by the guards in the Louvre to put it down again and spent 5 years in a French prison, where he was put to work straightening croissants into baguettes. Maikel recently took a course on the study of erotic literature and came first in his class.
If you feel like bumblebeebasedbulkblues, then listen to this song by Maikel!
HR - PEGGY Bee
Peggy was born in the GDR, where her father worked for the Stasi and her mother was a welder in a shipyard. Peggy was designated to join the GDR olympic long-distance-running team, but due to economic decline, the GDR had to sell off it’s long distances to the West and in 1989 the GDR ran out of GDR. Peggy moved to Russia, where there were still ample long distances and was soon asked to join the KGB. She specialized in interrogation, and is now a very, very, very valuable member of our team, leading the HR department. Peggy wrote several books on negotiating techniques, of which ‘Who Needs Communication Skills When You Have Pliers’ was voted international business book of the year 2022. Peggy once made ChatGPT cry, just by staring at it.
Chief Engineer - MARCEL
Marcel studied at the Delft Institute of Technology, where he wrote his influential thesis on the technical origins of Delftware. Up to this point, Delftware was known as Delft Green, but due to Marcel’s insights, it was rebranded Delft Blue and became an instant hit with tourists. He joined the Dutch Royal Navy, but after a night of heavy drinking in London, he woke up in Madame Tussauds, where he resculpted the image of Winston Churchill into Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter. As punishment, he was ordered by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court to work for Tussauds and thus he became the world’s leading expert on wax. His papers on rheometry and viscometry regularly appear in the best seller list of the Weinheimer Allgemeine. Marcel was a snooker prodigy, but gave up that avenue for science. Ronnie O’Sullivan acknowledged that “had Marcel not dedicated himself to wax, I would not have made it to 7 world titles”. John Higgins said something that could either have been a comment, or him clearing his throat… we can never really tell.
COO - JEROEN
At Jeroen’s birth, the doctor told his mother: “Don’t worry, you can always try again.” The midwife – after she was done vomiting – swore she would never look at another baby again and is now selling artisanal stracciatella on Texel. Jeroen was expelled from school for eating lego. This was in the 4th year of secondary school. He found employment as a scarecrow in a field on Tholen and his employer, farmer Ko Louwerse, described him as “Rainman without the charm and talent”. We have fired Jeroen on multiple occasions, but he doesn’t understand and keeps turning up. We tolerate him for now, because he makes the coffee, but once the nespresso machine is delivered, we will ask Peggy Bee from HR to have a ‘word’.
Associate Members
MARIEKE
Representative Hedgehog Society
RUBEN
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