Joep started a career in chemical engineering at Fluor in Netherlands and UK. Soon joining the financial sector with ABN AMRO Bank and worked there in various leadership functions. One of them was Country Executive between 2012 and 2017 working and living in Oslo.

Then went back to Amsterdam to become Global Head of Coverage Transportation and Logistics. Leaving the bank mid 2022, he became Co-director/CFO and later CEO of EST-Floattech. Joep helps start-ups and scale-ups in the sustainability in the shipping and offshore sectors