Buddha in the Boardroom
Are you looking for peace, meaning and focus in your professional and personal life? Developing your intuitive mind and being balanced during your day? Contemplating how your own wisdom can work in a companionship with AI?
At Buddha in the Boardroom, we believe mindfulness, empathy and the ability to make meaningful connections are not a luxury or an optional skill to develop. Mindfulness helps us navigate the complexities of modern life with clarity and purpose, making us wiser, more effective, and more caring individuals.
Buddha in the Boardroom launches in June 2025
Meet the Team
Koen van den Biggelaar
Founder
Koen is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in technical leadership. With a proven track record at companies like Accenture, Microsoft, and Amazon, he excels at creating new teams, building sustainable relationships, and driving successful customer adoption in cloud and AI.
He has built and led organizations of over 200 people, consistently driving value creation with the latest Cloud and AI solutions. As a public speaker, Koen shares his expertise on AI, Customer Success, and enterprise architecture, and is deeply passionate about growing and nurturing new leaders.
Khin Lay Maw
Inner Balance Guide
Khin's journey embodies the transformative power of inner exploration. While carving a successful career in IT project management within the FinTech and Utility industries, a personal turning point several years ago led her to deep immersion in diverse meditation practices such as Vipassana, Tranquil Wisdom Insight, and many mindfulness techniques.
This unique blend of corporate insight, technological understanding, and profound contemplative wisdom allows Khin to bridge the gap between professional pressures and inner peace. Driven by a mission to share this light, she now volunteers to organize, guide and lead meditation retreats and workshops for both corporate and public audiences in Canada and the USA. Khin empowers individuals to cultivate awareness, resilience, and a balanced mind, enabling them to navigate modern life with joy. Join her on a journey inward to discover peace within the storm.
Cas Boerkamp
Meditation Teacher
Cas's lifelong engagement with meditation ignited a deep curiosity for human development and inner transformation. A decade of exploring contemplative disciplines culminated in a year of monastic training as a Buddhist monk, profoundly shaping his understanding of the mind and human nature. He's now passionate about integrating these insights into modern-day settings, a vision perfectly aligned with Buddha in the Boardroom.
Beyond his meditative background, Cas brings practical experience from supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities, offering relational guidance and psychological support. His calm, engaged approach makes him a thoughtful and grounded presence in personal development, particularly at the intersection of mindfulness, behavioral patterns, and personal growth, guiding individuals to cultivate openness, clarity, and wisdom.
Alexandra Victoria Hügel
Longevity Coach
Alexandra brings a decade of corporate and start-up expertise across manufacturing and FSI, including managing strategic accounts for giants like BMW and Rabobank at Microsoft. With deep roots in both small and large enterprises, her focus is intensely customer-centred, driven by genuine customer enthusiasm. Alexandra has a Standford certificate in Nutrition & Health as well as a certificate from university of Colorado Boulder in Gut Health and Microbiome
As an AI speaker and D&I champion, she embodies a growth mindset. Now, as a Longevity Coach, Alexandra is dedicated to helping others balance career ambitions with long-term well-being to create an empowered yet mindful life.
Komnieve “Manu” Singh
AI and Technology Lead
Komnieve “Manu” Singh is an entrepreneur, technologist, and dedicated meditator based in Los Angeles. As co-founder, President, and original systems architect at CallFire (now EZ Texting), he helped scale the company to over 100 employees and more than one hundred thousand customers. His current passion lies in exploring how AI and technology can build foundational safety nets—creating "floors beneath which no human can fall," fostering security and enabling deeper human flourishing.
Committed to mindful leadership, Manu regularly undertakes intensive meditation retreats. He lives with his wife and three children, blending family, creativity, and compassionate innovation in daily life.
Laura van ‘t Veer
Event Manager
Laura inherited her passion for hospitality from her family and loves nothing more than organizing get-togethers with family and friends with home-made food.
With over 10 years of experience in the hotel-industry and having worked for 7 different hotels in Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, Laura knows how to best organize gatherings with different kinds of purposes, audiences and cultures.
Laura will make sure the retreats are planned to perfection and will be the point of contact for the participants prior, during and after the events.
She is ready to welcome you to our inspiring and meaningful retreats.