Boudino de Jong

Boudino moved to the Netherlands from his native Curaçao to attend the University of Groningen, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in International Business and his master’s degree in Business Administration – Strategic Innovation Management. He became a Personal Banking Investment Advisor at the Groningen branch of the Dutch multinational banking corporation ING Group. He subsequently did an exchange at the University of Barcelona, where he attended a workshop on Entrepreneurship and majored in European Integration, Economic Policy, and Market Consumption Sociology.

Sometime after he resumed his studies in the Netherlands, he founded and became the Managing Director of Profound in 2012. Throughout his stay in the Netherlands, he kept close ties with the Caribbean, becoming involved in two enterprises: Don Caribe and Skempi. The latter is an online music streaming platform for independent artists worldwide, now an offshoot agency of Profound, and the former is a virtual logistics provider to retail and consumer markets, in which he was the CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). With his return to the island in 2015, he continued to develop Profound into the marquee digital agency it is today, rolling out several new innovative platforms such as the widely successful loyalty program Skenicash and further specializing in FinTech to bring about disruptive innovations in the financial sector.