NUNC Capital

Dirk Rens is Managing Partner at NUNC Capital BV, where he leads the firm's investment process and works with portfolio companies. He supports management teams on acquisitions, growth strategy, financing, and the onboarding of newly acquired businesses, drawing on 30 years of experience as a strategy consultant and operating partner.

Joris van Dijk is Managing Partner at NUNC Capital BV. He has worked in corporate, SME, and private equity settings across industries including defense and security, sports, theme parks and entertainment, travel and tourism, media, and gaming, with a focus on growth and scaling, re-alignment, and turnaround stages. He has also held supervisory board roles in senior care, youth services, and childcare.

Esmée Trimbos is Head of Marketing & Communications at NUNC Capital, a defense high-tech investment and venture building firm based in Amsterdam, where she is establishing the firm's marketing and communications function, including its brand, corporate narrative, visual identity, and marketing technology, for both the firm and its portfolio companies. She previously spent nearly a decade at ACT Group, a company in sustainability solutions and decarbonization markets, where she built the global marketing function into a 24-person team across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Africa, served as company spokesperson, and later led go-to-market strategy as Head of Marketing Americas in New York, covering the US, Canada, and Latin America. Originally from the Netherlands, she has worked in New York and led teams across multiple continents.

Jorick Hassing is an Investment Associate at NUNC Capital BV, a firm that invests in early-stage ventures and established companies across the defense ecosystem.

Nathalie Weel is Head of People at NUNC Capital BV, with a background in the information technology and services industry. Her areas of expertise include interviewing, recruiting, training, and human resources. She holds a degree in Toegepaste Psychologie with a focus in Talentmanagement from Hogeschool Leiden.

Rob Bauer (born 1962 in Amsterdam) served in the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1981 to 2025, holding roles including Netherlands Chief of Defence (2017–2021) and Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2021–2025). Following his retirement, he founded Bauer Strategic Advice B.V., works as an Edge Fellow at Deloitte on societal resilience, and sits on several advisory boards, including those of the national monument Kamp Vught, NUNC Capital B.V., and international security conferences in Warsaw, Kyiv, and Halifax. As of May 2026 he chairs the Advisory Board of the European Defence Initiative at GLOBSEC, and he co-authored the 2025 book "If you want peace, prepare for war" with Eleonora Russell.