"Bridges between humans and systems."
Sophie Spekreijse
Operations & Finance
Sophie has run a business from the inside. She spent six years at Compatible Automotive, starting in digital operations and ending as COO, after an earlier career in financial due diligence and restructuring at Grant Thornton in Amsterdam and Calgary. At ReadyRun she looks after operations and finance, and she looks at the parts of a business that slow the owner down before anyone reaches for software.
On your project, Sophie is the one asking how the work moves today, who it waits on, and what it costs you each month it stays that way.
Core Strengths
Six years at Compatible Automotive, the last four as Head of Operations and then COO.
Financial due diligence and restructuring analysis in IT, FMCG, and oil and gas.
Knows where cash gets stuck in a business and what frees it.
Fixed how customer data was kept in SAP and other ERP systems across European branches at AkzoNobel.
Trains sales teams and senior management on new systems, so a rollout gets used.
Career Snapshot
Transaction & Restructuring Services at Grant Thornton Netherlands, with four months in corporate finance at Grant Thornton Canada.
Data management and reporting analytics at AkzoNobel, running root cause analyses at branches across Europe.
Business Development Manager at Activator SA, leading product design for employee engagement software.
Project Manager at Noko Milling, leading an e-commerce platform build for an FMCG business.
Compatible Automotive, from Digital Operations Manager to Head of Operations to COO.
Founded YoungDeltas, and co-founded ReadyRun.
Education
Also Building: YoungDeltas
Sophie founded YoungDeltas in April 2026. Young professionals work four days a week inside small and medium businesses, on the operational problems the owner never has time for, and spend Fridays building their own skills and business ideas. Owners get real help, and young people get the experience that leads to a career. It is aimed at youth unemployment in South Africa.
Beyond Work
She took a year off between AkzoNobel and moving to Johannesburg to travel solo through Europe, Asia and Africa.