Prior to founding Good Energies in 2001, Marcel Brenninkmeijer was advisor to Anthos Consult, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, after having spent a sabbatical year on executive studies at IMD in Switzerland and HBS in the United States.
His first twenty years of business experience were with C&A, a fashion retailer, which gave him a multicultural exposure to The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. In his most recent position with C&A he was a board member responsible for store operations in Switzerland. Marcel Brenninkmeijer has also coordinated the C&A European Environmental Working Group, which he set up in 1989.