# Tim Sterkens - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Tim Sterkens for AI agents.
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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Tim Sterkens
- Role: COO & Partner
- Company: Madewithlove
- Location: Antwerp, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-sterkens-a071445

## About
Tim Sterkens is COO and a partner at madewithlove, based in Antwerp. He joined the company as COO in January 2018 and took up the partner role alongside it in April 2021.

Before that, he spent nearly four years at Bonka Circus, from February 2014 to December 2017, working across HR, finance and rights. From March 2006 to January 2014 he was an HR business partner and HR advisor at the Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. Earlier in his career he was a marketing assistant at Het Nieuwsblad and, from 2001 to 2005, an administrative assistant at SIMIM.

Sterkens attended Klein Seminarie Hoogstraten, following Latijn - Moderne Talen, and then took a master's degree in communication and media studies at KU Leuven, completing it in 2001. In 2004 and 2005 he studied Management in Muziek en Podiumkunsten at VLEKHO Business School Brussel.

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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] madewithlove: https://techwiki.ai/companies/madewithlove/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-25] Everyone wants to be an "AI-native" company. Almost nobody agrees on what that means by Monday morning 🤖 Our #CTO-in-residence, Peter… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sterkens-a071445_how-to-become-an-ai-native-saas-company-in-activity-7497911533444923393-Tl_p)
- [2026-08-20] Recently, I got this response from an applicant whom I turned down during the CV screening: "Honestly, this is the first response I’ve… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sterkens-a071445_hr-ai-respect-activity-7496098783445999617-HsE4)
- [2026-08-18] As an #HR professional, reading #RadicalCandor by Kim Scott was probably long overdue (but better late than never, right) 😇. Many… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sterkens-a071445_hr-radicalcandor-activity-7495374474654187520-Mn05)
- [2026-08-11] Someone typed "Signing off. See you in two weeks 👋" in our general Slack channel yesterday. Four people replied "Enjoy!" within a minute.… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sterkens-a071445_freerangemanagement-remotework-madewithlove-activity-7492837440311758848-BncV)
- [2026-08-06] I made it back from an amazing and refreshing three-week holiday on another continent and in a different culture 🇪🇨. Besides the… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-sterkens-a071445_ai-bubble-activity-7491025149195079681-cQPr)

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-sterkens-a071445
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/tim-sterkens/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/tim-sterkens/llms-full.txt

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