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Mieke Vleugels has been a TYHA Gold Anchor assessor since 2009. She combines her position at The Yacht Harbour Association with the management of Jachthaven Wetterwille, a family-owned 5 GA marina in the Netherlands. Her experience as a CMM and managing partner is of great use in her work as an assessor and she highly values the importance of international connections and collaboration that TYHA represents.

Following a career in television as the first female floor manager at Belgian national tv, she decided to focus on her family while her late husband Gradus Kosters managed the family marina. After his sudden passing away in 1996, Mieke was thrown into the business and has since overcome many obstacles and made it her own. She has been at the helm of Jachthaven Wetterwille for 28 years and leads a team of employees and seasonal workers with help from her three daughters. In 2009, she followed the AMM course in Bibione, Italy.

Mieke is a big believer in the broadening of professional horizons and visits International Boat Shows, conferences and networking events whenever she can. She pioneered the dry-stack system in the Netherlands and Jachthaven Wetterwille is a leading marina in terms of environmentalism and customer service.

In her younger years, Mieke was an avid pilot and sailor. She often jokes that running a marina leaves little time to fly or sail. Mieke loves to travel with her family and when her busy schedule permits it, she goes out on the water in summer and the ice in winter, when the Dutch lakes freeze over.