Our Team
The EeStairs team is proudly international and has well-established operations in the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Canada, France and Belgium. The management team has a full range of design, technical, and manufacturing skill-sets, and this supports the deep-seated ethos of innovation established by the founders of EeStairs, Dick Cluistra and Cornelis van Vlastuin. The senior management teams also have professional expertise in architecture, product design, and production efficiency.
Nathan Koppelaar
Creative Director
+1 (226) 381 0111
NK@eestairs.com
Nathan leads our projects in Canada and the United States. He has gained a full understanding of both the technical and financial aspects of industrial processes. Nathan had previously worked for a steel beam cambering company, and then for a timber company, which gave him direct insights into the two most commonly used materials for feature stairs.
Brendan Koppelaar
Operational Director
+1 (226) 381 0111
BK@eestairs.com
Nathan is supported by Operational Director, Brendan Koppelaar. Having previously managed production at three structural steel manufacturing plants, Brendan brings an exceptionally detailed understanding of stair production quality and efficiency to our projects, and clients, in North America.
Tomas Rojcik
Project Director
+1 (226) 381-0111
tor@eestairs.com
Joshua Sikkema
Project Manager / Design Engineer
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JS@eestairs.com
Evan Okopny
Project Manager / Design Engineer
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EO@eestairs.com
Mike Deller
Purchasing & Logistics
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MD@eestairs.com
Matt Downs
Plant Manager
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MattD@eestairs.com
Alexander Vakoulich
Installation Supervisor
+1 (226) 381-0111
Katelyn Barich
Marketing Coordinator / Inside Sales
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KB@eestairs.com
Josh Koppelaar
Designer / Purchasing
+1 (226) 381 0111
JK@eestairs.com
Mark Muta
Senior Estimator / Inside Sales
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MM@eestairs.com
Brenda Mathewson
Finance / Admin
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finance.na@eestairs.com
Ian Pfleger
Design Engineer
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IP@eestairs.com
Tim Richards
Design Engineer
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TR@eestairs.com
Adrian Marta
Design Engineer
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AM@eestairs.com
Graham Hamstra
Design Engineer
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GH@eestairs.com
Shawn Knoepfli
Design Engineer
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SK@eestairs.com
Our Founders
Dick’s wealth of technical knowledge and Cornelis’s highly creative approach to product development create a fertile synergy that has made EeStairs not only a leading international feature stair manufacturer, but also an originator of new approaches to stair design and related products.
Cornelis van Vlastuin
Founder, Creative Director [NL]
+31 342 405 710
CvV@eestairs.com
Cornelis van Vlastuin is the creative director of EeStairs. Under his leadership, the company produces exquisitely elegant and visually exciting staircases through a process of continuous imagination and innovation.
And this has provided designers and other professional specifiers with the widest possible range of stair-tread options. Cornelis' visionary approach is balanced by his past entrepreneurial and management experience, and his insights into software programming.
His unusually broad skills, and his international outlook, have led to award-winning stairs and the creation of several unique patented or registered stair products.
Dick Cluistra
Founder, Operational Director [NL]
+31 342 405 720
DC@eestairs.com
Dick Cluistra spent many years working in the steel and construction industry at senior management level before co-founding EeStairs. He has a broad expertise in the design and production of stairs.
As operations director and stair specialist at EeStairs, he ensures that the right decisions are made on important points in the design and production of stairs, so that great design and state-of-the-art innovations are shown to the fullest.
Dick is constantly looking for ways to further streamline the stair design and manufacturing process using technological and software innovations to ensure that stairs are perfectly executed and installed.