About Orange Works
Built on business experience.
Enhanced by technology.
Orange Works combines decades of international business, industrial and power sector experience with a modern, AI-enabled way of working.
We understand business and projects. Power is where we have deep expertise. Technology makes us better at what we do.
Eric Tolsma
Engineer.
Business executive.
Problem solver.
Orange Works is led by Eric Tolsma, a mechanical engineer and business executive with more than three decades of experience across industrial technology, capital equipment and power projects in international markets.
Technical problems never have purely technical answers. Commercial decisions never work without understanding the operational reality.
Orange Works brings these perspectives together.
Engineering thinking.
Business experience.
Practical execution.
Experience built
across different worlds.
01
Engineering & industry
Mechanical engineering, industrial automation and a career that started close to machines, factories and real-world operations.
02
Technology & international business
Building and leading businesses during the early commercial internet era, including international expansion and the experience of rapid growth at scale.
03
Capital equipment
International trading and complex industrial asset transactions, bringing together technical understanding, commercial judgement and international execution.
04
Power
Power project development, equipment supply and commercial leadership across Africa and the Middle East, working with project owners, equipment, EPC and O&M companies.
05
AI for Business
Using AI inside real businesses to improve research, evaluation, proposals, information handling and commercial processes, then turning that experience into practical solutions for Orange Works clients.
Experience is useful
when it changes how you work.
A career across engineering, technology and international business teaches you to ask different questions.
- What is the real problem?
- What actually matters?
- What is commercially realistic?
- Who knows more about this than we do?
- What is the simplest solution that will work?
- And what will it take to make it happen?
Good decisions start with good judgement.
One way of working.
Power is the core.
Technology makes us better.
Power projects draw on decades of engineering, capital equipment, project and international business experience.
AI supports how we work every day: research, analysis, proposals and reporting. We built a better way of working for ourselves. Now we also help other businesses do the same.
It is the approach:
Understand the real requirement.
Challenge the obvious answer.
Plan what to do.
Make it work.
Small core.
Strong network.
The right capability for the job.
Orange Works keeps a small core and builds a team around the problem.
Eric works directly with clients.
When specialist expertise is required, we bring it in from our international network.
Senior attention without a large permanent organisation.
The solution determines the team.
Why Orange Works
Orange is where we
come from.
Works is what matters.
Orange reflects our Dutch roots: direct, practical and open-minded.
Works is the standard we set for ourselves. Whether it is a power project, a business problem or a better way of working, the objective is the same:
Make it work.
No theatre.
We don’t need to be the biggest company in the room.
We don’t pretend to know everything.
When someone knows more than we do, we bring them in.
When a simpler solution works, we use it.
It is not about Orange Works.
Your success is.