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Current to 11 Oct 26Elena Novak is the Customer Success Manager, EU, and carries Veldmaat Payments. Usage there is growing, but a held invoice, refresh misses and a challenged Growth renewal figure are open ahead of the term end on 4 Jan 2027.
Role: Elena Novak is Customer Success Manager, EU, based in Amsterdam, and joined B-Brain on 24 Nov 2025. She reports to Sofia Marchetti.
Book: The evidence shows one account, Veldmaat Payments, with 19 activity records. Elena has attended 11 calls, 8 email threads and authored 3 documents, with no tickets assigned to her.
Evidence: Across 17 reads, usage and questions asked are rising, and the customer's Head of Data has praised the service at times. The same reads show a long-running invoice dispute against the executed order form, repeated late refreshes and open tickets.
Now: Joost Verbeek declined renewal talk at the 22 Sep 2026 QBR while items are open, and challenged the renewal figure on 6 Oct 2026. Elena owes a written breakdown, aiming for agreement by 14 Dec 2026.
On record
Updated 9 Oct 26Calls
Time off
| From | To | Type | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2026 | 7 Dec 2026 | holiday | 3 | booked |
| 19 Nov 2026 | 19 Nov 2026 | holiday | 1 | booked |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 23 Sep 2026 | holiday | 3 | taken |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 18 Aug 2026 | holiday | 9 | taken |
| 29 Jun 2026 | 29 Jun 2026 | holiday | 1 | taken |
| 7 Apr 2026 | 13 Apr 2026 | holiday | 5 | taken |
| 16 Feb 2026 | 16 Feb 2026 | holiday | 1 | taken |
| 29 Dec 2025 | 29 Dec 2025 | sick | 1 | taken |
| 16 Dec 2025 | 17 Dec 2025 | holiday | 2 | taken |
| 10 Dec 2025 | 10 Dec 2025 | sick | 1 | taken |