Hans graduated in Management Economics and Law from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2004 and completed his second degree in Built Environment Management at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in 2008. He started his career in the real estate sector in 2008 as a valuer and quickly developed into a partner within an international real estate organisation. During his time as a valuer, he led the BOG team and was responsible for various fund, portfolio and bank valuations. In 2016, he became a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Chartered Valuation Surveyor) and a registered valuer with the Real Estate Valuers Register of the Netherlands (NRVT).

After working successfully as a valuer for over nine years, he moved to the capital markets team where he headed the retail capital markets team and was involved in several retail investment transactions. In his later years at Cushman & Wakefield, he held the position of Sector Head Retail and was a member of the Executive Board (EXCO) of Cushman & Wakefield Netherlands.