Ena Voûte returned to her alma mater as dean in September 2012, after studying Industrial Design at TU Delft and carrying out her graduation project on innovative packaging at Unilever in the UK. During the 90s she worked for Unilever in a number of European countries, where she developed launching, branding and marketing strategies for products including Magnum, Becel and Lipton. At the start of this century, she was involved in the establishment of the financial services comparison site Independer as its marketing director and she worked as an innovation consultant at Altuïtion. She went on to work for nine years at Philips Consumer Lifestyle on personal care products and at Philips Lighting in a number of international roles.