History.

Maarten Herman van Gent, born at Rotterdam in the Netherlands on March 22, 1947,
visited  Tallinn  Estonia in May 1987 to play with his team in a  basketball tournament..
At that time he was the professional  coach of the Belgian basketball team named Hellas Gent..
The team won the Tallinn tournament .
From 1991 his company  Globe Sports Management Inc. was  representing Tiit Sokk and Aivar Kuusmaa, two Estonian basketball players, to contract to play for the Greek team - Phanatinaikos in Athens,
 which became the European champions in the first season 1993-1994.
( See!! http://www.globesportsmanagement.com ).
In 1992  Maarten established his first company in Estonia named Vangent AS.
He bought, through this company, his first real estate at Sõpruse Pst, 222. at Tallinn in 1992.
In 1994 he bought  Seirus AS , a company  importing and exporting  from and to Holland.

In 1999 he created  Gulf Vangent Holding OÜ to control these activities.
Gulf Vangent Holding is now in real estate, import, export and representing foreign companies in Estonia.
In 2001 he established  Gulf Oil Estonia AS and sold this company to Gulf Oil Netherlands in 2007.
In 2006 he established Global Oil Trading OU and bought trough this company  the JNC bio diesl factory in Halle in Germany


Also from 1996 until 1998 Maarten was coaching the national basketball team of Estonia and the club team of Kalev Tallinn, with which he won the Estonian championship in 1998.
From 2002 until 2004 Maarten was the coach of national men team of the Netherlands.
He coached for 3 months his old team AMVJ in Rotterdam in 2009 after they fired their American coach to finish the season.



From 2001 until 2005, Maarten worked as a coach and manager in his spare time with the team Ehitustooriist.
This team won the championship of Estonia in 2005.
The same team is named BC Kalev Cramo now a days and plays in the Baltic league and ULEB.
Maarten works as a licensed FIBA agent for Globe Sports management Inc.
He is also the president of four other companies, which are in real estate.