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Work Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006/08 – 2009/02 Client Partner
Korn/Ferry International / Brussels, Belgium

Korn/Ferry International (USD 790 million/2,500 employees), headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, is a public (NYSE:KFI) traded company and the largest retained executive search firm in the world. In addition search the firm’s service offering encompasses an array of leadership development solutions, compensation advisory and the subsidiary Futurestep for mid-level management recruitment and recruitment project outsourcing. The EMEA region represents about 30% of the total revenue.

• As one of six consultants in the Brussels office, I managed pan-European and local executive searches in the EMEA region for clients in our Global Industrial (GIM) and Technology Markets (GTM). In GIM I was Regional Sector Leader for the Packaging, Paper & Forest sector and I was member of the sector Industrial Manufacturing & Services. In GTM I focused on Software, Emerging Technologies & ICT/Professional Services. I was a functional member of our Corporate Affairs Centre of Expertise, with a focus on Government Relations & Public Affairs and of our Sustainability practice, with a special task to manage NGO liaisons. Successfully placed a number of candidates of different nationalities in executive positions with clients across Europe or overseas, in my own right or as member of international client service teams. Contributor to practice development, white papers and media coverage. Reported in a matrix to the Office Managing Director (B) and the EMEA Market Leader Industrial (CH) as well as to the Global Practice Leader Basic Materials (USA) and the Global Practice Leader Corporate Affairs (USA).

2004 – 2006 Executive Vice President
DHR International EMEA SPRL-BVBA / Brussels, Belgium

DHR International (revenues/employees not disclosed), headquartered in Chicago, USA, is a private limited company and the fifth largest retained executive search firm in the USA. The firm currently expands its operations through its own offices in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region managed from Brussels and in the Asia Pacific region managed from Hong Kong.

• Recruited by the CEO & Chairman to co-manage the firm’s start-up operations the EMEA region with responsibility for P&L, personnel and organic expansion of the operation. Offices established in Belgium, UK and Germany. Managed executive search projects with pan-European or local scope for international renowned clients in the markets Technology & IT Services, Industry and Consumer/Retail. Successfully placed a number of candidates of different nationalities with client companies across Europe. Reported to the VP International Operations (USA).

2002 – 2004 Principal Executive Search
TMP Highland Partners SA-NV / Brussels, Belgium

TMP Highland Partners (USD 70 million/300 employees), headquartered in New York, USA, is the executive search business unit of the publicly quoted company Hudson Highland Group, a spin-off from TMP Worldwide and. TMP Highland Partners is one of the world’s largest retained executive search firms with own offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

• Managed executive search projects with pan-European or local scope, for international renowned clients in the sectors Technology & IT Services, Industry and Professional Services. Successfully placed a number of candidates of different nationalities with client companies across Europe. Reported in a matrix to the Managing Partner for Belgium & France (B) and to the global Practice Leader Technology & IT Services (USA).





1999 – 2002 Vice President Executive Search
A.T. Kearney SA-NV / Brussels, Belgium

A.T. Kearney (USD 1.3 billion/4,500 employees) is a US leading strategic management consulting and executive search company, a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS, a global and public IT services provider. The Executive Search division (EUR 65 million/300 employees) conducted retained executive search and management assessment through some 30 offices worldwide.

• Managed executive search projects with pan-European or local scope, for international renowned clients in the sectors Global Technology & e-Business, Industry and Professional Services. Participated in three very large international management assessment projects, in the context of pre-merger due diligence, with the ExCo’s and BoD’s of the NewCo’s as clients. Reported in a matrix to the European Managing Director (UK) and to the global Practice Leader Technology & e-Business (USA). Promoted twice, from Director to Senior Director and then to Vice President.

1994 – 1998 Commercial Counsellor & Diplomat
Swedish Trade Council / Brussels, Belgium

Organization for export development and internationalization of Swedish enterprises (USD 55 million/380 employees) managed by its principals the Swedish State through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade and the Swedish business community through a trust. The Brussels Office is the official commercial representation of Sweden to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Commission of the European Union.

• Recruited to the diplomat posting and managed operations, P&L, a staff of eight persons and lead business development, sales, marketing, project and relationship management for B2B clients, as well as management, recruitment, training and financial control. Represented Sweden to the host governments, authorities, industry federations, business clubs and interest groups and was official government representative in European Commission committees, as well as Vice President of the Belgian-Swedish Association. Launched a Sweden/EU/Baltic States program for increased cooperation between SME’s and trade organizations. Reported to the Executive Vice President & Regional Manager EMEA in Sweden and formally had a dotted line to the Swedish Ambassadors to Belgium, Luxembourg and to the European Commission.

1992 – 1994
Consulting Manager Commercial & European Affairs
Swedish Trade Council / Brussels, Belgium

• Recruited to be responsible for the office’s consulting operations and as such managing prospecting, sales, management, reporting and follow-up of assignments/projects from Swedish client companies. Provided advisory services to the business communities in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg. Main contributor to that the office’s net revenue and profit largely exceeded budget in the first full operational year 1993. Reported to the Commercial Counsellor in Belgium.

1992 Regional General Manager & Managing Director
Facit Coordination Centre NV / Zaventem, Belgium

Multinational Swedish company (USD 250 million/1,800 employees) with the product lines video terminals, computer printers, NC machines, typewriters, calculators and office furniture. Facit was divested from the public Ericsson group in 1988.

• Responsible for the P&L with five Country Managers as direct reports and in parallel I was the Managing Director of the Facit Coordination Centre in Belgium. Implemented a regional sales and management structure in Europe, implying less personnel, lower costs, higher profitability and better efficiency. Reported to the Group CEO in Sweden, and I was a member of the Facit Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors in seven European sales companies.

1990 – 1992
Vice President Marketing & Sales Europe & Managing Director
Facit Coordination Centre NV / Zaventem, Belgium

Head office function established to become the future head office of the Facit Group (corporate cost center/5 employees).

• Responsible for sales and marketing through nine sales & service companies in continental Europe. Initiated and implemented major turn-around operations in the market companies in France, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium and Austria. Reported to the CEO of the Facit Group and, for a while, to the temporarily existing COO, both based in Sweden.

> > 1991
Acting Managing Director
Facit SA / Paris, France

Sales and after-market subsidiary for France (USD 20 million/150 employees).

• In parallel to my VP position I was appointed acting Managing Director and spent some 60% of my time in France. With full P&L, I downsized and restructured the French sales & service company by bringing staff down from 150 to 60 persons, cut indirect costs and stopped unprofitable business activities to bring the company back to profit in some eight months. Reported to the CEO of the Facit Group in Sweden and I was a member of the member of the Facit Executive Committee.

>> 1990 – 1991 Acting Managing Director
Facit GmbH / Düsseldorf, Germany

Sales and after-market subsidiary for Germany (USD 10 million/80 employees).

• In parallel to my VP position I was appointed acting Managing Director and spent some 60% of my time in Germany. With full P&L, I downsized and restructured the German sales & service company by bringing staff down from 80 to 40 persons, cut indirect costs and stopped unprofitable business activities to bring the company back to profit in some six months. Reported to the CEO of the Facit Group in Sweden and I was a member of the Facit Executive Committee.

1990 Vice President Marketing & Sales Europe
Facit AB / Stockholm, Sweden

Head office of the Facit Group (USD 250 million/1,800 employees).

• Responsible for a set of corporate projects regarding a business concept and organization, in order to take the company from a product distributor to a more niche and systems oriented company. Established an international marketing and finance function, Facit Coordination Centre, in Belgium, intended as the future group HQ, working with international tax advisors and lawyers to prepare. Reported to the CEO in Sweden, and I was a member of the Facit Executive Committee. Spent about six months working in Germany.

1980 – 1989 Other
1988 – 1989 Management Consultant
Habberstad AB (A.T. Kearney) / Gothenburg, Sweden
1985 – 1988 Export Manager
Finess International AB (Stora Enso) / Helsingborg, Sweden
1984 – 1985 Product Manager
Electrolux Commercial Refrigeration AB / Arvika, Sweden
1983 Sales Representative
Husqvarna Sverige AB (Electrolux) / Gothenburg, Sweden
1982 – 1983 Market Consultant
Swedish Trade Council / Oslo, Norway
1981 – 1982 Product Marketing Trainee (grant)
Bayer AG / Leverkusen, Germany
1980 – 1981 Market Assistant (grant)
Swedish Trade Council / Oslo, Norway

Education

EDUCATION & MILITARY SERVICE

1977 – 1980 B. Sc. Business Administration & Economics
Major in international marketing, with honours
Gothenburg Business School at the University / Gothenburg, Sweden
1976 – 1977 Military Service
Sergeant / Platoon leader
The 17th Infantry Regiment / Uddevalla, Sweden
1973 – 1976 High School
Major in marketing & languages
Kongahällaskolan / Kungälv, Sweden

Skills

OBJECTIVE & PROFILE

Ronald wants to pursue his career as an executive or consultant in Government & Corporate Affairs, General & Change Management or Leadership & Management Consulting, working for an international corporation, consultancy, private equity firm or federation/organization. Prefers to be based in Belgium where he resides but is open to international travel. He can work as an independent consultant or as an employee.

Ronald’s career spans close to 30 years of which about 20 are from international management positions with four different European multinational industrial/technology corporations as well as from work as a management consultant for four different US renowned global consulting and executive search firms. Furthermore, he has some 10 years experience from foreign trade & EU affairs and business advisory/consulting including a diplomat posting in Brussels as Commercial Counsellor/Trade Commissioner for Sweden to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Commission. For his outstanding services rendered as diplomat he was in 2001 appointed Commander in the Order of Leopold, the highest ranking royal order of merit in Belgium, by the Belgian king Albert.

Ronald is a Swedish national who has lived and worked outside his native country for more than 20 years, namely in Norway, Germany, France and, since 1990, in Belgium. Ronald’s mother tongue is Swedish (Norwegian, Danish), he is fluent in English Dutch and French he has good command of German and Spanish. He has extensive business travel experience from Europe and North America.


EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Government & Corporate Affairs

• About 10 years experience from bi-lateral commercial affairs and more than 6 years from working with EU project & trade finance and cooperation as governmental intermediary between Swedish corporations, consultancies, national organizations, the EU institutions, development banks as well as with various federations, organizations and authorities.
• Expertise from funding of R&D projects, other EU initiated development/cooperation projects as well as the regional EU programs for the CEE/CIS countries, the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, as well as from SME cooperation and Sweden/EU/Baltic States initiatives.
• Manage business cooperation and foreign direct investment subsidies in Belgium for Swedish companies working with the Belgian inward investment authorities as well as the other way around working with the Swedish Investment Agency and foreign commercial missions in Belgium, like the US embassy.
• Management Swedish Trade Council in Brussels and likewise the commercial section of the Swedish embassies in Belgium/Luxembourg, with full personnel and P&L responsibility. This included an initial restructuring and replacement of staff in Brussels, followed by revenue/profit growth through more advisory/consulting, winning new clients and making the office one of the most profitable in EMEA.
• This experience includes a diplomat posting in Brussels, working directly for the Executive Board of the Swedish Trade Council, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and locally with the three Swedish Ambassadors to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union.

General & Change Management

• More than 10 years experience from managing product development, indirect and direct B2B sales in Europe and North America of industrial products and services as well as hands-on general and change management regarding turn-around of loss-making manufacturing, sales & service operations in Europe.
• Worked with the Executive Board, the Board of Directors and external advisors to establish a new corporate structure with a holding company and a distribution centre in the Netherlands, a coordination centre in Belgium and moved from a country management to a regional hub structure in Europe.
• Restructuring, re-organization including staff lay-offs, sell-off/divestment of unprofitable or non-core businesses across Europe, working in team with the Business Controller Europe and the local country managements, with an overall positive turn-around and a business “back in the black” for the region.
• Country general management of two sales and service companies with personnel and P&L responsibility in Germany and France, downsizing the heavily loss-making companies from about 80 to 40 respectively from about 150 to 60 persons, with restored profitability in both companies.
• This experience include positions as Vice President Marketing & Sales Europe, Managing Director for a coordination centre, Country Manager in 2 countries, Regional General Manager for 5 countries as well as a Board Director in 7 sales companies in Europe.
Management Consulting & Executive Search

• About 10 years experience in management consulting, executive search and leadership assessment with pan-European to global scope, including positions held as EVP EMEA, VP, Principal and Client Partner.
• This experience includes, for an international technology company, change management and organization transformation of some 10 sales & service companies in Europe, change of distribution and direct sales model as well as profit & loss assessment of client, product and partner portfolio.
• Participation in three comprehensive management assessments in financial services, industry and distribution regarding between about 100 to 350 executives and senior managers in Europe and globally, all in the context of pre-merger due diligence working alongside consultancies like McKinsey & Co, A.T. Kearney etc, for the clients being the ExCo’s and BoD’s of the three NewCo’s.
• Executive search & assessment for international clients in industrial products & services, advanced technology and professional services, about 80% for roles with a pan-European to global scope of responsibility.
• Functional and domain expertise includes general management, sales, operations, government/corporate affairs, sustainability/CSR, renewable energy/clean technologies and packaging, paper & forest products.

Leadership & Competencies

• Ronald has a leadership style characterized as intellectual/complex on one hand and as task/action focused on the other hand. He moves quickly from the big picture to conscious actions to achieve results. His leadership is also social, and when people first meet him they likely see him as quick and agreeable, open to input and willing to shift directions quickly as things change. As people get to know him, they will increasingly see that he is quite analytic and exploratory in his thinking. He is not an entrepreneur but, however, thrives in an environment where creativity is paired with calculated risks.
• Ronald’s primary career motivation is being competitive, entailing rapid upward advancement with emphasis on achievement and gaining influence. His secondary career motivation is the expert one, with long-term specialization in a particular type of work. This is often a combination suited for a “functional career” whereby one gradually moves to positions of increasing authority and responsibility in a certain function, field or domain. Both senior leadership and expertise are essential for him to feel a sense of career fulfilment.
• He has a strong learning agility, works easily horizontally and vertically in an organization and he has a stable set of emotional competencies encompassing ambiguity tolerance, composure, empathy, energy, humility and confidence.
• In Ronald’s two latest corporate performance appraisals in 2008 and 2007 he was rated by managers, peers and support staff in the ranges 5 – 4.2 for teamwork & collaboration, 4.8 – 4.4 for personal accountability, 4.7 – 4 .3 for integrity & respect and 4.5 – 4 for open & honest communication. In the appraisals a 5 is the highest score and means “always”, a 4 is “almost always” and a 3 means “usually”.
• For the same appraisals, his Office Managing Director 2007 – 2009 wrote about Ronald “Highly methodological, rigorous, metrics driven and detailed (sometimes to the extreme). Excellent knowledge of client’s business and situation (excellent preparation). Highly persistent. 100% reliable and loyal. Great team player. Great intellectual honesty and integrity. Emotionally stable. Self controlled. Listens well and willing to learn. Good self-awareness. Accepts feedback and acts constructively on it. A pearl in a team!” His first Office Managing Director 2006 – 2007 wrote that “Ronald has a very positive personality, is hard-working, delivers quality, is proactive and has very strong interpersonal skills.”
• For his appraisal in 2008, a Regional Market Leader EMEA and likewise the practice leader of Ronald wrote “Tireless worker. Selfless in doing the right thing for the firm in cross-border and key account efforts. Understanding of our clients’ business and focus. Outstanding written communicator. True team player and always be relied upon to do more than a fair share of work. Open, honest and completely trustworthy. Invests in others and relationships with them.”
• In the 2008 appraisal a peer Partner wrote about Ronald as “Hard worker, persistent, very dedicated to the Firm and highly committed to his work. Puts the interest of the Firm before his own interests. Completes all his tasks thoroughly. Quality oriented. Respectful for others. Tactful and very polite. Discreet and modest (sometimes too much).” In the same 2008 appraisal a subordinate level Associate colleague wrote “Ronald is a great person! Dedicated, honest, extremely helpful, perseverant and pleasant. Very good at keeping to timelines, keeping all the people around him updated, communicating with clients and complementing a job well done.”
• A client for which Korn/Ferry never had worked and for which Ronald won and conducted 3 global searches 2007 – 2008, responded in a 3rd-party K/F Client Satisfaction Executive Search Survey as follows: On the question of “What elements were you most satisfied with?” the answer was “The initial meeting with three people from Korn/Ferrry was very thorough. The search was conducted by Mr. Ronald. He was one of the best consultants I have ever worked with. He was most proactive, responsive and conscientious. Overall, he did a wonderful job.” On the question “What elements were you least satisfied with?” the client answered “None” and, finally, on the question “What are your suggestions for improvement” the client wrote “Korn/Ferry should clone the consultant I worked with”.

Languages

Mother tongue: Swedish (Norwegian and Danish)
Fluent: English, Dutch and French
Some: German and Spanish

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