
With more than 25 years in management and boardroom roles, I've built my career on transforming businesses and empowering people. From start-ups to billion-euro companies, I've led organisations through growth, transformation and cultural evolution, always with a focus on creating environments where both people and businesses thrive.
For more than a decade I had the privilege of leading YoungCapital as Group CEO, guiding it from a bold start-up to a European market leader in youth employment. The team grew to 1,300 internal employees supported by over 25,000 flexible professionals, across 50 locations in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.
I then took on the challenge of scaling Circle8 Group as Group CEO: an IT staffing organisation operating at over €1.3 billion in revenue, headquartered in Zurich. There I was co-responsible for the buy-and-build, the integration of multiple labels across Europe, and the building of strong leadership teams in a complex, multi-country, PE-backed environment.
I was a Commissioner at AFAS Software for 2.5 years, and I'm a member of SER Topvrouwen.
Today I bring all of this together through InterManage Ventures BV, alongside founders, CEOs and PE portfolio companies. I also founded ELiN Partners Executive Search, where a dedicated team looks for what someone is when things get difficult, not only what they have done.
More about Ineke →A series on why companies, leaders and teams move through seasons, and why the same strength can fit one season and strain the next. Read them in order, or start with whichever season you are in.
Why every season of growth asks for a different leader.
Understanding people in every season of growth.
Part III · The Next Season · coming soon. Meanwhile the conversation continues on HIGH SEASON →
Growth companies need the right leader and a stage for their story. ELiN Partners finds the leader. HIGH SEASON gives the story a place to be seen.
Board and C-level search, co-founded with Elbrich Batstra. We look for what someone is when things get difficult, not only what they have done.
Visit ELiN Partners → Platform for growth companiesConversations with founders and CEOs of scale-ups, placed in the season their company is in. Plus research and a stage where companies publish their own story, made to share on social.
Visit seasonalleader.com →Let's talk about what's next.
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