Context before credentials
Two leaders with the same CV can produce very different results. We start with the strategic context, then look at people.
Executive Search · Leadership Advisory · Interim Management
Executive Search and advisory for high growth clients who need new leaders.
What we do
We advise boards and investors on the leadership decisions that set the next phase of a company: executive search, board appointments, assessment and succession. Every mandate is led by the founder, from first briefing to the first year in the role. Need leadership immediately? We provide a fitting solution quickly through Interim Management.
- Executive Search
- Leadership Advisory
- Board & Supervisory Appointments
- Digital & Technology Leadership
- Organizational Transformation
- Leadership Assessment
Why leadership matters
The right leader. More impact. More value.
Value over years, not quarters
An appointment is a three to five year bet. We test for judgment, stamina and the ability to lead through what nobody can predict yet.
Culture and change
The right leader fits the company as it is and helps build the company it is becoming. Those are two different tests.
Leading in uncertainty
Markets move. Technology moves faster. Quiet years rarely reveal temperament, so we look for it deliberately.
Services
Six practices at the top of the market, one partner in the room.
Executive Search
Appointments of CEOs, C-suite and senior executives, with particular expertise in Chief Sales Officers and senior commercial leaders. Every search is led personally by the founder.
Digital & Technology Leadership
CIO, CTO, CISO and CPO appointments for technology, transformation and data-driven organisations, with a strong network of leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
International Search
Cross-border mandates from the Netherlands into Europe, the UK and the United States.
Board & Supervisory Appointments
Search mandates for specific supervisory board, trust board and commissioner roles with a Tech, Data or Cybersecurity profile.
Succession & Talent Mapping
Quiet succession planning and confidential market mapping for roles you cannot afford to leave open.
Leadership Advisory
Counsel to founders, CEOs and boards on the leadership questions that sit under the strategy, supported by executive assessment and coaching.
Approach
A method that is thorough, human and quiet.
Understand the business
We start with the company: its turning points, its capital structure, its ambitions and its limits.
Define what success looks like
With the board we write the mandate. Not a job description, but a picture of what this person has to change.
Map the market quietly
We approach people one by one. No advertisements, no briefs in circulation, no exposure for the client.
Assess capability and fit
Structured interviews, real references and a clear view. We say what we think, including when it is inconvenient.
Stay involved
Our work runs past the signature: onboarding, the first board cycle, and the years where the value actually shows up.
The founder
Job Voorhoeve, Board room advisor.
- CIO / CTO leadership
- Digital transformation
- Private equity
- Scale-ups & growth
- Board stakeholder management
Job built Voorhoeve as a boutique firm by design: a select number of mandates a year, each one led by him. At this level the work does not delegate well, and clients hire the judgment of the person in the room.
His focus sits where technology, change and commercial leadership meet: CIO and CTO mandates, digital leadership inside traditional companies, and CEO succession in scale-ups and private-equity portfolios.
Clients describe him as direct, strategically sharp and persistent. He earns his place in the conversations no one else is in.
Focus areas
Where our judgment goes deepest.
- Technology
- Digital Transformation
- Commercial Leadership
- Industrial & B2B
- Private Equity Portfolios
- Scale-ups & Growth
- Professional Services
- Data & AI Leadership
- Transformation Leadership
Operating principles
A firm built on restraint.
Discretion
Names stay with us. Mandates are never discussed outside the room.
Precision
Every word in a brief is chosen on purpose.
Long-term view
We judge our work three years on, not at signing.
Evidence over impression
Structured assessment and references that say something.
People, not profiles
We appoint human beings, not credentials.
Trust
Slow to earn. Protected without exception.
Fit for the next chapter
Right for where the business is going, not only where it stands.
Independence
Advice without conflict and without an agenda of our own.
Boutique by design
A select number of mandates each year, with the founder in every conversation.
Perspective
Notes on leadership, technology and long-term value.
Leadership
The CEO succession that starts three years too late.
Why most succession talks begin at the point where the answer should already exist.
Technology
The CIO is not a technology job anymore.
On the quiet rewriting of digital leadership inside non-digital companies.
Governance
What supervisory boards see, and what they miss.
Notes from ten years of board-level appointments.
AI
Hiring leaders for a question nobody has answered.
Judgment, humility and honesty in the age of AI.
Begin a conversation
Start a confidential conversation.
For appointments where judgment, trust and discretion decide the outcome.
Amsterdam, International