Excellentum Human Capital Solutions

Excellentum presents itself as a business partner in human capital solutions, a team of seasoned specialists in executive search, interim management and advies with 75 years of combined experience. It fills leadership positions at senior and middle management level, structurally or temporarily, for organisations that want to scale up, strengthen, innovate or cross a border. The brief is usually an outstanding candidate with professional potential who will also feel at home in the client's company culture, found as quickly as possible without conceding on quality. The company searches worldwide for its clients and maps out career paths for the candidates it works with.

Its werkvelden are Food and Agri, Industrie, Maritiem, Energie, FMCG, Zorg and financial services, with an explicit internationaal practice. Functionally it recruits across human resources, general management, financieel management, commercieel management, operations, quality and supply chain, with recent roles including a Financial Controller in Noord-Holland and a Construction Manager in Curaçao. The managing partners each bring a specialism. Jan Piet van der Plank covers industry after HR management roles at Alcoa, Total, Caterpillar, Suzlon Energy, Wartsila, ASML and United Technologies Corporation. Marcel de Jong covers agri and food, FMCG and retail following sales, marketing and board level roles at Orkla, Pelave Food Group and Procter and Gamble. Gerard Braker covers health, industry and financial services after commercial and operations roles at ArboNed, PGGM, Proteq, Corus Staal and Univé.

Excellentum runs three offices: Breda at Graaf Engelbertlaan 75, Antwerp at Ankerrui 9 in Belgium and Johannesburg at 145 2nd Street, Parkmore, Sandton in South Africa. Clients choose it for a solid network the partners refresh continuously and for pairing human insight and intuition with artificial intelligence, which surfaces hidden talent. Its Excellentum-Eazy platform lets candidates present themselves through several tools before the first face to face meeting.