Goedman Executive Search

Goedman Executive Search is an Amsterdam based executive search firm that places exceptional talent with exceptional companies, working at board level and one tier below. Its core business is to understand where a leader is in their career, what drives them and what they are ambitious for, before matching them to a business. The firm works with clients in deep partnership and with complete transparency, helping them scope the role, set and execute the search strategy, run thorough personality and leadership assessments, and advise on their hiring process, and it stays involved from end to end.

Goedman operates across a broad range of industries and functional expertise, but predominantly within the private equity and venture capital portfolio and family owned companies. Mandates include management of PE and VC backed companies and family businesses, transformation and digital roles driving the change agenda alongside ESG, business development and strategic partnerships, business operations and special projects, growth roles covering data infrastructure and customer insight, chief of staff appointments, corporate development and M&A, project management offices leading pre and post merger integration, and investment or operational roles inside venture capital and private equity firms. The firm has a strong network among next generation CEOs, COOs, CCOs, CP/TOs and CHROs, and places particular emphasis on equal representation of women at senior level.

The firm works from Prinsengracht 769 in Amsterdam and can be contacted at [email protected] or on +31 61 58 76 12. Founder Esther Goedman graduated in 1997 with a double master's degree from Leiden University and Utrecht University, worked in management roles in the temporary employment industry, and joined KPMG Ebbinge Campus in 2000 to place top tier graduate talent. Clients named on the site include Advent International, Adyen, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Boskalis, Eneco, FrieslandCampina, Nike, Picnic and ProRail.