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The search produced a Director of Human Resources with the multi-state HR experience and employee relations depth required. The chosen candidate had a pragmatic leadership style that was a good fit for the company culture. The leadership team supported the appointment, with a good offer accepted and an almost immediate start date agreed. Within weeks of her arrival, the new Director engaged Keller Executive Search to start sourcing an HR Generalist, an early sign of momentum and the confidence to start building the function she had been hired to lead.
The right profile was found in Indonesia: a professional with commercial experience whose market positioning was directly in line with the company’s ASEAN expansion priorities. The cross-border nature of the engagement meant the role was structured on a consultant basis, which allowed active sales representation to begin without the complexity of establishing foreign payroll infrastructure. The agreement was signed, and an immediate start was arranged. Within days of joining, the new Sales Representative attended the SIAL Shanghai trade show alongside the company’s Director of Sales, turning an appointment into active market engagement with little delay.
A focused search resulted in a Head of Recruitment being placed with the law group. The appointee had the legal industry experience, entrepreneurial mindset, and Seattle market knowledge the position required. The appointment was confirmed and became effective in January 2026.
After a comprehensive search, a deputy director was hired. The chosen leader brought both the Arkansas community roots and the mission alignment that the role called for. The appointment was accepted and formalized within the agreed timeframe.
The appointed Director of Operations had more than 18 years in commercial cleaning, accumulated across two companies, where his role was to build the operation from the ground up. At a commercial cleaning company in the Southwest, he led the business through a sustained growth period, expanding the account base to more than 900 clients and the workforce to more than 1,500 across three states while growing annual revenue past $7 million. He transitioned the business from manual tracking to a unified ERP platform covering field operations, billing, and sales, added mobile geo-verified quality inspections across the account portfolio, and drove client retention from 92% to 97%. He took the company into a public sector account as well, personally managing the staffing plan, level 2 background clearance compliance, and operational launch of a government facilities contract. He also co-founded and built a commercial cleaning and building services company from inception to approximately $8 million in annual revenue, operating across four states and Puerto Rico as co-owner for more than eight years.
The designated HR Manager had managed Belgian labor structures in a range of organizations with different union configurations and had led several HR functions through structural change. He established the HR operation from scratch for a new affiliate of an international container terminal operator in Zeebrugge, handling over 100 hires across technical, logistics, and management disciplines, building out the HRIS, legal compliance, and labor relations infrastructure simultaneously. He served as acting HR Director in a clinical research laboratory in Belgium, with full strategic and operational HR responsibility for Belgian and international operations. He was in charge of HR in a Belgian fleet management technology company with locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Ireland, leading the HR function through two successive acquisitions by global automotive groups. He handled the elections of the social bodies, the works council, and the syndical delegates over both transitions, renegotiated collective labor agreements, and reorganized the workforce at the time of the contraction of the automotive sector. Most recently, he led the Belgian HR function of a consumer goods group that had spun off from its parent. He managed the payroll vendor migration and kept union engagement alive while the new company was setting up independent operations. He is a native Dutch speaker, has an advanced level of French, and is fluent in English. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and a graduate certificate in Corporate Economics from KU Leuven.
