Remko Vochteloo — Co-Founder
I design operating systems for complex organisations. The organisation is sometimes a law firm in Bangkok. Sometimes it's a school in Lusaka. The problem is structurally the same. I spent thirty years inside some of the world's most demanding professional environments — as CFO of Arthur Andersen's Dutch practice at twenty-seven, then at Deloitte where I built and ran a capability of four thousand people across Audit, Tax, Risk, Consulting and Financial Advisory in Hyderabad for eleven years. I was not advising on how professional services firms work. I was running the numbers on it from the inside. What I came to understand — through the offshore experiment, through the data science degree I did in 2020, through watching firm after firm deploy AI tools without changing anything structural — is that the model professional services firms have run for thirty years is under a pressure it cannot absorb by working harder. I am writing a book about it: The Headcount Trap — Why Professional Services Firms Must Replace Labor with Intelligence. What I do today across two parallel tracks: Through MagickPro Services, I work with professional services firms across Southeast Asia and APAC to deploy AI workforce infrastructure — not tools, not subscriptions, but operational AI workforces that decouple production capacity from headcount and build compounding intelligence into the firm as an asset. As a Fractional COO and governance advisor, I work with international schools on the financial and operational design problems that boards find hardest: financial governance frameworks, multi-year modeling, procurement systems, and the board accountability structures that hold it all together. My current and recent engagements span AISL in Lusaka, George Washington Academy in Casablanca and HIS Harare. I am based across the Netherlands, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Lusaka, Casablanca and wherever the work takes me. If you are a managing partner watching margins compress, or a school board that knows its financial governance isn't where it needs to be — I am easy to reach. remko@globalmagicko.com
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in AI-driven operational transformation across professional services and education sectors.
Location: The Randstad, Netherlands
Experience: 32 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Ai Workforce Infrastructure
- Business Model Development
- Financial Governance
- Operational Effectiveness
Career Highlights
- Expert in AI workforce infrastructure for professional services.
- Extensive experience in financial governance for international schools.
- Author of 'The Headcount Trap' addressing industry challenges.
Work Experience
Magick Global
Advisor — MagickPro Services (3 mos)
Sidera
Partner (3 mos)
Andersen Consulting
Partner (1 yr 3 mos)
Initiativ
Co-Founder & Advisory Board Member Initiativ · Environmental Exchange (1 yr 11 mos)
International School of Amsterdam
Member of the Board of Trustees (NL) (2 yrs 9 mos)
Mahindra International School, Pune
Independent Consultant (4 mos)
The Better Cambodia
Advisory Board Member (Cambodia) (3 yrs)
AgriLedger
COO & Board Member (UK) (10 mos)
Self-employed
Fractional COO & International School Advisor (3 yrs 6 mos)
Business Models Inc.
Partner (3 yrs 3 mos)
Sjaki-Tari-Us
Advisory Board Member (Indonesia) (4 yrs 3 mos)
Yepic AI
Advisory Board Member (UK) (6 yrs 2 mos)
International School of Hyderabad
Advisory Board Member (India) (5 yrs 11 mos)
Deloitte
Managing Director (India) (11 yrs 3 mos)
Director of Finance (2 yrs 8 mos)
Concerncontroller (5 yrs 6 mos)
Anjali House
Chair Of The International Board (Cambodia) (16 yrs 7 mos)
Arthur Andersen & Co.
CFO (1 yr 8 mos)
Business Controller (1 yr 4 mos)
Business Consultant (2 yrs 6 mos)
VB Group
Auditor (2 yrs 11 mos)
Education
PGD at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Attendance at Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA)
Executive MBA at Business School Lausanne (BSL)
QC at NIVE
First phase at Nyenrode Business University
VWO at Pascal College