Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• AI for Enterprise Accounting I Series A (€23M) I 7 → 30
• Backed by Lightspeed, General Catalyst and EQT Ventures and founded by leaders from Uber, Plaid, and Miro, Stacks is trusted by teams at Volt, Cleo, Juni, and Genesis. Our mission is to transform the month-end close from a stressful, manual process into an efficient, collaborative, single-click workflow.
• When I joined Stacks, the team was just 7 people. Since then, I’ve led the company’s hiring efforts through a phase of rapid growth, bringing on 23 more people across Product, Engineering, and GTM.
• I own the full recruitment function, including talent strategy, process design, sourcing, stakeholder alignment, and end-to-end hiring execution.
• Some of the key roles I’ve hired for:
• Founders Associate
• Founding Account Executive
• Founding Marketer
• Backend Product Engineer
• Frontend Product Engineer
• Staff Product Designer
• Customer Success Manager
• Solutions Engineer
• AI Engineer
• As the first talent hire, I partner directly with the founding team to shape our org structure, refine role definitions, and bring in the kind of people who can scale a high-growth AI company from early stage to the next phase.

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• Boutique Management AI Consultancy I Bootstrapped I 4 → 17
• Sailpeak is transforming the future of banking, insurance, and fintech through AI-driven innovation. I lead all things Talent & Recruitment as their Fractional Head of Talent.
• I joined when we were a team of 4; today, we’re 17 and growing.
• I make sure our growth is strategic, structured, and aligned with our mission, owning the Talent & Recruitment function from strategy through execution. I counsel the leadership team on hiring priorities that support client delivery across strategy, data, and AI, and I build scalable frameworks to strengthen our culture and operational backbone.
• I designed and implemented our company-wide compensation framework, ensuring clarity, fairness, and market alignment. I introduced new benefits and incentive programs, and built structured recruitment processes that enable speed without compromising quality.
• I've supported Sailpeak’s expansion by filling roles such as:
• Product Manager – AI
• Business Analyst – AI
• Data Scientist
• Prompt Engineer
• Intern / Early Talent
• I build the talent infrastructure that supports Sailpeak’s long-term growth, helping the team scale responsibly, work efficiently, and sustain high performance across functions.

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

• I help Founders grow their initial team (1-50FTEs) 🚀
• 1️⃣ Fractional Talent (my fav 🫂)
• This is for you when: You’re anticipating growth across GTM & Engineering team, you’ll open a few roles, but you do not want hire your first / another Recruiter (FTE)
• Some of the roles I hired:
• 👉Business Analyst - AI
• 👉Customer Success Manager - Accounting
• 👉Founding Account Executive
• 👉Founding Marketer
• 👉Founder’s Associate
• 👉Product Manager - AI
• 👉Prompt Engineer
• 👉Product Engineer (Back End)
• 👉Product Engineer (Full Stack)
• 👉Product Engineer (Front End)
• 👉Solutions Engineer - Accounting
• 👉Staff Product Designer
• 👉AI Engineer
• I’m also busy with setting up HR Strategy:
• 📖Career Frameworks
• 🤑Compensation Strategy
• 🏗️Employer Branding
• 2️⃣ Headhunting (One-off 🎯)
• This is for you when: You have a one-off role, typically within leadership
• 👉 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Payments
• 👉 Data Scientist - MedTech
• 3️⃣ Advisory
• This is for you when: You’re looking for advice around setting up recruitment, designing interview processes, assessment strategies, or simply want a recruitment audit.

Feb 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• ✅ Hiring Senior, Staff + AI & Machine Learning engineers across Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus with a response rate of 40% over 1,100 In-mails
• 🎯 Sourcing diverse centered talent throughout EMEA with up to 80% of the overall pipeline
• 📊 Analyzing pipeline performance, passthrough rates and drafting actionable plans for upcoming for the wider SWE recruitment team
• 🚧 Leading projects around data analysis, process optimization, and partnership with external stakeholders
• 🤲 Mentoring and onboarding other team members

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos · Amsterdam Area

• ✅ Responsible for hiring for Merchant Operations, Compliance, and Internal Audit teams
• 🎯 Hired 40+ FTES over 15 teams
• 🤝 Strategize with Directors, VPs, and CLO around compensation and hiring strategy
• 📊 Increased compensation bands by liaising with the compensation team to map current trends in the FinTech space
• 🗣️ Lead communication with external partners to share best practices on internal tools with a focus on knowledge sharing, data reporting, and process automation
• 🚧 Implemented new product features to automate parts of the interviewing processes, resulting in shorter process times

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 · 11 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• 👉 Responsible for hiring for Creative and Techno-Functional roles (Designer, Filmmaker, Creative Project Manager, Solution Consultation, Solution Architect)
• 👉 Provided in-depth talent mapping to provide market insights to senior management

Feb 2019 – Dec 2019 · 10 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• 🌎 The Sustainable Recruiter, a Certified B Corporation®, offers recruitment services solely to companies that are involved in sustainability, with the goal of making the world a better place.
• 👉 Recruiting for sustainable clients across different industries for both
• technical and corporate roles
• 👉 Sourcing candidates using LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Werk.nl, Xing, and others
• 👉 A response rate of up to 40% across 400 In-mails

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · 4 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• 👉 Sourcing QA , Lead Frontend & Lead Backend developers and Engineering Managers
• 👉 Creating and implementing sourcing strategies
• 👉 Training on sourcing strategies and best practices within technical and corporate recruitment
• 👉 Response rate up to 30%

Feb 2018 – Aug 2018 · 6 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• 👉 Hiring Back End and Java developers
• 👉 Sourcing candidates for upcoming events

Sep 2017 – Jan 2018 · 4 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• 👉 Tech recruiting for Western Europe
• 👉 Sourcing and actively approaching candidates using Boolean searching on LinkedIn
• 👉 Screening and shortlisting
• 👉 Managing external relations with schools and associations
• 👉 Organizing in house visits and presenting on external events
• 👉 Launching a global program for over 75 interns in 14 offices to serve as a network and educational growth of interns within the company.

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo

• 👉 Drafting job listings
• 👉 Sourcing candidates via job and career boards
• 👉 Screening and shortlisting candidates
• 👉 Conducting interviews
• 👉 Supporting HR

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos

• 👉 Responsible for customers in Helsinki, Finland
• 👉 Acquiring and onboarding new landlords to the website
• 👉 Account management for existing landlords in the region
• 👉 Supporting landlords and tenants
• 👉 Cold calling to potential landlords