Bussels, Belgium
Wim Noortman is an acknowledged international consultant in Human Capital and Leadership solutions with unique skills and experience in assisting global companies in solving human capital matters. He has a proven track record in finding and placing star performers with his Fortune 500 clients. Building international teams and adding value to the clients operations is one of his key strengths.
As one of the managing partners of Global Recruiters, Wim specializes in international searches in the FMCG, Logistics, IT and Strategy Consulting sectors. The level of assignments he is involved in usually deals with Vice President or Director and Partner/Principal levels and normally focuses on an international scope of responsibility. He has worked on assignments in all 4 corners of the world for well known "brand" name companies.
Prior to founding Global Recruiters, Wim was a Partner at Hansar International in the Brussels office. He was member of the international practice and served clients in the logistics, consulting and IT sectors throughout Europe.
Earlier Wim served in several executive positions with Federal Express Corporation both in Europe and in the United States. He started his career with Federal Express in the Netherlands where he assumed the country manager position shortly after being recruited. His operational career with FedEx brought him to work in France, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Scandinavia, North Africa and Central Europe. In 1988 he was appointed Director of FedEx and was promoted to become the first Managing Director Human Resources for Continental Europe, Africa and the Near East growing the company from several hundred people to over 12000 employees two years later. In 1991 Wim moved to the United States to become the Managing Director Human Resources for Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. In earlier years Wim worked for Shell in the Far East and Africa and for Wijsmuller and Martinair in the Netherlands.
Wim is married with three teenaged children. He is President of the largest ice hockey club in Belgium; coach of one of the junior teams; member of Cercle Lorraine and member of Golf Club d'Hulencourt. He holds degrees in international human resouces management and nautical sciences and he is fluent in Dutch, English, German and French and has notions of Indonesian, Russian and Italian.
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