Executive Search
Executive Search
Looking out for top talent for our most respected and great clients!
Looking out for top talent for our most respected and great clients!
What we do
Atlantae is the Executive Search and Talent Management Consultancy business unit within Rialto Recruitment NV, providing Direct Search for Interim Managers, experienced Engineering profiles, and members of Advisory Boards and Board of Directors within SME organizations.
Our clients range from mid sized to large emerging growth companies, family and private-equity controlled entities.
How we do
Atlantae knows how to spot people with potential. In fact, everything we do is about empowering the success of individuals so that we can shape the success of the different places where they put their skills to work. And it all starts with our own people.
Our professionals ensure organizations have the right talent with the right capabilities to ignite their business strategy. We help our clients succeed in everything from transformation to innovation to growth.
Why we do
For more than 22 years, clients have trusted us to recruit true leaders and sing up with top engineers, interim managers and senior management and CxO level profiles.
Today, we are their partner in applying proven talent strategies to accelerate and sustain organizational success via direct search, strategic consultancy, and high level coaching.
Our domains of Expertise
Industry Sectors
Industrial
Chemical, Food, OEM, Energy, ...
Atlantae's Industrial market focuses on attracting, and retaining best-in-class talent.
We understand the changing demands in technology, and innovation, and the struggle for growth and relevance.
In the face of these changes, it’s essential to have the right executives to lead your company.
Technology
For improved Productivity
Our technology Practice solves senior executive leadership issues that will not only grow and evolve an organization, but also enable business transformation over a longer period of time.
Our recruiters have placed some of the most recognizable executives to lead powerful technology organizations touching millions of people every day.
Life Sciences & Biotech
From Lab to pharmaceutical plant
We have over 10 years of experience placing all types of professionals
in all kinds of laboratories and pharmaceutical industries: from entry level lab technicians
for hospitals to executive profiles that are capable of running complex
laboratories for pharmaceutical research and development.
Logistics
Supply chain in a competitive world
Together, we find value across boundaries, develop insights to act on, and energize teams to sustain success.
Our ability to leverage our rich knowledge of business dynamics across international markets ensures we have a strong reputation as a trusted partner, providing strategic and operationally advice across all logistics sectors.
Functional Sectors
Corporate Management
General Management, CxO, Board & Corporate Governance
If your qualifications and track record are relevant to our client, we try to look beyond your CV. We are interested in your personality, motivation, values and ambitions.
We want to engage with you in an open discussion within the context of the specific role you’ve applied for or the role we see to help our client.
Human Resources
From Human Capital to Boardroom Talent Acquisition
Talent acquisition, talent management, compensation and benefits, leadership development, succession planning, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, and innovation all make the HR function critical to organizational success.
We find your HR strategists to translate corporate goals into effective human resource programs.
Sales Performance
Top Talent thinking Customer Centric
Atlantae specializes in the executive search recruitment of sales, sales management, sales support and technical sales professionals.
Working in Benelux, dedicated to identifying, evaluating, recruiting and delivering the highest-caliber sales executive professionals—sales executives who can step into a position and begin contributing to your company immediately.
Engineering
Electronics, Mechanical , Chemical, Robotics & Mechatronics
There is possibly no sector that drives, impacts and reflects the globalization of business more than the engineering industries.
Our sector-specific consultants are reputed for and well versed in cross-border, multi-regional and complex talent acquisition projects at all levels of these vital and dynamic markets.
Our Core Values
No matter what the assignment, we mindfully interact with candidates in peer-to-peer relationships that foster respect, transparency, and trust. Creativity; Collaboration; Performance; Inclusivity; Integrity; and Agility are a few of the things that make our culture so special.
Everything we do is also underpinned by our core values.
Passionate
All of our consultants have many years of expertise. Being multi-lingual, and backed by outstanding research professionals.
We are passionate, combining cutting-edge, world-class research capability with the rich insights of our network to provide quality of information and superior value.
Teamwork
Our consultants generally stay with the firm for many years.
We operate as one company sharing compensation to build authentic long-term personal relationships with clients, candidates and each other, beyond the incentive of personal gain.
Therefor we bring more value than meets the eye.
Accountable
Developing meaningful knowledge of your challenges, offering honest guidance, and providing true support at affordable pricing.
Nurturing long-term relationships with clients to better understand their needs, being proactive, and staying focused.
We do what we say, at all times.
Co-operation
Co-operation is key in our relationship with clients, listening to their needs, searching for the achievable, and right solutions.
Co-operation for our candidates means candid and sincere advice, as well as responsiveness – mapping out the career development path for individual.
Co-operation within our team means continuously striving to share knowledge.
Integrity & Diversity
We believe in equal partnership comprising individuals from both genders at all levels and including many cultures, languages, and beliefs.
We have a deeply personal appreciation for the value of diversity.
We are trustworthy, honest, and fair, putting client interests at the heart of our work.
Transparancy
Unlike the traditional 3 retainer pricing model, we charge a fixed fee for our assignments, meaning our only incentive is to deliver what’s best for you.
Our fixed-fee policy enables us to be diligent, thorough, and completely unbiased, to assess candidates on an equal basis and facilitate hiring negotiations without conflict of interest.
Corporate Governance and Interim Management
About the founder
Graduated in 1980 as Master of Science in Electronics, I held positions as R&D Manager, Sales & Marketing Director, while "studying & (on the job) learning" continued to take part of my life, resulting in additional diploma's as Certified Interim Manager (AMS), Executive MBA (AMS), Certified Director (GUBERNA).
In 2001, Atlantae Executive Search was founded, an executive search boutique specializing in the search for engineering, managerial & CxO profiles, interim managers and Board Members for your Board of Trustees, Advisory Boards and Board of Directors.
In 2016 Atlantae was elected sole Belgian Branch partner, becoming part of IMSA, a globally based Executive Search network, having partners all over the world, with their headquarters operating from Zürich. In 2018, an external investor, the French GROUPE PROMAN joined our Board enabling us to continue our national and international development.
Besides my mandates as CEO of Atlantae Executive Search, Rialto Recruitment and IMSA Belgium, I'm also dedicated in offering my professional services as Board Member at the Flanders Chamber of Commerce, Board Member at FEDERGON RSS committee, Member of the GUBERNA Alumni Council, along with a few mandates in the SME sector and start-up companies.
Patrick Van Lijsebetten, CEO
Looking for an experienced Interim Manager or a Certified Director for your Board?
As Certified GUBERNA Director myself, I have built an extremely large network of Directors, very experienced CxO level profiles, making Atlantae your executive search partner to look for the very best candidate to strenghten your Advisory Board, Board of Trustees or Board of Directors.
We can rely on our network within GUBERNA, Women On Board WOB, Board Coaching to Excellence BCTE, and Topvrouwen Boardroom Empowerment to find the best suitable candidates for your board level positions.
Corporate Governance is "key" !
Requiring Certified Candidates
Whilst the fact that the term "corporate governance" is beginning to become commonplace, it is not easy to unambiguously define this concept. In essence, governance has to do with management, control, accountability, supervision and control. The aim is to organize the management structures and the decision-making processes of an enterprise more efficiently, to objectify and to make them more transparent. Good governance is thus not an end in itself but a means to realize the business strategy.
"Good governance has to do with hygiene not with health" (dixit Koen Geens, Federal Minister of Justice)
Certified Candidates and Experienced Interim Managers?
Sound governance is about "doing the right things and doing things right ... at the right time". What's 'right' for a company will depend heavily on the view of the company, the priority interests that are represented and the values that are respected. Naturally, the business environment and the nature of the company also play an important role. Despite this different interpretation, good governance is based on a number of essential building blocks such as 'accountability', independent 'checks and balances', adequate transparency .... These concepts apply to every type of organization, anywhere in the world.
Certified Network
Atlantae has a strong relationship with GUBERNA's and Women On Board's network of certified directors, CxO level profiles with board level experience, or high potentials having followed Director & Leadership courses. We also have a strong network of expoerienced interim managers.
We encourage all managerial people to follow the GUBERNA courses and become certified to join our network of directors afterwards. We will be more than happy to match your profiles with the mandates we have from our clients.
GUBERNA, the Institute for Directors, aims to promote good governance in all its dimensions and for all types of companies. It does this both by sensitizing, informing and training. To achieve this goal, GUBERNA and its members (directors, CEOs and top managers) form a dynamic platform for exchanging experiences and transferring knowledge about governance.
Women On Board, is "the" Corporate Governance platform for women in BoD, Advisory Boards, and Interim Management networks. Over 350 female members have experience in HR, finance, sales, logistics, science, strategy and are open for temporary (freelance) interim assignments or management positions for longer periods.
Contact our management team:
Patrick Van Lijsebetten
Chief Executive Officer
patrick.van.lijsebetten@rialtorecruitment.eu
+32 475 42 13 27
Ellen Gillis
Sr. Executive Search Partner
+32 475 74 14 27
Guy Maertens
Sr. Executive Search Partner
+32 471 79 39 53
To visit us:
Stationsstraat, 120 B-2800 Mechelen Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)15 64 24 81
