Harald H.R. Agterhuis is an experienced entrepreneur and talent acquisition expert with over three decades of experience across Europe and Asia. He has worked with startups and Fortune 500 companies to focus on excellence, innovation, and progress. He enjoys shaping the future workforce by combining technological trends with the human side of business to create environments where talent and enterprises thrive.
His current role is as a partner at Sercxi Talent Solutions based in Dubai, where he helps efficiently fill technical vacancies for companies. He is excited about the future of work and his role in making that reality by transforming recruitment processes and assisting companies to find the ideal candidates faster.

Tony Boersma has over 25 years of experience recruiting talent for technology and engineering roles. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, he specializes in finding candidates for cyber security, cloud, and software development.
As a freelance journalist since 1998, he covers rugby. Tony holds law, political science, international marketing, and marketing management degrees. He has developed business development, account management, and networking skills throughout his career. He has recruited companies across industries, including engineering, government, fast-moving consumer goods, financial services, oil and gas, and defence.
He has experience filling both individual vacancies and large-scale recruiting projects. Tony strives to implement data-driven and modern recruiting strategies to efficiently match the right talent with open roles.

Kristel has two decades of experience as a recruitment consultant based in Amsterdam. She recruits consulting, technology, finance, legal, and banking candidates.
Kristel sources entry-level to C-suite candidates efficiently. She understands clients businesses and brands to identify and attract top talent. Kristel leverages tools and strategies to source candidates in a data-driven manner.
She gains in-depth insight into clients cultures, values, and needs to present cultural fits likely to stay long-term. Kristel has built strong communication, negotiation and relationship skills throughout her career.
She keeps up-to-date on HR technology trends to implement innovative strategies. Kristel partners with clients to support evolving talent requirements.

Brijendra Chaudhary brings more than 15 years of experience in roles in real estate, IT, banking, logistics, and other industries. He currently serves as Human Resources Manager at Saal.ai in Abu Dhabi.
Previously, Brijendra worked at various organizations in the UAE, including NamasteAi as Founder, United Printing & Publishing as Compensation and Benefits Consultant, Injazat as Senior Manager of Organization Development and Performance, and DAMAC Properties as Performance Management Consultant.
He has expertise in compensation, organizational development, performance management, HR analytics, succession planning, and digitization. Brijendra holds a Master\\\’s degree in Human Resource Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a PhD focusing his research on HR Analytics and employee performance improvement.

With over 30 years of experience in human resources, management, trading, financial services, hospitality, and retail, Peter van de Graaff has a proven track record of entrepreneurship and expertise in strategic planning, conflict resolution, employee relations, and contract negotiation.
He founded Next HR Services 2017 to provide strategic coaching and support to startups, scaleups, and individuals.
Currently, he advises the C-suite of a financial services firm. From 2011 to 2015, as senior vice president and board member at Waterloo Investment Holdings, a $1.6 billion diversified Caribbean group, he restructured the struggling hospitality portfolio, returning it to profitability.
Previously, from 2008 to 2011, as director of global human resources at Nidera Group, a $14 billion agribusiness, he developed and implemented new strategic HR policies. Previously, he founded and managed consulting and coaching firms focused on human capital, careers, and employability.

Lars Buch is an experienced leader, investor, and company builder. He invests in and helps build fast-growing tech companies with entrepreneurs and partners to solve significant problems.
He co-founded companies like Wasp Ventures, which allows corporations to invest in and build startups. He also co-founded Glassify to enable fractional real estate investments. Lars has held leadership roles at organizations like Rainmaking and Startupbootcamp. He has invested in and advised several tech companies.
With over 20 years of experience in technology management, venture capital, innovation consulting, and entrepreneurship, Lars specializes in mergers and acquisitions, development, and building new ventures.

Jerry Lieveld has over 25 years of experience as a CEO, COO, and CPO. He specializes in product development, user experience design, and strategic industry planning.
Jerry is known for guiding cross-functional teams through strategic roadmaps from concept to launch. His core competencies include strategic leadership, product management, business development, digital transformation, user experience design, and digital marketing.
Jerry has helped companies create mobile and connected products throughout his career by implementing digital strategies and improving user experience and design. He takes a hands-on approach to design and is passionate about creating easy-to-use products that seamlessly fit into people\\\\\\\’s daily lives.

Susanne Koenders is an interim manager focused on learning, team development, strategic direction, and change management. She is based in Utrecht, Netherlands, and helps organizations achieve results through an open and humorous style.
She says: \”By recognizing your initial reactions when interacting with others, you can see patterns that prevent true connection. With that awareness, you can build authentic relationships based on understanding others. This forms a foundation for a productive working relationship as a leader, coach, recruiter or team member. You can only truly add value to your work from that place of consciousness and value for others.\”
Susanne has consulted for public sector organizations on change management issues. She holds a Masters in English Language and Literature from Radboud University.

Peter Post, an Amsterdam-based IT recruiter with years of experience, locates the ideal candidate fit for open roles. He stays up-to-date on emerging technologies and uses entrepreneurial marketing strategies.
Peter has held various IT roles focused on telecommunications, logistics, and manufacturing throughout his career. Technically proficient in databases like Oracle and MySQL, programming languages like Java and JavaScript, and frameworks like Spring and Maven, Peter has consulted startups, assisting with technology and accounting needs. He has managed projects implementing IT systems for transportation and logistics companies. As an IT consultant,
Peter has also taught IT courses and designed relational and semantic data models. He holds a Masters in Accounting, Auditing and Control from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Bachelors in Economics and Business. Peter also completed a Computer Software Engineering program at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.