Jacques brings more than 40 years of professional experience across Africa and Europe, with the last 15 of those spent in executive search and leadership advisory. His earlier career was built in the banking sector, where he developed extensive expertise across African financial markets: a background that gave him a distinctive understanding of business across emerging and frontier markets that few executive search practitioners in Europe can match.
He first joined SpenglerFox in 2006, spending nine years with the firm and playing a central role in building its Banking and Finance practice before going on to establish the Board Solutions practice group. After a period leading executive search and business intelligence functions at Trenkwalder Hungary and serving as a Non-Executive Board Member at the International Executive Resources Group, he rejoined SpenglerFox in 2020. In the years since, his scope has expanded considerably: from client-facing work in executive search and interim management and board advisory, to leading the firm’s internal communications, employer brand and people strategy, to driving the strategic repositioning of SpenglerFox as a premium boutique firm.
It is an unusual combination, and a deliberate one. Jacques brings together the commercial instincts of a senior practitioner, the communications discipline of a brand strategist, and the organisational understanding of someone who has helped build and rebuild the same firm across two distinct chapters of its history.