 | This issue brings you the following articles:
• CEO Europe celebrates: 10.000 iCEOs certified since 2001!
• Expert file: The role of Non Executive Directors
• INSEAD Video Cast: Africa - the final frontier
• Expert blog: Interim Management – Life at the Sharp End of the Business Part III
• Latest job opportunities
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Dear Reader,
This month we celebrate the certification of our 10.000th iCEO since we started the certification process in 2001. To reach this figure, we screened over 40.000 applications and applied our strict certification criteria (see below) before we admitted candidates to the iCEO certified talent pool.
Today, one of our iCEO certified executives, Frank Lewis, writes about the role and challenges of Non Executive Directors.
Best regards
Patrick Mataix
CEO and Founder
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Over the last 9 years, CEO Europe has certified more than 10.000 top executives, who are now available for temporary or permanent recruitment in 169 countries.
To become a certified iCEO, the manager must pass strict selection criteria such as:
• a track record of more than 10 to 15 years as successful international executive & entrepreneur
• a proven reputation for excellence in leadership, enabling him to quickly gain respect and credibility within a team
• full understanding of the venture community and experience in building fast growing organisations
• fluency in English (in addition to his mother tongue, if applicable)
• the ability to analyse and model businesses in a very restricted time frame in his area of expertise.
To give you a complete picture, you can look here at its distribution in sectors, functions, and many more. Below you find some of the core data:
46% founders and co-founders
45% interim managers
33 industry and service sectors
11 operational functions
169 countries covered
81 languages spoken
41% multinational experience, 30% startup experience 29% SME experience
average age: 49 years
Check the impressive profiles of our certified iCEOs for yourself - no matter what country, what industry sector or function - find your next top executive with a click: You can access the manager database via the free “Top Executive Search Engine ”, directly via this link or from the homepage of CEO Europe www.ceo-europe.com
| CEO Europe Expert file | | | |
ROLE OF THE NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (“NED”)
IN DIFFICULT MARKETS AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY AND
WHAT KEEPS HIM AWAKE AT NIGHT?
by Frank Lewis
Frank points out the NED's challenges, risks, obligations, legal rights and many more in today's difficult economic times. You want to know what it takes to be a good NED? Read this CEO Expert File! Click here to open
 Frank Lewis has over 25 years of experience in both listed and private companies. He has held a number of board positions as Chairman, Non Executive Director, CEO and Finance Director, both in the UK and abroad with growing mid-market companies.
With a background in sophisticated and developing markets, he has the commercial prospective required to assist with growth strategies, acquisitions and flotations.
Frank is currently the Non Executive Chairman of AIM listed China Evoline PLc. He was previously the chairman of Lloyds British Testing Plc
To view Frank Lewis' iCEO certified profile, click here
To view the profiles of our 4615 iCEO certified NEDs, visit our dedicated NED group: Click here
| INSEAD Video Cast | | | |
Africa - the final frontier
Interview with Paulo Gomes, Founder, Constelor Investment Holdings by INSEAD Knowledge
Click here to view this video cast
Paulo Gomes, Founder of Africa-based Constelor Investment Holdings makes the case for why Africa is the final frontier and that the continent has much to trade with the rest of the developed world.
click here
| CEO Europe Expert blog | | | |
Interim Management – Life at the Sharp End of the Business Part III
by Peter Wolf
Turnaround Management, is there a Recipe?
Ideally, what you would like to have is sort of a recipe, telling you what your ingredients are, how to stir them and finally at what temperature the oven should be set. Well, I cannot offer you quite that much and some readers might argue that we are not discussing a Jamie Oliver show but rather a more serious subject. But on the other hand, who dares to pretend cooking shows are not serious cooking? As a practitioner of interim management in financially distressed companies you do not want to spend a lot of time reading the learned opinions of academic experts on the subject. Besides, there is a plethora of books. Nevertheless, we need to spend a moment on the question “is there a generally applicable way to approach things?” ... To read this CEO Expert blog click here
 Peter Wolf is an interim manager, management consultant and entrepreneur. After an international career in life sciences industry working for Swiss and US multinational groups he started his own company, Management Support, in 1996 in Basel/Switzerland. Since then he had consulted with numerous clients in industry, the health care sector and services. As an interim manager he helped change organisations in difficult circumstances, optimised business processes as a project manager and consultant and co-founded companies in the biotech and service sector, with successful trade exits and an IPO. He holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Berne and an MSc in Business Studies from Warwick University.
To view Peter Wolf's iCEO certified profile, click here
 | | N° | Position | Country | Sector | Duration | | 1427 | VP/Business Development, Business Development Director | UK | Retail related | Permanent position | | 1399 | VP/Business Development, VP/Sales & Marketing | France | Telecommunications | 6 months | | 1342 | Group Innovation Manager | Netherlands (The) | Food/Bio Sience/Engineering | Permanent position |
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