Executive CFO profile
Commercially driven interim CFO and Group CFO operator for PE-backed, founder-led, scaling and international businesses where the mandate is bigger than financial reporting: improve performance, strengthen cash discipline, upgrade finance and help leadership teams make better decisions under pressure.
Based in the Netherlands and open to selected permanent CFO roles across Europe, alongside interim and advisory mandates where the context is urgent and value creation is central.
Selected impact
Erik performs best in businesses where ambition and pressure meet: post-acquisition integration, scale-up professionalisation, performance improvement, finance transformation, complex stakeholder demands or a shift in ownership expectations.
His experience combines PE-backed operator work at Solo Group and Landal / Roompot with Group CFO experience at HousingAnywhere and senior finance leadership roles at Danone and Mars. The common thread is translating strategic intent into financial control, management cadence and measurable value creation.
The strongest fit is typically a multi-country or multi-entity business in roughly the €100m–€800m revenue range, especially where the CFO must lead beyond finance into decision quality, operating rhythm, systems, data, performance and transformation.
This is not a pure advisory profile. CFO Excellence is the platform around Erik’s CFO work, but the underlying proposition is a senior operator profile: a CFO who can take ownership of performance, control, transformation and stakeholder confidence.
For permanent mandates, the strongest fit is a company where finance is expected to shape the business, not only report on it.
If you are assessing Erik for a permanent CFO role, an interim CFO mandate or a high-stakes finance transformation situation, start with a direct conversation on context, fit and priorities.