Commercially driven CFO with a track record of improving earnings, strengthening cash control and upgrading finance capabilities in PE-backed platforms, scale-ups and multinational consumer businesses.
Trusted by CEOs, boards and investors in situations where business complexity increases, expectations rise and finance needs to become a stronger engine for value creation.
Erik performs best where there is both ambition and pressure: businesses that need finance to support real change through growth, integration, performance improvement or operating model redesign.
He combines PE-backed operator experience with senior roles in global FMCG, specialised nutrition, hospitality and digital marketplace environments. His natural fit is often a multi-country, multi-entity company in roughly the €200m to €800m range, though he has operated both below and above that range.
Based in the Netherlands, fluent in Dutch and English, and open to CFO and executive finance roles across Europe and internationally.
Worked as a close partner to the CFO in a complex post-merger PE-backed environment, strengthening business control, forecasting, cash visibility, cost discipline and performance management while supporting the rollout of NetSuite and OneStream.
Held roles in FP&A, global growth controlling, procurement control and regional operations control, building deep cross-functional understanding of supply chain, procurement, growth steering and global performance management.
Built early foundations in operations finance, supply chain performance, cost control and core finance processes in a global FMCG environment, including plant and supply finance leadership.
If you are running a CFO search or assessing how to strengthen the finance agenda of a platform, scale-up or consumer business, Erik is available for a direct conversation on fit, context and priorities.