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A clear fit for CEO, COO, Managing Director and board mandates.
Michel Tzsfaldet is a Netherlands-based chief executive and operating leader with experience building businesses, leading international teams and delivering complex technology into institutional markets. His strongest fit is a mandate that needs more than commercial reach: it needs operating judgment, governance and cross-border execution.
Roles
CEO, COO, Managing Director, General Manager, Interim CEO/COO, Board/NED and Advisory
Situations
Institutional growth, operating reset, restructuring, founder transition, international build-out and governance professionalisation
Sectors
Defence and dual-use, energy and industrial technology, enterprise technology and data, healthcare technology, infrastructure and Gulf expansion
Geography
Netherlands, Benelux, DACH, UK, Switzerland, Monaco and the Gulf
Languages
Dutch, German and English
Selected operating evidence
The record, in five facts.
Enterprise scale
EUR 19M annual turnover in enterprise IT and the largest Microsoft Surface partnership in the Benelux.
Leadership at scale
Built a 45-person export division from zero, reaching 60% of company sales and 70% of purchasing volume.
Capital and governance
Chairs the Dubai joint venture, backed by an institutional investor, CBI International Bank (Dubai); structured additional equity, working-capital and customer-finance channels; and a founder-built Dutch governance base.
International delivery
Technology delivery across Europe, China and the GCC.
Institutional markets
Qualified work across a multinational defence organisation, Navantia, a Gulf national energy company, and healthcare and public-infrastructure environments.
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Board-level leadership, proven in institutional markets.