René van der Meijden 3rd

COO · Chief Transformation Officer · GBS & Shared Services | PE-backed · Post-acquisition · Scale-up | Building what matters, then moving on. For over 25 years I have worked the situations most operators step around: multi-country restructurings, GBS organisations built from a blank sheet, post-acquisition integration, cost programmes. I bring the strategic picture and the operational detail to execute it, and I am direct enough to say the uncomfortable thing when it needs saying. I am drawn to the hard cases: PE-backed companies under a profitability mandate, businesses mid-acquisition, scale-ups hitting their first real operational complexity. On the side I built Empty Book Club: an AI-native business I designed and ran from scratch.