With our passion and focus,
we serve you in
HR, corporate finance, and
interim management.
ABOUT Acletta Management
Acletta is an independent interim and advisory firm founded by
Marilou Pauwels and Joachim Driessen,
We focus on complex turnarounds, corporate finance, and HR. We are seasoned professionals in management and HR with a track record of senior management positions in publishing, food, retail, sports, e-commerce, and real estate.
We strive to help you find solutions for interim HR/CEO roles, raising growth capital, advising on complex turnarounds, or simply chairing challenging meetings.
We combine our passion for work with our passion for the mountains. From mountaineering we understand how crucial team building is to moving mountains in professional life.
Our goal is to develop sustainable relationships with our clients where we become regular partners on strategic matters.
SERVICES
Acletta Management offers a wide range of consulting services to serve various businesses and clients. Whether you’re a small local business or a multinational corporation, we can help you reach new levels of success.
Get in touch with us today to learn more about our services and what our team can do for you.
Challenging turnarounds
- Recovering from a decrease in results
- Chairing and leading associations in a complex environment
- Closing and moving sites or plants
- Financial restructuring
Interim Management
- Marilou acts as a temporary CHRO, Business Partner or HR advisor in mid-size and large firms. She is specialized in Food, retail, and professional services businesses, both short-term and longer assignments.
- Joachim is a seasoned CEO or chairman experienced in organizations through challenging periods. He is specialized in media, logistics, sports and real estate but is also available in other sectors.
Corporate Finance
- Raising growth capital for innovation.
- Buy-side advisor in corporation with Fortaleza Capital focus on media.
- Sell-side advisor in corporation with Fortaleza Capital focus on media.
- Advisor of Management Buy Outs/In.
Chairing challenging meetings or union negotiations
- Marilou has an excellent track record in closing the gap between labour unions and corporations. She will be able to chair meetings between both to get an agreement that both will be satisfied with.
- Joachim is an experienced chairman and is available to act as an independent chairman for your meetings or conferences.
Marilou Pauwels
is a seasoned HR professional with a track record in restructuring food and retail firms and engaging in union negotiations. She worked as an HR business partner for 20 years at Royal Ahold and subsequently held senior management positions at Sanoma, Coca-Cola, Bakkersland, Royal Euroma, and Lamb Weston Meijer.
Passion, integrity, and focus are her core values. Making change happen in a way that satisfies all stakeholders: people are the heart of a company. Marilou has a master’s degree in HR from Tilburg University and an MBA in Leadership & Sustainability from Cumbria University.
In her spare time, Marilou is a passionate climber and mountaineer. She has climbed three of the Seven Summits on Earth.
Joachim Driessen
graduated from Amsterdam University with a degree in economics. After six years at the Dutch Royal Mail, he moved to the publishing sector, holding senior management and CEO positions at Royal Wegener, Wolters Kluwer, and Sanoma. In 2009, Joachim started his own publishing company, Blink, which featured well-known brands such as National Geographic Junior and several primary and secondary school learning cycles. He sold the company in 2018.
Since 2009, Joachim has also developed Acletta as an interim management firm, taking on assignments as interim CEO for companies such as MYbusinessmedia and Wydawnictwo Szkolnych i Pedagogicznych.
Joachim was chairman of the Dutch Climbing & Mountaineering Federation (NKBV) for over ten years and now fulfills several (international) sports positions at the IFSC and UIAA. Since 2019, Joachim has chaired a housing cooperative in Amsterdam.
Joachim’s core values include growing both profit and non-profit organizations while considering all stakeholders, straightforwardness, and a can-do mentality.
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