and project management roles.
About us
The Executives Online Team
Our directors have all held positions at board or director level in major international organisations. They have unrivalled experience and expertise in matching suitable interim management, project management, and change management candidates, of the highest quality, to your business needs.
Executives Online – Belgium
Pierre Melis
Managing Director
Executives Online Belgium and Luxembourg
Gained through his 30+ years career, Pierre brings a wealth of business and management experience as well as a strong record of identifying, recruiting and developing exceptional people.
With hands-on experience in diverse roles as: Controller, Sales Manager, Marketing Director, Business Development Director, Managing Director and Partner in start-up, fast-growth, turnaround and distressed environments, he is well positioned to translate business issues and challenges into talent requirements and to shadow-manage interim-management assignments.
Having worked for organisations as: Wang, Unisys, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cambridge Management Consulting and KPMG Consulting in his home and international markets, Pierre developed consulting and management experience within the Technology (ICT), Professional Services and Consulting sectors.
As Partner at KPMG Consulting in Belgium, responsible for operations and corporate development, Pierre was responsible for the coordination of the HR-strategy and -management, ensuring the effective development of the consultants.
Immediately prior to joining Executives Online, Pierre was a Partner with CDK & Associates, 'Partners for Managing Change' and one of the leading interim-management providers in Belgium.
Next to his role at Executives Online, Pierre holds several non-executive director positions.
Executives Online – Head Office
Anne Beitel
BA, MBA Harvard
Managing Director
Anne brings more than 10 years' experience marketing in high-growth environments to her role as Managing Director for Executives Online. With an MBA from Harvard and a top-flight track record in product and services marketing 'both sides of the pond', Anne developed her marketing and management expertise in previous roles as Director of New Product Marketing for ON Technology Corporation, Vice President of Marketing for Dr Solomon's Software Inc., and European Marketing Director of specialist staffing company Aquent.
Anne also has considerable experience as a freelance marketing executive, successfully completing a range of interim and project assignments for technology and professional services companies in both the UK and US.
James O’Brien
Group Development Director
James joined Executives Online in March 2007 to help spearhead the growth and development of the Executives Online business worldwide. Based from the Group’s Head Office in the UK he is responsible for opening new offices across the globe under franchise or JV agreements as well as being accountable for the growth of business being delivered through the Executives Online international office network. Prior to joining Executives Online he was Director of Franchising at Choice Hotels Europe and has also held senior positions as Managing Director of Business Education International, a management training franchisor and prior to that was Managing Director of Pitman Training Group (which operated over one hundred franchise locations) where he previously held positions as Group Operations Director and Franchise Director. Earlier in his career he also spent four years as a recruiter and regional manager in a national recruitment business. James O’Brien’s career achievements include personally negotiating, selling and opening Master Franchises in UK, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Kuwait and several other Middle East countries; personally selling and opening fifty UK and Ireland training franchises and managing the brand conversion of a franchise network of 50 franchises. He also won the highly commended British Franchise Association award for Franchisor of the Year in 2000 and 2001.
Norrie Johnston
BSc, CEng, MIChemE, CMC
Non-Executive Director
Norrie is founder and a non-executive director of Executives Online Ltd. He provided interim management services since 1997. Norrie's career shows wide hands-on experience in the successful management of dot.com, telecom, technology, and technical services businesses in home and international markets. In his earlier career Norrie held marketing and sales directorships in the engineering sector, involving residential periods in the USA and Pakistan. In December 2008 Norrie sold a controlling interest in Executives Online to the management team and two regional directors in a Management Buy-Out. He retired from his executive role in the business in March 2011.
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