Frank Schelstraete


Shareholder of InterSearch Ltd. since 2000 Frank was Director on the Board of InterSearch for two terms (2002-2005 and 2008-2011). Most recently he served as Chairman of the Board from 2011 to February 2014 and joined again as Director in 2015.

Frank made his career as a founding partner of Schelstraete Delacourt Associates, which he co-founded in 1990, after a previous experience in human resources. He deals with CEO and C-level positions; his clients include large-size companies, family owned and private-equity owned (listed or not), and this in a variety of industries.

Frank holds a Master degree in Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Ghent, with postgraduate studies specializing in Psychoanalysis. He also holds a Certificate in Director and Board Effectiveness from the Guberna Institute for Directors. For more than 2 decades he was Professor Human Resources Management at the Hogeschool Ghent. He is also a former Director of the S.M.A.K. (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art) in Ghent.

Besides Dutch he speaks English and French and understands German.