Frank Schelstraete

Shareholder of InterSearch Ltd. since 2000. Frank was Director on the Board of InterSearch for 4 terms and serving as Chairman of the Board for the third time.

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.

Established in 1989, InterSearch ranks as one of the top international executive search organizations in the world, with more than 90 offices in over 50 countries.