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Our vision

Building Strong and Effective Boards for Competitive Corporate Governance

A solid corporate governance is a competitive imperative for companies. 

The role of Boards is becoming ever more challenging as the business landscape grows increasingly complex and uncertain.

In that context, we believe Boards enhance their impact considerably by being more diverse, more curious, more courageous and more collaborative.

Above and beyond their regular duties of oversight, challenge and support, successful Boards constantly explore and address emerging topics early, like sustainability, AI, HR and others. 

Next to gathering relevant complementary expertise, a strong Board is a coherent assembly of individuals in search of excellence, with exemplary ethics and common values of trust and respect.

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Our mission

Enhancing Board Impact through Expert Governance Advisory and Tailor-Made Services

We serve Boards and Boards only. We enhance your Board impact with a broad range of tailor-made services delivered with excellence exclusively by senior partners. We advise you, we challenge you and we support you in your corporate governance improvement journey. And we do it with our values of boldness, insight, collaboration and passion.

Our founding values
which make us different

Boldness

We challenge with constructive provocation, pushing boundaries to catalyze meaningful change.

Insight

We provide meaningful advice by cultivating a deep understanding of all stakeholders’ perspectives.

Collaboration

We engage in an agile way, fostering long-term and trust relationships.

Passion

We approach our work with enthusiasm and a positive mindset.

Pascale Simon

Pascale brings over 20 years of experience in board and executive search, board evaluations, leadership development & assessment. She is also specialized in governance matters and is actively involved in CEO and C-suite succession. She leads comprehensive evaluation initiatives for boards and management team across sectors.

In 2021, Pascale co-founded Seewhy, a company that aims at increasing boards’ impact, improving their governance and effectiveness. Previously, she spent 15 years at Russell Reynolds Associates before joining Heidrick & Struggles where she led the “CEO & Board” and the “Financial Services” Practices.

Pascale began her career at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management as an Assistant and consultant for SMEs before joining ING as an Investment Banker. Pascale is a coach in the Revival program and a board member of the IRSA Foundation.

Pascale graduated with a degree in business engineering from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management. She is an ICF Certified coach and holds a certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD. Fluent in French, English and Dutch, she has a basic command of Spanish.

Anne Sophie Pijcke

As a lawyer in financial infrastructure, Anne Sophie Pijcke has been actively involved in the evolution of financial regulation and corporate governance over the last two decades. As member of the Permanent Working Group attached to the Belgian Commission on Corporate Governance, she has been contributing to the Belgian corporate governance codes. By being a director in different listed and non-listed companies, she has also developed a practical experience in the field.

Since 2017, Anne Sophie has built a strong expertise in sustainable finance as Special ESG advisor for Euronext Group, and as a Board member of Forum Ethibel, an association devoted to sustainable labels, audits, and certification of financial and non-financial products.

She co-founded with Pascale Simon, Seewhy that aims to support Boards to continuously improve their governance and effectiveness, as a team and as individuals, including with a complete onboarding of the sustainability dimension.

Anne Sophie graduated with a master’s in law at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve. She has also a post-master’s degree in fiscal law at the Free University of Brussels.

Finally, she co-founded Perma-projects which aims to initiate and support permaculture and agroecology projects in Belgium and which began by launching two pilot micro-farms including the “Ferme agroecologique de la Préale”.

Anne Sophie is fluent in French, English, and Dutch, with basic command of Italian.

William Mosseray

William Mosseray is specialized in company transformation situations, with a focus on recruitment and coaching of business leaders, as well as organisation and executive and non-executive governance matters. William brings to his clients more than 10 years of consulting experience in these domains (including as Managing Partner of Eric Salmon & Partners, a leading European search and leadership advisory firm), anchored in twenty years of experience as an international business executive with P&L management and board membership experience (mainly within Proximus Group, where William was an executive committee member for 8 years, and at Engie where he was responsible for the recruitment, assessment and coaching of the Group’s worldwide executive population).

William has a Law degree from KULeuven, an MBA degree from the Vlerick Business School and followed the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business of the Stanford University in California. William is also a certified executive coach from HEC in Paris.

Caroline Thijssen

Caroline has 17 years of experience in the banking sector, in various senior roles ranging from Sales, Risk, Talent Management and Sustainable Business.

She brings an extensive board member experience in various types of organisations. She serves on the board of Etex and of VP Capital (family office specialised in impact investing). She chairs the non-profit organisation Toolbox and has served as board member of Argenta.

Passionate about governance, sustainability and talent management, she brings deep expertise as chair or member of board committees (Remuneration & Selection Committee, Sustainability Committee,…). She is passionate about family business dynamics, and chairs the Now Gen Female Board Circle at Family Business Network.

Caroline has a master in management from Louvain School of Management, succeeded the Insead Director Programme (IDP) in 2023 and is a Guberna Certified Director. She is fluent in French, English and Dutch.

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