Viveca Van Bladel


Viveca Van Bladel was born in the US and has lived in the US, Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg. She attended the University of Ghent in Belgium before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Bachelor and Master degrees. After an initial professional experience working for
IBM in Belgium, Viveca entered the field of Executive Search, working in Brussels and New York for local search firms. Together with one of the founders of Carre/Orban International, which later
became Korn/Ferry International, she started up the office in Luxembourg where she worked primarily on international searches. She also participated in a major Management Audit assignment. It was at Korn/Ferry that she first met and worked with
Andrew Greening.


After eight years in executive search, Viveca sought experience working on the “client side”, and joined the Kinnevik Group, a Swedish multi-national company with holdings primarily in the telecoms and media industries. As Director of Human Resources for the Luxembourg based subsidiary Millicom
International Cellular, a mobile telephone company managing operations in emerging markets, she focused primarily on executive level staffing, development and compensation at both headquarters and country level. She subsequently took on the same HR role for the new Kinnevik start-up company Tele2 Europe, which offered low-cost long distance telephone services to the consumer market following deregulation in Europe.

Viveca is fluent in English, French, Dutch and Swedish and gets by in German and Luxembourgish. She currently lives in Westport, Connecticut with her husband and two sons. When not attending her sons' baseball and football games, she enjoys playing tennis and spends weekends skiing in Vermont during the winter season.



 
2008 - PRESENT
GREENINGS INTERNATIONAL

Senior Consultant

2004 - 2005
CONWAY STEWART & Co Ltd

Customer Services Coordinator (USA)

1998 - 2001
SOCIÉTÉ EUROPÉENE DE COMMUNICATION S.A. (Luxembourg)

At the time it was the parent company of Tele2 Europe, Tango, Transcom and 3C Communications.


Director of Human Resources

1995-1997
MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A.
(Luxembourg)

Director of Human Resources

1989-1994
KORN FERRY/ CARRÉ ORBAN
International S.A. (Luxembourg)

Consultant