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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.
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2008 - PRESENT
GREENINGS INTERNATIONAL |
Senior Consultant
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2004 - 2005
CONWAY STEWART & Co Ltd |
Customer Services Coordinator (USA)
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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
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1995-1997
MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A.
(Luxembourg) |
Director of Human Resources
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1989-1994
KORN FERRY/ CARRÉ ORBAN
International S.A. (Luxembourg) |
Consultant
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