Ruud Rikhof

Ruud Rikhof

Ruud Rikhof is a Human Resources executive with 25+ years of experience with IBM, Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Nuance Group, UBS and SHV (the largest family owned company in the Netherlands). He has worked in global, regional and local roles and served client populations of up to 20.000 employees and led HR teams of 50+ HR Business Partners and was based in Amsterdam, Vienna, London, Munich, Basel and Zurich. Ruud brings a deep understanding of leadership excellence and high potential competencies, assessments and coaching and has designed and delivered a broad range of leadership assessment and development interventions at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, The Nuance Group and UBS. Being passionate about outcome-focused HR strategies, he led the design of a new Target Operating Model for Human Resources at UBS and managed a leading-edge HR transformation program at The Nuance Group with multimillion top and bottom-line impact.

He is an Advisory Board Member of the Executive Masters of Strategic Human Resources Management (a joint program of Bocconi and Cornell), assessor at the Schweizer Studienstiftung, co-founder of the International HR community of the ZGP in Zurich and he sponsored an award winning study on Human Capital decisions and investments in the Private Equity industry. Contact him by email.

Advisory Board

Human Resources Consulting

Mediatraining and interview preparation

Executive coaches



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