Rudolph Cerqueira, Managing Partner, Middle East & AfricaContact Info: Managing Partner, Middle East & Africa Rudolph Cerqueira joined the firm in 2008 with a mission to add to the organization’s geographic coverage area and to bring further diversity of thought and experience to the organization. With over a decade of executive recruiting experience, Rudolph began his career after receiving a Masters in Human Resources at the University of La Sorbonne, Paris and an undergraduate degree in Economics. Rudolph worked for three years at DANONE Group. He then moved into the recruitment industry, joining Michael Page, where he spent two years, managing several teams including the sales and marketing division. He then spent three years leading the Interim Management Business Unit of TMP Hudson in France. Earlier, Rudolph founded executive search firm Harrison Willis in 2002 to provide best in class executive search services to technology, oil & gas, manufacturing, retail and services industries across North Africa and the Middle East. He created a network of four offices in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Dubai. While leading this company, he led high-profile regional assignments for leading firms and CEO’s across North Africa and the Middle East, delivering engagements from Casablanca to Algiers and from Cairo to Dubai. In 2004, Rudolph managed as an Executive HR Director in interim management the launch of Wataniya Telecom Algeria (the 3rd mobile telecom operator) and hired 1,200 employees, with 14 nationalities and 90 expatriates. He then actively participated in the PMO from Dubai to build and support Wataniya strategic HR Middle East & Africa global policy. Since joining the firm, Rudolph has managed strategic and interim projects for oil & gas, telecom mobile operators and industrial firms and functioned as an outsourced Project Director, Human Resources or Recruiting Director or Managing Director in France, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Gabon, Ghana and Benin. As executive manager and a senior HR specialist for more than 15 years, Rudolph serves a broad spectrum of clients: telecom, oil & gas, retail and industrial firms, supporting their international expansion or transformation. Rudolph is 41 years old and speaks fluent French and English. He offers unique insights gained from his French and Spanish origins and work experience in multi-national organizations, where he is highly capable of spanning and bridging various strong and diverse cultural contexts. Rudolph was also professor between 2001 and 2006 in the Master of Human Resources program at the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, GPEC Program: Previsional Employment, Assessment and Skills Management. |
