Mr. Reeners places Raffaele Jacovelli as Global VP Sales & Marketing for Olivetti Computers.

Etienne Reeners is engaged by Bert Vermeiren, then VP Group HR at L&H Speech Products, for international searches.

Raffaele Jacovelli who, after Olivetti and Merrill Lynch had joined Civi International - a spin-off of Hightech Partners - eventually joins the firm in Italy

Paul Lenfant, a former candidate and longtime executive of the ICT industry, joins as a Partner to further develop the French and European markets.

Hightech Partners begins its Digital Transformation journey.
The ARP framework is developed, with a positioning on the digital domain, which goes beyond the traditional ICT industry.
The internally developed ATS gets completely revamped, aiming to increase automation as well as introduce BI and analytics.
An innovative approach to talent development - in addition to talent acqusition - has been designed, focusing on upskilling and reskilling of both hard and soft skills.
The Birkman method has been adopted for assessment and coaching, and several consultants have been trained at once, to develop our Leadership Consulting.

To build the Reskilling practice Hightech Partners joins forces with Prof. Georges Ataya.
Georges has contributed to the development of the IT industry becoming a reference for the IT Governance, Cybersecurity and Privacy. He is Academic Director at Solvay Brussels School in these domains.
Ataya & Partners incorporation aims at designing reskilling programs, while coaching and training ICT executives to ensure methodology, compliance and effectiveness in their activity.

Jean-Christophe Legrand, French, joins with a long track record in the IT Consulting industry having spent almost his whole career in Accenture where he grew up to very senior Managing Director role.

He brings a wealth of Management Consulting experience, and in fact he focuses on that industry where Hightech Partners expects major growth.

Hoffman & Associates, shareholders accepted the offer to become part of HTP Group reinforcing the presence of the group in Belgium to have the opportuniy to broaden the company offer portfolio in terms of services and expertise to support the clients in their transformation journey enabled by technologies such as Cloud, Data & AI, Cybersecurity, etc. in which Hightech Partners has long standing track record.
Georges Ataya, co-founder of Ataya & Partners, has decided to convert his shares becoming a shareholder of HTP group to leverage the group clients base and add value with the portfolio of the company advisory services in the domains of Digital Trust and Governance.
The group has hence more than doubled its footprint in terms of Revenue and Partners.

Marc Herlant, former Managing Partner at EY Parthenon, joins as a Partner based in Belgium, focusing on executive search, leadership consulting, interim management and board advisory.

The group becomes a Collaboratinhg Firm of Andersen to provide state-of-the-art Leadership and Digital Talent Services

Meritxell Galbas is a technology and business executive with over 25 years of international experience scaling IT services, driving cloud and AI adoption, and leading digital transformation across EMEA. She has held senior roles at PwC, Accenture, Roland Berger, IBM, and Indra (Minsait), as well as entrepreneurial ventures as CEO, CTO, and Board Member in FinTechs and startups.

Francesco D'Aniello brings more than 25 years of experience in executive search, consulting, and human resources. His core expertise lies in the identification and selection of senior executives and highly qualified specialists for national and international organisations, across a wide range of industries.