Hicham Hachkal
CEO & FOUNDER
3 decades of experience in Overall Human Resources Functions in Startups, SMEs and Large Corporates
After years of a successful career in Human Resources, Founded Linked4HR to solve HR challenges for SMEs and bigger corporates to make their business excel.
From 2020 to 2021, as an Interim Executive HR, led the set up of a technology innovation research center in advanced technology, and hired 400 scientists from across the world in less than 18 months.
From 2017 to 2020, as VP of HR, hired 2000 employees in less than 2 years, and in less than 18 months established business units in 10 countries to support the growth of the company and its market cap of $1.5B at its peak.
From 2012 to 2017, held 2 roles as HR Director for Middle East Africa and Asia, HR Director, developed the HR systems and Strategy for 15,000 employees hired from all continents that were supporting the company’s growth to reach a market cap of $25B at its peak.
From 2005 to 2012, held 2 positions as Regional HR Director for Europe and Central Asia and for Africa Middle East and Asia. Managed HR function, with a headcount of 10,000 people, that supported the growth of the market cap to $70B.
From 1997 to 2005, held positions as HR Manager in Belgium, HR Director in Libya, HR Director for the Gulf region, HR Project Director at the HQ in France.
Our Team
David Etherington
Learning and Development, 40 years of Learning and Development experience and is an astute organization development and strategy professional with backgrounds in Personal Training,Skills Matrix, Resource Planning & Career Development.
Thanj Kugananthan
Total Rewards and Compensation, 18 years in Total Rewards and Compensation and has extensive consulting experience in Compensation and Benefits, Job Evaluation, and project management across the Middle East, Americas, Africa, Asia, and UK/ Europe.
Sabrina Hottart
Compensation and Benefits, 20 years in HR with a special focus on Compensation and Benefits, HR Consulting. She is also known as a strategic advisor to the C-Suite for change and transformation, with a special focus on employee experience.
Janice Henderson
Learning, Development and Competency, 42 years in Learning, Development, and Competency. She has extensive experience in Training and Development and Management Consulting specialized in Project Management in a high-stake environment
John Pizzitola
HR Operations Excellence, 20 +years in HR management in a global setup, with a special focus on HR Operations Excellence. His Business-driven approach through Project Management at various levels is very acclaimed among the HR community.
Khaled Reda
Leadership Development Coach, 31 years in HR Management, and leadership development; now focused on providing Specialized Coaching to the C-suites in the area of Performance Enhancement,Personal Training, Leadership Development and Culture.
Peter Duffy
Leadership Development Coach, 30+ years of extensive HR leadership experience, providing Coaching & support to CEOs and other business leaders to develop performance culture, capabilities, and talent to achieve performance targets.
Olivier Maitre
Human Performance Consultant, Olivier has held senior executive HR roles across the globe. He also worked as Associate Partner in Accenture, providing him strengths of a HR practitioner and an Organisation & Human Performance consultant.
Scott Gibson
Resourcing director, An 18+ year track record of managing manpower requirements globally (Middle East, Asia, North and Central Africa, Europe, and Central America) for new start up and ongoing operations. Expertise in both in-house and external consultancy roles.
Alain Jiongo
Managing Director - Africa, a global executive with 30 years of providing cutting-edge technology solutions to Energy & IT industries. He has extensive experience in Sales, Operations, General Management and HR Leadership across Europe, Africa & North America, with a focus on people planning & development.
Tamer Nassar
General Counsel, An international General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer with over 20 years of energy-related experience in North & South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Over the course of his career, Tamer has held key legal, compliance, commercial and strategy roles with global organizations including Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Dragon Oil.
Jihaad Alyusuf
Managing Director Linked4HR Middle East, Extremely focused results-driven senior executive with consistent business creation and development, financial, and capital raising success across numerous business lines, regions, and “entrepreneurial” projects.
Offices
34 Av. des Champs-Elysees, 75008 Paris, France