Philiep Dedrijvere is a senior advisor for Spencer Stuart, with consumer products as his primary area of focus. He brings years of experience working for consumer goods companies across Europe on board and C-level assignments for CEOs, presidents, chief marketing and commercial officers. Over the past decade, he has led a series of high-profile searches and internal successions across a broad range of board and senior management positions for leading multinational, private equity-backed and family-owned companies.
Philiep also brings deep functional expertise in marketing. He has led a series of high-profile searches for clients seeking marketing leaders who can partner with their executive committee peers on business strategy development to drive marketing-led value creation for all stakeholders. He has co-authored several articles on effective marketing leadership and is a frequent guest speaker on the profile of growth CMOs.
Prior to executive search, Philiep held a variety of marketing and general management roles for more than two decades at Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Coca-Cola.
Philiep received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago and a master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Antwerp. He speaks fluent Dutch, English and French. Philiep is a fellow and elected member of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the leading independent philanthropy in support of exchanging university students and scholars between the U.S. and Belgium.