Elias van Herwaarden

Elias van Herwaarden

EMEA Service Leader, Global Location Strategies Deloitte

Deloitte has 20 location specialists across the EMEA region, with Brussels-based Global Location Strategies as their hub and Center of Excellence. The team conducts approx. 40 site searches, location strategy, expansion and footprint optimization projects annually. Our clients typically are large multinationals that either start their internationalization, seek to relocate/consolidate or that prepare for the next strategic step.

As practice leader, and a 27-year veteran at location consulting, I remain strongly involved in client work, conducting and validating analysis, workshopping with clients and field due diligence. In addition, my role is to increase the team’s eminence and to expand it internationally. The stimulating part about that all is that I get to work great and demanding clients all-while shepherding an enthusiastic group of colleagues that are passionate about all that touches location.

Geographic Areas Served:

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Central & Eastern Europe
  • Latin America & Caribbean
  • Middle-East
  • North-America
  • Western Europe

Conducted field investigations in 48 countries and over 250 cities around the globe: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, and USA.

 Industries or Specialties:

  • Automotive
  • Chemicals
  • Consumer goods
  • Banking & financial services
  • Food & beverages
  • Industrial products
  • IT
  • Life Sciences
  • Oil & gas
  • Renewable energies

Areas of Expertise:

  • Business case development
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Due diligence
  • Footprint/portfolio optimization
  • Incentives negotiation
  • International expansion
  • Real estate negotiation
  • Shared services & Global Business Services, Global Inhouse Centres
  • Service Delivery Model development
  • Sourcing strategies
  • Supply chain/network optimization

Past Employment: In 2002, Elias joined Deloitte from Andersen where he led the European site selection team. As a Vice-Consul for the Netherlands from 1998 to 2000, he was responsible for the US Midwest operations of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency. Through the 1990s he worked with Price Waterhouse – Plant Location International.

Notable Past Clients:

  • AVON
  • Bombardier
  • Carlsberg
  • Deutsche Post DHL
  • HP
  • Lexmark
  • Lufthansa
  • Maersk
  • Mattel
  • Office Depot
  • Philips
  • Sumitomo
  • Tenneco
  • Toyota
  • Vestas

Education: Elias is an engineer with a M.Sc. in Industrial Management from Twente University of Technology, the Netherlands

Personal: Born in the Netherlands. Has been a resident of 8 countries (American and European). Fluent in English, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish. Notions of Polish and Russian.

 
Contact Info:
 
Phone:  32 495 59 4983
Mobile:  32 495 594 983
Email:  evanherwaarden@deloitte.com
Twitter:  @E2Twtr
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/elias-van-herwaarden-a677655/