Richard Vincent

Richard Vincent advises private equity investors, boards, CEOs, Chief Strategy Officers and global business unit leaders when execution challenges reveal a gap between strategic ambition and the organization’s ability to carry it. His work focuses on calibrating leadership systems, governance and decision-making to the level of complexity required by the strategy.

Educated as an Industrial & Organizational Psychologist (MSc, University of Amsterdam), he combines behavioural science with more than three decades of international leadership and advisory experience. After 15 years in senior leadership roles in US-listed executive search and advisory firms across the EMEA and APAC regions, where he was repeatedly deployed by global headquarters to high-impact assignments across markets facing performance and transformation challenges, he led an investor-backed executive search and leadership advisory boutique in Asia, partnering closely with global and regional boards and leadership teams of Fortune 500 and privately held companies. Having lived and worked across five countries on two continents, he brings a cross-cultural perspective to leadership and governance challenges.

His work starts with context: ownership structure, strategic ambition and the maturity of the leadership team. Performance challenges are rarely purely operational; they often reflect misalignment between strategy, governance, leadership capability and decision rights. He is typically engaged during investment, acquisition, succession or transformation, where leadership choices shape long-term outcomes.

At VALPEO, he works with clients to diagnose these misalignments, clarify role scope and complexity, and align leadership teams, governance and structure so the organization can execute its strategy with greater speed and consistency.

Certified Non-Executive Board Member. Based in the Benelux, working globally.