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Ineke is a master at turning big ideas into reality.

For ten years she led YoungCapital as CEO, taking the company from €60 million to €600 million in revenue, scaling the internal team from 190 to 1,400 people, with 26,000 temporary workers placed alongside. She then became CEO of Switzerland-based Circle8Group, leading one of Europe's fastest-growing IT staffing firms toward €1.3 billion in revenue.

She knows what it is to build a leadership team from the ground up. She knows what it is to scale through difficult years and easy ones. She knows what it is to hand over leadership well, and what happens when it goes wrong.

Today she also works as an interim CEO and strategic advisor, stepping into leadership teams that need a steady operator now, and helping CEOs and boards through the moments where their business outgrows the leadership team that built it.

These days, Ineke works where leadership, AI and growth meet. She advises CEOs and boards through the moments where their business outgrows the leadership team that built it. She writes a column for MT/Sprout, speaks regularly via Businesswise and on stage, and is known for her Seasonal CEO essays, the framework that sits at the heart of ELiN's thinking. She also hosts Bright Leadership Reflections, her interview series with the leaders she most admires.

What she brings to ELiN: the CEO perspective, a creative and innovative mind, and a habit of finding the option no one else has thought of yet.

Elbrich is a senior HR executive who has spent her career inside the room where the hardest people-decisions get made.

She fuelled the international growth at Monster.com, led the hyper-growth phase at YoungCapital as CHRO, and shaped the culture at The Works. Her expertise spans culture, organisational design, high-performance teams, HR-tech innovation and executive coaching.

She is a master at empowering leaders and teams to perform at their highest level, and at building workplaces where everyone feels they belong. Because when people thrive, businesses thrive too.

Her writing voice is unmistakable. In her Love Letter to the CEO series, Elbrich writes open letters from the CHRO chair to the founders, CEOs and final decision-makers she has worked alongside: personal, direct, sometimes uncomfortable, always written from inside the room where the hard decisions happen.

What she brings to ELiN: the CHRO perspective. When a CEO is struggling with their team, Elbrich has been the person three feet away from that struggle, responsible for solving it.