Kobe Verdonck was appointed Executive Regional Director Europe and LatAm in June 2007. In this position he oversees 19 countries and over 2,000 employees. Kobe was appointed regional director for the Nordics & Central Europe in 2006. In this capacity he oversaw operations in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria and Switzerland.

Kobe started the Swiss and Austrian operations (respectively in 2003 and 2005), which together reached EUR 10 million sales in 2006. Previously he had been managing major integration and outsourcing projects for NorthgateArinso all over Europe and Africa.

Before joining NorthgateArinso in 1999 Kobe worked as a lawyer for the International Law firm Stibbe in Brussels, Belgium. From 1996 to 1998 Kobe was responsible for the Belgian Non-Governmental Organization ACT in Tanzania, where he was leading a team of 20 experts in various business processes to support local SMEs. Kobe holds a Master degree in Law and a degree in Business Administration.

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Samuel V. “Trey” Campbell joined NorthgateArinso as President, Americas in September, 2009.  In this role, Campbell leads all management and operational activities for NorthgateArinso in both North and South America,

Trey has extensive experience in Business Process Outsourcing, particularly in the areas of HR Outsourcing (HRO) and related technology services.  He joins NorthgateArinso from Accenture, where he was President and CEO of Accenture BPO Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, the $23B global consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.  

Prior to joining Accenture, Trey was Business Unit Leader for Hewitt Associates, managing a large portfolio of strategic HRO accounts.  Previous roles include Vice President and Portfolio Executive for Exult, Inc., VP and GM, Sales and Marketing - Exult, Group Vice President, Outsourcing Services for Spherion Corporation, and Director of Strategic Sales for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Business Process Outsourcing practice.  He holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Alabama and an MBA in Finance from the Gatton Business School at the University of Kentucky.

Trey lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two children.

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Darcy Lalonde joined NorthgateArinso as the President, NorthgateArinso Canada and Singapore in late 2001. Since this time he has been instrumental in expanding the Asia Pacific region to more then 400 employees serving both local and international clients.

Darcy was also instrumental in creating the NorthgateArinso Offshore strategy complete with major offshore service centers now in Manila, Philippines and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a full hosting facility based out of Singapore. He leverages his extensive international experience in Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe to continue to grow the operations throughout the APAC region as well as leveraging the unique blended offshore model to NorthgateArinso clients globally.

Prior to joining NorthgateArinso, Darcy was a partner with DFI Consulting where he was the Managing Director responsible for operations in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and business throughout Asia Pacific. He was also a co-owner of DPS Consulting, a HCM Consulting boutique based in Vancouver, Canada which NorthgateArinso subsequently acquired in 2002.

Previously, Darcy was the Managing Director of ISM-BC Global SAP Services headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Darcy was a founding member of the SAP Practice in 1994 and built this organization to more than 200 employees globally. Darcy not only developed its consulting services but also the SAP TBPO offerings as well as the initial regional expansion into Asia.

Prior to focusing on Human Capital Management, Darcy has many years of experience in Strategic and Business Consulting, ERP Finance and Supply Chain systems, EDP Auditing, Network Engineer and has managed many large application development and operational organizations. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Regina, and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with more than 20 years of business experience.

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Prior to his role as Global Accounts Executive, Rudy Vandenberghe combined the roles of EVP NorthgateArinso and Regional Executive UK & Central Europe. Rudy has played a crucial role in the NorthgateArinso’s largest outsourcing contracts in recent years.

In 2002, Rudy initiated HR Business Consultancy as a new European practice for NorthgateArinso, assuming responsibility for HR Strategic Consulting & International Sales. In this capacity he led large scale HR Transformation studies for major companies.

Rudy was the founding partner and first Managing Director of NorthgateArinso in the Netherlands, which was the first foreign subsidiary in 1996. He pioneered the business for major customers such as Shell, Fortis, DSM and the Dutch public sector. In 2000 he assumed the role of Regional Director for the Netherlands and the UK. He installed an organizational growth model which allowed the Dutch operation to grow to 300 people and more than 30 M EUR.

Previously Rudy worked at Hessenatie, Integan and Europdata Systems (now Zetes) where he was remarked for his business development results and achievements in Quality Assurance.

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Peter Bouten (1966) currently holds the position of Global VP Consultancy within NorthgateArinso, which he joined early 1999. Since the start of Peter’s career in the late eighties he has been working in the HR and Payroll domain, the latest at IBS (formerly known as Consist) where he held various positions.

Based on his leadership and extensive experience within the HR and payroll arena, he brought our Dutch organization to a higher level of operational excellence. With his thorough knowledge of the HR and IT market he succeeded to move NorthgateArinso into the HR BPO market as one of the top service providers in the Netherlands.  In the last years Peter has on a European level also been responsible for the Nordics and the DACH region.

Since end 2008 he is leading the consultancy organization. First on an EMEA level, currently at a global level. Peter is married and has 3 children living in the southern part of the Netherlands.

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Simon Caunce has been with Northgate for 10 years. He initially joined as Sales Manager when the UK human resources division turned over less than 10m pounds. He has achieved the equivalent of true north qualification every year of his Northgate career.

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