Evert Hulleman

Partner
evert@theplayergroup.com

Evert brings more than 20 years of experience in helping organizations improve performance. He started out with Arthur Andersen in 1985 and after six years as an auditor, he initiated Andersen's Business Consulting practice in The Netherlands in 1991. Simultaneously, he was CFO of an IT products & services company for a short while and led (part of) the consulting practice for Andersen for several years. After the local (Netherlands) acquisition of Andersen by Deloitte & Touche, became their Industry Leader for Consumer Business in The Netherlands before joining the Chicago practice of Deloitte Consulting before moving to Dallas, TX to join TPG Consulting.

During his career with Andersen, Evert was a member of the Advanced Cost Management team, led by Steve Player. In addition to his cost management work, Evert was involved in many other aspects of consulting work from process improvements to systems implementations. He led the Change Enablement team for Andersen in North America for a few years and has been involved in many projects of this nature ever since.

• Due Diligence Reviews and Turn-Around Assessments for investors and banks.
• Design and implementation of strategic business plans for a variety of clients (airline caterer, medical services organization, auto-parts distributor, car rental franchise, pre-press center, temporary labor agency, international greeting card and poster company, IT-services company, money remittance company), usually followed by a variety of implementation projects (varying from BPR to ABC and Performance Management).
• Implementation of Activity Based Costing for a variety of clients (an airline caterer, a greeting card and poster company, a liquor & spirits distribution company, a food distributor for a fast food company, a transportation company, a TV-rights government institution, a TV broadcasting company, a national distributor of magazines and a department of a bank).
• Implementation of Enterprise Performance Management, starting with company or departmental strategy, for a variety of clients (airline caterer, police organization, retailer, transportation company, central government department, 2 international food companies, finance and IT departments of an international oil company).
• SAP Implementations (finance, sales & distribution, HR) for a national telecom organization, a large bottling company, a large food producer and an international beverage company.
• Design and implementation of a Shared Services Center for Accounting and Finance (including Oracle financial suite) for the European headquarters of a US based company.
• Design and implementation of the Lawson ERP financial suite for an oil trading company.
• Implementation of a private market-place for a multi-national producer of PVC-pipes, based on Blue Martini software.
• Implementation of PeopleSoft CRM for a lottery company.
• Rationalization of the European logistics and distribution network for a pharmaceutical company.
• e-Business planning, design and implementations for an e-procurement portal start-up, two digital market start-ups, a bottling company, a beverage company, a real estate company and a digital market for a vertical (all in the US and The Netherlands).
• Design and implementation of a Supply Chain Strategy and conceptual design of the Advance Planning & Scheduling processes for an office products company, including the conceptual design of a performance management system.
• Development of vision, strategy and roadmap for the finance function of a coffee & tea company, as well as the conceptual design of a performance management system for the company as a whole.
• Review and analysis of the European accounting shared services center for an international non-food company.
• Restructuring the cross-border finance and IT center of an international oil company

Evert has extensive experience as a public speaker focusing on many aspects of consulting, including Cost Management, Performance Management and Change Enablement.

Evert is a Dutch CPA and received his degree from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Dutch Institute of Registered Accountants.

Evert's clients representative clients include Sara Lee, Royal Dutch/Shell, KLM Airlines, SC Johnson, Dutch Postal Services, Budget Rent-a-Car, VNU/Aldipress, Hella Benelux, Koninklijke Schelde Group (Shipbuilders), Hallmark, Holland Media Group, Adecco, American Express, Dr. Pepper Bottling, TGI Friday's, Fluke, Tyson Foods, Centex, The Associates, Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up, Unilever, Wavin, Wagenborgh, Abbott Laboratories, ACCO Brands, Martin Brower, Newell Rubbermaid, LFS, Jarab Investments, Consultoria Internacional Casa de Cambio.