The name means 'search' in Esperanto — a language built to belong to no single country. Neither does this practice.
Partners who author our research execute our mandates.
A small, focused team. The principals writing our insights are the same people conducting your search.
Sercxi's partners have led technology mandates across these corridors since 2000 — a quarter century of cross-border networks behind every shortlist.
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Data Centres · AI Infrastructure · FinTech · SaaS
Harald H.R. Agterhuis
Founder · Amsterdam · Dubai
Who I serve
“Works across all corridors. Thirty years placing technology executives across APAC and EMEA, personally, mandate by mandate.”
Harald doesn't hand off a mandate — he signs it, works it, and closes it himself. Thirty years running cross-border technology searches across all corridors have taught him that most job briefs are wrong until tested; he reworks them before he starts. The discipline shows: a 35-day median shortlist and eight in ten placements still in role after a year. Clients call him one of the most trusted names in the search industry. Considering a mandate? Ask Harald what he'd change about the brief first.
30 Years35-Day Median Shortlist8 in 10 Retention @12mo3 Corridors
Business Technology · Digital Transformation · Consulting Leadership
Ir. Gerard Elkhuizen MBA
Partner · Business Technology & Transformation · The Hague
Who I serve
“Forty years shaping, selling and delivering the large transformation programmes that decide whether new technology becomes new capability.”
Gerard has spent forty years shaping deals that decide whether new technology becomes new capability — or an expensive shelf item. At Cognizant, the Benelux team he built generated roughly half the unit's revenue run-rate; at Deloitte, he ran a €100 million global transformation programme. Trained as a civil engineer before turning to consulting, he now leads Sercxi's Business Technology and Transformation mandates from The Hague, judging hires the way he once judged deals — by whether they hold up under scrutiny. Talk to Gerard before you write the brief.
40 Years€100M+ ProgrammeBoard / Adjunct ProfBenelux Deep Network
AI Infrastructure · Data Centres · High-Reliability Financial Systems
Priyanka Chaudhary
Partner · Dubai Hub
Who I serve
“Engaged mandates from the Dubai hub — C-suite and VP-grade leaders across the MENA and APAC corridors, worked personally from brief to signed offer.”
Priyanka runs engaged mandates from Sercxi's Dubai hub for C-suite and VP-grade leaders across AI infrastructure, data centres, and high-reliability financial systems in the MENA and APAC corridors. She works every search personally from brief to signed offer, maintaining the engaged model's discipline at every step. Languages: English, Hindi, Spanish.
Engaged Mandates OnlyC-Suite & VP GradeMENA–APAC CorridorsEnglish · Hindi · Spanish
Executive Hiring Lab · Leadership Advisory · Scale-Up
Peter van de Graaff
Partner · Executive Hiring Lab · Amsterdam
Who I serve
“Calm in crisis, sharp in strategy — most leadership problems are clarity problems dressed up as talent problems.”
Peter spent twenty-five years as a COO, CHRO and board member learning that most leadership problems aren't talent problems — they're clarity problems wearing a talent problem's clothes. He's run people strategy at a twenty-billion-dollar agribusiness, sat on the board of a $1.6 billion investment group, and co-founded the Dutch career consultancy trusted by KLM, Heineken and ASML. Now he runs Sercxi's Executive Hiring Lab from Amsterdam, refusing to open a search until the brief survives scrutiny. If your last hire didn't work, start with Peter, not the job description.
25 Years as COO/CHROBoard-LevelBrief-FirstScale-Up Focus
Digital Talent Sourcing · Engineering Pipeline · Candidate Journey
Peter Post
Partner · Digital Talent Sourcing · Amsterdam
Who I serve
“Old-school recruiting instinct, modern stack, engineer's discipline — pipelines built before the brief is signed.”
Peter reads a CV the way an engineer reads a system diagram — which makes sense, since he spent thirteen years building logistics and telecom systems before search claimed him. Now he runs Sercxi's sourcing stack, a ten-platform pipeline spanning Greenhouse, Loxo and LinkedIn Navigator, the one that found Cloud, AI and cybersecurity engineers for a Gulf government-scale mandate at national-programme speed. He builds the pipeline before the brief is even signed. If your role calls for sourcing to already be underway, Peter is the one to speak to.
5 Years at SercxiEngineering Background10+ Platform StackPipeline Before Brief
Digital Infrastructure · Cloud · Data Centres · EMEA Build-Out
Tony Boersma
Partner · Business Development & Executive Recruitment · The Hague
Who I serve
“He does not send a longlist, he sends the hire — Tier 2 and Tier 3 operators for the EMEA digital infrastructure build-out.”
Tony doesn't send a longlist — he sends the hire. Twenty-five years building talent systems across thirty-plus countries taught him that growth always outpaces the operators needed to run it, especially in digital infrastructure. At Core42 he cut executive deployment from ninety days to ten; at Trivium Packaging he built a global talent function from nothing, twenty countries deep. Trained in law before recruitment claimed him, he now secures the Cloud Architects and Data Centre specialists EMEA's build-out depends on. Bring him the gap, not the job spec.
25 Years30+ Countries90→10 Day Fill17 FTE Built
