Danny Van D'huynslager

I have served as CEO and transformation leader with 20+ years of experience building, scaling, and restructuring industrial and services businesses across Europe, the US, and Australia.

I bring hands-on advisory and board experience across different growth stages: advising SaaS start-ups, board member of a niche consulting company, chairing the Advisory Board of a media & entertainment company, and serving on the advisory board of an innovation consulting firm.

Supporting founders, CEOs, and investors in turning strategy into execution at critical moments, scaling growth, integrating acquisitions, improving performance, or preparing for exit. Experienced with Boards across private equity, privately owned, and partnership models in industrial and services businesses, I align management action with shareholder expectations while maintaining pace. I am known for bridging ambition and delivery, challenging constructively, aligning stakeholders, and embedding the governance and performance discipline required to deliver measurable results.

My board effectiveness is further grounded in a strong academic foundation in board leadership and governance through executive education at Harvard Business School (Executive MBA, focussed on board and CEO leadership) and the INBOARD leadership programme at Insead.

I add most value to companies that are:
• Navigating transformation (operational, digital, AI-enabled)
• Looking to professionalise governance and performance management
• Scaling rapidly and need structure without losing agility
• Executing buy-and-build or preparing for exit
• Value Proposition Selling and Product/market fit
• Operating in industrials, B2B services, SaaS, or project-based environments.