Leonie has 20+ years as a recruitment professional in the Sub Sahara African market and since January 2011 as AIMS International’s Managing Partner based in South Africa. She represented the MEA region on the AIMS International Executive Board from 2016 to 2022.Leonie spent a substantial part of her career as a specialist FMCG recruiter and later branched out into Industrial, Energy and Financial Industries. Her interest in global executive search and selection services was sparked in 2004 whilst working for a boutique Management Appointments firm, when she met Rolf Heeb, Managing Partner AIMS Germany who also served as EMEA head and later as AIMS President. This led to a South African collaboration and in 2008 Leonie launched the AIMS Executive Search brand in South Africa. Since 2011 she is the owner and Managing Partner for AIMS South Africa.  She is also Head of the Energy & Natural Resources Practice and Global Sustainability Lead. Leonie has extensive experience representing PE firms and international investors who are looking to appoint executive leaders and key professional staff for both start-ups and existing operations in the SSA markets.Under Leonie’s leadership, the highly experienced South African team has more recently developed their Talent Management services in keeping with AIMS’ find and grow strategy and offers recruitment policy and procedure implementation and management, employer branding services and a wide variety of assessment solutions. Leonie is fluent in English and Afrikaans.