Chris van Melle Kamp is a member of the firm's Board Services, Financial Services, Industrial and mining, Life Sciences and Legal practice groups. In addition to the work that he has done at Board level, Chris has executed assignments in these sectors across various executive functional roles including those of CEO, CFO, HRD, CIO,COO country manager and other specialist C-level roles. He is a member of the Spencer Stuart EMEA Human Resources Practice Group and has executed numerous high level searches in this sector in South Africa and Africa.
Chris joined Spencer Stuart in 2002 from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) where he was one of the four founding directors. Working closely with local and multi-national companies and international business schools, such as London Business School, Ashridge, Cranfield, Harvard, Stanford, Stern, Insead and HEC in France, Chris was exposed to best practice global business strategies and the leadership challenges facing senior executives today.
He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences and seminars on Executive Search practice and on the challenges facing corporations in attracting top executive talent. Prior to co-founding GIBS, Chris served at the U.N. in New York, in Namibia as a South African Diplomat, and in Paris as Deputy Ambassador.
Chris was educated at St. Johns College and the University of Pretoria; he speaks English, French, Afrikaans and has a good understanding of Dutch. His interests include wildlife conservation, fly fishing, golf, photography, equestrian sports and music.