Senior Vice President of HR at SoftServe Renata Delporte justified why the company made its choice in favor of an internal candidate when searching for a new CEO, who, as is known, became Andriy Stytsyuk.
Senior Vice President of HR at SoftServe Renata Delporte justified why the company made its choice in favor of an internal candidate when searching for a new CEO, who, as is known, became Andriy Stytsyuk.
She said this during Business Breakfast on the Forbes YouTube channel.
“If a CEO grows up within a company, it means that the company is doing something very right in the long term. Usually there is a desire to find someone on the market, but let’s be frank: a CEO on the market is a CEO of some (other — Ed.) companies. You take an existing CEO from an existing company and adapt him to yours — this is a very painful process for both parties and is not always successful,” noted Renata Delporte.
According to her, cases of successful CEOs in Ukrainian companies are mainly internal candidates who “grew up under the supervision of the owners,” because with this position “the owner actually intends to replace himself.”
“It is impossible to replace yourself, it is very difficult, except when he is your student and you are raising him,” Delporte said.
The Senior Vice President of HR at SoftServe also voiced the classic negative scenarios that occur when attracting CEOs from the market.
“No one can be better than me,” says the owner. “Either show what you can do, and he’ll fail right away. Or we’ll let you suffer, and then we’ll fire you. That’s how things go,” commented a SoftServe representative.
As a reminder, global IT company SoftServe has announced the appointment of Andriy Stytsyuk as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will officially assume the new role on October 1, succeeding Harry Propper, who has led the company since 2023 and has dedicated over 18 years to SoftServe.
