EMSS Management & Consultancy

What EMSS Management & Consultancy does

EMSS Management & Advies B.V. is a Netherlands-based management consultancy founded in 1989 by Ruud van der Poel and headquartered in Dordrecht. The firm operates as a two-person practice, with founder Ruud van der Poel specializing in insolvency management and his son Rick van der Poel, a Nyenrode-educated financial management professional, handling financial and process advisory. The firm serves Dutch entrepreneurs, DGA's (major shareholders), directors, and management boards facing growth, succession, restructuring, or insolvency challenges. Core services include business advisory (Bedrijfskundig Advies), change management and reorganizations, acquisition and transfer advisory, interim management placement, crisis support, and insolvency management. Engagements are personal, senior-led, and rendered on a per-project professional services basis.

The business is built on a sales-led, referral-driven go-to-market model. EMSS does not operate a proprietary technology platform; all advisory and interim management work is delivered by the two founders. Service breadth is achieved through a curated partner network spanning jurists, fiscalists, bankers, and notaries, allowing the firm to address multi-disciplinary client needs without full-time hires in those domains. Marketing is minimal — primarily founder LinkedIn profiles and partner referrals — with the firm website (emss.nu, hosted on WordPress) serving as a static information portal.

EMSS is a private, family-owned B.V. (Dutch private limited company) with no external investors, no funding rounds, no acquisitions, and no public listing. Pricing is quote-based per engagement and not publicly disclosed. The firm competes on personalization, trust, deep insolvency specialization, and the ability to integrate legal, tax, financial, and operational advisory through its partner ecosystem. Its structural scale ceiling is the two-founder capacity, making growth tied to utilization rather than organizational expansion.

Name

EMSS Management & Consultancy

Legal name

EMSS Management & Advies B.V.

Website

https://emss.nu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EMSS Management & Advies is a Dutch management consultancy, founded in 1989 and based in Dordrecht, that provides business advisory, interim management, and insolvency management services to Dutch entrepreneurs, directors, and major shareholders through a two-person father-and-son practice supported by a curated legal, tax, banking, and notary partner network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dordrecht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Management Advisory Services: Advisory engagements with DGA's, directors, and shareholders on business challenges including growth, business transfer, organizational change, and crisis situations. Services are rendered on a professional services basis.
2. Interim Management: Placement of management personnel into client organizations to execute change, lead reorganizations, or manage crisis and insolvency situations.
3. Insolvency Management: Specialized advisory and interim management services for companies in or near insolvency, aimed at limiting damage for the entrepreneur and business.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

EMSS Management & Advies provides personalized management advisory, interim management, and insolvency management services to Dutch DGA's (major shareholders), directors, and entrepreneurs. The firm supports clients across change management, reorganizations, acquisitions, business transfers, acute crisis situations, and insolvency or near-insolvency scenarios, drawing on the founders' expertise and a partner network of legal, tax, banking, and notarial professionals.

Product overview

EMSS Management & Advies is a management consultancy firm offering personalized business advisory services to directors, major shareholders, and entrepreneurs. The core offering is Bedrijfskundig Advies (Business Advisory Services), which encompasses customized advice, change management, reorganizations, acquisition/transfer advisory, interim management, crisis support, and insolvency management. The firm operates with a small team (founder Ruud van der Poel and son Rick van der Poel) supplemented by a network of specialist partners including lawyers, tax specialists, bankers, and notaries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Management Advisory Services (Bedrijfskundig Advies) Personalized business advice and management consulting for directors, major shareholders (DGA's), and entrepreneurs, covering change management, reorganizations, acquisition and business transfer advisory, crisis support, and insolvency management.
• Interim Management Placement of management personnel into client organizations to execute change, lead reorganizations, or manage crisis situations, addressing the need for independent executive bandwidth during transitions.
• Insolvency Management Specialized advisory and interim management for companies in or near insolvency, aimed at limiting damage for the entrepreneur and the business during impending bankruptcy or financial distress.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Legal Professionals (Juristen)coreOthersEMSS collaborates with a network of lawyers and legal professionals to address the legal dimensions of business challenges faced by their clients, including restructuring, insolvency, and transaction advisory.
• Tax Advisors (Fiscalisten)coreOthersFiscal specialists are part of EMSS's permanent partner network to provide integrated tax advisory alongside management consulting services for clients.
• BankersminorOthersBanking professionals in EMSS's network provide financial institution access and financing expertise to support client advisory engagements.
• Notaries (Notarissen)minorOthersNotarial professionals are included in EMSS's partner network, particularly relevant for business transfers, succession planning, and company restructuring.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Twynstra Gudde: Dutch consulting firm specializing in change management, reorganizations, and complex public-sector and organizational challenges. Direct overlap with EMSS's change management and reorganization advisory services for boards and directors.
• Grant Thornton Netherlands: Advisory and accounting firm with Dutch restructuring and SME advisory practices serving mid-market and entrepreneur-led businesses — directly comparable to EMSS's DGA-focused service offering.
• BDO Netherlands: Mid-tier global accounting and advisory network with a strong Dutch SME/restructuring practice. Comparable to EMSS in serving Dutch SME and entrepreneur clients through advisory, restructuring, and turnaround engagements.
• Boer & Croon: Dutch management consulting firm focused on advising family businesses, SMEs, and their directors through change, succession, and growth — highly comparable in target customer (Dutch DGA's and family-owned companies) and service mix to EMSS.
• Alvarez & Marsal: Global specialist in restructuring, turnaround, and insolvency advisory. Directly comparable to EMSS's insolvency management service line and interim-management placement capability, although at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• FTI Consulting: Global advisory firm with strong restructuring, bankruptcy, and turnaround practices — directly comparable to EMSS's insolvency management services from a service-mix perspective, though operating at a much larger scale.
• Berenschot: Established Dutch management consulting firm serving executives and boards on organization, change, and financial management challenges. Comparable to EMSS in addressing Dutch organizations and director-level decision-makers, though at much greater scale.
• Alix Partners: Global consulting firm focused on restructuring, turnaround, and interim management. Overlaps directly with EMSS's insolvency management, interim management, and change-management mandates for businesses in distress.

Broad incumbents

• KPMG Netherlands: Big 4 advisory firm in the Netherlands with a substantial restructuring practice and broader management consulting portfolio. Comparable as a broader incumbent in the Dutch advisory market addressing turnaround, restructuring, and change, though operating across much wider service categories.
• Roland Berger: European-origin global strategy and restructuring consultancy with presence in the Netherlands. Overlaps with EMSS's advisory services in restructuring and corporate transformation, though at enterprise scale and with broader portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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