Overview
Nick Haverals is a company director based in Antwerp. Since April 2026 he has been CEO of Finn HR and a board member of Purple Panda, the company he led as CEO from October 2017 to March 2026. He is also owner and chief architect of Safety Workwear Shop, a role he took up in January 2025, co-founder of BlackBear AI Labs since January 2023, and a board member of FeWeb since December 2023. He was CEO of EasyCatalog.be from January 2024 to March 2026, co-founder of Chunky AI from January 2023 to March 2026, CEO of Booky from January 2021 to March 2026, and president of ACE powered by UNIZO between September 2023 and December 2024.
Earlier he was chief marketing officer of Bideo, marketing manager at JLR Metropool, BMW Jorssen Noord & Zuid and MINI Antwerp Store South by Jorssen, digital development manager and bicycle mobility advisor at ADRIAENSSENS MANAGEMENT EN BEHEER HOLDING, and product and account manager at Carflow. He co-founded Uni-Cycle in September 2015, and held student and trainee positions at BMW Group, BMW Jorssen NV and AGO Jobs & HR.
Haverals studied industrial engineering and applied economics at the University of Antwerp, spent part of 2015 at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, and completed an MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology in 2022.
Career history
In the news
- Finn HR pushed us both off the top spot ! His October numbers: 💬 +2.000 candidates interviewed, all on WhatsApp 💼 +100 new jobs launched, from vacancy to live campaign 🎨 +430 ad visuals created, ready to run on Meta No holidays. No coffee breaks. No complaining about Mondays. PS: Rik made the image - I’d have put myself in 3rd place 😉 #FinnHR #Recruitment #AI #SME #WhatsApp
- For those who hadn’t heard yet: 7 weeks ago I became a father. A real one this time, not just the startup kind. 😉
- Finn HR has been working great so far. Today we take it one step further. We now publish vacancies on the official VDAB website too. One more step in our mission: more successful matches between great workers and great companies. Proud of this partnership. To everyone who needs people in transport, logistics, construction, production, horeca, ... you know where to find us! Cool stuff Rik!
- Today, Rik sends me this! 😱 101 open vacancies now live on Finn HR, created by our clients themselves. Every one of those is an SME looking for a driver, technician, admin support, ... and getting candidates in days instead of weeks.
- We helpen ondertussen ook verschillende bedrijven in het vinden van Chauffeurs CE 👇🏼
- Rik and I have Finn HR t-shirts! 😱 Apparently that's when it becomes a real company.
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- De leukste momentjes bij Finn HR zijn berichten als dit. Finn is een AI-recruitment start-up, maar die fancy stuff maakt in the end echt niets uit. Waar het om gaat is the end result. Wij helpen bedrijven personeel vinden. Sneller, makkelijker en economischer. Die AI stuff maakt dat mee mogelijk, maar is niet het eind doel. Ik heb altijd persoonlijk een soft spot gehad voor KMO ondernemers, echte mensen, echte business, no BS. Dus super fijn dat we op deze manier verder kunnen bijdragen in die markt 🇧🇪. Zelfs op moeilijkere
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