Mathijs van Meer

Mathijs van Meer is the founder of +pascal, an independent executive coaching ecosystem for board-level leaders in the Netherlands, and a former Investment Director in private equity.

He founded +pascal out of the conviction that executive coaching can deliver a great deal at the top of the business world. At its core, +pascal selects a carefully composed group of executive coaches and mentors and specialises in the subsequent match with the leader, their context and the question at hand.

Having grown up in a family business, Mathijs developed a passion for entrepreneurship and chose a career in private equity, spending more than ten years at Gilde Equity Management. There, among other things, he was responsible for the buy-and-build of Team EIFFEL, growing it from 300 to more than 3,000 employees. During this time, he experienced from within what ultimate responsibility under structural pressure means, and what it takes to keep performing in that environment.

Mathijs holds an MSc in Financial Economics and an LLM in Financial Law, completed the EQA programme in professional coaching in 2025, and chairs the Advisory Board of a large family business.

With this background and drive, he provides what is structurally missing at the top: a peer sparring partner, with no stake and no agenda.