Ivo van Dijke

Ivo van Dijke studied Commercial Economics and built his career in the pharmaceutical industry, managing high-value international accounts. In 2017 he co-founded Intercompany Solutions, and his commercial vision helped position the firm as a leading incorporator in the Netherlands for foreign entrepreneurs. He heads the account representative department across the group.

Most of the companies he speaks with arrive with the same problem in a different form: they have found someone they want to hire in the Netherlands, and no legal way to employ them yet. Ivo's work is the decision that sits in front of that. Whether to hire through an Employer of Record and have the person working in weeks, or to incorporate a Dutch entity and run payroll directly. Whether the role justifies an entity at all, or whether the EOR is the destination rather than the bridge. Where the crossover point falls once employer charges, holiday allowance, pension obligations and the cost of running compliance are all counted, not the headline rate, but the real annual cost of the employee.

He is direct about the parts employers tend to underestimate: how much of Dutch employment law follows the employee rather than the contract, why dismissal protection makes the initial contract structure matter more here than in most markets, and what the 30% ruling does and does not do for an incoming hire. Where a client's plan needs an entity, he brings in the wider Intercompany Solutions group, formation, accounting, tax and payroll under one roof, so the employment decision is made alongside the structural one rather than after it.