Experience

WittKieffer

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Partner and Practice Leader, Legal Services

  • Jul 2017 - Present

• Principal and Practice Leader, Legal Services

  • Jun 2016 - Present

• Consultant and Practice Leader, Legal Services

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  Werner Boel, consultant, brings two decades of experience in international law, health law, business venture consulting and leadership recruitment to his executive search practice at Witt/Kieffer. Werner serves as the firm’s Legal Services practice leader. He relies upon a dynamic multicultural background and broad global experience to provide clients with unmatched expertise, particularly in identifying and placing talented health law general counsel, deputy general counsel, chief compliance officers and chief legal officers, as well as law school deans. Werner’s practice has special emphasis on recruiting top executives to build the scope and influence of in-house legal departments on behalf of healthcare, higher education and not-for-profit organizations. He has helped identify senior legal leaders for preeminent hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, medical schools, physician group practices, health science centers, public institutions, colleges and universities, and community service organizations. Werner assists clients in evaluating the new breed of senior legal executive who take a leading role in developing emerging business models, assessing and managing risk, shaping public policy and leading government and legislative relations. Show less

• Legal Services Practice Leader

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2014

  Serve as the firm's legal services practice leader. Witt/Kieffer’s health law practice builds upon the firm’sdecades of experience as trusted executive search advisors to the nation’s hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and physician groups. We also have broad experience working with leading university law schools to conduct searches for the dean position.

• Senior Associate

  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2014

• Associate

  • Jun 2007 - Oct 2012

  Werner Boel is based in the Atlanta office and brings to Witt/Kieffer a wealth of recruitment and law-based business experiences. Werner was born and raised in Belgium where he obtained most of his formal legal education and training. Werner’s dynamic multicultural and legal background enables him to provide clients with unmatched expertise. Specifically, he has worked on a variety of searches serving the needs of preeminent hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, medical schools, physician group practices, health science centers, public institutions, colleges and universities, and community service organizations. Show less



The Belgian American Chamber of Commerce

• Executive Director

  • Jun 1995 - Jun 2008



Paul Hastings

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• International Legal Coordinator

  • Nov 2003 - Jun 2007



The Dalley Hewitt Company

• Principal

  • 1996 - 2003