Prague, Czech Republic – The Pedersen & Partners Prague team joined forces with Enterprise Investors, Deloitte, and White & Case to welcome CEOs, decision makers, and investors to an event designed to discuss and debate the financing opportunities for Czech-owned firms. Participants included executives from the Technology, High-tech Equipment Manufacturing, Agriculture, Alternative & Traditional Energy, and Chemical industries. Petra Grabmayer, Partner at Pedersen & Partners moderated the expert panel discussion represented by Martin Vohanka, CEO at Eurowag; Jiri Michal, entrepreneur and former Zentiva CEO, and Martin Strupl, Managing Partner at eD System Group.
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September 11, 2019 – New Delhi, India – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has appointed Paramita Lahiri as a Principal based in New Delhi, India.
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September 6, 2019 – London, UK – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has added Marc Kramers to the Consumer Products Practice based in London, UK as Principal.
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Partner Ulrik Rasmussen was quoted by www.topmba.com on the advantages of graduating from a Central or an Eastern European business school, the limited applicability of North American and West European curricula case studies to the CEE markets, as well as steps to be taken by regional business schools so as to offer a more practical experience to aspiring students.
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Oslo, Norway – Pedersen & Partners Executive Search and Simonsen Vogt Wiig, a leading commercial law firm, co-hosted the Global Opportunities in FinTech event in Oslo at the end of August. The event was specifically designed for Norwegian FinTechs, and offered insights on FinTech global capital market activities, regulatory aspects to consider, commercialization and scaling required to succeed globally in FinTech. Among the key speakers were:
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August 23, 2019 – Vienna, Austria – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has appointed Guenther Niemeck as a Principal within its Life Sciences Practice Group.
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Kyiv, Ukraine – Every year, companies in the agricultural sector show an increasing need for top managers who excel at both strategy and revenue generation. The editors of AgroPortal.ua discussed the challenges of finding top agricultural executives with Vladimir Kolomoets, Country Manager for Ukraine at the international Executive Search firm Pedersen & Partners.
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August 6, 2019 – Dubai, UAE – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, is pleased to announce that Brian Cartwright will be joining the firm’s Supply Chain & Logistics sub-practice as a Client Partner in Dubai.
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August 2, 2019 – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, is pleased to announce that Graham Utian has joined the firm as a Client Partner in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Kyiv, Ukraine – Systematisation is an essential process for accurately assessing a company’s operations, the way in which its employees work, and the potential consequences of their work. Throughout my Executive Search career, I have identified four main types of managers in Ukraine.
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August 6, 2019 – Dubai, UAE – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, is pleased to announce that Brian Cartwright will be joining the firm’s Supply Chain & Logistics sub-practice as a Client Partner in Dubai.
Read moreAugust 2, 2019 – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, is pleased to announce that Graham Utian has joined the firm as a Client Partner in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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July 12, 2019 – San Francisco, USA – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, welcomes Richard Kampmann as a Client Partner in its US team.
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July 8, 2019 – Malmo, Sweden – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, is delighted to announce the appointment of Ronny Andersson as a Principal for the Nordic region.
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July 1st, 2019 – Dubai, UAE – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, announced that founder Poul Pedersen, after over 18 years as Managing Partner, will be assuming the role of Executive Chairman. Gary Williams, former Deputy Managing Partner, has been appointed CEO.
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June 3, 2019 – Milan, Italy – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has appointed Gianluca Orecchini as a Client Partner and the Global Head of Engineering Practice.
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June 3, 2019 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has appointed Ondrej Sanislo as a Principal and an active member of the firm’s Industrial Practice.
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Paris, France - Following Asia Connect event organised by Pedersen & Partners executive search in Paris, we offer key insights from the breakfast meeting.
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May 3, 2019 – Prague, Czech Republic – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries has appointed Henry Ertner as Principal in Prague, Czech Republic.
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March 18, 2019 – Hong Kong & China – Pedersen & Partners, a leading international Executive Search firm with 57 wholly owned offices in 53 countries, has appointed Jed Van Voorhis as a Client Partner within the Industrial Practice in APAC.
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Paris, France – Décideurs Magazine issued by Leaders League, a media and rating agency for top executives, has released its 2018 annual “Compensation Systems and Recruitment Strategies” report for the Executive Search industry in France. Pedersen & Partners was rated as Excellent for international searches and nominated for its strong reputation and prominence in the following categories:
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October 8, 2018 – Riga, Latvia. The event gathered over 200 participants ranging from students interested in startups and entrepreneurship journey, to startups, to business decision makers and enthusiasts.
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Am Mittwochabend netzwerkten Personalchefs wieder bei der HR-Lounge. Gastgeber war diesmal Baker McKenzie.
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Venture capital (VC) is now a $155 billion annual industry worldwide, and over 10% of that worldwide VC funding is invested in Life Sciences. Biotech and pharmaceuticals in particular have seen massive increases, reaching a total of $16.6 billion in 2017. MedTech is rapidly catching up.
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Riga, Latvia – Evita Lune, Partner for Global Digital Economy at Pedersen & Partners interviewed Meeri Rebane, Co-Founder and CEO of INZMO. INZMO Ltd is an insurtech start-up established in September 2015 in Germany by the Estonian founders Meeri Rebane and Risto Klausen. The company focuses on providing an end-to-end innovative technological solutions to insurers, corporate partners and end customers to improve sales, customer relationships, claims handling and risk management. In 2016, the company received a boost in San Francisco from the largest start-up investor in the world — 500Startups. In May 2017, INZMO was named the best fintech company in Europe by the StartUp Europe Awards run by the European Commission. In December 2017, Helvetia Venture Fund — a Swiss insurer, has acquired a holding in INZMO and has invested a single-digit million amount in INZMO.
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Киев, Украина – Вы часто встречали компании с полным набором топов — с коммерческим, финансовым и исполнительным директором? Чтобы на каждый поток по бизнес-лидеру. Собственнику остается только лишь отслеживать, как меняется прибыль его компании, цвет напитка в бокале и высота океанской волны за окном.
Но, в большинстве случаев, все это лишь верхушка айсберга, а в его основании ничего не меняется. Владелец приглашает высший менеджмент, как экспертов по управлению, но, на самом деле, всеми, даже самыми незначительными движениями компании, управляет он сам. Лично.
Почему так происходит и к чему это приводит Leadership Journey узнал у Владимира Коломойца, руководителя украинского офиса компании Pedersen&Partners.
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Whether establishing or expanding their operations in Kazakhstan, many multinationals are asking us how to build a sustainable, gender-diversified corporate structure in an environment long associated with Central Asian patriarchal traditions. This is particularly true where leadership roles and front office roles are concerned. Our colleagues in Kazakhstan, Zaure Tynbayeva, Country Manager for Kazakhstan and Larissa Sklyarenko, Consultant provide more details on the issue, with input from Julie Desloges, Pedersen & Partners Consultant in Moscow, and Ekaterina Kharitonskaya, Pedersen & Partners Consultant in Kiev, on similar issues in Russia and Ukraine respectively.
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Riga, Latvia – Established in February 1998, scanservice a.s. is the largest document digitization company in the Czech Republic. Since its establishment, scanservice has been the leader in providing document processing services through outsourcing, as well as designing customized document management solutions for leading Czech and international companies, including state and local governments. scanservice has been listed in the prestigious “Czech Top 100” business index since 2003, taking 30th place in 2015.
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Houston, USA – When nuclear fission was first discovered, many people imagined that the energy released from splitting atoms could provide a never-ending source of cheap energy powering a utopian society of flying cars and ubiquitous robots. More than half a century later, nuclear energy is as scorned and unpopular as “dirty” fossil fuels.
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Bogotá, Colombia – “We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long run” – Amara Law –
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Bogotá, Colombia – “Tendemos a sobreestimar el impacto de la tecnología en el corto plazo y subestimarlo en el largo plazo” – Ley de Amara –
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Lima, Peru – With more than two decades of uninterrupted economic growth and single-digit inflation, the Peruvian economy provides a sharp contrast to those of other LATAM countries. The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) has projected that Peru will continue to lead the economic growth in the region for 2017 [1].
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Toronto, Canada – What’s shaping the future of the mining industry? What are the large producers, the mid tiers, and the junior players doing to surmount social, environmental, regulatory, and economic hurdles? What are the executive challenges for 2017?
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Tallinn, Estonia – Global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods companies need to have strategic presence in every country – or to be more precise, the physical availability of their best-known brands in stores (numeric and weighted distribution as key KPIs) is crucial. Although e-commerce in consumer goods is constantly developing, and represents a priority for corporate management teams across the globe, physical stores will remain important for the foreseeable future, and so consumer goods companies will need to be represented there in one way or another.
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Madrid, Spain – Accountability is one of those buzzwords that is often tossed about as essential in the business environment. However, in many cases only lip service is paid to an ideal that few companies actually meet. The fact is that accountability must be top-down; regardless of the company's size, industry or ownership structure, the board must assess its own performance in meeting the company’s goals.
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Houston, USA – Nobody can doubt China’s commitment to clean energy. China is now recognized as the global superpower in renewables, and it has established its dominance through huge investments. Conversely, the US is starting to lag behind in its clean energy commitments, which not only poses an environmental risk but could seriously damage its economy and job market.
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During the last couple of years, we have been working intensively with large firms that aspire to drive digital change, and also with growing companies whose business models are based on digital platforms. In both cases, we have experienced a significant difference in mindset and culture compared to large traditional firms. This article highlights the main elements of these cultural differences.
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Biometric customer recognition, virtual reality dressing rooms and the seamless merger of retail with technology, media and entertainment – this is not science fiction, but the reality of consumer retail in Asia. In China, which is responsible for almost half of the world's e-retail sales, every smartphone comes with an app that can display, locate, order and pay for items from any online or retail store.
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