Pedersen & Partners Appoints Three New Partners

Pedersen & Partners, a leading international executive search firm, announced today the appointment of three new partners and co-owners of Pedersen & Partners: Evita Lune, Mona Neagoe and Gautier Vasseur.

Pedersen & Partners operates a fully integrated partnership with the partners owning 100 percent of the parent company, which in its turn owns 100 percent of all subsidiaries. All partners work full time in the firm to the benefit of clients and executives.

Poul Pedersen, Managing Partner comments: “I am very happy to welcome Evita, Mona and Gautier as partners and co-owners of Pedersen & Partners. To date, with our excellent team, we have built a quality-focused firm consisting of 37 offices in 36 countries and by adding three new partners we seek to further strengthen our organisation. All three have been successful in developing strong regional relationships and loyal client portfolios, and have contributed significantly to making Pedersen & Partners the largest executive search firm in Central and Eastern Europe.”

Evita Lune joined Pedersen & Partners in 2005 and oversees Latvia and Estonia. Evita Lune has played a major role in the development and execution of management recruitment projects in the Baltics and across other countries where the firm operates. Lune's previous experience includes three years with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga as the Executive MBA Program Director and six years with Shell in international marketing management functions in Riga, Budapest and Brussels.

Mona Neagoe joined Pedersen & Partners in 2005 as Country Manager, Romania. Since then, she has completed over 100 successful projects within the private equity, financial services, consulting, technology, FMCG, pharma and manufacturing sectors. Neagoe is based in Bucharest and oversees Moldova and Serbia. Besides the Romanian market, she has also executed projects in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Hungary.

Gautier Vasseur has been with Pedersen & Partners since 2003. Vasseur has successfully completed over 150 recruitments of Senior, Board and Supervisory Board level positions across CEE, Russia and CIS countries. He first began working for Pedersen & Partners in the Prague office, and later out of Moscow. Today he is based in Almaty and is in charge of building up the operations in Central Asia.


Pedersen & Partners is a leading international executive search firm. We operate 37 wholly owned offices in Almaty, Athens, Baku, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Dubai, Helsinki, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kiev, Ljubljana, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nicosia, Prague, Riga, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran, Tel-Aviv, Tirana, Toronto, Ulaanbaatar, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yerevan and Zagreb. Our values Trust - Relationship - Professionalism apply to our interaction with clients as well as executives. 

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