About us

Who are we?

We combine direct search, market intelligence and human judgment to help organisations hire people who can make a visible difference.

The team

A focused international team bringing executive search, recruitment and organisational experience to every brief.

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Csilla Váradi
Head of Client Solutions
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Csilla is a seasoned HR leader with over 17 years of experience in building and transforming organizations. She has worked across multiple industries including technology, e-commerce, logistics, retail, and shared services, supporting both multinational corporations and scaling startups.

As HR Director at high-growth companies, such as foodora (Delivery Hero), she led large-scale recruitment drives, and team expansions to support rapid business growth, and at eMAG she led post-merger integrations, culture and organization transformations.

Her expertise spans the full HR employee lifecycle, recruitment management, scaling teams, partnering with business leaders and clients, leadership coaching, as well as organizational design and development — enabling businesses to align people strategy with growth objectives.

Recognized as ‘HR Manager of the Year’ and among the ‘Top 20 Most Innovative HR Professionals’, Csilla combines strategic insight with hands-on delivery to build resilient, people-centric organizations.

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Dora Tengerdi
Senior Consultant
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Dora is a Senior Recruiter with over 7 years of experience in corporate and agency environments.

She has worked across automotive, manufacturing, IT, SaaS, and shared services, managing end-to-end hiring for a wide range of white-collar roles in Europe.

Her core strengths include active sourcing, stakeholder management, process improvement, and training for both hiring managers and recruiters.

Fluent in German and English, and she is skilled at navigating international environments and diverse teams. In addition to recruitment, she contributes as an HR Specialist and Career Coach, supporting companies and professionals in achieving sustainable success.

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Thijmen Meijer
Founder and Managing Partner
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Thijmen comes from the hospitality industry and started his career in recruitment at Randstad Sourceright. Leading numerous high-performing, large teams for global accounts in the engineering and pharmaceutical sectors. He continued at KPMG, leading the conceptualisation, execution, and evolution of the company’s Learning & Development, Global Mobility and Talent Acquisition strategy from scratch.

Following his time at KPMG, Thijmen founded his own recruitment agency, supporting a boutique search agency in Budapest.

After a brief interim assignment, Thijmen decided to specialise in international ESG and sustainability recruitment and executive search.

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Anna Szőke
Senior Consultant
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Anna holds an MSc in Economics, but her passion led her to a career in HR consulting, which she embarked on in 2007. Over the past 17 years, she has built extensive expertise across various HR domains, with a strong focus on recruitment in industries such as FMCG, Media, and Technology.

At Bosch, Anna played a key role in driving innovative HR projects and ultimately led a recruitment team. As a leader, she excelled at inspiring, developing, and motivating her team members on a deeply individual and empathetic level, all while achieving team targets. She also introduced fresh initiatives and forward-thinking approaches, continuously enhancing recruitment strategies.

Anna is a natural communicator, effortlessly engaging with diverse audiences across different hierarchy levels. She brings a positive energy to every interaction while confidently expressing her opinions and standing by her principles.

She is fluent in Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and English. Additionally, she is currently advancing her German and Italian, both of which she speaks at a conversational level.

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Maria Pechorina
Business Development Manager
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Maria started her career in 2B2 account management for large multinational companies, and after receiving her MBA with Central European University moved to mergers and acquisitions working for boutiques specializing in a wide range of industries and sectors in Business Development roles.

Afterwards she went on working for MOL Group Business Development team where she participated in various international projects developing a deep understanding of oil and gas sector. That is where her interest in the sustainability aspect within a broader range of energy has started.

She is fluent in English and Russian, she is conversational in Hungarian, and  you can try a basic conversation with her in Korean.

Our advisory board

Our advisory board helps our daily work with their expertise.

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Alex Gerritsen
Non-Executive Director
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Alex has 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry and helped over 500 companies find employees. He worked as Managing Director with Sthree, covering nine offices with around 700 staff. In 2019 he restructured one of Germany’s largest permanent recruitment companies, Perm4.

Currently, he is a Partner DACH with the SR group and supports Hessian clients through his own company GPU. As a Partner within Meijer&Co, he supports our growth and upscaling within the CEE region.

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Ede Borbély
Non-Executive Director
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Ede has 13 years of experience in the energy industry. He worked in energy sales, transformation, strategy and due diligence projects at BCG, the Boston Consulting Group, for clients in 10+ countries. Afterwards, he was leading the creation of the renewable energy and energy efficiency division of MOL Group, a European industrial company.

In 2023, he joined BwB, the Investment Bank for Earth, as Vice President.

BwB provides non-profit financial advisory for governments and international institutions and aims to attract sufficient private and public capital to green transition projects globally.

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Gábor Molnár
Advisory Board Member
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Gábor started his career more than 10 years ago when he joined McKinsey&Company. He spent almost 3 years focusing on various industries including financial services, energy, and telecom. In 2015, he moved on to join MET Group, one of the fastest growing energy companies in Europe.

During the last decade, he has been actively shaping the establishment and expansion of activities in the renewable energy sector.

Gábor is currently the Director of Development & Engineering, responsible for implementing and constructing the gigawatt-scale renewable asset portfolio of MET Group across Europe.

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Eda G. Pogany
Advisory Board Member
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Éda’s passion for business sustainability has led her work in the FMCG and agriculture technology sector with Procter&Gamble, Coca-Cola HBC and Syngenta for the past 20+ years. She co-developed processes for managing and measuring sustainability strategy, engaging with stakeholders across the value chain and transparently reporting about achievements and challenges.

She believes that only sustainable business models will thrive, led by teams that can partner and co-create with other businesses, governments, regulators and civil society.

Éda currently leads sustainability and communications for Syngenta’s Field Crop Seeds business across EMEA.

How we create impact

Search should change what an organisation can achieve.

We start with the outcome behind the vacancy: the decision, capability or change the new hire must own.

That context shapes where we search, how we assess and what evidence we bring into the hiring conversation.

The result is a process designed for progress—not activity for its own sake.

What that means in practice

Business impact

We define what success looks like before the search starts, so candidate quality is connected to the work the organisation needs to move forward.

Human judgment

Data helps us see the market; careful conversations help us understand people. We use both to make stronger, more durable matches.

Accountable delivery

Clear milestones, honest market feedback and visible decisions keep clients and candidates aligned from brief to start.

Context over checklists

We look beyond titles and keywords to understand leadership scope, culture, motivation and the conditions a person needs to succeed.

Our core values

Outcomes over optics

A search matters when the person hired creates value. We keep the brief, evidence and decisions connected to that outcome.

Human focused

We use technology to expand research and speed up analysis, leaving more time for the judgment, challenge and trust that strong recruitment requires.

Partnerships that hold up

We work as an extension of the client team: direct about the market, responsive when priorities shift and accountable for progress.

Hire more efficiently and save your team’s bandwidth by tapping into our recruitment expertise and extensive talent pool!

Ready to solve your talent challenges?

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