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Lucrecia Airaldi

Lucrecia Airaldi founded Airaldi Smart Human Connections in 2007 and is its Managing Partner. Her specialities are Executive Search, Industry Specific Candidate Benchmarketing, Talent Mapping and Career Coaching.

More than 17 years ago, Lucrecia started a career as Head Hunter & Executive Search Consultant working with strong local firms such as Alex Pitasi & Associates and Bureau Consultants. In time she became a well-known professional among top consultants in specific markets and in 2007 founded Airaldi Smart Human Connections.

Clara Vitalini

Clara is one of the Managing Partner at our office in Milan, Italy. Being a native Italian, Clara lived in Canada during high school and university and earned a degree in Management from McGill University.

She returned to Italy to start her career in marketing at Procter & Gamble (Health & Beauty Division) before studying for an MBA at SDA Bocconi. She worked as Marketing Director for Italy and Europe at Ferrero, Sitia Yomo and Carlo Erba/Pharmacia.

Josefina Stoopen

Josefina is a Certified Coach by Newfield Consulting; Associated Certified-Meta-Coach by International Society of Neuro-Semantics; Executive Coach by Salom Change Dynamics; is a designated Team Coach by CCE International Coach Federation; and she has a Birkman Method Certification. She actively participates in career coaching and mentoring programs with executives.

Koichi Fukuda

Koichi is an Executive Advisor in Tokyo for the Board & CEO, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Energy & Natural Resource Practices. Concurrently, he serves for a few global energy companies as a board member and is one of the original members of Geniisis in San Francisco that represents people of “genius” such as the heads of major R&D centres, star professors and Nobel prize-winners from the global market.

Chris Reece

Chris Reece has been active in the world of Strategic Leadership and Human Capital Management for more than twenty-five years.

Chris supports the New York & Boston offices of EMA Partners. He has conducted over 250 executive searches and numerous organisational assessments and executive and management assessments. Chris has conducted assignments in all functional areas with an emphasis on executive and general management level searches. These organisations have ranged in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

Danny Zhang

Danny Zhang has 20 years of experience as an Executive Search practitioner. He also specializes in Talent Mapping, and Business Strategy in the IT, Internet, Manufacturing and Hospitality industries. Over the years, he has worked closely for recruitment with Fortune 500 companies and large private enterprises for positions in top Management, to head sectors like Legal, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, and Supply Chain, amongst others. 

Alexander L. Worsteling

Alex is the Managing Partner in Tokyo responsible for Consumer, Retail & Services, Industrial (consisting of Performance & Specialty Chemicals), Food Ingredients, Building & Construction, and a member of Government & Non-Profit Practices. He specialises in Management Search & C-suite Retained Recruiting Services.

María Isabel Luna

María Isabel Luna Kanematsu is a Managing Partner. She has experience working across industries and functional area including, Bruno Ferrini-Clarks Groups & Florsheim, Textile ALV, Citibank and Profuturo AFP. She is also a part-time faculty member for Human Resources Management, Training and Development, and Human Resources Processes at the University of Lima.

Hala Merhi

Hala Merhi is a Senior Partner with EMA Partners Saudi Arabia. She has more than two decades of experience with leading executive search firms and professional services firms across diversified sectors.

Prior to EMA Partners International, she worked at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The start of her career was with International Health Resources Corp. as a Recruitment Manager in Lebanon, overseeing the recruitment of medical and support staff for healthcare institutions in the Gulf region.

Yves Kernevez

Yves co-founded EMA Partners International along with James Douglas (UK) in 1989. He has a long and impressive career spanning more than 25 years as an Executive Search practitioner. He has undertaken numerous searches in the high-tech, life sciences, luxury goods, industry and retail sectors. Prior to becoming an executive search consultant, Yves was in charge of the Talent Acquisition with RANK XEROX. He has a Master degree in psycho-sociology.