Industrial and Manufacturing

Managing Partner at EMA Partners Switzerland AG and responsible for the Digital & Technology Practice. Bringing multi-year experience in banking and international management consulting, with over 35 years of entrepreneurial experience in the fields of information technology, executive search, and human resources consulting across a variety of industries. 

Degree in Business Informatics, MBA in International Management Consulting, training in NLP, NDS in Psychology & Management, certified Employer Branding Expert.

Joana Carvalho Neto joined EMA Partners has Senior Associate Partner in January 2024. She has solid experience in general and HR management, training & organizational development, talent management, executive recruitment, and project management. She was exposed to a wide range of business areas throughout her career, which gave her a macro perspective of company management as well as a broad understanding of how businesses operate in a variety of fields.

Adarsh is part of the Industrial & Manufacturing Practice for the firm in India. Based out of EMA Partners’ Gurgaon office, he is responsible for client acquisition, execution of CXO mandates and stakeholder management. Preceding his current role, he was associated with a boutique executive search firm as an Associate Principal for the Industrial and Manufacturing sector.  Earlier he worked with a leading global healthcare company, as Senior Leadership Search Advisor and was hiring for their International Operations across Southeast Asia and Europe.

Marie Guillot is Managing Partner of the EMA Partners Houston office and has been a leader in retained executive search since 2007, following a 20-year career in industry as an executive in high-growth private and public companies. Marie has conducted over 700 executive search assignments including Board & C-Suite, VP, and Director roles for companies operating both domestically and internationally.

Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her early career began in commercial and marketing areas in the financial and industrial sector, both in Chile and Brazil.

Since 1999 she is working in human resources consulting, compensation studies, primarily relating to the executive role.

In 2005, starts getting involved in executive search services and opinion studies.

Cecilia is the Founding Partner of TestaNova, focusing on customers´ needs throughout an integral service and shared business vision.

Kathy began her career early as a HR in the IT industry. Following this, she has over 20 years of experience in Executive Search, with a focus on IT, Retail and Luxury industries. She has conducted assignments for Fortune 500 MNC's in China and Globally , to support her clients across industry sectors, in all functional areas ranging from director level to C-suites.

Kathy has an MBA degree from Aston Business School in the UK and is a Bachelor of Computer Science. She is also a nationally registered Psychological Consultant in China.

Prakash co-founded EMA Partners India in 2003, and serves as its Managing Partner. He works closely with clients in the Industrial, Life Sciences & Healthcare sectors across EMA Partners offices in India. His deep expertise in these areas has anchored numerous searches to identify business line and functional leadership. Prakash has conducted numerous technical searches in niche areas within these domains. He works closely with private equity investors to build leadership teams for their portfolio companies.

Sabine Byland works as a Senior Consultant for EMA Partners Switzerland AG. In addition to her consulting and project management activities, she assumes leadership responsibility and has years of experience in recruiting executives and specialists.

Sabine studied business administration and completed training as a coach.