Financial Officers

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.

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.

With his extensive experience in the financial sector, in 2000, Rudolf began his career as an executive search practitioner where he focuses on managing assignments within the industrial, financial services, and private equity sectors.

Early in his career, Rudolf held a number of positions with the IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in both Hamburg and Düsseldorf. While there, Rudolf gained extensive experience in corporate banking, corporate finance, product marketing, change management and due diligence for private equity funds.

Paul-Werner, founder of EMA Partners Germany, retired in 2015 and is now acting as an adviser. He specialises in searches in the fields of private equity, consultancies, alternative energy, supervisory board members and family owned companies.

As Managing Partner, Henrik leads executive searches across industries and functional groups for both Finnish and international companies.

Henrik joined EMA Partners Finland in 2001 as a Senior Consultant. He has previously held senior roles as CFO and CEO for one of Scandinavia’s leading IT wholesaling companies. 

He is fluent in Finnish, Swedish, English, and German.

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.

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 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.