Information Technology Officers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.