Board and CEO Services

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.

Phil’s specialist practice areas include Energy and Natural Resources, Board and CEO Services, Industrial, Financial Services and Global Technology and Communications.

Phil started his recruitment career in 1993 before founding his own search firm in 2000. He has helped hundreds of businesses across all sectors to identify and recruit senior-level talent throughout the UK.

Phil is a well-known figure in the UK Executive Search Industry and is regularly quoted in the UK media. He is a graduate engineer with a Master’s Degree in Control with Information Technology.

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.

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 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 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 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.