Mladen is Managing Partner and co-founder of TheXecutives. He was born in Croatia in 1965, raised in Bosnia, studied economy in Serbia and lives today in Vienna, Austria with his wife and three children. Following ten years of professional experience in various roles in consumer, trading and investment companies, Mladen joined Vienna-based Neumann executive search and HR consulting group in the second half of the 1990s.

For more than 15 years, he occupied various roles there – starting from Research Consultant, Consultant, and Senior Consultant to Senior Partner. As a member of the group’s executive committee, he was in charge of leading the business in the developing and emerging markets of Europe. Mladen’s core competence is client relationship management in consumer related, retail and manufacturing sectors and he covers executive search, talent management and leadership consulting projects. He speaks German, English, Serbian and Croatian, while still improving his Russian and Italian. Mladen is passionate about his profession, books, cars and the sea.

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Boban Ilic is a Partner and co-founder of TheXecutives. Based in Vienna and in Belgrade, he graduated in Processing Technology and is fluent in English. He has a strong expertise in recruiting professionals from CEE and from Western Europe. His international search experience includes a wide variety of top executives in the FMCG, financial services, healthcare, industrial and retail industries, as well as heads of function and other specialist roles.

Boban began his career with The Coca-Cola Company, as Technical Services Manager, responsible for SEE. Later on, he joined Procter & Gamble, where he was HR Manager SEE responsible for both P&G and local distributor’s HR management development. He started in Bucharest (regional HQ) and later moved to Belgrade, with direct responsibility for Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia. He was one of the HR management pioneers in the region.

Ever since he joined Neumann back in 2001, Boban continuously grows his expertise, network and various industries exposure throughout CEE.

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Eugenia is Partner and co-founder of TheXecutives and is now sharing time between Vienna and Moscow. Eugenia was born in Russia, studied Economy and Management at the University of Modern Business. She gained her Professional Human Resources Certification from Human Resource Certification Institute, USA and obtained her MBTI qualification with OPP Ltd. Eugenia is a qualified Coach, by methodology of University of Executive Coaching, UK.

Eugenia specializes in executive search, coaching and consulting in Central and Eastern Europe. She brings more than 16 years of experience in Human Resources. During her career, she has participated in and led a large variety of projects in recruitment, organizational development, change management and talent development. She has conducted many searches for top positions for a broad range of functions.

Before joining the Neumann team in 2008, Eugenia specialized mostly in the Human Capital field, serving in different senior HR roles with companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Renaissance Credit and Western Union.

Eugenia’s core competence is business development and project management in Russia, CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, executive search and coaching, leadership assessment and development. She is a native Russian speaker and is fluent in English and currently improves her German and Spanish language skills. Eugenia is passionate about helping people to find their place in life and realize their fullest potential.

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Mikhail is a Recruitment Projects Coordinator at TheXecutives. He was born in Podolsk, Russia in 1979.

Mikhail studied history at the Moscow Pedagogical University, and he lives in Moscow to this day with his wife and two children. Mikhail began his career in the recruitment business shortly after his graduation in 2001. Having progressed from a Recruitment Consultant position to the role of the Executive Director at the Russian recruitment company 3R, he co-founded MarksMan, the management selection firm in 2005.

Today MarksMan is a notable player in the Russian recruiting services market that successfully implemented hundreds of complex projects. MarksMan’s clients list includes major international corporations of Fortune 500 as well as the largest and most successful Russian companies. During the next nine years, Mikhail served as Managing Partner and was responsible for developing client relationships, company’s recruitment projects, marketing and staff development.

In 2014, Michael joined TheXecutives with a main goal of developing large, complex recruitment and talent acquisition projects for the company’s key partners. Mikhail is fluent in Russian and English. He is passionate about music, books and road trips and travel.

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Mikhail is our driver and courier at TheXecutives’ Moscow office. Born in Moscow in 1960, Mikhail knows the city like the back of his hand. Whether it is a complex meeting agenda or a quick time and route estimation, Mikhail is the best and never late!

Mikhail studied at Machinery Building College and later worked as a senior driver for the USSR Army in Siberia. He now lives in Moscow with his wife and two daughters. Mikhail’s job experience includes working with Foreign Ministries and expats, the BBC channel in Russia and for international film festivals. He worked at an international logistics company and currency exchange firm and was in charge of the top-management logistics, until he finally joined the Moscow team of the TheXecutives over seven years ago.

Mikhail’s core competence is transport and logistics support of the Moscow office. Apart from his profession, Mikhail loves nature and spending time with his growing family.

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