Friisberg & Partners International welcomes Susanna Hübner as their new Executive Search Lead Consultant in Berlin.
She has several years of professional experience as an Executive in Financial Markets and as a Communications Manager working on internal and external interfaces in Europe and will be building up the new Berlin office for Friisberg.
Susanna focuses on filling management positions in the financial and digital technologies sectors as well as in the specialist areas of media and communication.
Thorsten Marquardt has joined Friisberg & Partners International in Germany.
Thorsten has extensive knowledge of the international energy industry from more than 20 years in various management and executive functions in BP, Fortum and E.ON. Before he joined Friisberg in Germany he worked as Director of Innovation at s.Oliver and Managing Director in MediaMarktSaturn’s Retailtech Hub.
In addition to working with companies in the energy sector Thorsten also works with and across industries in digital business. He focuses on senior executive recruitment for publicly as well as privately owned customers, private equity firms and family businesses as well as start-ups. He advises the organizations and their boards along the entire value chain upstream, midstream and downstream in creating and strengthening effective top executive leadership teams who manage the sector-coupled energy transformation and digitization.
Thorsten is based in Munich. He is a passionate football fan and loves the mountains, where he hikes, bikes and skis.
Meltem Ay joins Friisberg & Partners International with over thirteen years of experience in various fields of Executive Search. In recent years she has been primarily focused on Financial Services.
Meltem has an excellent background and significant expertise as both a recruiter and manager. She has worked with national and international clients ranging from medium-sized businesses to global companies in Financial Services, and also in industrial markets.
Prior to joining Friisberg & Partners, Meltem Ay was a Principal / Client Partner and a key Member of the Global Financial Services practice of another highly-respected international executive search firm, and spent the preceding ten years as a successful consultant with various other international search firms.
Well, we had an interesting summer from a business perspective in Hungary.
Many of our assignments were stopped, or put on hold and obviously not much new business landed on our desks. We had lost half of our expected business by May - comparing it to the volume we had in H1 2019.
Over the past 6 months we had many Teams meetings with our Friisberg colleagues, globally. I spoke many times with my friend and colleague, Alexander Matthies (Friisberg Germany) about the trends impacting us in Hungary, the similar trends affecting his business in Germany and yet how he continued to be so successful – seemingly Covid proof.
He shared Friisberg Germany’s strategy designed to keep their 2020 revenue plans alive - or even exceed them. In all honesty his advice sounded a little at odds with my own instincts:
I was astonished!
Could it be that simple?
Then I thought about how much it would cost if we simply waited passively for the pandemic to be over. The answer was indeed simple: if we waited, it would cost us a lot.
So, we actively adopted Alexander’s advice and it resulted in several new mandates. Then he called us with two cross-border Searches which we quickly and successfully delivered. Now, we are currently meeting prospective consultants in Budapest to further enhance our team.
Our existing clients have increasingly turned to us during this crisis. We are objectively able to highlight the weaknesses within their organisations by suggesting they talk openly with us as a trusted partner. By sharing ideas and openly discussing future decisions with trusted friends and colleagues, we can all adopt new and successful strategies.
We decided to shape our future instead of simply reacting to it.
Everyone at Friisberg joins in congratulating our German Partners on their latest in a string of awards.
GetAhead Executive Search would like to thank all their clients for the positive feedback which led to their appointment as "TOP CONSULTANT 2020".
