# Authors & Research Team - URL: https://kitalent.com/authors - Language: en - Family: core_support_corpus - Description: Meet the KiTalent people and research team behind the firm's public insights, sector coverage, and executive-search content. ## Page Content Expert profiles # Authors & Research Team Meet the people and research team behind KiTalent's executive-search work, market insight, and sector coverage. [About KiTalent](../about/) [KiTalent Entity Profile](../about/kitalent-entity-profile/) 13 Profiles Research team Included Sector coverage Across the site Turin HQ Company base Profiles ## People and research team These are the public profiles currently published for KiTalent's people and research team. Organization ### KiTalent Research Team KiTalent's research team produces market intelligence briefs, compensation benchmarks, and hiring trend analyses across sectors, functions, and executive markets. Market Intelligence [Open profile](kitalent-research-team/) → Team profile ### Alessio Montaruli Alessio Montaruli is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of KiTalent. He leads the firm's executive-search work across Europe, the Middle East, and other cross-border markets, with a long-standing focus on senior mandates in financial services, technology, automotive, luxury, and energy. Over more than a decade in talent acquisition, he has built a reputation for bespoke search execution, strong passive-market access, and high-trust delivery for both clients and candidates. Before scaling KiTalent, he worked in the UK recruitment market across German and Italian financial services, DACH commercial development, and international search assignments. He is fluent in English, Italian, German, and Spanish, and has lived and worked across Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus, and Kazakhstan. His background combines international search execution with a humanities education that still shapes the way he approaches complex leadership mandates and cross-cultural hiring. Chief Executive Officer 3 coverage areas [Open profile](alessio-montaruli/) → Team profile ### Sonia Sarnataro Covers Southern European executive-search mandates with a focus on country-specific market calibration and leadership mobility. Associate Director, Southern Europe 5 coverage areas [Open profile](sonia-sarnataro/) → Team profile ### Chiara Giacoletti Leads executive-search coverage across Central Europe, the DACH markets, and selected cross-border mandates in Eastern Europe and the Nordics. Associate Director, Central & Eastern Europe 5 coverage areas [Open profile](chiara-giacoletti/) → Team profile ### Katia Belous Oversees executive-search markets across Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia, with cross-border coverage for growth hubs and emerging leadership markets. Director, Middle East & Asia 5 coverage areas [Open profile](katia-belous/) → Team profile ### Milena Vitale Supports Italian city and regional search mandates with ground-level market context and leadership-mapping coverage across domestic hubs. Associate Director 2 coverage areas [Open profile](milena-vitale/) → Team profile ### Denise Ozbasaran Covers key US city markets and supports executive-search delivery in major metropolitan demand centers. Office Manager, New York 1 coverage areas [Open profile](denise-ozbasaran/) → Team profile ### Nicholas Finato Supports North American country and regional growth markets across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Business Development Manager 3 coverage areas [Open profile](nicholas-finato/) → Team profile ### Abdulla Nader Owns Cyprus city-market coverage with a focus on Nicosia and adjacent executive-search demand in the island's commercial centers. Business Development Manager 1 coverage areas [Open profile](abdulla-nader/) → Team profile ### Manuel D'Angelo Anchors Turin-area executive-search coverage and adjacent Piedmont market mapping. Business Development Manager 2 coverage areas [Open profile](manuel-dangelo/) → Team profile ### Andrea Miano Leads banking, wealth, and adjacent financial-services mandate coverage across executive-search and market-intelligence content. Client Manager, Banking & Wealth Management 4 coverage areas [Open profile](andrea-miano/) → Team profile ### Anna Renna Covers consumer, FMCG, luxury, and hospitality search mandates with sector-specific demand insight. Client Manager, Food & FMCG 4 coverage areas [Open profile](anna-renna/) → Team profile ### Chiara Santoro Leads insurance and adjacent risk/compliance market coverage across executive-search mandates and supporting thought leadership. Client Manager, Insurance 4 coverage areas [Open profile](chiara-santoro/) → KiTalent ## Hub presence in images These images keep the profile pages connected to KiTalent's offices, hubs, and team base in Turin. European headquarters ### Turin Turin remains the company's headquarters and the anchor point for the European operating model. Americas hub ### New York The New York hub supports North American mandates and wider cross-border search work across the Americas. Middle East hub ### Nicosia Nicosia connects the Cyprus base with broader executive-search work across the Middle East. Asia Pacific hub ### Almaty Almaty anchors KiTalent's Central Asian and Asia Pacific search footprint. Team image ### KiTalent team presence This image brings the profile pages back to the people behind the work, with Turin as headquarters and the four hubs supporting cross-border delivery. Turin HQ Cross-hub delivery Executive search Market intelligence Company ## About KiTalent Shared company information that also appears across the public profiles in this section. Entity profile ### Company context KiTalent is an international executive search firm. Founded by Alessio Montaruli in 2016 and headquartered in Turin, Italy, the firm operates through four regional hubs across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Its model combines direct headhunting, market intelligence, and Proof-First Search to deliver executive mandates with lower execution risk. - Name: KiTalent - Headquarters: Turin, Italy - Founded: 2016 [Open entity profile](../about/kitalent-entity-profile/) [About KiTalent](../about/) [View methodology](../methodology/) External profiles ### Company profiles SameAs ### LinkedIn Public company profile associated with KiTalent. www.linkedin.com/company/kitalentgroup [Open profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kitalentgroup) → SameAs ### Facebook Public company profile associated with KiTalent. www.facebook.com/KiTalentGroup [Open profile](https://www.facebook.com/KiTalentGroup/) → SameAs ### X Public company profile associated with KiTalent. x.com/kitalentgroup [Open profile](https://x.com/kitalentgroup) → 2016 Founded by Alessio Montaruli 4 Regional hubs in the operating model Proof-First Commercial model for shortlist validation