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Authors & Research Team
Meet the KiTalent people and research team behind the firm's public insights, sector coverage, and executive-search content.
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Meet the people and research team behind KiTalent's executive-search work, market insight, and sector coverage.
Section 01
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Team profile
Nicholas Finato
Supports North American country and regional growth markets across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Business Development Manager
3 coverage areas
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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
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Team profile
Manuel D'Angelo
Anchors Turin-area executive-search coverage and adjacent Piedmont market mapping.
Business Development Manager
2 coverage areas
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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
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Team profile
Anna Renna
Covers consumer, FMCG, luxury, and hospitality search mandates with sector-specific demand insight.
Client Manager, Food & FMCG
4 coverage areas
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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
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KiTalent
Section 02
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
Section 03
About KiTalent
Shared company information that also appears across the public profiles in this section.
Entity profile
Company context
KiTalent, formerly Talent Acquisition Partners, is the public-facing executive-search brand of Talent Acquisition Partners Group. 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.
- Public-facing name: KiTalent
- Former name: Talent Acquisition Partners
- Legal brand statement: KiTalent is a brand of Talent Acquisition Partners Group.
- Founded: 2016
External profiles
Company profiles
SameAs
Public company profile associated with KiTalent.
www.linkedin.com/company/kitalentgroup
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SameAs
Public company profile associated with KiTalent.
www.facebook.com/KiTalentGroup
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SameAs
X
Public company profile associated with KiTalent.
x.com/kitalentgroup
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2016
Founded by Alessio Montaruli
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Regional hubs in the operating model
Proof-First
Commercial model for shortlist validation
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