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Alessio Montaruli
Chief Executive Officer at KiTalent, with a focus on Europe & Middle East, Cross-border executive search, and Founder-led and board-level mandates.
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About Alessio Montaruli
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Alessio Montaruli
Chief Executive Officer
CEO @ KiTalent | Executive SearchGreater Milan Metropolitan Area
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.
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Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus, Kazakhstan
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Executive searchFinancial servicesTechnologyAutomotiveLuxuryEnergyCross-border hiring
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Career path
Chief Executive Officer · KiTalent
December 2020 - Present · Greater Milan Metropolitan Area
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Director · KiTalent
October 2016 - December 2020 · Greater Milan Metropolitan Area
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Manager, German & Italian Financial Services · Oliver James
October 2013 - September 2016 · Manchester, United Kingdom
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Search Consultant, Germany · Amoria Bond
May 2013 - October 2013 · Manchester, United Kingdom
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Account Manager for DACH and Italy · Pelsis
January 2012 - April 2013 · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Education
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Education
University of Turin
Master's Degree, Philosophy and History of Science · 2004 - 2009
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University of Turin
Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy · 2004 - 2007
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Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio
Secondary education · 1999 - 2004
KiTalent
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Turin
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New York
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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.
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About KiTalent
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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
2016Founded by Alessio Montaruli
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Proof-FirstCommercial model for shortlist validation
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Europe & Middle East
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Cross-border executive search
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Founder-led and board-level mandates
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