Our Team
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Marija Grebovic - Head of Research / Senior Talent Partner
Marija built our sourcing and research team. Deep sourcing and using advanced techniques like boolean search is the key to finding hard to find candidates. She has a dual role and works as a Senior Talent Partner clients like OakNorth Bank, Focaldata, Partech Partners and Watar Partners.
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Alex van Klaveren - CEO & Founder
Alex is an entrepreneur who has built technology, service and hardware businesses in the UK and US. Over a 25 year career in startups, he has sold three businesses as a founder and worked in senior roles at scale ups like Onefinestay. In the last 8 years Kandidate / Sherpa has worked with founders and talent teams backed by the world’s leading VC’s. Hiring remains one of the most challenging aspects of building a great company and Sherpa has the process and experience to deliver on your hiring needs.
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Sofiane Lahlaoui - Senior Talent Partner (France)
Sofiane has been a Senior Talent Partner for 6 years. His expertise is working on product and engineering roles for AI clients. He covers UK and European clients He is constantly finding new ways to improve our process with AI tools - ask him to show you! His client list is long and varied but recent wins include hiring the Director of Engineering for Cintoo (SaaS / Series B backed by Partech) and a lead AI Engineer for Asbi Tech / Watar Partners
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Arielle Carrara - Senior Talent Partner GTM
Arielle has been a senior Talent Partner for 9 years and worked with multiple scale ups. She is originally from Austin, Texas and now lives in Barcelona. She has worked on roles across the whole org but has expertise in GTM and marketing roles