ABOUT US
Executive Hunt
We bring to our clients our broad experience, high quality of operations and specialist expertise.
Our team has decades of experience in leading and carrying out recruitment processes across industries and companies. We have led and successfully completed thousands of direct search assignments. Each of our consultants has also held senior executive roles with profit-and-loss responsibility before moving into direct search. We have a strong ability to understand our clients’ strategic objectives, leadership challenges and conditions for growth at a practical level.
Executive Hunt Oy is a professional organisation that knows what needs to be done and how to act, and also what is not worth doing.
Senior Partner | CEO | Headhunter
TERO PANHELAINEN
Tero Panhelainen is the CEO, a partner and an executive search consultant at Executive Hunt Oy. He has broad experience of leading, growing and developing businesses, and of working with senior executives, executive teams and key people. Experience of different business environments, situations of change and growth projects gives him a strong foundation for understanding clients’ strategic business, leadership and competence needs.
He is able to quickly grasp a client’s current business situation, objectives and key challenges, and to identify the competence needs that are critical to achieving them. In search assignments, he focuses in particular on executive search for boards, senior management and other strategically important key people. His approach is based on a deep understanding of the client’s business, careful definition of needs, and the ability to build an appealing whole that speaks to the candidates best suited to the role.
In his way of working, Tero is goal-oriented, solution-focused and practical. For him, a successful search does not mean merely finding the right person, but building a long-term solution that supports the client’s business objectives.
Senior Partner | COO | Headhunter
JUKKA LAINE
Jukka Laine is a partner, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and executive search consultant at Executive Hunt Oy. He has more than 25 years of experience in leading, developing and growing international businesses across a range of industries. Experience of working with CEOs, executive teams, business unit leaders and specialist organisations gives him a strong foundation for understanding clients’ strategic business, leadership and competence needs.
He is able to quickly grasp a client’s current business situation, objectives and key challenges, and to identify the competence needs that are critical to achieving them. Long practical experience in business leadership, strategy execution, sales development and change management helps him identify what kind of leadership, competence and experience different situations require.
In his way of working, Jukka is goal-oriented, solution-focused and practical. For him, a successful assignment means finding a solution that strengthens the client’s business and creating lasting value for the client, the organisation and the person selected.
Partner | Team Leader | Headhunter
Jani Kohonen
Jani has strong and broad experience in leadership, executive team work and business development. His strengths include the ability to form a clear overall picture even of complex operating environments in both retail and industry, and to identify development needs.
In everything he does, Jani emphasises goal-orientation, a strong work ethic and trust. He believes success comes from clear goals, an encouraging work community and open interaction.
“Challenges should be approached innovatively, building solutions that meet both current and future needs while respecting the client’s starting point.”
Partner | Headhunter
Matti Järvinen
Matti has broad and varied experience in leading and developing business in demanding and constantly changing operating environments. He has worked for a long time in international roles and has led businesses and organisations around the world, which has given him a strong understanding of how to reconcile global operating models, cultures and markets.
Matti’s background extends from start-ups to listed companies, and he has experience of organisations’ different stages of development, from building growth to renewing the business and turning-point change projects. He has held several senior executive roles with overall responsibility for business results, operations and strategy execution.
The ability to see the whole picture, identify the key development areas of a business and put changes into practice is a central part of Matti’s approach. His leadership emphasises a clear direction, well-functioning structures and getting people committed to shared goals. Strong international business experience combined with practical delivery capability makes him a valuable partner for organisations seeking sustainable growth and results-driven renewal.
Partner | Headhunter
Antti Jussila
Antti is an experienced business professional with versatile expertise in senior management roles, developing operational efficiency, and leading service and solution sales. He has a strong understanding of the dynamics of executive and strategy teams and of the factors that influence success.
Thanks to his strongly analytical mindset, Antti always immerses himself deeply in the client’s business and strategic objectives when a collaboration begins.
“Finding the right person starts with understanding the business. When strategy, goals and people’s motivating factors meet, the desired business results and lasting collaboration follow.”
Partner | Headhunter
JUKKA MAIJALA
Jukka has broad experience of commercial leadership in the telecom, manufacturing, retail and public sector industries, where he has built growth by leading business and sales and by developing service business in a variety of operating environments. He also has experience in executive coaching and consulting roles.
He has a strong understanding of the connection between strategy, corporate culture and leadership, and the ability to quickly identify a client’s objectives, challenges and the competence needs critical to achieving them. Experience of leading large entities, project management skills and good interaction skills support success even in challenging situations.
Jukka is people-oriented, goal-driven, solution-focused and practical. He builds solutions based on a strong understanding of the client, solutions that create value for clients, strengthen their business and support growth.
Partner | Headhunter
JUKKA VIRI
Jukka has long and varied experience in demanding executive and board roles, in which he has looked at business broadly from different perspectives, executed strategies and built skilled, successful organisations. His background also includes leading several business transformations, demanding projects and significant investments. A strategy that lives in the present, and the continuous development of competence and organisations, are close to his heart. From these elements, Jukka assembles the ingredients for successful headhunting processes.
Co-Founder | Headhunter
KARI SERJAMAA
Kari has long and solid experience in the roles of both corporate decision-maker and headhunter. Defining a company’s strategy and carrying it out operationally together with the executive team is the practical leadership experience that Kari now draws on as a headhunter. Curiosity and the ability to question things in a positive way are the strengths through which he finds working solutions for different client situations. Kari’s strength is leading and carrying out headhunting processes for senior and middle management, including in international contexts.
Presales Manager
Ari Huomolin
Ari has a background in communications, media and content marketing. He has long worked with storytelling and interaction, and has produced content for television, radio and various industries in retail, associations and event production. His journalistic background and experience of leading creative projects have developed his ability to see what is essential and to put things into words clearly. As Presales Manager, Ari focuses on understanding clients’ situations, goals and future needs, and on being a reliable sparring partner for the decision-makers who are key to the business.
Advisor
RAIMO MANSIKKAOJA
Raimo has solid and versatile experience in international business. For almost 30 years he has been a leader and executive team member across different industries. Thanks to his consulting background, he has the experience and ability to take on new challenges effectively. As a change leader, he has been responsible for organising and resourcing both business and international development projects in different cultures.
Change management and project management are an essential foundation, but successful headhunting also requires a holistic approach, sensitivity and active interaction. Together with Raimo’s varied international recruitment experience, this ensures success even in challenging situations.
Advisor
KAI-PETTERI PURHONEN
Kai-Petteri has broad experience of operational leadership in companies and of board work. Board experience across several industries and with different types of owners has given him a foundation for absorbing different leadership situations and combining what he has already learned with future needs. People as a resource and as the starting point of strategy is the foundation of a company’s operations and planning.
This is exactly what got Kai-Petteri interested in the operations built on Executive Hunt’s concept, which starts out disruptively from tomorrow’s needs, not yesterday’s. Kai-Petteri is enthusiastic about learning new things and believes his experience will help clients in senior management recruitment as well.
Why Executive Hunt?
The changing world is also reflected in candidates’ own perspective: a potential candidate is increasingly critical and selective about what kind of company they want to work for, what they want to do and how they want to work. In the big picture, recruitment is therefore more difficult and riskier than before from the standpoint of achieving strategic objectives, growth and costs.
Executive Hunt Oy recognises and takes into account all these factors affecting society and the market, and solves them to the client’s benefit with its own conceptualised, systematic, process-based, high-quality professional expertise. Executive Hunt Oy provides the client with certainty, measurable operations and a successful outcome. In a conservative industry, Executive Hunt Oy represents an innovative, results-producing strategic partner approach.
