Vitalé

Executive Recruitment & Search

Where talent
meets purpose.

Vitalé is a boutique executive search and technology recruitment consultancy. We combine deep talent expertise with genuine technical intelligence — to place leaders and specialists who transform organisations.

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23+
Years combined expertise
Executive Search Tech Recruitment Strategic Consulting Leadership Advisory AI & Data Search Executive Search Tech Recruitment Strategic Consulting Leadership Advisory AI & Data Search

A precision approach
to every placement.

We work with a deliberately limited number of clients to deliver the rigour, attention, and calibre that transformative hires demand. Every mandate receives our full focus.

01
Executive
Search

Retained and contingency search for C-suite, VP, and Director-level appointments across tech, energy, and professional services. We advise on the right engagement model for your mandate — and deliver either way.

02
Technology
Recruitment

Specialist placement of data engineers, AI/ML professionals, and senior technical talent. We understand the nuance that generalist firms miss.

03
Strategic
Consulting

Talent strategy, compensation benchmarking, and organisational design advisory for scale-ups and established enterprises entering new markets.

Sectors we
know deeply.

Our current active mandates span energy, technology, and financial services. Our broader experience covers virtually every major industry — we go where the talent challenge demands it.

Energy
Global majors & clean energy transition
Technology
AI, data, cloud & enterprise software
Financial Services
Banking, insurance & capital markets
Fintech & Insurtech
Emerging platforms & digital disruptors
Professional Services
Consulting, legal & advisory firms
Luxury & Retail
Premium brands & consumer sector

Also active in: pharma & life sciences · aviation · hospitality · media · real estate

Rigorous by
design.

Every search follows the same disciplined methodology — whether retained or contingency. The model adapts. The standard doesn't.

01
Brief & Align

We begin with a deep diagnostic — role requirements, team architecture, cultural expectations, and the unspoken criteria that separate a good hire from a transformative one.

02
Search & Map

Targeted market mapping and direct sourcing. We approach talent who are not looking — because the best candidates rarely are.

03
Assess & Shortlist

Rigorous qualification against brief, behavioural assessment, and structured shortlisting. You see only candidates who are genuinely worth your time.

04
Close & Integrate

Offer management, negotiation advisory, and post-placement follow-through. We remain engaged until the hire is settled — and beyond.

A note on discretion All mandates are conducted with absolute confidentiality. We do not disclose client identities, share candidate information without consent, or position any engagement in a way that could compromise the reputations of those involved. This is not a policy — it is how we operate.

What our founders
have delivered.

A selection of mandates from our founders' careers prior to Vitalé — reflecting the depth, complexity, and global reach of work we are built to continue delivering.

Insurtech · Saudi Arabia
Full Leadership Build for a Pioneer Insurtech
Global Search · End-to-End Delivery
Among the first insurtech platforms of its kind in the Kingdom — backed by the largest insurance group in Saudi Arabia. The mandate was to build the entire leadership team from the ground up: a global search spanning multiple functions, seniority levels, and geographies, executed without an existing talent infrastructure.

Every key hire was delivered. Every project milestone was met on schedule. A complex, high-stakes build completed with the pace and precision the client demanded.
Full
Leadership team placed
Global
Search scope
100%
On-time delivery
Insurance · GCC
Chief Actuary Placement from Central Bank
Senior Executive Search · Cross-Sector Move
A leading regional insurance group required a Chief Actuary capable of building and leading an actuarial function at scale — someone with both the technical depth and the authority to command a board-level audience.

The placed candidate was recruited directly from a GCC central bank. A move requiring careful positioning, sustained trust-building, and a compelling narrative on both sides. The appointment was made, and the function has since been established under their leadership.
C-Suite
Appointment level
Cross
Sector transition
Energy · Technology
Senior Technical Hiring, Global Energy Sector
Active at Vitalé · AI & Data Engineering
An active programme of senior technical placements — data engineers, AI/ML specialists, and technology leaders — for a major player in the global energy sector. Every brief is assessed with direct technical rigour, reviewed against the realities of the engineering environment rather than the job description alone.

This is the intersection at which Vitalé is uniquely positioned: executive search expertise combined with technology advisory from an active practitioner at the highest level of the industry.
Active
Ongoing at Vitalé
AI/Data
Core discipline
Upcoming · May 4–5, 2026 · Almaty, Kazakhstan
Meeting us at GITEX AI
Central Asia & Caucasus?
We will be attending the inaugural GITEX AI Central Asia & Caucasus — the region's premier technology and AI summit. If you are building a team, hiring technical talent, or exploring a search partnership, we would welcome the conversation in Almaty.
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Boutique.
By design.

Built on 23 years
of considered practice.

Vitalé was founded on a simple conviction: that exceptional hiring demands exceptional attention. We are an independent boutique operating globally — combining deep sector knowledge with genuine relationships built over more than a decade in executive and technology recruitment.

We are not a volume business. We are a quality one.

23+
Years of combined experience
3
Practice verticals
Global
Search capability
GCC+
Deep market knowledge

Two disciplines.
One standard.

Vitalé is built on the conviction that the best talent decisions sit at the intersection of human intelligence and analytical rigour. We bring both — from opposite ends of the table.

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Abitha Varakil
Co-Founder & Head of Talent Advisory

With over 12 years placing C-suite, senior executive, and specialist talent across the GCC and beyond, Abitha brings a rare combination of market depth, pattern recognition, and commercial instinct to every search.

Formerly Senior Delivery Consultant at Intelligent Solutions HR and HR Business Partner at Meraas Holding, she has navigated executive recruitment across insurance, financial services, media, and technology sectors. An NLP-certified coach and founder of Vitalé, Abitha leads the firm's talent advisory and executive search practice.

Executive Search GCC Markets C-Suite Placement NLP Coaching Financial Services Technology
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Aleksei Zotov
Co-Founder & Head of Technology Advisory

A Staff AI Engineer with deep hands-on experience across the global energy sector, fintech, and AI research, Alex brings the technical fluency that separates credible technology search from guesswork.

Having led machine learning and AI/ML engineering across organisations in Copenhagen, Bangkok, and London — including a major integrated energy corporation and one of Southeast Asia's leading fintech platforms — he understands the architecture of high-performing technical teams from the inside. At Vitalé, Alex leads technology advisory, ensuring every technical brief is assessed with the rigour it demands.

AI & ML Engineering Energy Sector Fintech MLOps Data Engineering GCP / Cloud

Let's find someone
remarkable.

Whether you're building a team, seeking a specific leader, or exploring a partnership — we'd like to hear from you.

Email hello@vitale.agency
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