Retained executive search in CEE
Technology and Telecoms
Menity leads retained searches for CEOs, board members, CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, CFOs, CHROs and commercial leaders in technology companies and telecom operators across CEE.
Menity compares internal successors with external candidates and recommends whom to appoint. Succession and leadership reviews can also be commissioned without a search.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
In retained executive search since 2007
Sector focus
Telecommunications · Software & IT Services · Cloud, Data & AI · Digital · Gaming
Core markets
Slovakia · Czechia · Hungary · Austria
Before you hire, promote or invest
When to involve Menity
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Benchmark role scope and compensation, and identify leaders who have built sales and delivery teams in your target markets.
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Compare internal and external successors, assess when each could take over and define the preparation they would need.
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Assess whether your current leadership and transformation leaders can deliver legacy replacement, cloud migration or AI deployment, and what external candidates have personally delivered.
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Before or after closing, assess whether the management team can deliver the investment plan, and recommend whom to retain, develop or replace.
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Decide which leaders run the combined or restructured business and assess each leader against the new structure.
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Define the CISO’s authority and reporting line, and assess experience in incident response, business continuity and supplier risk against the company’s obligations.
Completed mandates
Who our clients appointed
Menity assesses candidates through structured interviews and references, adding a business case or psychometrics where relevant to the role. These completed mandates show how that assessment informed the appointment. Client names remain confidential.
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Customer value · Telecoms · Eight CEE markets · 2025
Regional customer value and pricing director
Assessed candidates were not seeking a new role.
The brief: the client needed a regional leader to turn customer data, including AI-driven insight, into pricing models and value propositions across eight CEE markets.
Our contribution: we searched eight European countries and assessed candidates’ experience using customer data to shape pricing and offers, their personal contribution and the business results they could substantiate.
The client appointed a leader we identified and approached directly.
SaaS commercial strategy · Three-country search · 2025
Chief Commercial Officer
We searched three countries for a B2B leader to define SaaS pricing, value proposition and go-to-market across sales channels.
Interviews, a business case and psychometrics assessed adaptability and the transferability of experience from another market and sector.
The client appointed an international candidate.
Internal succession · Regional expansion · 2026
Country Managing Director
With Group HQ, we defined success criteria for expansion in high-tech distribution. Research across three CEE markets informed the brief.
We interviewed internal and external candidates against the same criteria and prepared a plan for an internal promotion.
The client promoted the internal candidate and engaged an external candidate in another regional role.
Conversations with technology and telecoms leaders
Leaders Talk
Interviews by Menity partners Vladimír Janík and Peter Nemčok.
February 2026
Jitka Adámková
Chief People, Law & Integrity Officer and Executive Board member
T-Mobile CZ & Slovak Telekom
January 2026
Martin Maštalír
General Manager, Dell Slovakia
President, AmCham Slovakia
Sector perspectives · CEE · October 2026
How leadership roles are changing
Recent public announcements from the sector, and what they mean for comparable appointments.
Questions before a senior mandate
What boards and CEOs usually need to know first
How long does a CTO or CIO search take in CEE telecoms?
Our planning target is a qualified shortlist by week four and a hiring decision within 8–12 weeks of the confirmed brief. Specialist experience, cross-border responsibilities and relocation can extend the process. Candidate notice periods are additional. You receive a weekly update covering search progress, candidate feedback, obstacles and decisions needed from your team.
Can you search confidentially for a replacement while the current executive is still in post?
Yes. We agree with you in advance who may know about the search and when the company’s identity can be disclosed. The responsible Managing Partner approaches selected candidates directly and controls what is shared at each stage.
Can your boutique model give us access to more candidates?
A smaller client portfolio can mean fewer off-limits restrictions than a large international network — and more executives we can approach for your role. Before accepting your mandate, we identify any restrictions affecting your target companies and candidates.
Speak with Peter Nemčok
Discuss a search or leadership review
Discuss a planned appointment, CEO succession or a review of your leadership team.
Co-Founder &
Managing Partner
Leads Menity’s Technology & Telecoms assignments.
Based in Bratislava. Working across CEE.
Confidential. Retained. Partner-led.