Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Menity
Vladimír Janík
Vladimír leads retained executive search for boards, CEOs, CHROs and investors across CEE, with selected mandates in Germany and the UK.
He focuses on CEO succession, board appointments and confidential C-level searches in financial services, aviation and aerospace, and telecommunications, particularly for regulated roles and appointments during ownership changes.
1998–2007
Corporate HR
Since 2007
Retained executive search
300+
Retained appointments led
Professional profile
From corporate HR to executive search
“For me, a senior appointment starts with clear responsibilities, decision-making authority and expected results.”
— Vladimír Janík
Vladimír brings nearly three decades of experience in corporate HR and executive search. Before co-founding Menity in 2007, he spent nine years in telecommunications and banking, including as HR Director during the HVB Bank–UniCredit integration.
An entrepreneur for nearly twenty years, Vladimír approaches leadership decisions as a business owner as well as an HR professional. CEOs and CHROs turn to him for a second opinion on leadership and organisation questions.
He holds a master’s degree in military aviation operations from the Military Aviation Academy of General M. R. Štefánik in Košice and has worked with EASA regulatory requirements in aviation appointments.
Executive search & CEO advisory focus
Sector experience
Aviation & aerospace
Financial services
Telecommunications
Professional standards
Selected mandates
Regulated appointments and ownership transitions
Examples of completed executive search mandates. Client names remain confidential.
Aviation · Management Board
Two Management Board appointments
For a European airline operator: CTO and CHRO, both with Management Board seats, and a Chief Compliance & Safety Officer. Regulatory eligibility was screened before the shortlist.
Four of five shortlisted CTO candidates already held nominated-person status.
A successor map before the change
A C-level role requiring fit-and-proper approval had to be replaced before the incumbent was informed.
Seven potential successors identified in Czechia and Slovakia. The board used the map to plan the timing.
Selected perspectives
Insights and conversations
Since 2014, Vladimír has interviewed CEOs, board members and HR leaders across CEE about decisions they have made, the trade-offs involved and what they learned. Explore selected conversations below.
CEOs, managing directors and board members
VP Retail Operations & eMobility
Managing Director Slovakia
OMV
Jitka Adámková
Executive Board member, Chief People, Law & Integrity Officer and
T-Mobile CZ & Slovak Telekom
Martin Maštalír
General Manager, Dell Slovakia
President, AmCham Slovakia
CHROs and HR leaders
Sandra Balážiková
Head of HR
ING Hubs Slovakia
Miriam Krivosudská
HR Director Commercial & Enabling Functions CEE
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Jana Vričanová
HR Director
Notino
How Menity works
Partner-led from brief to final decision
Since 2007, Menity has worked exclusively on a retained basis. Each mandate is led by a Managing Partner who remains accountable from the brief to the client's final decision, supported by the firm’s research team.
Confidential. Retained. Partner-led.
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