STRATEGIC CONSULTANTS IN EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Experts in matching culture with talent.
OUR SERVICES
In the Talman Group we are specialists in the recruitment of management talent.
SPHERES OF INTERVENTION
Knowledge and experience of 360 º communication in a corporate environment, especially in family businesses and in the industrial sector.
OUR HISTORY IN FIGURES
More than 20 years in the successful recruitment and management of talent
350 companies have placed their trust in us
More than 1.250 projects successfully completed
60.000 people have placed their professional careers in our hands
Retention
The professionals who join companies establish stable and lasting relationships with them.
Loyalty
Percentage of returning clients.
OUR TEAM
Experts in matching culture with talent
A team of professionals who are completely dedicated to understanding organisations and meeting people in order to identify and recruit the particular talent that is best suited to each position.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
IGNASI RAFEL
Founding Partner and Director of the Talman Group
Industrial engineer (UPC), MBA (ESADE), PDG (IESE). More than 20 years’ experience as a headhunter. A strategic consultant who is an expert in the recruitment of management talent, specialising in family businesses and the industrial sector.
CARLOS ALBA
Talman Group Partner
Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism by EUHT Sant Pol, Postgraduate in Hospitality Management by Cornell University and Master in Business Administration by EAE Business School. Professional career in the Commercial Management field with multidisciplinary teams and entrepreneur of different start-ups.
9 years of experience as a Head hunter specialized in FMCG.
SUSANA GALCERÁN
Technical Director and Senior Consultant
Degree in Psychology from Barcelona University. Master’s degree in Management of Human Resources in Organisations from the IDEC. Regards herself as our clients’ strategic partner.
LLUÏSA CIVIL
Administration Department / Office Manager
Higher degree in Administration and Finance. More than 11 years in charge of the Talman Group’s Administration Department, and also its Office Manager. Ignasi Rafel’s “right-hand woman”.
ADVISORY CONSULTANT
JOSEP PARERA
Partner and General Commercial Manager of Top Cable, a family business manufacturing medium- and low-voltage electric cables.
After training as an industrial electrical engineer, he devoted his whole professional career to the general commercial management of his own company, which, together with his three brothers, he founded 35 years ago. Currently, he is also on Top Cable’s board of directors, and is a partner and consultant of the Talman Group.
MIQUEL MARTRET
Associate Director of the Talman Group.
Degree and MBA in Business Administration and Management from ESADE. Master’s degree in Strategy and Creativity from Ramón Llull University.
RAMON LLAGOSTERA
Industrial engineer (UPC), MBA (ESADE)
He is currently a shareholder and advisor of companies in the food sector: Celler Mas Doix, Patatas Fritas Torres and Speed & Efficiency and previously of Guzman Gastronomía. He works in the financial area at Laboratorios Almirall, Grupo Pepsico and the Schlumberger Group, and is General Manager of Bodegas Sumarroca. He is a partner and advisor of the Talman Group.
RAMON SAGARRA
Industrial engineer (UPC) and MBA (ESADE), who also holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Automation and Robotics (UPC).
An expert in public services networks and in energy. A specialist in telecommunications, electricity and control. The founder of the companies EACOM, MODI, NEXGENET, NEARBYSENSORS and NEARBYCOMPUTING. He was formerly Director of Technology at the engineering multinational ESTEYCO, Director of Infrastructures for 22@Barcelona,S.A., Director of Construction at ONO and a regular consultant for the Barcelona Council. He is also a partner and advisor of the Talman Group.
ANTONI CROUS
Chemical engineer with an MBA from ESADE. Academic Director of programmes for B2B companies at ESADE. A specialist in industrial marketing.
He has had management responsibilities in important, family businesses in the industrial sector. He was formerly General Manager of Uniland Cementera and Business Manager at Cementos Portland Valderrivas, La Seda de Barcelona and Plastivert. He was the founder of Quaternia. He is currently a director of Lafarga Lacambra, Encofrados Alsina and Talleres Felipe Verdés, and Chairman and General Manager of the Centre for Capillary Technology.
JOSEP MARIA JOANA
Graduate in Physical Sciences, PDD from the IESE and SEP from ESADE.
Director of Giró Packaging and of Barcelonesa de Productos Químicos, and Assistant to the CEO of González Byass. He was previously a partner of PWC, Vice-Chairman and General Manager of the consultancy division of IBM, and an academic assistant at ESADE.
OUR VALUES
ENTHUSIASM
COMMITMENT
AND LOYALTY
RESPONSIBILITY
AND HONESTY
CLOSENESS
AND TRUST
RIGOUR
AND FLEXIBILITY
EXCELLENCE
OUR WAY OF WORKING
BOUTIQUE
An executive search firm for an “immense minority”.
INNOVATION AND SKILL
We seek excellence with the help of new technologies, and combine innovation with the know-how of our profession.
TAILOR-MADE
Firma de autor para el siglo XXI. Hecho a medida porque cada proyecto es único y singular.
INTELLIGENCE AND INSTINCT
We read and interpret organisations. We work with attitudes, motivations, expectations. No robot can do our work.
