The right leaders and organization to create value.
For companies owned or backed by private equity, family offices and holdings, and for companies in a growth phase. We work out what the organization needs, design it and hire the leaders who run it.
Consultancies stop at the org chart. Search firms start at the job description. We take it from diagnosis to signed contract.
When ownership changes, a plan shifts or AI changes the work in a function, the organization has to follow. We define what it needs and put the right people in place.
Private equity portfolio companies
Entry to exit
Holdings, family offices and buy-and-build platforms
Across the group
Growth-stage companies
After financing
Three practices, one partner
Advisory defines what the organization needs. Search and Embedded put the people in place.
Organization & Leadership Advisory
Organization Diagnostic, Leadership Assessment and Function Build. AI as the lens. Fixed fee.
When the plan outgrows the organization.
Advisory →
Executive & Professional Search
Managing directors, C-level, second-tier leaders and critical specialists. Retained, fixed fee.
When one role decides whether the plan works.
Search →
Embedded Recruiting
Hiring run from inside, for PE portfolios and growth-stage companies only. Monthly or hourly.
When several teams have to be built at once.
Embedded →
From diagnosis to signed contract
Each step can stand alone. Most engagements run through all four.
01
Diagnose
Structure, roles and leadership measured against the plan, including where AI changes the work.
02
Design
Target organization, role profiles and a hiring sequence with costs.
03
Hire
Key roles filled through retained search, every candidate assessed against the plan.
04
Build
Teams built from inside where needed. Process and systems stay after we leave.
WHEN WE'RE CALLED IN
Situations we work in
Most mandates start with one of these moments.
Change of ownership
The first 100 days, and whether the team can carry the plan.
Growth plan
Functions the company needs next that don't exist yet.
Buy-and-build
One organization across the platform and its add-ons.
Leadership change
At the top or in the second tier, planned or sudden.
AI changes the work
Which roles change, which disappear, which you need.
Founder to management
From one person deciding to a team that runs the company.
What clients say
“Timo combines deep knowledge of the financial industry with a direct and efficient approach to hiring. He understands the roles, communicates clearly, and operates like a true partner throughout the process.”
First VP, EFG International
“Working with Timo was invaluable during our Nordics growth phase. After acquiring two new entities, we needed a plan, not just employees. He delivered both, and we look forward to collaborating again.”
Nordic private equity fund
18
Portfolio companies covered in one holding engagement
2 → 35
Team built after financing, in 16 months
83%
Of engagements extended beyond the original scope
FOUNDER
Timo Gunia
Timo began his career in banking and has spent more than ten years in recruiting since: in professional and executive search, leading teams at dentsu across DACH and Europe, and in-house at Google. He founded Gunia Consulting in 2024 to give owners and management teams one partner for the organization and the people who run it.
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