HeadExpert (Heads Partners) formerly Heads Partners

HeadExpert is a consulting company in the field of organizational development, management recruitment and research in the field of management and leadership.

History

2025

TAdviser interview with founder Alexander Abramkin

Heroism scales poorly. It does not turn into a system, does not ensure the repeatability of the result and is expensive: burnout, fluidity, blurred responsibility, conflicting KPIs, failure of transformations. Therefore, the main conversation of the end of 2025 is not about "what technologies to choose," but about "how to manage complexity": roles, motivation, organizational model and management team. Tadviser spoke about this to everyone with Alexander Abramkin, founder and managing partner of the consulting company HeadExpert. Read more here.

Transformation and rebranding

In 2025, the company underwent a transformation and was named HeadExpert. The team was joined by new partners from major consulting, specialized practices were formed.

As of December 2025, HeadExpert combines consulting, management hiring and research expertise:

• advises on organizational development and management architecture;
• performs strategic management hiring and team formation;
• conducts industry and custom research:
  • competencies and management roles;
  • HR function architectures;
  • systems of remuneration and motivation of managers.

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Фото: HeadExpert

The main customers of the company are still high-tech and digital companies, while HeadExpert partners have experience in other industries.

In 2025, the team prepared an analytical agenda for the IT Summit, presented the research "Three Roles of Modern CIO" and "NEXT CIO," and also announced a large-scale industry study of organizational roles and incentive systems for managers in the IT industry 2025-2026.

2022: How to behave to a company executive amid utter uncertainty

Logo in 2022

In 2022, Russian business faced challenges worse than any economic crisis or pandemic. How to behave as a company leader in this difficult time? What to say, and what to be silent about? Make plans or postpone important decisions? With whom to consult yourself and to whom to send employees? TAdviser asked Alexander Abramkin, an executive search consultant, business coach, founder and managing director of Heads Partners, a consulting company specializing in search and selection of executives for high-tech companies, to tell about this. Read more here.

2021

More than 150 projects completed

Since its existence since 2017, advisers to Heads Partners have successfully completed more than 150 CEO search projects, CIOs, Digital and Data Management Directors, R&D, product directors and other managers of functional areas, as well as the implementation of projects on organizational changes and the formation of advisory boards for organizations from traditional sectors of the economy (as of March 2021).

Company services

As of March 2021, Heads Partners provided the following services:

Search for senior managers by discipline:

• Marketing and Communications Management
• Corporate Relationship Management
• Technology and Innovation Management
• Project and Product Management
• Legal Support Management
• Sales and Development Management
• Human Resources Management
• Financial Management

Digital Command Generation

Organization of temporary councils

Organizational Consulting

Conducting studies

Evaluation and Development

Heads Partners Specialization and Priorities

As of March 2021, Heads Partners specialized in finding executives and forming teams for high-tech companies, as well as for leading players in a number of industries whose strategies are related to the development of digital and information technologies.

Heads Partners customers are traditional players, IT market,, microelectronics, robotics(telecom Internet including companies) e-commerce companies, as well as leading enterprises of a number of industries whose development plans are related to the implementation of information and digital strategies.

The priorities in the work of Heads Partners consultants at that time were compliance with high ethical standards, confidentiality, as well as providing high-quality consulting support and proven approaches to the tasks of forming strong teams for the sustainable development or transformation of their clients' businesses.

2019: Heads Partners recruiting company forms

In the second half of 2019, private practice took shape in the recruiting company Heads Partners, specializing in the search for key leaders and the formation of teams. Key clients are technology and digital players of the Russian market, including representative offices of international companies.

2017: Alexander Abramkin's private practice

The history of the company began with the private practice of Alexander Abramkin, who accompanied shareholders and top officials in the formation of management teams and the development of the HR function.