Abramkin Alexander Vladimirovich

Abramkin Alexander Vladimirovich

Alexander Abramkin is the founder and managing partner of the consulting company HeadExpert (formerly Heads Partners), an expert on organizational development and management hiring.

For more than 13 years, he has been an adviser to shareholders and top officials, helping them solve key organizational tasks: build effective management teams, strengthen the management system, design organizational models for a development strategy and increase operational efficiency and business sustainability. Combines expertise in organizational design, talent management, transformation of corporate culture, assessment and development of management teams, as well as in the search for key managers (as of December 2025).

Biography

He has an engineering degree, an MBA degree and the qualification of an independent director.

He passed the project management program at the University of Liverpool and the program for business leaders at PwC Academy. He has the qualification of a business coach.

2012: Career start at Staffwell

He began his career in consulting in 2012 at STAFFWELL, where in 2014 he headed the practice of TMT (Technology, Media & Telecoms).

2014: Chairman of the HR Club of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises

In 2014-2017, he was simultaneously engaged in the development of the HR club of the Association of Computer and Information Technologies (APKIT) as its chairman - the largest industry HR community in the Russian IT market at that time.

2017

Advisory Practice for First Persons of Companies

Since 2017, he has been conducting advisory practice for the first persons of companies on the search, selection and development of management teams, organizational and HR strategies.

2017: Foundation of Heads Partners

In 2017, he founded the executive recruitment company Heads Partners, which he subsequently transformed into the consulting company HeadExpert.

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

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.

2025

HeadExpert Managing Partner

As of December 2025, Alexander Abramkin is a managing partner of the consulting company HeadExpert.

For 2025, HeadExpert provides services in the field of organizational development, strategic HR consulting, formation of management teams, as well as the implementation of research and analytical projects.

TAdviser interview

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.

Examination

Alexander's portfolio includes more than 300 projects for leading the Russian and international companies IT in high-tech industries, including,,, IBM,, SAP,, and Konica Minolta Phoenix Contact Merlion Polymedia T1 others Avito (as of December 2025). He is on the advisory boards of a number of companies, was a member RF CCI of the Development Council and, as well as IT digital economy an adviser to APKIT on the development of human resources in the industry. IT