The team
Search led by a Senior team.
Every search we commit to is matched with the right person, set up for success from the start.
Fabian Fricke
Partner
Previously first employee at a Berlin-based talent platform, responsible for Talent & people, then global blockchain lead at Egon Zehnder, a globally leading player in executive search. Most recently Partner and MD Central Europe at The Big Search, a leading boutique for digital companies. Fabian has advised many companies during their journey from Seed to unicorn status, e.g. Revolut, Vinted, UIPath.
Michael Grohmann
Co-Founder
Prior to missing-link.io, Michael was the first employee and COO at a regulated decentralized stock exchange. He hired a core team of +25 people as well as an advisory board, built business operations from scratch, set up a legal structure consisting of several entities across three jurisdictions, and raised several million in pre-seed and seed funding. Michael brings over 12 years of complex technical leadership hiring and has built core engineering and leadership teams for AI scale-ups, blockchain ventures as well as hypergrowth unicorns.
Megan Gill
Principal Consultant
A former Founding Partner at two greenfield recruitment businesses Megan has spent a decade building product and engineering teams across Europe, the U.S. and MENA region. She's worked with a range of early stage and well known start-ups and scale-ups including Spotify, Aiven, HelloFresh and Zalando. She enjoys nerding out on complex products that require difficult-to-find and non-obvious talent.
Miklos Blasko
Partner
Miklos previously worked as a Senior Consultant & Chief of Staff at The Big Search where he built the commercial function and ran special projects for the business during its growth from 50-200+ FTEs. Before The Big Search, he worked for 3 years at Egon Zehnder, helping leading academic institutions, investors, and start-ups plan and build their leadership teams with a focus on marketplaces, b2c (gaming), and infrastructure. Miklos works across all of our customers on mission-critical hires, with a spike in gaming and web3 infrastructure.
Pablo De Innocentiis
Sr Consultant
With over 7 years focused on deep-tech, Pablo loves the roles that keep other recruiters up at night: Rust engineers, distributed systems architects, and the protocol and infrastructure developers building the systems everyone else depends on. Simply put, he is the recruiter your tech talent actually enjoys talking to. While he hires across all functions, Pablo is at his best when the bar is high, the role is unconventional, and the candidate doesn't have a LinkedIn profile.
Antonela Angelosvka
Sr Consultant
Antonela is a Senior Consultant in Executive Search at missing-link.io, where she specializes in identifying leadership talent within tech-driven, emerging ecosystems and venture capital funds. With over six years of experience at The Big Search, she has built a reputation for helping top-tier Venture Capital funds and high-growth startups scale their investment and operations teams across Europe and the MENA region.Throughout her career, she has advised and supported an impressive roster of global clients, including: • VC Funds: Northzone, EQT Ventures, Accel, Cherry Ventures, and Project A. • Tech & Corporate: Maersk, Airtel Africa, Vorwerk Ventures, and Kinnevik. • Startups: Luko, Otrium, and Vimcar.
Nadia Amirmolavy
Director
With 14 years in recruitment—8 focused on deep-tech—Nadia specializes in "bottom of the stack" infrastructure. Known for a technical fluency that once led a candidate to ask if she was an engineer in a past life, she moves beyond buzzwords to understand the architecture beneath the JD. While she hires across all verticals, she is at her best unearthing talent for complex, mission-critical roles in C++, Rust, FPGA, and high-performance networking.
Cim Topal
Co-Founder
Cim is a people connector, a trained psychologist, and an entrepreneur at heart. He started his entrepreneurial journey in Berlin's underground techno scene and has since been involved in various startups, including gastronomies, legal, and deep tech ventures. With over a decade of experience in the crypto space, he is a strong supporter of decentralization and has strong ties to early adopters and founders.
Simona Dimovska
Sr Consultant
Simona has 7 years of experience in global executive search, focusing on leadership hiring for high-growth and frontier technology companies. A lawyer by training, she transitioned early into executive search and built her career advising founders, investors, and leadership teams on key hires across tech, product, ops, finance, and GTM functions. Before joining Missing Link, she was part of The Big Search, one of Europe’s leading boutique executive search firms specializing in technology. Over the course of her career, she has supported startups, scaleups, and established companies across sectors including fintech, B2B SaaS, e-commerce, edtech, food delivery, and logistics, while also working extensively across the broader Web3 ecosystem with crypto-native funds and blockchain companies.
Csaba Bek
Research Analyst
Csaba is a Research Analyst at missing-link.io, where he has spent the last years tracking down the market's hidden talent. His role involves deep-dive market mapping and strategic sourcing across a variety of industries. While he has a strong footprint in the Web3 space, he thrives on the variety of headhunting across different sectors, connecting innovative businesses with top-notch professionals. Csaba is passionate about understanding what makes both candidates and companies tick. When not sourcing for talent, Csabi likes to ride his motorcycle, plays bass, and reads history.
Jovana Petkosvka
Sr Researcher
Jovana Petkovska is a Senior Researcher specializing in executive search for frontier technology companies.She focuses on identifying senior leaders and high-impact specialists for venture-backed and high-growth businesses operating across AI, fintech, deep tech, Web3, gaming, and digital platforms. With more than a decade of experience in research and executive search, she brings a rigorous, data-driven approach to market mapping and talent intelligence.At missing-link.io, Jovana supports complex leadership searches by building high-signal candidate pipelines and helping founders and investors navigate competitive global talent markets. Her work focuses on uncovering non-obvious talent and translating complex hiring briefs into structured, high-conviction search strategies.
Anna Roik
Talent Operations Lead
Anna began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she managed the critical final stages of the hiring process by coordinating background screenings for new hires. Leveraging this foundation in talent compliance, she transitioned into executive search as a Talent Operations professional. Since then, Anna has been streamlining leadership acquisitions across a high-tech portfolio, including Fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, Gaming, and AI.
Sanja Ralic
Sr Consultant
Partnering with high-growth tech companies and unicorns such as Miro, Typeform, Notion, Bakkt, and Revolut, Sanja specializes in building strong teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Operations, and Talent functions. With over 8 years of experience hiring across Europe, the US, and the UAE, she thrives on complex searches and building trusted relationships with hiring managers. She is particularly known for delivering in high-bar environments where the right hire truly matters.
Joshua Walter
Sr Consultant
Joshua previously spent 4 years in Web3 recruitment working as a Senior Consultant at Plexus, where he helped scale the business from the UK before moving on site to Miami to launch and establish their US office. Now a Senior Consultant at missing-link , he partners with high growth founders and tech innovators across frontier technology companies to build mission critical teams and scale next generation infrastructure.
Fabian Fricke
Partner
Previously first employee at a Berlin-based talent platform, responsible for Talent & people, then global blockchain lead at Egon Zehnder, a globally leading player in executive search. Most recently Partner and MD Central Europe at The Big Search, a leading boutique for digital companies. Fabian has advised many companies during their journey from Seed to unicorn status, e.g. Revolut, Vinted, UIPath.
Michael Grohmann
Co-Founder
Prior to missing-link.io, Michael was the first employee and COO at a regulated decentralized stock exchange. He hired a core team of +25 people as well as an advisory board, built business operations from scratch, set up a legal structure consisting of several entities across three jurisdictions, and raised several million in pre-seed and seed funding. Michael brings over 12 years of complex technical leadership hiring and has built core engineering and leadership teams for AI scale-ups, blockchain ventures as well as hypergrowth unicorns.
Megan Gill
Principal Consultant
A former Founding Partner at two greenfield recruitment businesses Megan has spent a decade building product and engineering teams across Europe, the U.S. and MENA region. She's worked with a range of early stage and well known start-ups and scale-ups including Spotify, Aiven, HelloFresh and Zalando. She enjoys nerding out on complex products that require difficult-to-find and non-obvious talent.
Miklos Blasko
Partner
Miklos previously worked as a Senior Consultant & Chief of Staff at The Big Search where he built the commercial function and ran special projects for the business during its growth from 50-200+ FTEs. Before The Big Search, he worked for 3 years at Egon Zehnder, helping leading academic institutions, investors, and start-ups plan and build their leadership teams with a focus on marketplaces, b2c (gaming), and infrastructure. Miklos works across all of our customers on mission-critical hires, with a spike in gaming and web3 infrastructure.
Pablo De Innocentiis
Sr Consultant
With over 7 years focused on deep-tech, Pablo loves the roles that keep other recruiters up at night: Rust engineers, distributed systems architects, and the protocol and infrastructure developers building the systems everyone else depends on. Simply put, he is the recruiter your tech talent actually enjoys talking to. While he hires across all functions, Pablo is at his best when the bar is high, the role is unconventional, and the candidate doesn't have a LinkedIn profile.
Antonela Angelosvka
Sr Consultant
Antonela is a Senior Consultant in Executive Search at missing-link.io, where she specializes in identifying leadership talent within tech-driven, emerging ecosystems and venture capital funds. With over six years of experience at The Big Search, she has built a reputation for helping top-tier Venture Capital funds and high-growth startups scale their investment and operations teams across Europe and the MENA region.Throughout her career, she has advised and supported an impressive roster of global clients, including: • VC Funds: Northzone, EQT Ventures, Accel, Cherry Ventures, and Project A. • Tech & Corporate: Maersk, Airtel Africa, Vorwerk Ventures, and Kinnevik. • Startups: Luko, Otrium, and Vimcar.
Nadia Amirmolavy
Director
With 14 years in recruitment—8 focused on deep-tech—Nadia specializes in "bottom of the stack" infrastructure. Known for a technical fluency that once led a candidate to ask if she was an engineer in a past life, she moves beyond buzzwords to understand the architecture beneath the JD. While she hires across all verticals, she is at her best unearthing talent for complex, mission-critical roles in C++, Rust, FPGA, and high-performance networking.
Cim Topal
Co-Founder
Cim is a people connector, a trained psychologist, and an entrepreneur at heart. He started his entrepreneurial journey in Berlin's underground techno scene and has since been involved in various startups, including gastronomies, legal, and deep tech ventures. With over a decade of experience in the crypto space, he is a strong supporter of decentralization and has strong ties to early adopters and founders.
Simona Dimovska
Sr Consultant
Simona has 7 years of experience in global executive search, focusing on leadership hiring for high-growth and frontier technology companies. A lawyer by training, she transitioned early into executive search and built her career advising founders, investors, and leadership teams on key hires across tech, product, ops, finance, and GTM functions. Before joining Missing Link, she was part of The Big Search, one of Europe’s leading boutique executive search firms specializing in technology. Over the course of her career, she has supported startups, scaleups, and established companies across sectors including fintech, B2B SaaS, e-commerce, edtech, food delivery, and logistics, while also working extensively across the broader Web3 ecosystem with crypto-native funds and blockchain companies.
Csaba Bek
Research Analyst
Csaba is a Research Analyst at missing-link.io, where he has spent the last years tracking down the market's hidden talent. His role involves deep-dive market mapping and strategic sourcing across a variety of industries. While he has a strong footprint in the Web3 space, he thrives on the variety of headhunting across different sectors, connecting innovative businesses with top-notch professionals. Csaba is passionate about understanding what makes both candidates and companies tick. When not sourcing for talent, Csabi likes to ride his motorcycle, plays bass, and reads history.
Jovana Petkosvka
Sr Researcher
Jovana Petkovska is a Senior Researcher specializing in executive search for frontier technology companies.She focuses on identifying senior leaders and high-impact specialists for venture-backed and high-growth businesses operating across AI, fintech, deep tech, Web3, gaming, and digital platforms. With more than a decade of experience in research and executive search, she brings a rigorous, data-driven approach to market mapping and talent intelligence.At missing-link.io, Jovana supports complex leadership searches by building high-signal candidate pipelines and helping founders and investors navigate competitive global talent markets. Her work focuses on uncovering non-obvious talent and translating complex hiring briefs into structured, high-conviction search strategies.
Anna Roik
Talent Operations Lead
Anna began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she managed the critical final stages of the hiring process by coordinating background screenings for new hires. Leveraging this foundation in talent compliance, she transitioned into executive search as a Talent Operations professional. Since then, Anna has been streamlining leadership acquisitions across a high-tech portfolio, including Fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, Gaming, and AI.
Sanja Ralic
Sr Consultant
Partnering with high-growth tech companies and unicorns such as Miro, Typeform, Notion, Bakkt, and Revolut, Sanja specializes in building strong teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Operations, and Talent functions. With over 8 years of experience hiring across Europe, the US, and the UAE, she thrives on complex searches and building trusted relationships with hiring managers. She is particularly known for delivering in high-bar environments where the right hire truly matters.
Joshua Walter
Sr Consultant
Joshua previously spent 4 years in Web3 recruitment working as a Senior Consultant at Plexus, where he helped scale the business from the UK before moving on site to Miami to launch and establish their US office. Now a Senior Consultant at missing-link , he partners with high growth founders and tech innovators across frontier technology companies to build mission critical teams and scale next generation infrastructure.