About
Built by operators who have hired for their own teams.
The founding team's combined prior experience includes 1,000+ hires for their own teams, not InnerTalent placements.
Our vision
FIND THE TOP 1% OF TALENT
WITH THE RIGHT METHOD.
Talent that changes how businesses work. We define the need, search with rigour and validate with evidence and expert judgement, so the people we bring forward are proven, not assumed.
About
Our story
Four questions that define how we work.
A boutique search firm run by AI practitioners.
A small Athens-based team of operators who have built AI-enabled businesses. Limited mandates, senior attention from brief to offer.
- Founded by hands-on AI executives
- Specialists, senior specialists, individual contributors, managers, heads of function, directors and C-level leaders.
- Greece and Greek-speaking talent worldwide
AI transformation is now a talent problem.
Everyone has the same tools; few have people who can apply them inside real business functions. We place capability in your team, permanently.
- Tools are universal , applied capability is rare
- Consultants rent capability; hires own it
- Change happens from within
Define, discover, assess, hire and integrate.
InnerGap™ defines the business need. InnerScan™ discovers and maps talent. InnerScore™ assesses capability with evidence and expert validation. Placement & Integration supports selection and the start in role within agreed scope.
- InnerGap™
- InnerScan™
- InnerScore™
- Placement & Integration
- InnerCircle™
AI practitioners assessing AI practitioners.
Generic recruiters screen keywords. Advisory firms sell opinions. We judge applied AI ability with people who do the work, and hand you evidence instead of a CV.
- Assessed by domain experts
- Evidence and scores, not keyword matches
- Permanent in-house placement
The people
Leadership, expert assessors and advisers.
Every mandate is run by practitioners: founders who lead AI-enabled businesses, domain experts who validate capability, and advisers who keep our standards honest.
Leadership & Founding Team
Our founding team combines client understanding, functional expertise and applied AI judgement.
Nikos Varvadoukas
Founder & InvestorNikos built his executive career in major organisations including Public Group, Germanos, Cosmos Sport, Diageo, Apivita and Novibet, building and leading teams of 50 to 250 people through rapid transformation. He now brings that operating experience to scale-ups where AI is central to how the business operates. Co-Founder of Operandi Partners and a C-level operating partner working with brands, retail and SaaS companies, he sees identifying, developing and bringing together the right talent as the foundation of strong teams and lasting business growth. His work spans operations, marketing, digital commerce and product development. He is a partner in AI-first ventures including AfterSales Pro, Workearly, Findbar, Orca AI and Convert Group, while also investing in innovative retail startups. Nikos is a Founding and Board Member of AI Academy and an active member of the eCommerce Association.
Theodoros Varvadoukas
Co-Founder, Product, AI & TechnologyTheo is a seasoned technology leader and computer scientist with deep expertise in artificial intelligence, data integration and talent engineering. He is now with Fireworks AI. He operates at the intersection of AI production workflows, enterprise software architecture and predictive analytics. As an Enterprise Lead at Palantir Technologies, Theo has spearheaded some of the company's largest commercial deployments globally, while shaping high-performing engineering teams as a hiring manager and talent assessor. Having witnessed Palantir's full strategic evolution , from early product milestones to its S&P 500 inclusion , he brings unparalleled insight into evaluating and scaling high-calibre tech talent. Theo holds a strong academic foundation in Computer Science and AI from the University of Edinburgh.
Harris Takas
Co-Founder, Commercial Growth & Client PartnershipsHarris is General Manager of Quick Commerce & New Verticals at efood, Greece's leading delivery platform and part of the global Delivery Hero group. He leads the strategic growth of the platform's new services, with a focus on quick commerce, efood market and the 'efood local' small-retail store network. Before his leadership roles at Delivery Hero and efood, he was active in marketing and the Greek startup ecosystem. He brings deep experience in building commercial and operations teams that scale at pace.
Angelos Galanakis
Founding Member & AngelAngelos is Global Chief Revenue Officer at CoobX, leading international growth initiatives, with over two decades of leadership experience in digital marketing and Ad Tech. His career spans revenue growth and digital transformation for global and regional brands. He spent over eight years at Google’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin, serving as Regional Head of Strategic Partnerships, Interim Head of Sales and Head of Agencies, managing partnerships across 16 countries. He subsequently led regional strategic growth at Admixer Advertising. His experience also includes Head of Performance Marketing at Eurobank and earlier performance marketing and digital campaign roles at Mindshare and Vodafone. He completed executive education in Finance and Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He brings this commercial and operational perspective to InnerTalent’s talent search and assessment.
OPERATOR EXPERIENCE
Our team has worked for and built teams at
1,000+ hires across teams and businesses led by our founders.
Hiring experience gained through previous operating and leadership roles.
AI Expert Assessors
Domain practitioners who assess shortlisted candidates in their own field , marketing, data, commerce, product, growth and operations.
Meet the AI Expert Assessors
STAVROS THEODORATOS
Digital Growth & MarTech leader combining AI, data and technology with hands-on experience scaling major consumer businesses.
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GEORGE GOUMPOUROS
Global Head of Growth & Acquisition and Co-Founder of Project X. Hands-on experience across performance-driven digital marketing, AI-enabled operations, go-to-market strategy and team building. Assesses AI-ready marketing, growth and customer-engagement talent.
FOTIS ANTONOPOULOS
Digital Architect & eCommerce expert with 25+ years of experience, combining AI, experimentation and technology to build real-world digital products and commerce solutions.
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CHRIS GEORGAKOPOULOS
Digital Growth executive with deep experience across eCommerce, performance and digital operations, applying AI hands-on to real business and product challenges.
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MICHAEL KONSTANTOULAKIS
Data engineering and analytics leader specialising in AI-ready data foundations, modern data platforms and business intelligence. Helps organisations turn raw data into reliable, decision-ready assets and assesses data talent on architecture, modelling and production-grade delivery.
APOSTOLIS TSOLAKIDIS
Senior Manager at EY Greece, EY Studio+, focused on customer experience strategy, loyalty programmes and digital innovation. Designs AI-enabled service models, automation roadmaps and adoption programmes, and assesses transformation, operations and CX talent on applied AI fluency and change leadership.
KOSTAS GIAMALIS
Former Product Director at eFood and entrepreneur. Has built and scaled consumer product organisations end to end, and assesses product and innovation talent on discovery, prioritisation and hands-on AI application.
Advisory board
Senior operators and AI leaders who review our framework and calibrate scoring twice a year.
AI education & capability
Keeps InnerScore™ aligned with how AI skills develop in teams.
Enterprise transformation
Tests role definitions against real operating models and governance.
Commerce & growth
Calibrates evidence standards for revenue-facing AI roles.
Talent & organisation
Reviews fairness, structure and consistency across assessments.
Advisers are appointed by invitation. Names are published as appointments are confirmed.
Our focus
Our initial focus includes business-facing data and analytics engineering. General software development, core model research and pure machine learning research are outside our primary scope.
Clients
Mid-sized and large Greek enterprises building in-house AI capability, plus agencies needing delivery talent.
Talent
Specialists, senior specialists, individual contributors, managers, heads of function, directors and C-level leaders.
The AI skill your business is missing is a person, not a tool.
Tell us what you want AI to improve. We define the role, find the talent and validate capability.