Ekaterina Kharitonskaya is a Consultant at Pedersen & Partners, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. An accomplished Executive Search professional, Ekaterina has over two decades of expertise across Banking & Financial Services, Professional Advisory, Information Technology, Industrial, Life Sciences, and FMCG sectors throughout Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Her career commenced in 2004 with a leading national staffing firm, where she specialised in Banking and Corporate Finance recruitment. Three years later, she embarked on a ten-year tenure with a prominent CIS-focused HR services provider, assuming leadership roles within its FMCG and Banking practices.
Ekaterina holds an Executive MBA with Distinction from the University of Sheffield and a Strategic Management & Leadership qualification from the Chartered Management Institute (UK). She is also certified in Corporate Management by the Institute of Tourism FPTU, Ukraine.
She speaks fluent Ukrainian, English, and Russian, with conversational proficiency in French.