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Our Team

The people behind the work.

Search is a people business. Our leadership and consultants take the briefing, run the research and stay with the process from first conversation to appointment.

Leadership

Chief Executive Officer

Gary Richards sets the direction for Aptra Elvaris Global, bringing decades of technical search experience and a commitment to ethical, relationship-led recruitment.

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Technical Headhunter — HVAC, Data Centers, Renewable Energy, Engineering & Sales

Gary Richards

Chief Executive Officer

Aptra Elvaris Global

Gary Richards leads Aptra Elvaris Global as Chief Executive Officer, bringing a longstanding commitment to excellence in technical and executive recruitment across North America and international markets.

His career has focused on connecting top-tier technical and sales talent with leading industry roles — particularly in HVAC, data centers, refrigeration, renewable energy, mechanical and electrical engineering, software engineering, sales and marketing. He has built a reputation for ethical standards, tailored matchmaking and a deep understanding of energy and engineering management.

Gary believes that recruitment is most valuable when it is built on trust, market knowledge and long-term relationships. At Aptra Elvaris Global he sets the direction for our discipline-led search model, ensuring that every mandate — from specialist technical roles to senior leadership appointments — is approached with the same rigour, discretion and human judgement.

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Consultants

Discipline-led, globally minded

Each consultant works within defined practice areas, so briefings begin from an informed position.

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Hristiyana Nikolaeva

Senior Recruitment Specialist — Rec2Rec

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Portrait of Christopher Scott, Executive Recruiter

Christopher Scott

Executive Recruiter

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Carmi Daley, Senior Recruiter

Carmi Daley

Senior Recruiter

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Mike Rasnak, Senior Executive Recruiter

Mike Rasnak

Senior Executive Recruiter

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Darina Matskovich, Recruiter — Technology

Darina Matskovich

Recruiter — Technology

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Portrait of Mark Haeussler, Executive Coach & Recruitment Advisor

Mark Haeussler

Executive Coach & Recruitment Advisor

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Brittni (Sabah) Holleway, Talent Acquisition Recruiter

Brittni (Sabah) Holleway

Talent Acquisition Recruiter

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Portrait of Alex Stephen Nicholl, Executive Recruiter

Alex Stephen Nicholl

Executive Recruiter

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Catherine Stetskova, Global Client Specialist | Client Success & Operations Manager

Catherine Stetskova

Global Client Specialist | Client Success & Operations Manager

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Portrait of Aleksandra Zych, Recruitment Specialist — IT Recruitment

Aleksandra Zych

Recruitment Specialist — IT Recruitment

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Portrait of Anna Chmiel, IT Recruiter

Anna Chmiel

IT Recruiter

Aptra Elvaris Global

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Backgrounds

In their own words

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Hristiyana Nikolaeva

Aptra Elvaris Global

Seasoned Senior Recruitment Specialist — Rec2Rec

As a Senior Recruitment Specialist with extensive expertise in Rec2Rec (Recruitment to Recruitment), I thrive on connecting top-tier recruitment professionals with opportunities that align with their skills, values, and career aspirations. With a deep understanding of the recruitment landscape, I bring a strategic and personalized approach to identifying talent and building strong partnerships.

Throughout my career, I've worked with leading recruitment agencies, successfully sourcing and placing high-performing recruiters in roles that drive both personal and organizational success. My focus on building relationships, understanding client needs, and staying ahead of industry trends allows me to match the right talent with the right opportunity, every time.

Passionate about elevating recruitment teams, I excel in navigating the complexities of talent acquisition, ensuring both candidates and clients experience a seamless process from start to finish. Whether it's helping agencies scale or guiding recruiters toward their next big move, I'm committed to delivering results that shape the future of recruitment.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she leads our recruitment-to-recruitment and talent acquisition practice, building the internal hiring capability of agencies and in-house teams across the UK and Europe. Her work sits at the centre of how we assess recruiters: evidence of delivery, quality of network, and the judgement to represent a client well.

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Christopher Scott

Aptra Elvaris Global

Executive Recruiter — North America Executive & Professional Search

Christopher Scott is an Executive Recruiter with Aptra Elvaris Global, based in Hialeah, Florida. He brings a strong network across North American markets and a disciplined approach to identifying leadership and specialist talent for demanding mandates.

Christopher combines commercial awareness with relationship-based search methods. He works with clients and candidates through every stage of the hiring process, focusing on clear communication, accurate expectations and long-term fit.

At Aptra Elvaris Global Christopher supports executive and professional search across the Americas, contributing market insight and a hands-on approach to building shortlists that match both capability and culture.

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Carmi Daley

Aptra Elvaris Global

Senior Recruiter — Connecting Talent with Opportunities

With over 15 years of experience in the recruitment industry, Carmi Daley is a Senior Recruiter with Aptra Elvaris Global, specializing in finding and placing permanent talent in cross-industry and hybrid functions, executive and professional, logistics and supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, and operations.

An expert in direct hire, confidential, hybrid, and niche searches, she uses a wide range of sourcing strategies and tools to locate, present, and place qualified and interested candidates for top clients. The goal is to assist businesses in finding long-term talent while improving the lives of individuals by connecting them with their next outstanding career opportunity.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she anchors our engineering, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain practice across the Americas, and advises on confidential and niche mandates. Her direct-hire discipline shapes the way we build shortlists — a small number of genuinely interested, genuinely qualified people rather than volume.

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Mike Rasnak

Aptra Elvaris Global

Senior Executive Recruiter — Energy, Retail & Supply Chain Leadership

Mike Rasnak is a Senior Executive Recruiter with Aptra Elvaris Global, bringing deep operational and leadership experience across retail, energy and convenience-store organisations.

As a former Divisional Operational Vice President overseeing more than 800 convenience stores, he has worked in over 35 states and brings first-hand knowledge of multi-site operations, corporate reorganisation and efficiency-driven transformation. He has designed organisations from concept through physical plant to organisational chart, and specialises in upstream and downstream oil and gas, C-store operations, and large networks across drugstore, grocery and big-box retail.

At Aptra Elvaris Global Mike advises on executive and leadership search within energy, retail operations and supply-chain-intensive industries, combining practical operational judgement with a national network built over years of field leadership.

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Darina Matskovich

Aptra Elvaris Global

Technology Recruiter — Providing Top Talent for Tech

Darina is a Technology Recruiter with Aptra Elvaris Global. She holds a bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies, and speaks two languages, English and Russian.

With over four years of experience in recruiting, she has successfully placed top talent for both contract and permanent positions across different sectors. She has also led internal recruiting initiatives and established strong relationships with candidates and clients. She values collaboration, trust, and quality in her work, and strives to create the best experiences for everyone involved in the staffing process.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she works within our Technology & Digital practice, covering engineering, data, cloud and IT roles for contract and permanent mandates across North America. Bilingual in English and Russian, she supports cross-border searches where candidate care and clear communication decide the outcome.

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Mark Haeussler

Aptra Elvaris Global

Executive Coach, CEO-Alumnus & Leadership Recruitment Advisor

Mark brings 30 years of executive coaching experience, two executive coaching certifications, CEO experience leading hundreds, and a business degree — all in support of his clients' success.

As a creative executive coach, Mark helps leaders increase their ability to engage others and fulfill their commitments with less stress. He promises improved individual and team effectiveness that leverages and aligns talents in achieving strategic initiatives. As a recruiter, he connects people to roles that best access their talents while matching them to the foundational needs of the organization.

Grounded in a solid business background including service as a chief executive, Mark understands accountability and building sustainable relationships in business. He is masterful at transformation, change initiatives, communication, and authentic leadership. Mark works with senior executives, senior leaders, executive teams, management teams, and boards.

His coaching methods are innovative, unique and practical, providing clients with perspectives to increase success, transform, be genuine, move effectively through dialogue, build new competencies, develop greater self-awareness, and adapt leadership thinking to succeed. Mark brings an open presence that supports generative learning.

A speaker and author on leadership presence, emotional intelligence, change leadership, generative conversations, collaboration, and accountability, Mark's extraordinary life experiences make him an engaging motivational speaker. His specialties include leadership development, executive recruitment, executive coaching, emotional intelligence, leadership communication, mergers, cultural transformations, succession planning, change leadership, mentoring programs, and interim leadership.

At Aptra Elvaris Global Mark advises on leadership, executive and board-level search, bringing a coach's lens to how candidates align with organizational purpose and culture.

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Brittni (Sabah) Holleway

Aptra Elvaris Global

Talent Acquisition Recruiter — Technology, Advertising & Marketing

I have excelled immensely in recruiting since I first started 13 years ago. I now have recruitment expertise, particularly for technology, advertising, and marketing roles.

By fostering strong partnerships with hiring managers and leveraging innovative sourcing strategies, she has achieved a significant reduction in time-to-fill and enhanced candidate engagement. Her contributions include successfully placing hundreds of candidates in high-demand roles, directly supporting organizational growth and productivity. Prior experience inside large global technology hiring functions refined her focus on recruitment strategy and pipeline development to meet diverse staffing needs. Proven competencies include talent sourcing, internal recruitment, and sales recruitment, supported by a data-driven approach to hiring.

Dedicated to connecting top-tier talent with impactful opportunities, the goal remains to align recruitment practices with company objectives and market dynamics.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she supports our commercial and technology practices — technology, advertising and marketing appointments — with a data-led approach to sourcing and pipeline design. Her experience inside large global hiring functions informs how we structure assessment and keep time-to-hire honest.

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Alex Stephen Nicholl

Aptra Elvaris Global

Executive Recruiter — Engineering & Financial Services

Alex Stephen Nicholl is an Executive Recruiter with Aptra Elvaris Global, based in Chobham, England. He has a demonstrated history of delivering search and selection assignments across the engineering and financial services sectors.

Alex brings strengths in management, human resources strategy and technical recruiting. He works closely with hiring managers to understand role requirements, then maps and engages talent with precision and professionalism.

At Aptra Elvaris Global Alex supports executive and specialist recruitment across the UK and Europe, with particular depth in engineering and financial services mandates where technical fluency and commercial judgement are essential.

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Catherine Stetskova

Aptra Elvaris Global

Client Success & Operations | Portfolio Growth & Succession Planning

Catherine is a highly organised and proactive Client Success professional with more than seven years of experience supporting fast-paced businesses across technology, recruitment and operational environments.

She specialises in improving operational efficiency, enhancing client satisfaction and driving portfolio growth through proactive relationship management, strategic problem-solving and data-driven customer success initiatives. Her multilingual fluency in English, Mandarin Chinese and Russian allows her to support clients and candidates across diverse international markets.

At Aptra Elvaris Global Catherine leads client success and operations, ensuring that every client engagement is structured, responsive and focused on long-term partnership and portfolio growth.

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Aleksandra Zych

Aptra Elvaris Global

IT & Direct Search Recruiter — Poland & EU Markets

Aleksandra is a creative and detail-oriented recruiter with experience in full-cycle and direct-search recruitment across IT and non-IT roles throughout Poland and the EU.

She is skilled in sourcing, candidate communication and close collaboration with hiring managers, combining analytical and creative thinking to build effective recruitment strategies and a positive candidate experience.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she supports our Technology & Digital practice, focusing on IT recruitment across Poland and wider European markets with a structured, candidate-centred approach.

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Anna Chmiel

Aptra Elvaris Global

IT Recruiter — Developer, Support & Managerial Hiring

Anna manages end-to-end recruitment projects for Developer, Customer Service, IT Support and Managerial positions. She focuses on building good, long-term relationships with candidates and employees, and has taken part in employer branding activities including job fairs and conferences.

To better understand the IT industry she has completed a range of technical courses, including a software testing certificate (ISTQB FL) and an intensive technical academy programme covering telecommunications, Python, Linux, virtualisation and IP networks.

At Aptra Elvaris Global she supports our Technology & Digital practice, bringing technical fluency and a relationship-led approach to engineering, support and leadership searches.

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