JFP Executive Search is pleased to announce the addition of a new Senior Partner Markku Leskinen to our team from 2.1.2025 onwards. Markku is an experienced leader with over 25 years of expertise in managing people, teams, and businesses in demanding roles across various industries. He has held leadership positions in both domestic and international companies leading B2C and B2B operations. Markku has extensive experience in sales, marketing, and business development, particularly in High-Tech, manufacturing, import, export, as well as in direct, wholesale, and retail trade, and the service sector.

Managing Partner Jouko Pitkänen: “We warmly welcome Markku to our team! His experience in the executive search industry, both in Finland and the US, will strengthen our team and JFP’s position in the global market. We recognize Markku as an excellent fit to JFP’s culture – quality at the heart of business!”

At JFP Executive Search, Markku works on Executive Search and Leadership Advisory projects, bringing his expertise to support organizational success. His mission is to find the right people for the right positions, thereby helping organizations and teams achieve their goals.

Markku Leskinen: “JFP Executive Search combines three key factors that are important to me: the Consultants’ strong business background, a skilled and very well-resourced Research department, and the fact that the company is employee-owned. These factors bring significant benefits to clients, which translate into successful and smoothly executed projects.”

JFP’s long history stands as proof of our long-term commitment to our clients’ strategic objectives and continuous development. Our Research function has been an integral part of our service process from the very beginning, and the team’s role is reflected in every stage of the customer experience. Client-driven expertise and in-depth research create the JFP recipe for a successful executive search project.

Over the decades, the way our Research team operates has changed, with technological advances and digitalization in particular bringing the most visible changes to our day-to-day work. Whereas in the 1980s, data was collected by telephone and from printed sources such as the yellow pages, today we have a wide range of digital tools and platforms at our disposal. The efficiency brought about by LinkedIn in 2002, for example, has been just one development among others.

New tools have not reduced the importance of expertise however – quite the opposite. The unique ability to assess a wide range of data, identify the relevant factors and dive into specific client needs is where our Research team excels. While advances such as AI have opened up new opportunities for efficiency, human interaction and in-depth dialogue with clients and candidates remain key to our success.

Consultants and our clients can rest assured that our Research team works in an efficient, professional and innovative manner behind the scenes of every search process.

You can familiarize yourself with our team here.