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About Hatamoto

We find the specialists who
move your business forward.

Hatamoto is a founder-led search firm focused on high-value specialists and leadership-track roles across Central and Eastern Europe and selected European markets.

Our approach

Search is not a funnel.
It is a judgement process.

Hatamoto is founder-led by someone with 20+ years of leadership, consulting and delivery experience across complex multinational environments.

That means we do not simply accept a brief and start sending profiles. We understand the business problem, the team context and the decision behind the role.

When the brief points in the wrong direction, we challenge it early — because a better role definition creates a better hiring decision.

20+ years across leadership, consulting and delivery
CEE regional experience across complex business contexts
Built teams, companies and delivery structures from the inside

The brief is where the search is won.

Before we approach the market, we test the role like a business decision. The value is not only access to candidates. Better searches start before outreach — with the role, the market and the decision path already clarified.

Business need

What problem must this hire solve?

We separate the real business context from the job description, so the search starts with the right target.

Role shape

Is the brief realistic enough to attract the right person?

When the role is too broad, too narrow or mispositioned, we challenge it before outreach starts.

Market reality

Where do the right people actually sit?

We map candidate availability, career patterns and likely motivation before narrowing the search.

Hiring decision

What will make the decision clear?

The shortlist comes with relevance, strengths, risks and recommendation — not just names.

20+

years across leadership, consulting and delivery.

9

countries covered with confidence across the region.

300+

successful placements in specialist and leadership roles.

IT, Data,
Business & People

functions and industries where specialist judgement matters.

Balázs Kőhidi, Founder of Hatamoto

Balázs Kőhidi

Founder, Hatamoto

Founder

Balázs Kőhidi

Founder-led search, shaped by leadership, technology and delivery experience.

Hatamoto was founded by Balázs Kőhidi, who brings more than 20 years of leadership, technology and delivery experience across multinational environments.

Before building Hatamoto, Balázs worked across IBM, Shell, Citi and Delaware, leading complex programmes, digital initiatives and regional delivery teams. At Delaware Hungary, he helped build and scale the local digital organisation from scratch to 40+ professionals.

That background shapes how Hatamoto works today. We do not look at a role only as recruiters. We look at the business problem, the team context, the market reality and the decision behind the hire.

Balázs Kőhidi

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Founder belief

The right people rarely just fill a gap. They make the business stronger at what it already needs to do well.

We don’t help clients become someone else. We help them become better at what they already do — with the right people in the right roles.

Managing Partner

Kata Dömötör

We look beyond fit on paper.

Kata brings 15+ years of leadership, people and organisational experience to Hatamoto’s recruitment work. Like Balázs, she has worked in senior roles — but from a different angle: leadership behaviour, people dynamics and the human side of making organisations work.

At Hatamoto, we do not simply search for people who match a job description. We first understand why the role exists, what business situation it needs to support, what kind of team the person will join and what will make the hire successful.

Kata strengthens this part of the search by helping us assess culture fit, personal fit and position fit — so the shortlist reflects the real context behind the role, not only the CV.

Role context

Why the position exists, what problem it needs to solve and what success will look like.

Candidate judgement

Motivation, communication style, behaviour and personal fit beyond the CV.

Fit that holds

Culture fit, position fit and team fit before the final hiring decision is made.

Kata Dömötör

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Kata Dömötör, Managing Partner at Hatamoto

Kata Dömötör

Managing Partner, Hatamoto

Managing partner belief

The right hire has to fit more than the job description. It has to fit the role, the team and the way the organisation actually works.

A strong shortlist is not built from CVs alone. It is built from understanding the role, the context and the person who can succeed in both.

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Let’s build the right team together.

If you are hiring for a role that truly matters, start with a short conversation. We will clarify the need, the market and whether Hatamoto is the right search partner.

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