Building success through people
I’m driven by helping purposeful, ambitious senior leaders make a lasting impact, whilst enabling them and their teams reach full potential.
Yevgeny Merkel
Managing Partner
Excelion is an organisational consulting and executive search firm.
Through our specialist knowledge, expert counsel and extended network of contacts we help ambitious leaders to shape teams and build businesses that succeed.
About us
Our integrated services are designed to help you build a robust organisation, maximise the capabilities of your people and attract impactful leaders.
Organisational design
Applying robust scientific methods to align organisational structure with business strategy.
Assessment and development
Using tailored assessment techniques and metrics to analyse individuals and teams in order to match their capabilities with work requirements (develop their skills and capabilities).
Executive search
Establishing a deep understanding of the business and company culture to identify, evaluate and bring on board leaders with the required competencies who will make a lasting impact.
Yevgeny Merkel
Managing Partner
Yevgeny is a Founder and Managing Partner at Excelion.
He has more than twenty years of experience in executive search, management assessment and development, organisational design and strategy consulting.
Working across Europe Yevgeny has advised clients in a range of sectors including: consumer, healthcare, industrial, private equity, professional services, sports and technology.
Prior to setting up Excelion in 2010, Yevgeny worked at McKinsey & Company and Egon Zehnder International in Moscow, Vienna and London.
Yevgeny holds a BA in International Relations, an MBA in Economics and Business Administration and Certificates in Corporate Finance, Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.
He sits on a number of supervisory and advisory boards and is a business angel.
Yevgeny is fluent in Russian, German and English.