Built for this moment.
BRAINWAVE talent was founded on a single conviction: the tools used to identify and evaluate executive leaders have not kept pace with what organizations actually need in the AI era.
Our Story
Four decades of executive search and leadership evaluation experience sit behind BRAINWAVE talent. We have placed and evaluated hundreds of senior leaders across Europe — and we have watched, firsthand, as the criteria organizations use to evaluate executives became progressively misaligned with the reality of AI transformation.
BRAINWAVE talent is our response. A firm built specifically for this moment — combining proven search methodology with an evaluation framework designed from the ground up for the AI era.
Our Beliefs
AI is a permanent restructuring of how organizations think, decide, and compete.
The window to build AI leadership advantage is open now — and will not stay open.
Talent identification is broken. The criteria used to find future leaders were written for a world that is fading.
One AI-forward leader changes everything. The performance gap is exponential, not incremental.
Vision is the new scarce resource. AI cannot decide what matters — leaders who know where they are going will use AI to get there faster than anyone thought possible.
Every executive must think with AI. Those who cannot are already limiting the organizations they lead.
The Founders
Charles Salomons
Founder & CEO20+ years in executive search and corporate leadership. Built BRAINWAVE talent to solve the talent identification problem he encountered firsthand — organizations unable to recognize AI-forward leaders when they meet them.
LinkedInJim Tapper
Co-Founder & COOLeadership advisory and talent development specialist with two decades of experience evaluating executives across Europe. Brings the evaluation rigor that turns search into a precision instrument.
LinkedInOur Reach
BRAINWAVE talent conducts searches and evaluations across Europe, working with organizations at every stage of their AI transformation journey.
Our Parent Company
BRAINWAVE talent is a division of Salomons & Partners GmbH, a Swiss-based executive search and advisory firm. Registered in Switzerland (CHE-167.753.470), Bahnhofstrasse 10, 8001 Zürich.
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