Highest paid executive placed by headhunters in 2010 earns 25,000 euros per month

The highest paid executive placed by headhunters in 2010 is an expat that gets 25,000 euros per month in net amount and was recruited by Stanton Chase International executive search company, reveals a survey conducted by ZF based on the data supplied by the main players on the market.
"Whereas we did not recruit anybody for the financial services sector in 2009, the market has rebounded this year, and we've had at least 10 projects from this sector, all of them at senior level, especially from the top five banks," says Athena Tavoulari, managing director of Stanton Chase.
At least 50 companies replaced their general managers in the first six months of this year and one in three executives replaced was an expat, data centralised by ZF reveal.
The headhunters are not allowed to reveal the identity of the executives they place. Among the companies to have changed their general managers is Volksbank International, which put Johann Lurf at the helm after the departure of Gerald Schreiner. Another expat put in charge of a bank this year was Johan Gabriels, who runs RBS Romania, having replaced Peter M. Weiss. Other expats are Thomas Tolazzi, the new boss of BCR Leasing and Gary Whitlie, who took the reins of Ursus Breweries. The biggest salary earned by an executive placed by headhunter George Butunoiu this year is 15,000 euros per month in net amount.
Third most expensive executive is a country manager in the industrial sector recruited by Radu Furnică, who gets 10,500 euros in net amount per month.