Team

Leadership Experience Built Across Industries and Markets.

Hatwit brings together a growing European network of senior professionals, advisors, and cross-border partners. Combining multinational or international exposure, entrepreneurial agility, and long-term executive relationships, the team supports complex leadership environments across Western Europe and Central & Eastern Europe.

We work hands-on with clients and partners to shape meaningful, long-term outcomes – guiding leadership appointments and talent strategies across Europe’s diverse markets.

Luminita Potorac-Roman

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Luminita Potorac-Roman is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Hatwit International, leading Executive Search and Leadership Consulting mandates across Financial Services, Consumer, Business Services, and Healthcare sectors. With over 20 years of experience spanning Legal, HR, and Consulting, she brings strategic insight, cross-cultural fluency, and strategic focus to every mandate.

With more than 20 years of experience spanning executive search, leadership consulting, law, human capital, and organisational advisory, she supports multinational corporations, international family-owned businesses, and investment environments on Board, C-suite, and senior leadership appointments, succession planning, leadership assessment and development, executive transitions, and broader organisational transformation initiatives across Europe.

Her background combines legal advisory, operational HR leadership, and executive search experience developed within multinational and cross-border business environments, bringing strategic perspective, market insight, and long-term partnership thinking to complex leadership mandates.

MBA, CNAM Paris | Master’s Degrees in Commercial Law and Economics | BA in Law and International Relations

Based in Luxembourg
English | French | Romanian

Marius Potorac-Roman

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Marius Potorac-Roman is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Hatwit International, leading Executive Search and Leadership Consulting mandates across Technology, Industrial, Manufacturing, Engineering, Energy, and Infrastructure sectors.

With more than 20 years of experience spanning executive search, commercial strategy, operational leadership, business development, and international market expansion, he supports multinational corporations, international family-owned businesses, and investment environments on senior leadership appointments, organisational transformation, succession planning, and strategic growth initiatives across Europe.

Prior to co-founding Hatwit, Marius held senior commercial and leadership roles within Security, Technology, and Telecommunications environments, combining operational business understanding with extensive cross-border market exposure. Alongside his commercial leadership background, he also led strategic sales training initiatives across the EMEA region, supporting leadership capability development within complex multinational environments.

At Hatwit, Marius plays a key role in driving the firm’s international expansion and client partnerships across Western and Central-Eastern Europe.

MBA, CNAM Paris | MSc in Business Economics | BA in Agri-Engineering and Management

Based in Luxembourg
English | Romanian

Iulia Berea

Investor & Legal Partner

Iulia Berea is Investor & Legal Partner at Hatwit International, bringing more than 20 years of experience as a business lawyer, investor, and strategic advisor to founders, investors, growth companies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

Her expertise spans mergers and acquisitions, growth financing, corporate structuring, governance, international expansion, and strategic legal advisory. Throughout her career, she has supported executive teams, shareholders, investors, and boards through acquisitions, financing processes, corporate reorganisations, cross-border expansion projects, and business-critical transformation contexts.

Her background combines a Magic Circle foundation, senior leadership roles within top-tier legal practices, executive legal leadership within a global technology scale-up, entrepreneurial ventures, and active involvement as advisor, investor, and board-level contributor within technology and growth-company environments.

At Hatwit International, Iulia brings legal, governance, and investor perspectives to growth, transformation, and international development initiatives. She supports strategic projects involving organisational evolution, international expansion, governance frameworks, AI-enabled business environments, investment-related matters, and broader value-creation initiatives.

BA in Law, Law Faculty, University of Bucharest | MBA Essentials, London School of Economics | FinTech Certification, HarvardX

Based in Bucharest and Dubai
English | Romanian

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Maria Predoiu

Principal

Maria Predoiu is a Principal at Hatwit International, contributing to Executive Search and Leadership Advisory mandates in the Consumer sector, particularly Retail and FMCG, having over 20 years of experience in senior business leadership and strategic capability development.

Her background includes senior regional leadership roles within Procter & Gamble, where she led multi-market marketing and commercial initiatives for a major international portfolio across Central & Eastern Europe, supporting organisational growth, strategic capability development, and cross-border business transformation in highly competitive consumer markets.

Alongside her multinational corporate experience, Maria has also been involved in entrepreneurship, education, and leadership development initiatives, combining strategic business understanding with strong people and organisational insight.

BSc in Commerce | Executive Programs, Harvard Business School

Based in Bucharest 
English | Romanian

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Ioana Ciribasa

Head of Talent Intelligence

Ioana Ciribasa leads Talent Intelligence activities at Hatwit International, bringing more than 15 years of experience across Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, executive research, and market intelligence within multinational organisations and specialist consulting environments.

Her background spans Technology, Engineering, Industrial, Outsourcing, Business Services, and Market Research sectors, combining structured research methodologies with strong understanding of specialist, management, and leadership talent across European markets.

Prior to joining Hatwit, Ioana developed experience within multinational organisations including Accenture, Schaeffler, Ipsos, and in-tech, supporting leadership hiring initiatives, workforce planning, executive assessment processes, and complex recruitment projects across dynamic and highly specialised business environments.

At Hatwit, she oversees leadership mapping, talent intelligence, executive research, and market insight activities supporting cross-border Executive Search and Leadership Consulting mandates across Europe.

BA in Psychology

Based in Brașov 
English | Romanian

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