Meet the whole Team.

Karim SAHNINE Founder & CEO

Karim SAHNINEFounder & CEO

Karim is a skilled expert in the management of SMEs, mainly of a family nature. With very varied knowledge, he describes himself as a “specialist generalist”. In more than 35 years of professional life, Karim has worked in multiple sectors of activity, either as an entrepreneur, a manager, or as an advisor.

Convinced that professional life is enriched by varied experiences, he has been able to adapt the activity to technological developments. Throughout his career, he has always stuck to the same line: solving the difficult equation of human alchemy as a vector of success for any business. Karim is very attentive to human values and has been able to create cohesion between the various employees and his clients at all times.

Karim continues to be passionate about business management and group dynamics by regularly completing his training on a self-taught basis. Since 2009, he has been developing the Axepta Talents & Recruitment & Services group, a services and recruitment firm specializing in five key sectors in Switzerland: Life Science, Engineering and New Technologies, IT, Construction and Tertiary. Its mission is to support employees and companies to develop their activities in a sustainable manner by focusing solely on their core business

Noemie OLIVA Recruitment Director

Noemie OLIVARecruitment Director

With more than 9 years of experience in recruiting professionals in the Life Sciences field in Switzerland and Europe, Noémie has a strong expertise and knowledge of the various pharmaceutical professions such as: Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Clinical Research, Sales, Marketing, R&D and Scientists.

She attaches great importance to advising and following up on an ongoing basis with her clients and candidates. Being able to support them qualitatively is one of its priorities.

As these values are essential for our company, she transmits them daily to all employees of the Life Sciences department as well as to the rest of the Axepta group teams that she supervises.

Kamel SAHNINE Head Of Finance

Kamel SAHNINEHead Of Finance

Head of the Finance department, Kamel coordinates and supervises accounting, treasury, investments, and management control with the Axepta group. He has accumulated different experiences in the banking and trading sector. Kamel has a passion for numbers and working in a family environment stimulates him enormously.

Camelia NIÑO Digital & Communication Manager

Camelia NIÑODigital & Communication Manager

After graduating in History of Art and History &Aesthetic of Cinema at Geneva and Lausanne Universities, Camelia led her career for over 10 years in the banking industry.

First following her father’s path, in Human Resources from the HR management department to the Recruitment department, then to Commodity Trade Finance at UBS and ING Bank where she specialized as a Documentary Credit specialist after obtaining the STSA Operator’s certificate.

Her thoroughness, her communication and sharp eye took her to join the family business in 2020 to manage the Marketing and Communication of Axepta.

Adrien VINCENT Engineering Recruitment Specialist

Adrien VINCENTEngineering Recruitment Specialist

Adrien is responsible for recruiting specialized profiles in the field of Engineering. Our clients mandate us to help them recruit the best technical profiles for their projects.

He works both on internal recruitments for clients but also on recruitments for very specific projects over a sometimes limited period of time. Its objective is also to carry out monitoring, whether administrative or financial, with the various stakeholders.

Adrien comes from a university course in France through studies in business and international marketing. After various international experiences (China and Sweden), he decided to return to Geneva to use all of his theoretical and practical skills.
Recruitment is a field in which he fell by chance and which has fascinated him for almost 10 years now.

Contrary to what one might think, people are at the heart of our business.

Jonathan SEGUIN Engineering Recruitment Specialist

Jonathan SEGUINEngineering Recruitment Specialist

Jonathan has more than 4 years of experience as a Personnel Advisor in the industry and construction sector. Loving new challenges, Jonathan is currently in charge of the management and development of the temporary and fixed client portfolio.

What stimulates him today is the diversity of the positions that our clients entrust to us on a daily basis.

The most important thing in our business is our responsiveness, which he cultivates on a daily basis!

Cindy TOQUE Engineering Recruitment Specialist

Cindy TOQUEEngineering Recruitment Specialist

Holder of a double degree in human resources and management, Cindy began her career in France as a business manager for 5 years in the field of engineering. She has acquired a solid experience in recruiting technical profiles by working with prestigious clients

Passionate about recruitment and business development, she is responsible for developing a client portfolio in the field of engineering and supporting her clients on all issues encountered, particularly candidate sourcing.

To her, trust and transparency are prerequisites for healthy and lasting collaboration. Her key skills are project management, negotiation, communication and candidate sourcing.

Laëtitia PALUMBO Recruitment Specialist Watchmaking Industry

Laëtitia PALUMBORecruitment Specialist Watchmaking Industry

Her experience in the temporary work sector, combined with her technical knowledge in the industrial sector, has allowed her to develop a keen sense of service. Laëtitia evolved in the Arve valley in versatile functions combining commercial aspects, recruitment and management by responding to the issues of different mechanical industries of all sizes and varied sectors of activity.

Passionate about technological developments and mechanics in the general, she naturally specialized in the watch industry.

Her goal is to create the perfect match between candidates and the needs of her clients. She feels lucky to be able to develop her technical skills every day, and to build a solid partnership with her clients throughout Switzerland.

The keys to her success are : Listening, availability and responsiveness

Arnaud SOULHAT IT Recruitment Specialist

Arnaud SOULHATIT Recruitment Specialist

After significant experiences in London and Asia in sales, business development and customer service, Arnaud is now doing what he loves most: supporting and helping talents find their next professional challenge.

Arnaud is a dynamic and passionate recruiter with a strong experience in recruiting IT profiles. Its mission is to discover highly qualified talents, to guide them throughout the recruitment process and above all to forge and maintain relationships of trust in order to create a solid professional network.

Nabil BELAIDI IT Recruitment Specialist

Nabil BELAIDIIT Recruitment Specialist

Nabil is responsible for the IT department for the Axepta group on the Swiss market, his job revolves around 3 main axes: human resources, commercial engineering, and management including the daily management of a team of consultants and coordination / management of projects.

Graduated from the Grande École Program of L'École de Management de Strasbourg with a double specialization in entrepreneurship and HR, Nabil has 2 years of experience as an IT Business Manager with project management relating to the recruitment of executives specializing in IT as well as the management and loyalty of customer accounts.

Nabil enjoys human relations and the support of different actors on the IT part in order to fully meet the demands of our consultants and clients.

Mathilde BETTENCOURT HR Assistant

Mathilde BETTENCOURTHR Assistant

Mathilde is a recruitment consultant and administrative assistant in the tertiary, logistics / transport, industry and building fields. She takes care of the identification and qualification of candidates. The administrative management and the organization of events within the Axepta group are also under his responsibility.

The organization, the satisfaction of teamwork, the diversity of candidates allowing to discover the many and diverse backgrounds of each person remains something that particularly pleases him from the human side.

Samia SAHNINE HR Manager

Samia SAHNINEHR Manager

As HR Manager & responsible for the Axepta group's accounting, her role is to ensure the proper management and follow-up of administrative files related to all the activities of the HR department. Samia is also responsible for the management of internal and external personnel within the Axepta group as well as the management of salaries.

Samia has 8 years of experience in this same field of activity and she studied as a commercial employee in Switzerland.

What stimulates her the most in her work is the service, the variety of tasks and the human contact.

Mélody CAROMBAYENIN Recruitment Officer Life Sciences

Mélody CAROMBAYENINRecruitment Officer Life Sciences

With a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management, Mélody began her career in a temporary recruitment firm before specializing in the life sciences sector within our team.

She is now our recruitment expert for production and quality (QA/QC) profiles. She is a passionate person who likes to invest and give her all to find the ideal candidates for our clients' needs.

Morgane CAYUELA Life Sciences Recruitment Specialist

Morgane CAYUELALife Sciences Recruitment Specialist

With more than 4 years of experience in recruiting for the Life Sciences industries in France, she is now working to identify highly qualified candidates whose projects match those of her clients in Switzerland, with whom she develops and maintains a solid partnership. .

Its objectives: listen, advise, support and build

Its values: responsiveness, quality and trust

Bringing together candidates and clients is a start; getting them to work together over the long term is success.

Marine DOLLAT Life Sciences Recruitment Specialist

Marine DOLLATLife Sciences Recruitment Specialist

Key Account Manager and expert in recruitment in the Life Sciences field in Switzerland.

His job is to develop our clientele and then find the best talents so that they can achieve their goals. For this, Marine follows them throughout the process to inform them, coach them and this in full transparency to maximize the chances of success of the different parties.

For her, recruiting is like making a puzzle. The goal is to find the best candidate to place him within the company that best suits him in terms of his skills and his state of mind.

Adrien MENARD Recruitment Specialist Life Science

Adrien MENARDRecruitment Specialist Life Science

Graduated with a Master's degree in Commerce with a specialization in entrepreneurship, Adrien began his career in France as a recruitment consultant. In search of new challenges, he now supports companies but also candidates in their job searches, this time in Switzerland.

His motto: find the talent of tomorrow for our Life Sciences clients.

His accuracy and motivation quickly led him to great results within Axepta. A well-known quote that reflects his beliefs: “Never hire someone who knows less than you about what you hired them to do.”

Sylvia ALLEGRO Construction & Services Recruitment Specialist

Sylvia ALLEGROConstruction & Services Recruitment Specialist

Responsible for the placement of temporary staff in several sectors of activity (tertiary, industry, logistics, finishing work, sales) and the acquisition of new accounts on the Swiss market (prospecting, company visits), Sylvia is today with the benefit of 10 years of experience as a sales representative (direct sales) and more than 20 years in the placement of personnel.

In the temporary service, it is essential to find staff quickly. The requests of its customers are very often scheduled for the next day, hence the importance of creating teams upstream. This is what stimulates her the most.

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