The influential Luis Conde returns to the executive presidency of the headhunting firm he founded
Eduardo Antunovic steps down as CEO of Seeliger y Conde
BarcelonaChanges at the top of Seeliger and Conde. The founder of the Barcelona-based headhunting firm, Luis Conde, will once again serve as executive president. According to ARA, this is not the only change the company will experience: the current CEO, Eduardo Antunovic, will lose that status and will become just a director. Antunovic began to play this role after Luis Conde sold the company he had founded in the late 1980s with Gerardo Seeliger to the New York multinational Kingsley Gate in 2023.
The Commercial Registry shows other movements in the company, such as the revocation of Francesca de Arcangeli's position as director and the appointment of Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Arcilla as director. The headhunting firm has not explained the reasons for the change in top executive. Sources close to the company clarify that the company is growing "at double digits" and recall that historically it had not had a CEO. Other voices consulted by this newspaper point out that in recent times the firm had lost steam.
Luis Conde (Barcelona, 1950) is one of the most influential figures in the Catalan economy both for the different positions he has held and, above all, for his contact list, which catapulted the company where he also worked as a partner almost since its founding Sixte Cambra. For years, Conde has been the great seeker of executives of the large Catalan companies, both in the Ibex 35 and in unlisted and family-owned companies. In fact, the meeting he organizes annually at his home in Fonteta (Baix Empordà) is an unmissable event for the main politicians and businessmen of Madrid and Barcelona and usually brings together half a thousand guests.
Seeliger y Conde had a turnover of 5.9 million euros and had 21 workers in 2022, the last year for which there is data in the Commercial Registry. As he published in his day The Confidential, Conde wanted to sell the company for around 10 million euros, but had to lower expectations with the arrival of Kingsley Gate.