Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek
Julia has successfully established and manages the Austrian executive search business of AltoPartners and is a member of the global management team (OCO). She has extensive experience in filling board and top-management positions in Austria and across Europe for Austrian companies and institutions as well as global conglomerates, family-owned organisations and start-ups/scale-ups. Her industry expertise spans the manufacturing & technology sector, transportation, infrastructure & mobility, NGOs, financial services and healthcare. Julia is an active member of several practice groups and serves as the European Practice Lead for Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure at AltoPartners. She and her team have received several AltoPartners Awards for international business development.
With 20 years of experience in executive search, Julia has lived and worked in Austria, London and Germany. Prior to AltoPartners, she was a partner at a leading Austrian executive search firm, which was already part of the AltoPartners group.
Julia holds a Non-Executive Director role in an Austrian steel trading company (family business) and is co-founder of the Austrian Chapter of Women Corporate Directors, the global networking platform for female non-executive directors.