Ayova Executive Search

AIOVA (formerly Ayova) is a next-generation executive search agency dedicated to AI-native talent across cloud, data, cybersecurity, and operating models reshaped by AI. Based in Madrid with offices in Berlin and Kyiv, the firm believes the future of work is built on meaningful connections between professionals seeking growth, purpose, and impact, and companies needing talent to innovate and lead in a technology-transformed world. AIOVA brings together senior executives committed to identifying and nurturing the best technology talent.

The firm specialises in placing talent across cloud and DevOps, data and analytics, AI and digital transformation, front-end development and AI modelling, digital transformation for customer experience, and cybersecurity. AIOVA works with partners including Inno-IT in Barcelona and Madrid, Decidata in Bilbao and Madrid, Swiss Re in Madrid, Xitaso in Madrid and Malaga, and Maersk in Spain and North Africa. Founder Sebastien Sanz brings over 20 years of executive search experience from founding two boutique firms previously, and the team includes strategic HR leaders and senior recruitment consultants with decades of combined experience.

Operating from Madrid, Berlin, and Kyiv, AIOVA connects global companies with multicultural, future-ready specialists in technology, cybersecurity, and AI. The firm enables high-impact careers across borders for talents who do not just adapt to change but drive it. Their approach emphasises partnership and meaningful connections between organisations and professionals seeking transformation.