Team

The people behind the platform.

Recruiters who have hired inside the industries they serve, and engineers who have shipped AI at frontier labs. Seventeen people who own the outcome, not the process.

17
Leadership team: 4
Industry practices: 150+
Countries hired in: 12
Languages spoken

Leadership

The founding team that set out to make hiring fast, rigorous and fair.

Humza Rafiq
Founder & Head of Recruiting
Started Think5 to give every candidate a real interview and every company a shortlist worth reading. Leads the recruiting practices.
Wiki Nas
Co-founder & Director, Talent Acquisition
Co-founded Think5 and runs talent acquisition end to end: sourcing strategy, the candidate pipeline and every shortlist that reaches a client.
Elena Varga
Co-founder & Chief Executive
Built two recruiting firms before Think5. Believes every candidate deserves a real interview.
Marcus Oyelaran
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Previously led ML infrastructure at a frontier lab. Designed Aria's first interview engine.
Sofia Lindqvist
Chief People Officer
Twenty years placing executives across Europe and North America. Owns quality and candidate experience.
Rahul Menon
Chief Operating Officer
Ran delivery for a global staffing group. Runs the engine that turns a brief into a shortlist in 48 hours.
Claire Dubois
Chief Revenue Officer
Scaled go-to-market at two B2B SaaS companies from seed to Series C.

Recruiting practice leads

One lead per industry, each with a decade or more inside the sector they hire for.

Tomás Ferreira
Head of IT & Engineering Recruiting
Former engineering manager. Hired 400+ engineers across backend, ML and infrastructure.
Amaka Nwosu
Head of Healthcare Recruiting
Registered nurse turned recruiter. Credentialing, licensure and clinical fit, done properly.
Jonas Weber
Head of Finance Recruiting
Ex-analyst at a bulge-bracket bank. Places quants, accountants and compliance leads.
Hannah McAllister
Head of Construction Recruiting
Chartered quantity surveyor. Recruits site leadership, estimators and project managers.
Diego Salazar
Head of Startup Recruiting
Founding recruiter at three venture-backed companies. Runs the embedded startup practice.

Platform & research

The team behind Aria, Nexus and Forge.

Yuki Tanaka
Head of Product, Aria
Leads the AI interviewer: rubrics, proctoring, multilingual assessment.
Samuel Adeyemi
Head of AI Research
Publishes on expert-in-the-loop training and evaluation. Directs Think5 Research.
Ingrid Holm
Head of Data Operations, Forge
Runs expert data pipelines for frontier labs: QA, calibration and delivery.
Leila Haddad
Head of Design
Shapes every surface a candidate or hiring manager touches.
Owen Fitzgerald
General Counsel & Compliance
Employment law, data protection and licensing across every market we operate in.