Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Brighton, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• What is Calm in the Chaos?
• Is your coaching journey to building the momentum, presence, and self-trust
• you need to not only land the job you want but to level up your entire approach to
• professional growth.
• Whether you’re just starting your job search, preparing for interviews, or positioning yourself for the next big career move,
• Calm in the Chaos gives you the tools to take charge of your career journey.
• Why Calm in the Chaos?
• Because your career growth doesn’t happen overnight.
• It’s about the whole picture, and with the right tools, mindset, and strategies, you can level up in ways that create lasting impact, not only in interviews but throughout your career journey.

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 · 3 mos · Brighton, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• RavenPack is the leading big data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content.
• Bigdata.com streamlines your financial workflows by delivering real-time answers, enhancing writing, planning strategically, sparking ideas, managing risks, and monitoring market trends — all in one seamless tool. Trusted by the world’s top investors.

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · Brighton, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Specialize in Product & Engineering roles across Europe and Latam.
• S&you are a division of the Acorn by Synergie group in the UK, and form part of a wider team of specialist recruiters across Europe, Canada and Australia focusing on Permanent and Contract Recruitment Solutions in technical and professional industries including IT & Technology, Life Sciences and Executive Search, amongst others.
• We are able to offer national and international recruitment solutions helping our candidates find the perfect role and our clients the perfect candidates.

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Greater Brighton and Hove Area · Hybrid

• Founded and scaled a boutique recruitment and talent advisory business supporting VC-backed startups and scale-ups across the US, Europe, and Latin America.
• I operate as an embedded Talent Partner, often the first or only talent function inside a company, owning hiring end to end from role scoping to close.
• What I do:
• → Integrate AI-powered sourcing (Claude, Juicebox, hireEZ) to build targeted pipelines in competitive markets, reducing average time-to-shortlist by ~30%
• → Design hiring processes from scratch, including role briefs, structured scorecards, AI-assisted candidate ranking, and decision rules, improving consistency and reducing bias
• → Build lightweight hiring ops stacks for seed-stage companies using AI and workflow automation, giving founders a real talent function without the overhead
• → Lead senior and first-in-role searches across Engineering, Product, and Design, with an offer acceptance rate consistently above 85% on retained engagements
• → Support YC-backed startups in SF and NYC on founding team hires, using AI-enabled market mapping to reach passive candidates not findable through traditional sourcing
• → Partner directly with founders and CTOs to turn roadmap pressure into clear hiring priorities and fast, structured processes
• Selected clients: Paraform · Rappi · Amenitiz · Aircall · Yuno · Ftapi · Freeletics · RavenPack · IDnow · Tripleten · multiple YC-backed startups
• Impact: 200+ senior roles delivered · 85%+ offer acceptance rate · Time-to-decision reduced to 5–10 days for early-stage teams

Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 · 8 mos · Brighton, United Kingdom

• Experienced Recruiter consulting at C level in both Technical IT Recruitment, SAP and BPO recruitment. Including Banking, Finance & Telecoms.
• We are mainly active in Switzerland, Nordics & Poland.
• We focus on Contract & Permanent positions.

Jan 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Burgess Hill

• The Capital International Telecoms team specialise in providing contract, permanent and fixed-price resource solutions to the Global telecommunications market. Our current market focus includes:
• Fixed/Mobile network infrastructure (Planning, Implementation, Support)
• OSS/BSS (OSS, Billing, CRM, EAI, Mediation & Provisioning, Revenue Assurance)
• Voice and Data Comms (Cisco, Avaya, Juniper, Contact Centre technologies)
• R&D (Power Supply, Software/Hardware Design, Cooling Systems, Semiconductor and Microelectronics)
• CxO (CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, CMO)
• Contact me on +44 (0) 1444 238907 or ltognetti@capital-staff.com

Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I specialise in offering a dedicated recruitment service to the UX market for permanent and contract. Working across the UK and Europe. I work with everything from start-ups to agencies, advertising heavyweights, software design houses and large technology corporations.
• My position within the team is to focus on our Design & Research roles, filling both Permanent and Contract positions.
• The Creative Emporium | TCE, a boutique user centred design recruitment firm based in Shoreditch.
• We specialise exclusively in:
• Experience Design
• User Interface / Visual Design
• Interaction Design
• Service Design
• Information Architecture
• Front End Web Development
• Usability Research
• Project Management
• Agile / Scrum
• Our customer base covers both agency and client side, working with pre-funded start-ups to multinationals. With different specialists having specific areas of expertise, it allows us to build extensive networks throughout the digital community, as well as developing in-depth knowledge about the marketplace and current trends.
• We take very seriously our role as valued partners to the industry as a whole. We aim to always work in the best overall interest of our candidates and clients. Building trust and long-term business relationships.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Founders of renowned restaurants Casa Malevo & Zoilo and the new deli butcher and wine merchant Abasto.
• Argentine cuisine is a fascinating mix of cultures, the result of a vibrant heritage and transcendental immigration history. Malevo group proudly embrace this cultural diversity and celebrate the tremendous passion for food.
• February 2014 to December 2014 – Abasto Deli, Butcher & Wine Merchant - Manager
• July 2013 to January 2014 – Casa Malevo Restaurant – Assistant Manager
• December 2012 to June 2013 – Zoilo Restaurant – Assistant Manager
• I became a trusted member of the management team, always looking for and promoting new ideas to increase efficiency.
• Business activities:
• Taking responsibility for the business performance of the restaurant.
• Analysing and planning restaurant sales levels and profitability.
• Organising marketing activities, such as promotional events and discount schemes.
• Preparing reports at the end of the shift/week, including staff control, food control and sales.
• Creating and executing plans for department sales, profit and staff development.
• Setting budgets and/or agreeing them with senior management.
• Planning and coordinating menus.
• Coordinating the entire operation of the restaurant during scheduled shifts.
• Managing staff and providing them with feedback.
• Responding to customer complaints.
• Ensuring that all employees adhere to the company's uniform standards.
• Meeting and greeting customers and organising table reservations.
• Advising customers on menu and wine choice.
• Recruiting, training and motivating staff.
• Organising and supervising the shifts of kitchen, waiting and cleaning staff.
• Maintaining high standards of quality control, hygiene, and health and safety.
• Checking stock levels and ordering supplies.
• Preparing cash drawers and providing petty cash as required.
• Helping in any area of the restaurant when circumstances dictate.

Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Recognize major global customers to make stable sales and arrange costing to present prices to clients.
• Maintain abreast of tariffs and responsibilities connecting to export functions.
• Analyze, acquire primary and secondary information to observe the performance of marketed brand.
• Supervise sales and service outlets of an organization.
• Discuss deals with foreign distribution and sales centers to set up outlets.
• Oversees clerical personnel in expediting export bid requests, correspondence, and credit collections.
• Manages conversion of products from foreign principles and specifications to make sure proficient operation under foreign circumstances.
• Organizes shipping details, like customs declarations, and packing, export licenses, shipping, and routing of product.

May 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Sardegna, Italy

• Bar Manager
• Serve clients following management’s high objectives for its clientele
• Manage events with confidentiality for VIP clients. Organize security operations when necessary
• Recruiting and managing 12 bar staff members
• Design and implement control activities on stock management to optimize utilization and ROI
• Monitor service and quality, and put corrective actions in place where necessary
• Ensure Phi Beach meets brand visualisation and sales contractual obligations with sponsors
• Coordination of internal processes between Bar and Restaurant
• Setting up Phi Beach prior to summer season official opening and closing down at season end

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

• Between 2006 and 2008 I went backpacking in South America and Asia.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 · 3 yrs · Spain

• Between 2002 and 2005 I lived in Spain; during this time I worked in bars in Barcelona and Madrid, and in ski resorts in Andorra.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs · Buenos Aires

• Assistant to CEO
• General administrative tasks