Hasti Esfandiyari is a Consultant in the Consumer Industry at Russell Reynolds Associates in Amsterdam. With over a decade of experience in executive search and leadership advisory, she partners with global clients to address senior leadership and development needs. Prior to her current role, she served as the Global Director of Executive Search Consumer at KennedyFitch. Hasti spent over eight years at Spencer Stuart, where she held several progressive roles, including Senior Associate for the Global Consumer Practice and Associate Practice Leader for the EMEA CMO & CCO Practice. During her tenure at Spencer Stuart, she focused on high-level international roles within FMCG, fashion, and luxury, and supported marketing and sales functions across various sectors in EMEA. Earlier in her career, she was an International Project Manager and Commercial Assistant at Krauthammer, where she managed projects for clients such as Siemens and Roche Diagnostics. She also worked as a substitute teacher in Sweden. Hasti holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Leeds and studied Film Science at the University of Gothenburg