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Scaleups Finding Their Next Gear
Fast-growing companies where the next ten hires define whether the curve continues, or stalls.
Operator-Led Executive Search
Growth is a
people challenge.
Operator-led executive search for companies in growth mode, helping ambitious businesses hire the leaders and professionals they need to grow, scale, and expand.
GVA partners with scaleups, international companies entering the US, and founder-led businesses on the critical hires that decide what happens next.
12+
Years building businesses
8
Markets launched
100%
Founder-led engagements
EU / US
Europe & North America
01 / The Premise
One common denominator
across industries: growth.
Scaleups finding their next gear. International companies entering the US. Founder-led businesses maturing into institutions. Companies moving through transformation. From the outside, these companies look different. From the inside, the challenge is the same: the people decisions that determine whether growth compounds or stalls.
02 / The Approach
An operator on your side of the table.
GVA was founded by David Grinevald after twelve years launching markets, building teams, and scaling businesses across Europe and North America. We come into hiring decisions the same way we came into operating ones: close to the business, close to the founder, accountable for the outcome.
Operating Track
- 2015–2020
Onepark
Built and scaled operations across Spain and a dozen European markets.step 1 - 2021–2024
OVRSEA
Contributed to scaling revenue from €10M to nearly €100M while leading international expansion and launching US operations.step 2 - 2024–2025
CG Mobile
Scaled commercial partnerships and North American growth while leading supply chain transformation.step 3 - 2025–Present
Flexport
Driving enterprise growth in global logistics.step 4
03 / Who We Work With
Companies at an inflection point.
Different contexts, same challenge: the point where the next set of hires decides the trajectory.
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International Companies Entering the US
First country managers, commercial leaders, and operators who can land a market and own the P&L.
03
Founder-Led Businesses
Bringing in the senior operators a founder needs to step out of the work and back into the company.
04
Companies in Transformation
New chapter, new model, new capital, and the people decisions that have to come with them.
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High-Growth Teams
Commercial, operations, supply chain, marketing, and leadership teams where multiple hires shape the next stage of growth.
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Critical Individual Hires
The single hire, leader or specialist, that disproportionately shapes what happens next.
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04 / Areas of Focus
The searches we lead.
Senior mandates across the functions that decide whether growth compounds. Led personally, end to end.
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Commercial Leadership
CROs, VPs of Sales, and commercial leaders who build pipeline and own the number. - 02
Country Managers & General Managers
First-in-market leaders who land a geography and run it end to end. - 03
Operations & Supply Chain
Operators who industrialize what works and scale it without breaking it. - 04
Marketing & Growth
Senior marketers who turn positioning, demand, and brand into compounding growth. - 05
Strategic Growth Hires
The individual hire, whether leader, builder, or specialist, that changes the trajectory of the business.
05 / The Difference
Operating experience is the difference.
The work GVA does sits inside hiring, but the lens is operating. Every decision is weighed against what it takes to actually build, ship, and scale a business.
- 01
Operator first: the work has been done before, not just observed.
- 02
Hiring decisions framed against business reality, not job specs.
- 03
Evaluation of execution and judgment, not just résumés.
- 04
Networks built across Europe and North America from inside operating roles.
- 05
Founder involvement on every engagement, no handoffs.
David Grinevald
Founder, GVA
06 / Founder
Builder. Operator.
Executive Search Partner.
For more than twelve years, David Grinevald has launched markets, built teams, owned P&Ls, and scaled businesses across Europe and North America.
Eight market launches. Senior commercial, country, and operating hires made from inside the business. Revenue scaled from early traction into the hundreds of millions. He has lived the decisions his clients now face: the first commercial leader, the country manager for a new market, the operator who carries a founder through the next chapter. That perspective is the lens GVA brings to every engagement.
Every engagement is led personally. No handoffs. No junior associates. No template processes. Direct work between an operator and the leaders he partners with.
07 / Contact
Let's build
what comes next.
david@gvasearch.co
For founders, operators, boards, and investors making the hiring decisions that shape what happens next.