Andreas
Hadjitofi.
Workforce Entrepreneur. I help organisations design, build and operate the workforce infrastructure that makes scaling across Europe possible, HR, recruitment, EOR, payroll, relocation and the technology that ties it together.
FIG. 01, Andreas, 2026The work,
in plain terms.
For more than a decade I have helped organisations design, build and operate the workforce infrastructure that makes growth possible, payroll, EOR, recruitment, people operations and the technology that ties it together.
The mandate is end-to-end: I hire, relocate, deploy through our payroll and legal structures, embed HR staff on site, and stand up the systems that run the workforce day to day, HRIS, time, finance, automation and AI tooling, on the client's stack or ours.
The work spans founder and executive search, full HR build-outs, recruitment, system implementation, and standing up large delivery organisations, including a 500-person DevOps function for Swisscom in Rotterdam and 100+ specialists across ESA programmes in Noordwijk such as IRIS².
I work as an independent advisor, backed by the 39-year legacy of Octagon Professionals, with a network across HR tech, EOR providers, recruitment partners and immigration specialists. The role is simple: be the single executive a company can call to fix, hire, find or deploy any part of its workforce, through whichever legal structure makes sense.
A life, in order.
Born in 1990. Raised in the Netherlands. Built a career across recruitment, workforce and advisory. Now building a family. The work and the life, in plain sequence.
- 1990
Born in the Netherlands.
Born to a Cypriot family in the Netherlands. Raised between two cultures, schooled fully in Dutch, fluent across the languages and customs that would later define his work across Europe.
Family, early 1990s - 1990s
A Dutch childhood, a Mediterranean home.
Grew up in a household where work, hospitality and people were inseparable. The instinct to host, connect and solve for others started here, long before it had a job title.
At home - 2010
Joins his mother's recruitment company.
At 20, steps into Octagon Professionals, the firm his mother built. Learns the trade from the floor up, sourcing, payroll, contracts, client management. The 39-year legacy becomes a personal craft.
With his father - 2019
Pivots to workforce solutions for international employers.
At 29, shifts focus to companies hiring highly skilled internationals into Europe. Builds end-to-end workforce solutions across recruitment, EOR, payroll, relocation and immigration. One executive, every legal structure.
Industry partners, Amsterdam - 2019, 2024
Programme scale: Swisscom, Lucid Motors, ESA, Netflix, AMD.
Stands up a 500-person DevOps organisation in Rotterdam for Swisscom. Delivers 100+ specialists across ESA programmes including IRIS². Supports Lucid Motors, Netflix, AMD and others on European workforce build-outs.
On programme - 2023
Meets the love of his life.
At 33, meets his partner. Begins building a family. Reorders priorities around the people who matter most, and the work that compounds over decades, not quarters.
Together - Today
Workforce advisory at the executive layer.
Now operating as the trusted workforce executive for international leaders. Advisory on structure, talent, retention, HR tech, AI and multi-year workforce planning. The mandate is simple: develop organisations, develop himself, develop his family. A reliable, trusted family man, on a plane when it matters.
The next chapter
Built at programme scale.
A short list of references that show the operating range, from regulated aerospace delivery to standing up a 500-person engineering organisation from zero.
100+ specialists across ESA programmes, including IRIS².
Cleared engineers, mission-critical operations talent and on-site HR embedded directly inside the programme. Sourced, employed, payrolled and supported across multiple primes and sub-programmes.
Stood up a 500-person DevOps organisation from the ground.
Responsible for building the Rotterdam delivery centre, today a 500-person operation. Hiring, relocation, payroll, on-site HR, system implementation and ongoing people management, end to end.
One executive across the full workforce stack.
Talent, founder and executive hiring, HR, automation, AI solutions, HR tech, system implementation, time and finance tooling, payroll and legal structuring, run on the client's systems or ours.
Hire, relocate, deploy, support, manage.
Single point of accountability across every legal structure available, EOR, contracting, secondment, entity. Designed so a CEO or CHRO has one number to call for any workforce decision.
What I bring
to the table.
Across Europe
directly.
Selected work in the US, UAE, Singapore and South Africa.
Three rules
I do not break.
Structure before headcount.
Hiring fast into the wrong model creates years of cleanup.
Compliance is design, not paperwork.
EOR, payroll and policy are product decisions, treat them that way.
AI helps the boring layer first.
Automate the predictable. Keep humans on the human moments.
Strategy is a human game.
The best workforce decisions are made by people who actually live in the world they are advising on, not just the spreadsheet of it.
FIG. 02, Off duty
FIG. 03, Sorrento