Summary: Gain insights in this exclusive Q&A with André Tehrani, CEO of Recrewmint, as he discusses the future of executive recruitment & cyber security leadership.
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This Q&A is part of a series on Security Staffing that features an HR Technology company, its founder and its features. For this post, we’re talking to André Tehrani, Founder & CEO of Recrewmint.
André Tehrani, Founder & CEO of Recrewmint, has deep ties to the cybersecurity world. Before Recrewmint, André lead Intercast Staffing from an unknown firm into a leading North American cyber recruitment and staffing player, becoming one of the fastest-growing in the cybersecurity industry.
Building on Intercast’s success, André launched Recrewmint in 2019, initially as a contingent CISO executive search firm focusing on permanent CISO, cloud security and application security roles. However, with the rise of OpenAI and macro economic shifts slowing hiring, André pivoted to innovation. This led to the development of the Mint Portal—a search and match platform designed to disrupt the cyber recruitment industry. In this system, passive candidates receive signals of interest from employers and decide whether to engage with the talent opportunity. While still in development, HR leaders can join the waitlist to experience this revolutionary tool firsthand.
5 Questions with André Tehrani, Founder & CEO of Recrewmint
Q1: How does Recrewmint serve employers and their HR teams?
Recrewmint collaborates with HR leaders to optimize cybersecurity recruiting, enabling you to fill essential roles more quickly. As cyber recruitment experts in senior, director, and CISO recruitment, we understand the challenges you face—unfilled positions, tight deadlines, budget constraints, and quality assurances.
For example, we recently filled a role that had been open for over a year in just 50 days by finding the right candidate within a week through our proven search techniques. Now, with the upcoming Mint Portal, we’re enhancing this process even further. Soon, you’ll be able to post a job and get matched with qualified security candidates in minutes. Hire in weeks, not months. Stay ahead of the curve—join our waitlist to transform your recruitment process.
Q2: What are the most important trends HR Leaders should be focused on right now?
From an executive search and recruitment standpoint, the “Silver Tsunami” is one of the top trends HR leaders can’t afford to ignore. With over 11,000 Baby Boomers reaching retirement age daily and more than 4.1 million Americans set to retire each year through 2027, the wave is here. As senior cybersecurity leaders step down, businesses will face a surge in open executive positions just as ransomware costs skyrocket—2024 saw a record-breaking ransom of $75 million ransom paid to Dark Angels gang.
Traditional recruitment firms, clinging to outdated networks, will struggle to fill these critical roles. But smart HR leaders will seize this moment to embrace modern solutions. Recrewmint’s portal technology outpaces old-school methods, giving you the power to plan succession strategically, identify top internal talent, and recruit the best external candidates. Don’t wait for the wave to crash—ride it. HR leaders can join the waitlist for Recrewmint’s Mint Portal and receive 50% off recruiting fees for their first year of hiring through Mint Portal.
Q3: How do your AI tools enable employers to recruit top executive talent?
Traditional executive search firms often prioritize corporations over candidates, but Recrewmint has reimagined the process with a talent-representation approach through Mint Portal. Our marketplace technology empowers top cyber security executives, analysts, and engineers to be scouted by clients, as we bring exciting opportunities directly from hiring managers at leading organizations, from Fortune 1000 corporations to publicly traded security vendors.
This talent-representation approach reduces mean time to hire for businesses while increasing candidate reputation, helping executives secure their next roles faster. Our AI-powered, technical-sales based matching technology ensures that only the best-fit, qualified candidates are matched to your company’s strict job descriptions. Executive profiles remain confidential, with a single-blind system that only reveals their details once mutual interest is confirmed. To protect their privacy, we also ensure that their current employers can never access their profiles. Essentially, Recrewmint offers a “Curated”-like experience for executive recruitment, where the right match leads to the right conversation leading to the right hire. Join the portal waitlist today!
Q4: How does Recrewmint help Employers meet diversity and inclusion goals?
Just as OpenAI created the answer engine, Recrewmint is creating the Mint Portal—to ensure AI-driven cyber recruitment technology benefits all of humanity. Our innovative, talent-driven platform is transforming how top cybersecurity talent connects with leading organizations, from Fortune 500 giants to dynamic startups. No longer do candidates have to navigate exclusionary networks or worry about their applications being overlooked.
Recrewmint’s proprietary search focuses on matching candidates based on their skills and accomplishments, reducing bias and promoting diversity in leadership roles. Our “single-blind” matching process ensures that only the most qualified candidates are matched, and once mutual interest is confirmed, data points are shared to expedite the hiring process.
As we prepare for the launch of the Mint Portal, we invite HR leaders to join the waitlist and experience a new era of HR technology purpose fit to security staffing.
Q5: What is the biggest challenge in executive search that Recrewmint helps companies overcome?
For too long, executive search has been a dinosaur, trapped in outdated methods and reliant on the same tired, overpriced pool of candidates. While other HR sectors have evolved, executive search remains slow, exclusionary, and outrageously costly—with no guarantee of results.
Recrewmint shatters this broken model. We’re not just another recruitment firm; we’re the future of cybersecurity hiring. Our talent-driven Mint Portal isn’t here to play by the old rules—it’s here to recode them. We cut the time-to-hire to mere weeks and scour the globe for the precise talent your company needs, whether now or down the line. This isn’t just recruitment; it’s a revolution in ensuring you have the right people, in the right roles, who actually stick around.
If you’re tired of the same old executive search song and dance, it’s time to step into the future with Recrewmint. The first 100 HR leaders and CISOs to join us get a one-month free trial and 50% off annual recruiting fees for the first year.
Recrewmint is on a mission to disrupt the cyber security industry, blending advanced AI with recruiting expertise to help companies fill complex cybersecurity leadership roles with unmatched speed, accuracy, and effectiveness, while fostering diversity and long-term retention. Learn more here.
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