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Meet the founders of NearTalent LatAm

Two operators. One decade. 1,000+ LatAm placements since 2016 under the SelectionBook Group. NearTalent serves Canadian scale-ups under PIPEDA, CASL and CRA fourfold-test compliance.

Pamela Herrera — Co-Founder & Chief Talent Officer
Pamela Herrera
Co-Founder & Chief Talent Officer

15+ years in talent for transnationals. Ex-TuHabi consolidation as a Series-C unicorn (100+ hires/month). Founder of the Mexican Series-C startup compensation club.

Pamela on LinkedIn

What Pamela leads at NearTalent

  • Sourcing engine and 25,000+ candidate pool curation
  • STAR screening protocol
  • Compensation calibration across 5 LatAm markets
  • 90-day guarantee process and retention playbook
Agustín Tejera — Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer
Agustín Tejera
Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer

20+ years in strategic consulting and top advertising holdings (Havas Group, IPG, UM/Initiative, WPP Mindshare, Ogilvy, VML). Roles: VP, CSO, CMO, Creative VP across 20+ industries and 150+ clients.

Agustín on LinkedIn

What Agustín leads at NearTalent

  • Go-to-market strategy for US and Canada expansion
  • AI adoption and agentic sourcing for scaling
  • Commercial strategy and pricing architecture
  • Brand, demand generation and thought-leadership
Why they founded NearTalent
A convergence four things needed to align at once.

Post-pandemic remote adoption made Canadian scale-ups structurally comfortable hiring across borders. Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal engineering teams already work distributed by default.

Compensation compression and the CAD/USD spread hit at the same time. LatAm senior engineering at $70K-90K USD closes the roles that a Toronto hire at $180K CAD used to fill, without losing quality.

LatAm talent maturity reached the point where the top decile speaks fluent English, ships for North American customers, and prefers USD compensation to relocation.

Regulatory clarity for Canadian buyers: PIPEDA covers personal-data handling, CASL governs recruiting communications, the CRA fourfold test governs contractor classification, and T4A vs 1099-NEC is now a solved reporting question. Cross-border hiring is a solved problem — what was missing was the operator who assembled all four into a repeatable service. That is NearTalent.

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10 days to a curated shortlist. 3 weeks to a signed hire.

Tell us the role. We come back with 3–5 finalists in 10 business days.

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