About

Built on experience. Focused on what’s next.

Gentium Group brings together businesses and practical expertise across talent, global work and applied AI. We help organisations find exceptional people, employ across borders and build technology that improves how they work.Our foundations are in international recruitment, with more than two decades of experience building and operating businesses. Today, that experience informs our work across recruitment and search, Employer of Record services, and practical AI systems, automation and business tools.

Meet the team

Gentium is a small, operator-led group. Day-to-day operations are run by experienced people who have been building and delivering across our businesses for years.

Salah ElBaba, Founder at Gentium Group
Salah ElBaba
Founder

Salah brings extensive recruitment experience and more than two decades of building and operating international recruitment businesses. He leads Gentium Group’s development across talent, cross-border employment and applied AI, with a practical focus on business needs and delivery.

Irene Toerien, Operations Manager at Gentium Group
Irene Toerien
Operations Manager

Leads operations across the Gentium Group portfolio. Deep experience in international placement logistics, compliance, and client delivery, particularly in the GCC teacher placement market.

Nicole Miller, Recruitment Specialist at Gentium Group
Nicole Miller
Recruitment Specialist

Runs the candidate-facing side of SA-Recruitment. Primary point of contact for teachers placing into international schools in the GCC and Australia. Trusted by schools and candidates over many years of placements.

Our approach

We focus on work where we can make a practical difference: finding the right people, simplifying cross-border employment and building useful technology. We combine experience running businesses with hands-on delivery, working with clients from the initial challenge through to implementation.