Maqbool Mahmood

Maqbool Mahmood is the Co-Founder and Director of MAM Gruppe, the specialist recruitment agency he co-founded alongside Mazhar Mahmood in 2009. With over fifteen years of experience building and scaling a recruitment business focused exclusively on the German market, Maqbool brings a deep understanding of what it takes to grow an organisation sustainably and without sacrificing the quality that clients and candidates expect.

Maqbool's primary focus within the business is financial and commercial oversight. He is responsible for the financial health of MAM Gruppe, overseeing the commercial framework that underpins the business across its three offices in London, Munich and Dubai. In a business that has grown significantly since its founding, maintaining rigorous commercial discipline while continuing to invest in people, systems and market presence is a genuine balancing act, and one that Maqbool manages closely.

His role sits alongside Mazhar's as part of the founding leadership that has shaped MAM Gruppe's culture, direction and standards from the beginning. Together they have built a business that operates across five specialist verticals — Technology, Legal, Compliance, Finance and GRC — and works with over 350 clients across Germany, from ambitious scale-ups to some of the country's largest DAX-listed corporations.

The commercial model Maqbool oversees is built on the same principle that has guided MAM Gruppe since 2009 — that specialist knowledge, not generalist coverage, is what produces results worth paying for. That belief has shaped every commercial decision the business has made, and it continues to guide how MAM Gruppe grows.

If you are a client looking to discuss how MAM Gruppe can support your hiring needs in Germany, or a candidate looking to understand what the business stands for, Maqbool is one of the founding voices behind both the answer and the organisation.