One standard,
read for each market.
We work to international search discipline, applied with a working understanding of how hiring, reward and regulation operate in each market.
Nationalisation targets, local employment frameworks, visa structures, and the realities of relocating senior talent into the region. The standard does not change between the UAE and Saudi Arabia; the regulatory context and the candidate population do.
Who we work with
Sovereign-backed institutions and regulators, banks and investment firms, global corporates entering the market, and high-growth private and family-owned businesses. What they share is a need for advice grounded in this market, and a leadership decision that carries real consequence.
Where we work
The UAE and Saudi Arabia, through a UAE-licensed firm and a Saudi-licensed entity chaired from the Kingdom. One search discipline in both markets, with the candidate population, the regulator and the reward data read separately for each.
Our experience
A leadership team that pairs a thirty-year Saudi bank chief executive with a thirty-year human capital practitioner, alongside fifteen years of Gulf financial services search. People who have built and licensed regulated institutions, and who have designed the reward and succession frameworks that sit behind them. We track regulatory and market change as a matter of routine, so our advice reflects current conditions.
Six reasons clients
stay with us.
Partner-led throughout
The partner who pitches is the partner who delivers. No handover to a junior team once the brief is signed, on any mandate.
GCC depth
Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks, nationalisation targets, reward norms and relocation across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf.
Research-led recommendations
Market maps, benchmarking data and structured assessment sit behind every recommendation we make.
Discretion
Confidential and board-sensitive mandates are handled by a small team, with clear conflict protocols and controlled candidate communication throughout.
Defined service levels
Seven working days to longlist and fourteen to shortlist, with a named hiring manager and agreed decision dates written into the fee schedule.
Accountability after placement
Structured follow-up through the first year, with replacement terms agreed in writing before the search starts.
Organisations we
work with.
Financial services
Banking, wealth, capital markets, asset management and insurance, with the regulators that oversee them.
Government & sovereign
Ministries, regulators, sovereign investors and national transformation programmes.
Infrastructure & real estate
Giga-projects, developers, construction and the advisory firms serving them.
Technology & corporate
Technology, telecoms, healthcare, energy and multinational corporate services.
Talk to the person
who will run it.
Engagement teams are deliberately small. The senior person you meet in the first conversation writes the brief, runs the search and sits in the debrief.
Delivery is supported by a dedicated research function. That is what allows a small partner group to carry a book which would ordinarily require a much larger team.