Seán Patrick Kavanagh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
United Arab Emirates
Leads the firm from Dubai. Fifteen years in Gulf financial services search, advising chief executives, chief HR officers and chairs on leadership hiring where governance, discretion and pace matter, for banks, regulators, government entities and family groups.
Layth Al-Shaiban
Partner & Executive Chairman,
Henharen Reid Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Thirty years leading financial institutions and national programmes in Saudi Arabia. Established the financial services sector at NEOM; founding country chief executive of QNB and FAB in the Kingdom; country chief executive of BNP Paribas and GIB; chairs boards across the sector.
James Parsons
Managing Director,
HR Advisory
United Arab Emirates
Thirty years across banking and human capital: JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and HSBC, then sixteen years advising boards on assessment, organisation design and succession. Leads benchmarking, regulatory reward and succession work.
Mark Kavanagh
Head of Delivery
United Arab Emirates
Eleven years in senior and executive hiring across banking and financial services in the GCC, from hands-on recruiter to delivery lead. Accountable for execution on every retained mandate in both markets.
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.