“Our aim is to offer seamless executive search services to premier financial institutions across Singapore and Greater China,” says Edwin Yeo, Managing Director of Stanton Chase International Singapore, “which, most importantly, benefit our clients with the right expertise in addressing their pressing talent acquisition challenges”, he adds.

Ivo Hahn, CEO Greater China concludes, “the key financial hubs in our region are already interlinked, and highly complementary in nature. Managing the FSI sector from one hub allows us to leverage on our expertise, facilitate cross-border market access and penetration into Mainland China, which adds tangible value to our clients in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Mainland.”

“I am delighted that Wayne Mason, who has been promoted to Managing Director FSI Greater China & Singapore, has meanwhile accepted this new challenge and will spearhead our landmark initiative. I have no doubt that Wayne, supported by his highly capable team in Hong Kong and Singapore, will succeed in this important mission by setting supreme client satisfaction standards.”

Mason Wayne – Managing Director FSI Greater China & Singapore, Stanton Chase International

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Since arriving in Asia, Mr. Adams has been closely involved with the establishment, management and profitable sale of three successful entrepreneurial businesses operating inAsiaacross borders.

His experience relative to these enterprises ranged from the development of business plans, marketing and sales strategies, and leadership competencies. Mr. Adams single-handedly hired, managed, developed and motivated staff to achieve the real business goals of these ventures in order that they could be built from scratch into solid and viable ventures subsequently sold at a profit.

Leveraging his experience, Mr. Adams has been very successful in serving senior-level leaders as an Executive Coach using both English and Mandarin.

At Stanton Chase Greater China, Mr. Adams is responsible for building the Financial Services Industry Practice as well as heading up the region’s Diversity and Inclusion Program.  Mr. Adams is a member of the LGBT community and is well versed in how strong D&I initiatives can strengthen the bench strength of every business team.

Robin’s extensive experience working and living in Asia, as well as 30+ years working in the finance sector enable him to understand completely the needs and challenges of organizations looking for motivated, experienced and skilled leaders.  Mr. Adams is very well connected with Heads of Finance throughout Greater China as well as professionals in all areas of the banking and financial services sectors.

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Now that, my friends, is a long search.

From my perspective as a CFO Search specialist, 2.5 years is a very long time. There were many reasons cited by the CEO as to the reason that it took that long, but in reality, they sound like excuses, not reasons.

Let’s put it this way. If a company is serious about hiring a CFO, then they will make hiring their CFO a priority. They will retain an experienced executive search firm, create appropriate assessment of the specifications needed for the role together with the search firm, and work to identify the potential candidates that could be appropriate for the role.

Why did it take so long?

Here are some (potential) reasons:

They weren’t serious about hiring. To hire a CFO, you need to be serious. CFOs are smart people. CFOs know when a company that is going through the motions of looking for a Chief Financial Officer, but don’t mean it.

They had a CFO. According to the article, the CFO spot was covered, even though the person covering it was happy to move on to an operational role now that he is relieved from his CFO duty.

There was no pain. Illumina was growing rapidly, cash was coming in, and they didn’t need to raise financing. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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Samuel Dergel is the Director – Search Consultant at Stanton Chase International, California responsible for Technology and Life Sciences and Health Care industry. You can learn more about Samuel Dergel at LinkedIn.

Before joining Emirates Bank in 2006 as CEO, Pudner spent 25 years with HSBC with recent positions including President and CEO HSBC Korea, Head of Corporate Banking HSBC Middle East, Chairman of Foreign Investors Advisory Council for Mayor of Seoul, and serveral other corner office positions in a career which spanned eleven different geographies.

He has championed the growth of Emirates NBD through mergers, a financial crisis, and numerous other epic challenges to make it the region’s largest bank. When old roads run out and well worn paths disappear, Pudner has proven his ability to lead his team through the storm. He kindly agreed to discuss his own development, experiences and insights into how he matured into one of the region’s iconic leaders.

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His private banking experience includes living and working in Geneva and prior to Stanton Chase was with a specialist financial services executive search firm in Zurich. He has worked on International searches for early stage ventures, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, small private banks and major financial Institutions.

Earlier in his search career he worked across a variety of sectors with Highland Partners (now Heidrick and Struggles) and was Head of Research at Jamieson Scott and Prowess.

Prior to Executive Search he spent two years with SG Warburg Securities (now UBS) working in Fixed Income, Equity Trading and Equity Research.

Andrew graduated from Royal Holloway, London University, with a BA in Economics and Social Studies.

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• Chief Risk Officer
• Seniority / Organizational Impact
• Technical Expertise
• Commercial Acumen
• Leadership
• Analytical Thinking
• Communication Style
• Vision / Strategy