Douglas Brown is a Partner, Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Management – Asset Management based in the New York office of Global Sage. Doug brings over 14 years of experience in working with senior investment professionals in the asset management industry. Prior to joining Global Sage, Doug was Managing Director and Co-Head of the Investment Search Practice at Broadreach Group. For six years, he served as the Director of Institutional Investor’s Fixed Income Forum, an institute for chief investment officers and heads of fixed income departments at 50 of the top U.S. bond managers. He went on to become a Senior Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald Debt Capital Markets and Research Manager at Nine Peaks Capital, a $500m fund of funds. In the early part of his career, Doug was an award-winning financial journalist for Reuters and Institutional Investor. He covered the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. as well as the mortgage and corporate bond markets in New York. Doug holds a BA in Government from Franklin and Marshall College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Specialization
Private Equity, Traditional Asset Management, Investment Banking

Brad Davidoff is a Partner, Managing Director in the New York office of Global Sage. Brad brings over 30 years of broad fixed income portfolio management experience and has a wealth of knowledge about the capital markets. Prior to joining Global Sage, Brad was Senior Portfolio Manager / Managing Director at the New York office of FMS-WM Servicing Group, a fixed income asset manager. At FMS, Brad was responsible for the portfolio management and credit risk reporting of FMS’s non-muni U.S. exposures. Prior to FMS, Brad held portfolio management positions at Collineo Asset Management, Hypovereinsbank and TCW Group. Brad is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He completed his Master of Business Administration – Finance at New York University and he holds a BA in Accounting from Syracuse University.

Alastair Bruce has over twenty-five years’ experience gained in the financial services sector as an equity trader and institutional sales with two respected blue-chip organisations in the U.K. and in the Far East, and more recently as a senior executive search consultant in the UK and Asia. He has carried out senior assignments for many of the leading investment, corporate and private banks and asset management organisations across the Asian region. Alastair came to Asia in 1995 after completing an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Birmingham University in the UK.

Specialization
Global Financial Services

Simon Barzilay is a Partner, Managing Director based in the London office of Global Sage. He has over 30 years of capital markets and executive search experience and works closely with hedge funds, traditional asset managers, investment banks and private equity firms across all asset classes. Prior to joining Global Sage, Simon served as the founder and head of LFR Search, a boutique financial services search firm, which in 2016, received recognition for Best Investment Focused Recruiter in UK and Asia by Investor Review. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and was a manager in Ernst & Young’s Corporate Finance division in both London and Hong Kong before moving into Asian equity research with Schroders, where he worked in both Hong Kong and South Korea. He also worked in Asian equity sales and execution services in London with BZW, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and was Head of Lehman Brothers’ Asian equities business in Europe. Simon holds a BA in Accountancy and Finance from Heriot-Watt University.

Specialization
Asset Management, Investment Banking, Global Markets, Private Equity, C-Suite

Hirokazu Tamura is a Partner, Managing Director and Head of Japan based in the Tokyo office of Global Sage. He brings over 17 years of financial services executive search experience to the firm. Since joining Global Sage, he has been instrumental in building out the Japan search practice across traditional and alternative asset management; wealth management; investment banking and private assets, placing senior investment, distribution, product and operations professionals across the financial services industry. In 2016, Hirokazu was recognized as the “Outstanding Recruiter of the year in Japan” by Recruitment International. Hirokazu attended Toyama College of Foreign Languages. He speaks fluent English and Japanese.

Specialization
Asset Management, Private Assets, Investment Banking, Global Markets, Private Banking, C-Level

Mathew Welch has some 25 years of senior executive experience in financial markets in Asia, having built businesses and led teams, executed transactions and managed projects in most major Asian countries. Mathew is also an experienced Independent Board Director in Banking and the Financial Sector.

He brings to Global Sage strong domain knowledge across Wholesale and Investment Banking, Insurance, Asset Management, Corporate Governance and FinTech. Mathew has worked for McKinsey, Merrill Lynch, Temasek, Standard Chartered Bank, ING, and Daiwa, including roles at Managing Director level, through an outstanding career across Asia.  He was, for example, an MD at Temasek Holdings investing in Financial Institutions, and prior to that he was at Standard Chartered as Head of the Financial Institutions Group in Asia, overseeing all their business with banks and insurance companies.

Educated in the United States and the UK, Mathew has an MBA degree with high distinction from the Harvard Business School (1993) and holds an MA Degree in Oriental Studies (Chinese) from the University of Oxford.

Specialization
Global Investment Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management

Nico Ortiz is a Director in the New York office and has over 20 years of executive search. She works closely with hedge funds, private equity firms and traditional asset managers across asset classes. Prior to Global Sage, Nico spent 9 years as Executive Senior Partner on the Capital Markets team of a US-based executive search firm. She began her career in Search in Tokyo, Japan in 1996. Nico holds a B.A. in Literature from the University of Colorado.

Linus Choi has extensive search experience in Emerging Markets Financial Services. He has participated in and completed front office mandates (sales, trading, research, portfolio management and risk) in the HK/China markets and in multiple asset classes, such as equities, credit, and rates. Prior to joining Global Sage, Linus spearheaded the research and execution function for Novo, a boutique financial services search firm focused on emerging markets front office recruitment. He is a Hong Kong native and holds a degree in Economics from University College of London.

Sophia Yan is a seasoned executive search professional of 17 years, with a proven track record of recruiting business-leading senior executives.

Sophia was part of the team that successfully placed CEOs for the Hong Kong Exchange and the Securities and Futures Commission. She has led the recruitment of CEO/COO roles for several leading trade associations and NGOs in Hong Kong and also successfully hired for financial institutions including asset management firms, private equity, investment banks, and REITs.

Sophia started her career as a journalist with the Financial Times, London, and then moved to Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Securities as an institutional saleswoman in Hong Kong & China equities. Following this, she was an Executive Director at Yue Xiu Property Group (stock code:123), a mainland Chinese company listed in Hong Kong where she oversaw capital market transactions and investor relations.

Toshio Wada is a Senior Advisor in the Tokyo office of Global Sage. Toshio’s diversified career experience spans three parts: The first twenty years in commercial and investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Industrial Bank of Japan; the second fifteen years in asset management at Pension Fund Association and BNP Paribas Investment Partners; and a third leg of five years in startup management in the capacity of CEO Japan of a blockchain company and CFO of a battery R&D venture. Toshio brings a wealth of industry knowledge as well as a vast professional network of people to the firm. He holds a BA in Economics from Keio University and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He speaks fluent English, French, and Japanese.

Chinatsu Yonezawa is a Director in Global Sage’s Tokyo office. She is an experienced internal and external recruitment professional.

She worked for a boutique agent where she honed her strength in the insurance industry and has built a solid track record in supporting RPO projects and highly specialized recruitment for insurance companies.

Throughout her career, she has proved her abilities in managing budgets for RPO Projects, defining requirements for various positions, and interviewing to assess the best possible candidates for the roles.  After graduating from university, she worked in asset management sales at a securities company and then built a career in the human resources industry.