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Focus areas

We have successfully placed candidates at almost all leading investment banks across sectors including TMT, FIG, Industrials, Real Estate.

Corporate Finance

M&A

Equity capital markets

Debt capital markets

Leveraged Finance

Principal Investing

Trading

Recent track record

We have successfully placed candidates in the following key roles for our clients:

Our consultants

David Webbe

Partner, Managing Director
Singapore
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David Webbe is a Partner, Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking and Private Equity based in the Singapore office of Global Sage. David leads the global practice and also has responsibility for the South East Asia region. He is a highly experienced search professional with a keen understanding of the banking industry as well as executives’ strengths and capabilities. He also has extensive experience in private equity deal decision-making and the skills required from professionals to secure the best returns for investors. He joined Global Sage after five years at Korn Ferry, where he was Senior Client Partner and Head of Global Financial Services for South East Asia.

Previously, David was a Managing Director of Webbe International, a boutique financial services search firm in Singapore. He played a key role in the development of the business when he moved to Asia in 2002. He has been consistently ranked as a leading professional in the field, achieving a No. 2 ranking in 2006, in the AsiaMoney Headhunters Poll for the investment banking category. David holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Specialization
Investment Banking, Real Assets, Private Equity, Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Fintech

Mathew Welch

Partner, Managing Director
Singapore
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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

Terence Ho

Partner, Managing Director
Singapore
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Terence Ho is a Partner, Managing Director of Global Sage and has over 15 years of executive search experience in Asia Investment Banking (IB) and Private Equity (PE). Based in Singapore, he specializes in placing candidates across M&A, ECM, Corporate Finance, Country Coverage and Industry teams in Asia. He has a strong track record of completing searches in PE at all levels for Sovereign Wealth Funds, Mega Funds, Mid-Market and Growth Equity Funds and selected C-suite roles for corporates and digital banks. Prior to joining Global Sage in 2020, Terence ran the Asia IB and PE search practice at ALS International. He started his executive search career with Webbe International in 2006. His thorough understanding of the IB and PE environment across Southeast Asia, has earned him the respect of many candidates and clients. With an extensive network and broad understanding of the IB and PE sectors, he is known to stay ahead of the competition with his acute market intelligence and assessment.

Terence holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics & Finance from Curtin University and a Master of Commerce in Finance from The University of New South Wales. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Specialisation: Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate M&A and Capital Markets, Human Resources and Legal Executive Search

Joyce Ng

Partner, Managing Director
Hong Kong
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Joyce Ng is a Partner, Managing Director based in the Hong Kong office of Global Sage. Joyce brings over 23 years of experience to the firm. She joined Global Sage in 2015 and focuses on CFO, Legal, Risk and Compliance assignments. Over the past decade, she has been a prominent executive recruiter for the Finance and Legal functions, with a particular focus on Private Equity and Financial Services, as well as Hong Kong Conglomerates. Prior to joining Global Sage, Joyce was a Director of the Talent Acquisition team at UBS. She also spent more than 15 years at Bo Le Associates. Joyce holds a BA degree from University of Toronto and speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Specialization
Private Equity, Investment Banking, Fintech, Finance, Risk & Compliance, Start-Ups

Alastair Bruce

Managing Director
Hong Kong
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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

Arthur Lui

Director
Shenzhen
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Arthur Lui is a Director based in the newly opened Shenzhen office of Global Sage. Under his leadership, Global Sage is expected to expand the firm’s presence in China, allowing it to work more strategically with its clients in the Greater Bay Area. Arthur joined from The Page Group and was instrumental in building its onshore PE and VC Practice. He also works closely with Portfolio Companies across the Blockchain & Crypto, AI and Data Centre industries.

Hirokazu Tamura

Partner, Managing Director
Tokyo
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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

Simon Barzilay

Partner, Managing Director
London
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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

Douglas Brown

Partner, Managing Director
New York
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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

Partner, Managing Director
New York
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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.

Toshio Wada

Senior Advisor
Tokyo
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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

Director
Tokyo
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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.