Executive search · Leadership assessment · Succession planning
Retained executive search and leadership advisory for insurance and financial services across Asia-Pacific. Seventy-plus C-suite appointments since 2020, each one handled in confidence.
Trusted by global insurers
Mandates completed for leading multinational insurers, banks, wealth and asset managers across North Asia, Greater China, Southeast Asia and MENA.
The Resonance difference
Why global insurers trust us.
Deep sector specialisation
Exclusively focused on C-suite and senior leadership within insurance and financial services across APAC. We know the people, the products and the regulators.
Discreet and confidential
Mandates handled with full confidentiality, protecting both the client's brand and the candidate's reputation at every stage.
Regional network depth
Active senior relationships across Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and beyond, built over 25 years.
Speed without compromise
A rigorous assessment methodology that delivers calibrated shortlists faster, without sacrificing quality.
What we do
Every engagement. One standard.
We work as a strategic partner, not a vendor. A selective client roster means every mandate gets our full attention.
Our methodology
A holistic three-stage process.
Understanding the human behind the CV, assessing with rigour, and quantifying the impact a leader will have in your organisation.
Understand the human
3 Pillars of Resonance™
Our own leadership framework, tuned to your context rather than a generic ideal, so every candidate is read on what the role will actually ask of them.
Assess with rigour
Fit-for-role assessment
A fact-based, fit-for-role profile built against a benchmark of what good looks like, agreed with you before the search begins. Evidence, not impressions.
Quantify impact
Predictability of impact
Through our partnership with The GC Index®, we show where each leader's energy actually goes, so a shortlist can be compared on the same basis and the decision defended at board level.
Stage one
The 3 Pillars of Resonance™
Our own framework for reading the human behind the CV. Three questions we answer about every leader we put in front of you.
Whether a leader takes an organisation somewhere new, or holds it where it is.
Assessed against your context and the demands of the role, not a generic ideal.
Whether a leader builds trust across a business, or only inside their own function.
On senior appointments this is the pillar that most often decides whether the hire lands.
Whether intent becomes outcome, under pressure and over time.
Reported as evidence you can interrogate and compare across a shortlist.
Track record
Roles placed across Asian markets.
From group and country leadership to distribution, technology, finance and specialist mandates, across fifteen markets since 2020.
- CEO, Philippines
- CEO, Vietnam
- CEO, Thailand (×2)
- CEO, Malaysia
- CEO, Hong Kong
- CEO, Singapore
- CEO, South Korea
- CEO / MD, Japan
- CEO / GM, Indonesia (×2)
- CEO, Group High Net Worth and Wealth
- Regional CEO, Singapore
- President Director, Indonesia
- General Manager, Vietnam (×2)
- MD, China JV
- Chief Distribution Officer, Asia
- Chief Partnership Officer
- Chief Distribution Strategy & Impact Officer
- Chief Commercial Officer, Philippines
- Chief Commercial Officer, Thailand
- VP, Agency Segmentation
- VP, Agency Transformation, Asia
- Agency Transformation, Japan
- Chief Strategy & BD Officer, China
- Chief Transformation Officer, Asia
- Chief Transformation and Operations Officer
- Chief Digital Officer, Asia
- Chief AI and Analytics Officer
- Chief Data Services and Tech Officer
- CIO, Asia
- COO, Asia
- COO, Hong Kong
- COO, Singapore
- MD Technology, Wealth & Asset Management
- INED Data & AI, Japan
- CFO, Vietnam
- CFO, Japan
- CFO, Hong Kong
- CFO, Singapore
- CFO, Thailand
- Group CFO and CIO, Dubai
- VP, FP&A, Japan (promoted to CFO)
- Chief Risk Officer
- Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Chief Actuary (×2)
- Chief Pricing Officer, Japan
- Chief Product Officer, Asia
- Chief Products and Inforce Officer
- Head of Product Innovation and Strategy
- Head of Products and Propositions, India
- VP, Group Product Proposition
- Senior Product Actuary, Bermuda
- Senior Product Manager, Japan
- Chief Claims and Underwriting Officer, Asia
- Chief Medical Officer
- CMO, Asia
- CMO, Taiwan
- CMO, Japan
- CHRO, Asia
- CHRO, North Asia
- CHRO, Thailand
- Head of Shared Services, Philippines
In their words
The last word belongs to our clients.
Recommendations clients have published on LinkedIn over the years, reproduced word for word.
“I give Marc my highest recommendation as not only a recruiter but also as an adviser. Marc found, recruited, and placed me into a senior insurance role at a time when I had no insurance background.”
The team
Human to human.
In a world of transactional sales, we operate as trusted advisors. The people you speak with are the people doing the work.
Insights
Insurance news that matters.
Our quarterly report tracks leadership moves, market shifts and transformation across the region's insurers.
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