Our story

We started in Hong Kong in 2010, in financial services — the most competitive corner of the most competitive hiring market in Asia. It was a useful place to learn. On a trading floor a shortlist is either right or it is worthless, so we built the firm around reading a mandate properly, testing what candidates tell us, and saying so when a search cannot be delivered as briefed.

Then our clients began expanding overseas, and the brief changed shape. Not “find me a director in Central,” but “we have a lease in Ho Chi Minh City, no entity, no payroll, and we need a team before March.” So we followed the work — offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and São Paulo, and in-country employment, payroll and RPO alongside the search.

A first hire in a new country is not an administrative step. It is the bet: that person builds the team, sets the local pay benchmark, and meets the regulator. We exist to make sure companies do not place that bet blind.