The leaders rebuilding the region’s financial spine.
Banks, asset managers, insurers and fintech across MENA, EMEA and APAC turn to JOH Partners for the chief executives, chief financial officers, chief risk officers and heads of wealth shaping the region’s financial architecture.
Financial Services
Universal banks, asset managers, insurers, fintech and capital markets across MENA, EMEA and APAC. CEO, CFO, CRO and Head of Wealth mandates.
From vanilla to wealth-led.
GCC financial services is in the middle of a strategic re-shaping. Universal banks are pivoting toward wealth and corporate; sovereign-backed asset managers are building international franchises; insurers are facing demographic and regulatory rewrites; fintech is consolidating after a decade of fragmentation.
Each of these shifts demands a different executive profile. The CEOs we’ve placed into regional banks over the last 24 months come from very different backgrounds — global wealth, capital markets, payments — depending on the strategic agenda the chair has set.
Our financial services practice partners with chairs, board nomination committees, GCC sovereign owners and the international groups operating in the region to source the senior commercial, risk and finance leadership the next phase requires.
The seats we’ve closed in Financial Services.
$120B asset base
External CEO from international wealth platform.
Tier-1 regional bank
CRO with both Basel and recovery experience.
Sovereign-backed wealth platform
Built private bank head from European franchise.
Multi-line insurance
Listed-experience CFO into IFRS-17 transition.
Sovereign-affiliated asset manager
Build-out CIO from US institutional manager.
Cross-border payments
Senior compliance hire post-Series C.
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