Four Pillars Group is a specialist seed-capital investor in start-up or early-stage white-collar recruitment businesses which operate in niche vertical markets across Asia and/or Australia. The four pillars of our investment strategy with our portfolio businesses and their owners encompass: (1) Funding; (2) Operational infrastructure and support; (3) Mentoring and development on leadership, business strategy, growth and financial management; (4) Sale and exit strategy. Our regional leadership team - comprising the CEO, COO, CFO, CMO and CHRO - has deep recruitment sector expertise.

Our Legal Practice Group combines global reach with detailed local market knowledge, acting on behalf of some of the world’s most respected law firms and specialising in retained partner search.We work closely with a very select group of global and international firms in addition to those more niche and specialist in nature, which leaves us unfettered by client conflicts and ideally placed to identify and secure the only the very best candidates for every assignment we undertake.Wherever we act on their behalf, our clients receive a recognisable and consistent client-led service focused on genuine consultancy with exclusive access to outstanding people - ensuring they gain a lasting competition advantage.But we never take the quality of our candidates for granted. We draw upon our unrivaled network, which encompasses law firms, accountancy firms, banks and private equity firms, to carry out discrete due diligence on every individual.Consequently, our Legal Practice Group has a proud record of successfully delivering against every search mandate that we've undertaken to date across Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Backed and led by Chairman James Caan (Alexander Mann founder and Dragons Den investor) Recruitment Entrepreneur is a specialist investor in early to mid-stage recruitment businesses.

Established in 2002, Definitive Consulting operates from offices in Dubai, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, and with strategic partners in key markets such as Frankfurt and New York.We are a leading global executive search specialist and trusted partner to professional services firms worldwide. Our specialist practice groups work closely with a select group of leading firms in the Advisory, Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Legal and Taxation sectors.Our client-led consultancy is always driven by a simple aim: To deliver competitive advantage through exclusive access to outstanding talent. Everything we do – from the people we hire and the clients we choose to work with, to our approach to consultancy – is designed to ensure we consistently deliver.All our consultants are niche market specialists. They play key roles in helping our clients to identify and execute the hires upon which their growth strategies depend – whether that means securing outstanding talent at Partner and Director level, team moves or carrying out market due diligence on their behalf.We believe in building long-standing relationships, and take pride in acting as strategic advisors to a select group of clients and candidates. Our selective approach ensures we are always able to deliver when it comes to identifying and securing the very best talent on an exclusive basis – Definitive Consulting candidates are simply not available anywhere else.

Chambers Scott Hilton (formerly Spencer Scott Hilton) was established in 2004 to offer a tailored search service to the global legal profession. Operating from Sydney and Singapore (under my leadership as Director - Asia Region) and Dubai (under the leadership of Miranda Hilton, Director - EMEA Region) the business works with some of the world's leading law firms and corporations in support of their ongoing recruitment strategies.

ESperitus (formerly Peritus Consulting before I merged it into the ES Group in 2004) was a specialist legal search & selection consultancy that was widely recognised within its field as a leading/preferred supplier of Australian and New Zealand qualified lawyers (particularly from the corporate, projects and banking & finance practice fields) to some of the world’s leading international law firms. The consultancy undertook search and placement work for clients in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Dublin, Brussels, Moscow, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Muscat, New York, Los Angeles, the Channel Islands and Cayman Islands.I navigated the launch, development and expansion of the business from start-up in 2001 to sale/exit in 2007/08.

Michael Page International is a FTSE 250 professional recruitment consultancy that operates through 112 offices in 16 countries and has nearly 3,000 employees worldwide. The Group offers recruitment expertise across Accounting, Tax & Treasury, Banking & Financial Markets, Marketing, Retail, Sales, Legal & Professional Services, IT & Technology, Human Resources, Engineering & Manufacturing and Procurement & Supply Chain.My role entailed leading and managing a business division comprising 6 consultants (plus support staff) operating in the legal, accountancy (public practice) and management consultancy recruitment markets in Sydney.

HW Group PLC was a professional recruitment consultancy (now part of a NASDAQ-listed global recruitment services company named Hudson) that operated from 16 offices throughout the UK and Ireland. The Group offered recruitment expertise in the finance, legal, commercial, technical and IT recruitment fields.My time with the Group entailed establishing and developing a new brand within the legal recruitment market in London (between May 1995 and March 1997) and establishing and expanding a new brand in the commercial and technical recruitment markets across the UK (between April 1997 and February 1999)

Established in the 1980s, Taylor Root is today one of the world’s largest specialist legal recruitment consultancies, operating out of offices in the UK, Asia, Australia and Dubai. Taylor Root is a member of The SR Group, a group of professional recruitment consultancies operating in sectors that cover tax, legal, human resources, marketing and finance.I was recruited to support Taylor Root’s early development into the commerce & industry (i.e. in-house) legal recruitment market throughout the UK. After an initial 6 month induction I was given full responsibility for all aspects of winning and executing recruitment assignments.