Whitney was founded in 1983 and is one of the oldest specialist search firms dedicated solely to financial services. Together with its partner in Asia, Whitney Correlate, the group has established long-term relationships with its clients and is dedicated to transformational hires at the most-senior levels. Whitney has been recognized as the No. 1 global financial services executive search firm by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of more than 2,500 professionals in executive search. John… Show more Whitney was founded in 1983 and is one of the oldest specialist search firms dedicated solely to financial services. Together with its partner in Asia, Whitney Correlate, the group has established long-term relationships with its clients and is dedicated to transformational hires at the most-senior levels. Whitney has been recognized as the No. 1 global financial services executive search firm by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of more than 2,500 professionals in executive search. John Wright is a financial services generalist with a focus on investors and capital markets and one of the most highly recognized executive search consultants serving the financial services sector. He has an exceptional track record of building businesses and has made many transformational placements across all segments of financial services including hedge funds, asset managers, insurance firms, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, banks and brokers. Mr. Wright was previously the founder of two financial services search firms, Executive Access, an Asia-Pacific regional practice, and Global Sage, the first search firm from Asia to become truly global. Both firms were sold to Asian interests.Mr. Wright and the firms he founded have consistently been ranked No. 1 in the industry internationally by AsiaMoney, The Economist and The Times of London. Prior to joining search, Mr. Wright was Editor of The Wall Street Journal in Asia. John has served on various boards of higher and secondary education institutions as well as hedge funds and private corporations.John holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College. Mr. Wright speaks German, Chinese, Hindi (Nepali) and Japanese. Show less

Global Sage Ltd. is a world-wide executive search firm focused on the financial services sector. With offices in New York, London, Zurich, Johannesburg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo, the company was the first to span the globe and focus on talent acquisition and talent advisory born of Asia. Global Sage has been award the best Executive Search Practice in the Emerging Markets of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas for more than 15 years. I sold the firm in 2011.

Founding member of the financial services practice. Built the firm to five offices and 75 consultants.