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Robert Grandy Regional Market Leader, Asia Pacific
Hong Kong

Rob Grandy is based in Hong Kong as the Regional Market Leader of Korn/Ferry International's Global Financial Market in Asia Pacific. He is also responsible for the Firm's board consulting business in the region.

Mr. Grandy leverages his extensive senior executive and board level contacts established at Korn/Ferry andduring a 23-year career as an investment banker to successfully fulfill clients' senior-most leadership needs. Prior to his current role, Mr. Grandy was based in Toronto and served as the Global Managing Director for the Firm’s entire Financial Market, and was responsible for the Canadian Board Services team.

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Andrew Tsui Senior Client Partner
Hong Kong

Andrew Tsui is a Senior Client Partner in Korn/Ferry International’s Hong Kong office. With more than two decades of executive search experience, Mr. Tsui heads the academic, education and not-for-profit specialist teams. He is also active in the local corporate, financial and government sectors in Hong Kong.

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Serina Wong Senior Client Partner
Hong Kong

Serina Wong is a Senior Client Partner based in Korn/Ferry International's Hong Kong office, and a member of the Firm's Global Financial Services Market.

Specializing in global markets, asset management and private banking, Ms. Wong leverages a wealth of financial industry experience across all levels and departments to fill positions for both buy-side and sell-side clients, from senior management roles to investment professionals and fund managers.

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Broadband Talent Management

What are the different ways to develop talent ?





By Robert Grandy, Andrew Tsui and Serina Wong

For Asia’s leading private bankers, a slowdown in business caused by the shrinking overall wealth of clients in the region, wilting confidence in capital markets and other investment products, and an intensifying lack of trust in financial institutions at large, has not dissuaded them from seeking ways to reassure their clients that instruments still exist which can make them money. In March 2009, 300 Asia business heads, team leads and relationship managers with assets under management (AUM) of over US$100 million shared their views about the impact that the declining economic environment has had on their business in a survey conducted by Korn/Ferry. Recovery, changing client requirements and a race to upgrade talent were top of the agenda at an intimate roundtable discussion of business and HR heads of some of the companies polled in the survey that was subsequently held in Hong Kong.

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