Founding Partner – Danny Jones
A Founding Partner in Huddleston Jones, Danny leads the Groups retained search practice, focused on the traditional Private Wealth Management markets out of Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Prior to executive search, Danny had extensive experience within his area of specialty, having worked for an International Wealth Manager based out of Dubai, Tokyo and Johannesburg. Relocating to Asia in 2008, Danny has since gone on to lead successful ‘front office’ search businesses in both Hong Kong and Singapore, recognized in the market as one of the leading executive search specialists within the private banking and wealth management sector.
With his in-depth market knowledge and experience providing cross-border recruitment solutions in private banking and wealth management, Danny has built a global and comprehensive network of contacts.
Danny has an excellent understanding on a broad spectrum of disciplines in wealth management and truly believes placing candidates is only a small part of the search process, priding himself on producing the highest level of market research and candidate intelligence on behalf of his clients.
Danny served in the Royal Air Force and holds a Bachelors with First Degree Honours in Business Management.
Founding Partner – Arran Huddleston
A Founding Partner in Huddleston Jones, Arran leads the Product & Advisory Practise, family office, financial intermediary and external asset management practice, with regional coverage across Asia Pacific, India Subcontinent and the Middle East.
Arran has over 20 years experience in the talent management industry, where he has successfully led large scale human capital projects across Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia, working at senior levels within some of the world’s leading recruitment businesses.
With exposure to diverse markets, Arran recognizes that each geography and sector have different parameters to drive business forwards. His extensive years of experience have provided Arran the insight to understand that “short term” has no place within today’s highly competitive market.
His commitment to delivery and intensity in pursuit of perfection have been the foundations in Arran’s ability to support both client and candidate alike with technical and complex search assignments.
Partner – Jack Booth
A Director at Huddleston Jones, Jack leads the Groups wealth management practice in Hong Kong, with regional coverage in North Asia, including Taiwan and China.
Jack has over 10 years’ of Asian wealth management experience, joining a Singaporean private client brokerage in 2008. In this capacity, Jack led regional sales teams across Asia, with a focus in core markets such Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore.
Appointed by Huddleston Jones in 2016, Jack is responsible for deepening the Group’s client engagement in North Asia, developing connectivity with prospective candidates and providing the necessary interface with targeted wealth managers. Jack plays a pivotal role to ensure the delivery frameworks critical to assignments are applied and maintained, operating a highly targeted approach to guarantee timely mandate execution.
