About the Authors
Nick Miller
Nick is a Partner at Odgers Berndtson and leads our Wholesale Banking offering. He is based in London and is responsible for our work across transaction, commercial, corporate and investment banking and capital markets. He has also worked with buy-side clients, notably with private debt platforms. He has led and executed mandates globally for board and other senior management positions with roles including coverage and product, as well as functional leadership, Chair and NED appointments.
Damian Ringwood
Damian is a Partner of Odgers Berndtson in Ireland and a former Managing Partner of the firm. He leads the Financial Services Practice and the Board Practice and has extensive experience across other sectors such as professional services, semi-state, healthcare, and Industrial. Damian specialises in Executive and Non-Executive Search. Damian has extensive experience in Board and CEO level search together with their direct reports.
Dagmar-Elena Markworth
Dagmar-Elena Markworth handles senior executive for the financial services sector across a range of functions. She joined Odgers Berndtson in 2004 and leads the German financial services practice. Furthermore, Dagmar has a track record in business and professional services with a particular focus on in-house legal positions. She is a certified Business Coach as well as a certified HOGAN Assessment consultant.
Hei Wai Kwan
Hei Wai Kwan is a Partner in the Financial Services Practice with over 25 years of global experience in financial services, strategy consulting, and executive search. Throughout her career, Hei Wai has held senior roles with Bank of Montreal, CIBC, and The Boston Consulting Group. More recently, she built a reputation in executive recruitment working with global and boutique executive search firms where she specialized in insurance, pension plans, banking, asset/wealth management and alternative investments.
Piia-Noora Kauppi
Piia-Noora Kauppi is a Partner at the Helsinki office of Odgers Berndtson. She conducts searches for Chairs, CEOs, CXOs and Non-Executive Directors for plcs, private companies and major public organisations. Piia-Noora joined Odgers Berndtson in 2023. Previously in her career, Piia-Noora was a Managing Director of Finance Finland from 2008 to 2022. Before that, she served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008.
José I. Leyún
Partner at Odgers Berndtson Spain is part of the global financial services practice. He has an extensive experience in executive search as well as in talent management and organizational consultancy. In addition to conducting executive searches, José evaluates executive talent for corporations of all types, including among other activities: Succession Planning, Talent Identification, Competency Assessments, Leadership Analysis, Talent Mapping or Market Intelligence. He has an extensive experience in the financial sector as an executive in the different entities in which he has worked and in high-level positions.
Jessica Torres Underwood
Jessica Torres Underwood is a Principal in the Financial Services practice at Odgers Berndtson’s Singapore office. Her focus is on senior leadership roles across banking, insurance, asset and wealth management, and related financial services markets. In addition to covering Singapore and Southeast Asia clients, she collaborates closely with the regional and global Financial Services team to deliver successful searches in the APAC region and beyond.
Anne Murphy
Anne is the Global Head of Odgers Berndtson’s Financial Services Practice and a member of the Board Group. Based in London, she has oversight of all activities across the sector and works with financial institutions, regulators and government institutions to appoint Board, executive and management committee members. She is an advisory group member for the Financial Services Skills Commission and an active member of our UK and Global DEI Councils.
Angela Bull
Angela is a Consultant in Financial Services practice at Odgers Berndtson Sydney office where she identifies and engages with senior leaders for national and international search mandates. Prior to joining Odgers Berndtson, Angela lived and worked in Hong Kong and the Middle East for 12 years working in business development roles within the financial services and real estate sectors. This followed her earlier career in executive recruitment consulting in Australia.
Karen Chiew
Karen Chiew is the lead Partner for Odgers Berndtson’s Asia Pacific Leadership Advisory practice. She supports clients and their leaders to maximise their potential to thrive in an increasingly disruptive world. Karen has over 20 years’ experience as a consultant and as an in-house practitioner. In her internal talent management roles in both Asia and Europe, she established high potential programmes, worked to build healthy talent pipelines, and drove culture change efforts.
Toby Gardner
Toby Gardner is the Managing Partner, Australia and New Zealand, APAC Regional Practice Head, and Partner for Financial Services based in the Odgers Berndtson Sydney office and leads Financial Services Practice across Asia Pacific. His focus is on Board level executive appointments and senior leadership roles across banking and capital markets, insurance, wealth management and related financial services markets. Toby works closely with Odgers Berndtson’s global team to ensure successful delivery of both local and global searches.