The executive search business, which has an office in Hong Kong and wider Asia presence, is joining the international alliance, this publication can reveal.

AltoPartners, an international alliance of executive search and consultancy firms, has added Fowler Fox & Co, a business concentrating on private banking, wealth management and family offices.

Headed by Simeon Fowler and supported by Katie Brunt, managing director and head of Asia-Pacific, the arrival of the firm will boost AltoPartners’ presence in Asia, an obviously important market given the growth of the region’s affluent middle class in recent years. The addition of the firm’s Hong Kong office to the network takes AltoPartners’ office count to 56 across 32 countries, AltoPartners said in a statement today.

“This strategic partnership with AltoPartners gives our clients the global reach and perspective we have been looking to provide them with,” Simeon Fowler said.

Fowler has spent much of his career in the wealth management space, working in areas such as executive search, merger and acquisition advisory and board-level succession planning services.

“Hong Kong and Asia continue to be a strategically valuable…for our global clients. The addition of Fowler Fox & Co, a prestigious outfit with deep regional and sector knowledge, is a feather in the AltoPartners cap and we are delighted to welcome Simeon and Katie to our global alliance,” Stephen Dallamore, AltoPartners global chairman, said. 

The AltoPartners alliance covers the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.