People Moves
Who’s Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Lighthouse Canton, Huddleston Jones, Hanover
The latest senior moves, appointments and personnel changes in the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.
Hanover, Huddleston Jones
Hanover,
an executive search group, has named Danny Jones (pictured
below) as its new chief executive as his eponymous firm, Huddleston Jones,
joins the Hanover Search Group.
Danny Jones
Based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (pictured), Jones will lead Hanover’s regional platform, managing financial services in the GCC and wider Middle East-Asia corridors.
Jones, one of the co-founders of executive search firm Huddleston Jones, said in his LinkedIn page that the business has joined the Hanover Search Group as “part of the next phase of our journey.” He built the Huddleston Jones firm 13 years ago alongside Arran Huddleston. The group CEO of Hanover is James Emmett.
Hanover also announced Jones’ move on its corporate LinkedIn page.
Such a move comes at a time when the GCC wealth management, private banking and wider financial industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, attracting local and international wealth.
Lighthouse Canton
Singapore-based Lighthouse Canton,
an international wealth and investment firm operating in Asia and
the Middle East, has appointed Gurjeet Sohi as managing director
and head of Wealth Management for India
Sohi brings nearly three decades of experience from Deutsche Bank, where he held senior positions across wealth management and private banking. He will oversee the continued development of Lighthouse Canton's India operations to strengthen client engagement, expand UHNW coverage, and deepen the integration of the company's global wealth and asset management capabilities.
He will be supported by Atin Kumar Saha, vice chairman, Wealth Management and Sanjay Sharma, executive director, Wealth Management, who have also joined the India wealth leadership team to increase the company’s growth and expansion in India across key markets.
"What excites me about India is the sophistication of what clients are looking for. They want advisors who can navigate complexity, think globally, and deliver institutional-grade solutions. That's precisely what we're building at Lighthouse Canton,” Shilpi Chowdhary, group CEO of Lighthouse Canton, said. “Gurjeet is a leader who has spent his career doing exactly this. His experience, his understanding of UHNW clients, and his ability to build high-performing teams make him the ideal person to take our India wealth business forward."