For leadership & confidential roles
Executive Search
Retained, research-led search for leadership, succession and mission-critical roles, with exclusivity and full confidentiality.
Discuss a retained mandateTechnology · Private Equity · Family Offices
Search for the roles that shape how firms grow, invest and transform.
Konect Global is a specialist search firm for technology, private equity firms, investment managers and family offices across APAC.
Every search is senior-led from brief to offer: a focused, fully assessed shortlist, compensation advice grounded in live market data, and complete discretion.
Where technology, capital and leadership meet
Technology and data leaders, risk and security specialists, transformation leaders, and the operating teams behind investment firms and family offices.
Almost 20 years in talent
HR, in-house talent acquisition and specialist search across Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and India, on both sides of the hiring table.
Senior-led, no handoffs
The person who takes your brief runs your search, from the first conversation through to the offer.
Selected organisations we have partnered with
Synpulse
Practice areas
Five practices. One standard of search.
Many of the roles we handle never reach the open market. They are confidential, critical to the business, or simply too important to get wrong.
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Private Equity & Investment Management
Operating, finance, technology and transformation leadership for private equity firms, investment managers and their portfolio companies.
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Family Offices
Leadership and operating roles for single and multi-family offices: COO, Chief of Staff, operations, finance and reporting.
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Technology, Data & AI
CTO, CIO, Head of Data, AI and machine learning, engineering and platform leadership.
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Cybersecurity, Risk & Infrastructure
Cybersecurity, IT risk and audit, cloud infrastructure and operational resilience.
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Transformation & Change
Business transformation, ERP, change and programme leadership, including portfolio value-creation hires.
Private markets & family offices
Discretion matters as much as the shortlist.
Family office and private markets hiring calls for a different kind of search. Roles are often confidential, teams are lean, and the right hire depends as much on fit with the principal and how decisions are really made as on technical skill.
We run these searches quietly, with a small number of carefully approached candidates, and we protect the confidentiality of clients and candidates alike.
Discuss a confidential mandateApproach
Most senior searches fail before the first CV arrives.
The brief describes three jobs, the budget pays for one, and the process loses the best candidate in round four. So we start with the hard conversation: what the role must deliver in its first year, and what the market will realistically offer.
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Role definition
Agree what success looks like in the first twelve months before any search begins.
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Market mapping
Identify the realistic talent pool, its availability and what it costs.
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Direct approach
Discreet, personal outreach to people who are not on job boards.
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Structured assessment
Every candidate tested against the brief: capability, motivation and fit.
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Assessed shortlist
A short list of people who can do the job, each with a clear written rationale.
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Offer & follow-through
Offer management, counter-offer risk and contact well beyond the start date.
Services
Three ways to engage. One search standard.
For senior & specialist roles
Specialist Search
Senior and specialist hiring across our five practice areas, run with the same assessment discipline as executive search.
Brief a specialist searchBefore a role opens
Market Mapping & Advisory
Talent mapping, compensation benchmarking and hiring advice, so you understand the market before you commit to a search.
Explore market mappingFit
Where we are the right firm, and where we are not.
Work with us for
- Leadership and critical hires in technology, private equity and family offices
- Confidential searches and replacements
- Roles that are hard to define, or have already stalled elsewhere
- Cross-border hiring across Hong Kong, India and wider APAC
- Market and compensation questions before a role opens
We will tell you to look elsewhere for
- Volume or junior hiring
- Roles a job advert would fill
- Searches we don't believe we can deliver
- Briefs where the budget and the role don't yet match. We'll say so first
About Konect Global
Senior-led search, built on almost 20 years in talent.
Konect Global was founded in 2024 by Vinita Sheoran, with offices in Hong Kong and India.
Vinita has spent almost 20 years across HR, in-house talent acquisition and specialist search. She began in HR and talent engagement at Wipro and Accenture, led internal talent acquisition for Robert Half across Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, and built her search career at Michael Page, Spring Professional, Gemini Personnel and CXC Global.
That experience on both sides of the hiring table shapes how Konect works. We understand the pressures a hiring manager faces inside the business, and what a senior candidate needs to know before they will consider a move.
Vinita Sheoran Founder & Director
Honest
Straight advice on the brief, the budget and the market, even when it isn't what you expected to hear.
Human
A respectful, communicative process for clients and candidates alike.
Trusted
Complete discretion, and a commitment to take on only the searches we can deliver.
For candidates
Considered advice for your next move.
We work with senior technology, transformation, finance and operating professionals across APAC, including people who are not actively looking. Many of our roles are confidential and never advertised.
- Honest feedback, including when a role isn't right for you
- Clear information on the role, the team and the package
- Your details are never shared without your agreement
- Advice on offers, counter-offers and moving into private markets or family offices
Insights
Notes from the search desk.
Practical observations on APAC technology, private equity and family office hiring.
Family offices
A family office does not need a corporate COO.
Same title. An entirely different operating environment, and a different kind of candidate.
Read articleTechnology & AI
Why "Head of AI" searches stall in Hong Kong.
Most briefs contain three jobs. The market prices them separately.
Read articlePrivate equity
The portfolio hire that fails before it starts.
Transformation capability is a readiness question, not just a talent question.
Read articleQuestions
Asked before we are hired.
What kinds of roles do you recruit for?
Leadership, senior and specialist roles across technology, data and AI, cybersecurity and risk, transformation, and the operating, finance and technology teams of private equity firms, investment managers and family offices.
How are you different from a large recruitment agency?
Every search is led by a senior specialist from brief to offer. We work on fewer mandates, present a focused, fully assessed shortlist rather than a long list of CVs, and give honest advice on the market before the search begins.
How do you handle confidential searches?
Confidential mandates are never advertised. We approach a small number of carefully selected candidates directly, and share client and candidate details only with explicit agreement.
Which markets do you cover?
We operate from Hong Kong and India and work on searches across APAC, including cross-border and relocation hires.
Can you help before we've decided to hire?
Yes. Our market mapping and advisory service covers talent availability, compensation benchmarking and role design, so you can make the hiring decision with real market information.
Contact
Start a confidential conversation.
Planning a senior hire, or considering your next move? Talk to us before the job spec is written. All enquiries are treated in confidence.
- Hong Kong
- Level 23, One Island East
18 Westlands Road, Taikoo Place
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong - India
- WT 03/2602, Sector 112
Palam Vihar, Gurugram
Haryana 122017, India