Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has a new partner in Tokyo, to lead the firm's Financial Services Practice in Japan and the Insurance Sector for Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Steven Greenberg has joined the firm as Partner in the Financial Services Practice, based in Tokyo. He will lead the firm's Financial Services Practice in Japan and the Insurance Sector for Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He will also be a member of the CEO & Board of Directors Practice.

Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, Greenberg has nearly 10 years of executive search experience in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, he was a consultant with executive search firms Russell Reynolds and Egon Zhender, also in Tokyo.

Prior to entering the executive search and leadership consulting industry, Greenberg was the representative director and president at The Gallup Organization Japan.

Leadership and Succession Planning

He has also served as director of business development, Asia/Pacific at Thomson Financial and as a manager of the global financial services industry group at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting.

«Global financial institutions operating in Japan and Japanese financial institutions abroad require advice in all areas of senior executive talent management from executive recruiting to leadership consulting and succession planning, Steven is well known in Japan with his extensive knowledge in the Insurance and Financial industry, bringing tremendous value to clients on various challenging and stringent leadership issues,» said Frazer Wilson, Managing Partner of Heidrick & Struggles' Financial Services Practice for APAC.