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A specialist recruitment and executive search firm working across Asia Pacific. We go beyond the brief to find people who fit, not just CVs that match.
Eight practices covering the functions our clients hire for, from revenue-generating front office to the teams that keep a business running.
Banking, private banking and wealth, insurance, asset management, private equity, hedge funds, quant and systematic, digital assets and crypto.
Infrastructure, applications, data and AI, DevOps, digital transformation, trading technology, cyber security and technology leadership.
Sales, business development, marketing, brand, communications, product, design and general management.
HR business partnering, talent acquisition, learning and development, HRIS, compensation and benefits, payroll and EA support.
In-house counsel and private practice, company secretarial, paralegals, regulatory and financial crime compliance, risk and internal audit.
Financial control, FP&A, product control, tax, treasury, internal audit and CFO-level appointments.
Business operations, client onboarding, procurement, logistics, manufacturing and supply chain leadership.
The people who carry the P&L. Chief executives, country and regional heads, managing directors, chief operating and commercial officers, and board appointments.
We map markets sector by sector. Filter by the world you operate in.
“Strong relationships drive better hires.”
We take the time to understand the skills, the team and the working style behind every brief, then go and find the people who genuinely fit. Sixteen years of recruiting across Asia Pacific, including leadership at one of the region’s largest firms, sits behind every search we run.
From a single specialist hire to a full leadership build-out.
Specialist search and selection for junior, mid and senior professionals across all eight practices.
→Confidential leadership and board search, with market mapping and compensation benchmarking.
→Contract, secondment, RPO and payrolling solutions, fully managed and compliant.
→Volume is easy. A considered shortlist takes market knowledge, real conversations and the confidence to say when someone is not right. That is the only way we work.
Most agencies send volume. The Aster team sent three names and we hired one of them. They understood the role, the team and the kind of person who would actually stay.
Sid mapped the whole market for a hard-to-fill portfolio role and came back with people who weren’t even looking. That is the difference between a search partner and a job board.
We needed a bilingual specialist in Tokyo who understood both the regulator and our culture. It is a famously thin market, and the Aster team had a credible shortlist in under three weeks.
Building a leadership team while scaling is the hardest thing we do. Aster behaved like a partner invested in the outcome, not a vendor chasing a fee.
A sensitive replacement at the top of the house, handled with complete discretion and real market insight. Sid set a realistic timeline, then beat it.
Hiring for an AI role across APAC meant competing with everyone. The Aster team cut through the noise, screened for genuine depth rather than buzzwords, and the person they placed is already shaping our roadmap.
We were opening a new market and needed finance, legal and operations hires almost simultaneously. The Aster team handled all three, and the quality did not drop across any of them.
Send a brief and we’ll come back to you quickly, with a realistic view of the market before you commit to anything.
Whether it’s one specialist or a whole team, we’ll tell you honestly what the market looks like before you commit.
