Financial Services

Chris Reece has been active in the world of Strategic Leadership and Human Capital Management for more than twenty-five years.

Chris supports the New York & Boston offices of EMA Partners. He has conducted over 250 executive searches and numerous organisational assessments and executive and management assessments. Chris has conducted assignments in all functional areas with an emphasis on executive and general management level searches. These organisations have ranged in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

Danny Zhang has 20 years of experience as an Executive Search practitioner. He also specializes in Talent Mapping, and Business Strategy in the IT, Internet, Manufacturing and Hospitality industries. Over the years, he has worked closely for recruitment with Fortune 500 companies and large private enterprises for positions in top Management, to head sectors like Legal, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, and Supply Chain, amongst others. 

Alex is the Managing Partner in Tokyo responsible for Consumer, Retail & Services, Industrial (consisting of Performance & Specialty Chemicals), Food Ingredients, Building & Construction, and a member of Government & Non-Profit Practices. He specialises in Management Search & C-suite Retained Recruiting Services.

María Isabel Luna Kanematsu is a Managing Partner. She has experience working across industries and functional area including, Bruno Ferrini-Clarks Groups & Florsheim, Textile ALV, Citibank and Profuturo AFP. She is also a part-time faculty member for Human Resources Management, Training and Development, and Human Resources Processes at the University of Lima.

Hala Merhi is a Senior Partner with EMA Partners Saudi Arabia. She has more than two decades of experience with leading executive search firms and professional services firms across diversified sectors.

Prior to EMA Partners International, she worked at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The start of her career was with International Health Resources Corp. as a Recruitment Manager in Lebanon, overseeing the recruitment of medical and support staff for healthcare institutions in the Gulf region.

Bleihid N Al Bleihid is the founder and Managing Director of EMA Partners Saudi Arabia.

Bleihid was the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Al-Ahli Takaful Company and has been the Senior Executive Vice President – Group Head, Human Resources Group at National Commercial Bank. He was also a Member, Nomination and Remuneration Committee at NCB Capital.

José María has a Law degree from the University of Navarra, an MBA from IESE and a Masters in Financial and Tax Law from the CEU-Abad Oliba.

Phd in Economic Sciences from UNED, Master in Business Administration (MBA) from IESE and Master in Portfolio Management from IE Business School.

Ana Paola is a Senior Consultant at our office in Mexico. She has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources, 8 of them within Executive Search, managing senior and mid-level assignments from multinational to family/privately-owned companies and start-ups.

Ana’s experience includes a variety of sectors including Consumer Goods, Cosmetics, Health, Retail Luxury, Finance, Digital, Advertising within areas such as Human Resources, Marketing and Sales.

Birger Husted is a Danish national and a Managing Partner at EMA Partners Prague. With almost 30 years of experience in the Executive Search business, he also opened the EMA Partners Czech Republic | Husted s.r.o. office in 2006.

Birger started his career in marketing and sales in Denmark but has undertaken international assignments in Sweden, Norway, Finland, German and the USA.