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Josefina is a Certified Coach by Newfield Consulting; Associated Certified-Meta-Coach by International Society of Neuro-Semantics; Executive Coach by Salom Change Dynamics; is a designated Team Coach by CCE International Coach Federation; and she has a Birkman Method Certification. She actively participates in career coaching and mentoring programs with executives.

Koichi is an Executive Advisor in Tokyo for the Board & CEO, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Energy & Natural Resource Practices. Concurrently, he serves for a few global energy companies as a board member and is one of the original members of Geniisis in San Francisco that represents people of “genius” such as the heads of major R&D centres, star professors and Nobel prize-winners from the global market.

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.

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.

Capucine graduated with a Master's degree in Management from Paris Dauphine University, after which she completed a Master's degree in International Finance. Capucine passed the third level of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination in 2015. After a 12 year experience in the Investment Banking industry as a Financial Engineer and then an originator within different departments such as Equity derivatives, Commodities, Energy and Structured Financing where she covered various geographical areas including Spain, Russia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey and South-Africa.

Amarjeet leads the Leadership and Board level engagements for EMA Partners UAE. He works with clients in the Consumer, Financial Services, Payment & FinTech, Industrial, Manufacturing, Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors. He has over a decade of experience in Sales & Marketing, Product & Business Development & Executive Search. Previously he worked with organisations including Canon, Reliance Communications & Tata Teleservices Ltd.

As a Managing Partner Jo has over twenty years of search experience and has successfully executed numerous searches at the senior executive and Board level. Additionally, Jo leads the intermediate level practice for EMA Partner’s New York and Toronto offices and is a senior member of the firm’s Digital, Fintech, Payments, Financial Services and Technology Practice Groups.