Hong Kong Team

Simon Waterson co-runs our Hong Kong office with Dionne Tai.  He joined Eban in March 2000 and since joining, his focus has been working on senior level mandates throughout the Asia-Pacific region requiring professionals from within Equities - sales (cash & derivatives), research (all sectors), prime broking, electronic trading, proprietary trading etc.  In addition he has carried out numerous mandates on the behalf of Hedge Funds (all strategies).  Simon arrived in Hong Kong in 1992 and joined Burns Hall and he worked predominately on Equity Sales and Research roles in all the key Asian markets.  In 1995 he founded his own firm, Stanton Chase International, and continued to work on mandates within the Equities sector throughout Asia.

Dionne Tai is a founding member of the Eban team in Hong Kong and has been instrumental in the firm’s development and continued success. She is responsible for Greater China related assignments within investment banking, private equity, equities and fixed income for positions where Mandarin is a pre-requisite. Dionne is also active within the Hong Kong market focusing on senior investment banking hires. She speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese which is perfectly complemented by her technical understanding of financial services and true appreciation of how to transact business effectively across Asia. Prior to joining Eban, she worked for an international boutique financial services search firm and began her career with Thornton Management (now RCM) in Hong Kong.

Christopher Smailes joined Eban, London in February 2006 initially focusing on equity markets, across the sell and buy-side in Europe. Chris moved to Hong Kong in 2008 to work exclusively on Asset Management and covers assignments across Asia-ex Japan. He began his career at a global recruitment firm in 2002 and by the time he left, was managing the financial services team and had successfully completed mandates for US and European investment banks and asset management firms.

Dominick Nisbett started his Executive Search career in 1995 with a London-based search firm before joining Eban in January 1997 in Hong Kong, relocating to Japan in 1999 to establish the Tokyo office which was consistently ranked the #1 Executive Search firm in Japan between 2001-2009. Returning to Hong Kong from London in 2011, Dominick specialises in originating and executing senior-level assignments across the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Pan-Asian Research across all asset classes, Equity Sales & Sales Trading as well as all areas of the Japanese market including Investment Banking, Asset Management & Hedge Funds. He has worked closely with several major clients over the last decade to roll out and successfully re-build their securities businesses. Dominick was most recently voted Japan's #2 Best Headhunting Executive in Asiamoney's 2008 poll as well as achieving the #1 position in Cash Equities and #2 for the Buy-side / Hedge Fund area.

Jocetta (Josie) Ling joined Eban in 2010. She is based in their Singapore office with a primary focus on private banking, and assists colleagues in equities and equity derivatives assignments. She brings with her a broad range of experience of the Asian markets and their cultures having spent a decade as a financial television reporter and producer, primarily with Bloomberg TV in Singapore. Josie began her career as an intellectual property lawyer in Malaysia after graduating with an honors degree in Law from Leicester University in the UK. She is also a qualified barrister and a member of Lincoln’s Inn in London.