London Team

Emma Weir is one of the founders of Eban. She started her career in executive search in 1985, covering UK equity broking and all aspects of fund management. After establishing offices in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Emma believed it was an appropriate time to build her own search firm. In 1995, along with Stephen McAlinden, she established the first Eban office. The rapid success of this office in Hong Kong prompted Emma to return to London in 1997 to set up and manage the second office in Eban’s global presence. Emma personally conducts senior level assignments within asset management. She is also Eban’s global business co-ordinator, having initiated our Tokyo and New York offices.

James Younger joined Eban in July 2007 with 12 years executive search experience in wealth management, private banking and asset management. He will head up the wealth management sector for Eban in London. Until 2004 James spent nearly 10 years with UBS where he was responsible for the HR delivery to the wealth management division. He has also managed HR at UBS for corporate finance, private equity and corporate banking. James holds an MBA degree from Henley Management College.

William entered the Executive Search world in 1988 when he joined Stephens Associates and worked with Emma Weir and Stephen McAlinden.  He remained there as a Director with prime responsibility for PanEuropean, US and Latin American broking until 1997 when he established Dickins & Company.  Dickins recruited for major International Banks and Alternative Investment companies across Europe for eight years until he evolved the business into Brightstar, a career management consultancy.  William currently sits within the Eban office and splits his time between Brightstar and working with Eban on senior level Corporate Finance Assignments across EMEA.

Adam Clay joined Eban in January 2008 to work closely with Emma Weir within the Asset Management practice.  He joins from the Investment Management division of a global recruitment firm where he was a manager responsible for running the Investment Management Finance business.  Prior to this he worked as a consultant specialising in placing finance professionals into a client base of Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds and Asset Managers.  Adam holds a business degree.

Zanni Young has worked with Emma Weir and Stephen McAlinden since 1993, initially as Head of Research for the pan-Asian markets and was an original member of the Eban team in Hong Kong. Zanni relocated back to London in 1997 with Emma to assist in building Eban's European business. She then spent two years recruiting in the communications industry, assisting in the set-up of a New York office, before rejoining Eban in 2002 as Head of Research in London.