Ateca Executive Search

About Ateca Executive Search

Ateca Executive Search is a specialist firm operating exclusively within private banking and wealth management. We do not recruit across industries. We do not divide our attention between sectors. Every relationship we hold, every mandate we run and every candidate we represent sits inside this single market — and has done since the firm's founding in 2012. That focus is why the world's leading private banks trust us with their most senior and commercially sensitive hires. WHAT WE DO Senior Private Banker and Relationship Manager placements. Executive Director and Managing Director appointments. Group Head and market leadership hires. Complete team transitions, with full visibility into combined book quality, portability and revenue generation. We are not a volume placement service. Every candidate we introduce has been personally assessed against the commercial criteria that matter in this market — book size, portability, revenue generation and the depth of genuine client relationships — before a single name reaches a client. WHERE WE OPERATE Seven offices across the principal centres of global private banking: London, Dubai (DIFC), Doha (QFC), Zurich, Limassol, Singapore and Hong Kong. This is not a network assembled to look global on paper. It reflects where private banking actually happens — the booking centres, the regulatory jurisdictions and the client relationships that define how wealth moves across borders. OUR SPECIALISM Beyond our broader practice, Ateca holds particular depth in the Global South Asia and Non-Resident Indian wealth corridors — among the fastest-growing segments in private banking today. HOW WE WORK Principal-led. Every senior mandate is led personally by a Director of the firm. Mapped, not advertised. We work by systematic market mapping and direct approach. Discretion as a structural principle. Institution names are never disclosed without authorisation. Candidate identities are never shared without consent.