Welcome to Correlate Search

About Us ~ Management Team

Stability and longevity are key ingredients to a successful search practice and the team at Correlate is led by a management team that has worked together since the late 1990s.

Gavin Bonnet

Managing Director and Head of EMEA Business Management and Controls

Prior to embarking on his executive search career, Gavin worked as an economist on Phillips and Drew's South-East Asian desk. He then went on to spend some 6 years in derivatives sales. A founder-member of Correlate Search, Gavin has developed a particular expertise in risk and compliance and all areas of corporate governance. He is a graduate of the City of London School of Business.

Simon Vaughan-Edwards

Managing Director and Head of EMEA Global Markets

Simon began his executive search career in 1997 when he joined a financial markets boutique, Stephens International. In 2000, he moved to Correlate Search where he is now responsible for the firm's Global Markets activities across CEEMEA. His own specialisation is within cash equity and equity derivative and Prime Brokerage markets. Prior to entering executive search, Simon had a successful career in the British Army.

Niall MacDonald

Managing Director, Hong Kong

Niall joined Correlate Search in 2009 to expand our Investment Banking and Global Markets practices in Asia.  He has broad market experience and has completed searches in markets, IB and wealth management across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Previously he spent four years at Whitney Group in Asia. He was also a partner and head of fixed income and structured products for Odgers Ray and Berndtson and The Berwick Group in London. Before entering executive search, he was a member of the corporate finance teams of County NatWest and Charterhouse Bank in London. He also worked in Johannesburg, initially for a law firm and then in the corporate finance division of Barclays National Merchant Bank, Niall is a Barrister-at-Law and a member of King's Inns, Dublin and Grays Inn, London.

Russell Kopp

Managing Director, Hong Kong

Russell joined Correlate Search in 2009 to expand our Global Markets and Wealth Management practices in Asia. Previously he spent a year at Whitney Group, where he transitioned into search after 20 years on the sell-side. Equity research was his primary focus, but he also held roles in equities sales, corporate finance/M&A, strategic planning and senior management. He has over a decade of Asian experience in Hong Kong, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India and Pakistan, in addition to roles in London and the US. He was educated at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Manchester Business School's MBA programme.