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Van is Managing Director and founder of Leichter Advisors, established in 2013. He has been advising global financial services clients in the US, Asia Pacific, and Europe for almost thirty years. Van has completed Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Head of Global Distribution & Marketing engagements on behalf of the world's largest and most distinguished investment and alternative investment managers. In addition, Van has spearheaded multi-billion-dollar platform and team acquisitions across traditional and alternative investment strategies ranging from private equity real estate platforms to systematic, quantitative, and trading teams.

Van was previously Managing Director at Ferguson Partners in Tokyo and Chicago responsible for expanding the firm's real estate, private equity, private credit, and asset management businesses in the US and Asia Pacific. Van was previously a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles Japan where he led the Japanese real estate, asset management, private equity, private credit, and investment banking practices. Van went on to serve as Head of Asia Pacific Real Estate practice with client teams in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand, and India.

Earlier, in New York, he specialized in covering leading US and European investment banks with a focus on global markets and principal investments, derivatives, proprietary trading, and distressed investments in the US, Asia Pacific, and Europe. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he completed graduate work in International Relations and International Political Economics.

Alex is a senior executive search consultant who has been placing performing leaders for more than thirty years. He founded EymieuPartners in 2009, which merged with Leichter Advisors in 2025. He has lived in Asia since 1992, specializing in senior executive search & talent acquisition, and in leadership transformation. He covers financial services, investment management, real estate, private equity and venture capital clients and their portfolio companies, and has placed over 450 senior executives in leading roles: board directors, chief executives, managing directors, chief investment officers, chief marketing officers and portfolio managers, with leading multinationals, joint ventures, financial institutions and Asian conglomerates. He speaks regularly on cross-cultural leadership assessment and on the financial and operational challenges of operating in Asia.

Alex began his executive search career in 1996 with a boutique firm, acquired four years later by one of the global search firms. Following the acquisition he became a Senior Partner and Managing Partner of the Taiwan office, and Head of Quality and Innovation for Asia Pacific. In 2008 he moved to another international firm, leading its financial services practice for Greater China. He went on to run the Greater China business of a third, and was Head of Asia Pacific for a fourth, based in Hong Kong. He has lived eight years in Shanghai, ten in Hong Kong and eleven in Taipei, and has managed offices across Asia Pacific.

A graduate of the Weller International School of Management in France, Alex also completed a program at the University of San Francisco's McLaren College. He is fluent in English and French, and proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Mike is a former McKinsey partner and Chief HR and Talent Officer whose career spans multiple industries — aerospace, nuclear, education, banking, insurance, retail and consulting — and Fortune 100 companies including Walmart, Alcoa, New York Life, Citigroup and Northrop Grumman. He knows how to build the talent and leadership capabilities that enable global businesses to create value and increase profitability. For more than thirty years he has combined the formulation and execution of innovative growth initiatives with a disciplined process for increasing the number of exemplary performers in critical, value-driving roles. His current focus is on linking talent to business outcomes.

His areas of expertise include human resources, executive leadership, succession planning, workforce capabilities, talent assessment and strategy. As a Value Coach, he works closely with boards, CEOs and executive teams, both public and private, to align their business strategy and investment thesis with the right talent, operating model and personal leadership to optimize value creation.

Previously, Mike led McKinsey's global platform for linking talent to value for five years, where he oversaw the alignment of top teams with their value agendas, and the identification and staffing of critical roles with best-fit talent at more than fifty companies.

As Chief Talent Officer at Walmart, Mike coached and advised high-potential executives and accelerated the development of the top 100 NextGen leaders, enabling the enterprise's business strategy while improving the slate of “ready now” candidates for the top 50 critical roles. As CHRO at Alcoa, he developed and applied predictive analytics that linked executive compensation to key outcomes including revenue, safety, quality, employee engagement and diversity.

As Senior Vice President of HR at New York Life Insurance, he prepared the company to enter more complex global markets by designing and implementing a talent assessment and planning process that closed key gaps in the top 100 critical roles. In senior executive positions at Citigroup, including CHRO of Citi Private Bank, Mike translated the factors that differentiate top-tier performance in critical roles into competency-based processes. These became the criteria for talent selection, development and rewards, and were lauded across the global Citi organization for their impact on the bottom line.

Mike holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD and an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University, and a BS in Engineering Science from Hofstra, as well as certifications in executive coaching.

David runs business operations at Leichter Advisors from New York: the research and sourcing behind each search, the systems that hold the firm's knowledge of the market, and the reports a client receives while a search is running.

Most of what he builds is meant to go unnoticed. Progress reports, candidate reports and talent maps are generated from templates, so the tenth search looks like the first and a partner's time goes into judgment instead of formatting. The same discipline applies to the firm's record of the market. He runs the data work that decides whether a question about a market can be answered in an afternoon or not at all.

He came to executive search through human-capital research at an international search firm, and to that from seven years in teaching and academic advising, which is where the instinct for documentation and training comes from. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgia College & State University.