Our Fintech Practice is led by Loretta Chan. Wellesley has embraced the era of how digital banking, AI, tokenization, Crypto/digital assets and CBDC are unfolding in the market and becoming a mainstream business in the financial services industry. We partner with a wide range of Fintech clients, ranging from virtual banks, payment platforms, digital asset firms to Regtech/Financial trading solution firms.

We understand the evolving nature of the Fintech industry. We partner closely with our clients to find them tailored solutions, scouting unique and niche talents globally. In addition, we work as trusted advisors to our Venture Capital/Start-up clients, assisting them in identifying exceptional and visionary leaders who can drive transformation and foster innovation. Loretta brings expertise in business and governance aspects across front to middle/back office of Fintech while Nicole excels in navigating the technological dimensions of the industry.

Wellesley is in a unique position in the market, blending our long-standing success in the Financial Services industry with our leadership in Front, Middle and Back Office Technology. This strategic combination allows us to provide unparalleled insights and solutions, positioning our clients at the forefront of the Fintech revolution.

Our Fintech practice covers:

  • Board and C-suites: CEO, CTO, CSO, CDO, CIO, CAO, General Counsel, CCO
  • Front Office: Business Development, Sales, Traders (Portfolio Manager, Quant, Systematic/High Frequency Traders, Prop Traders, Market Makers, OTC Traders), Crypto/Digital Asset Investment Research, Responsible Officers, Growth/Investor Relations
  • Legal & Compliance: M&A Counsel (TMT), Structured & Derivatives Lawyer, Litigation Lawyer, Financial Regulatory Lawyer, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Fraud & Monitoring
  • Risk: Fraud Investigation, E-Discovery, Risk Management (Financial Risk & Non-Financial Risk, Technology Risk)
  • Finance/Operations: Finance (Audit, Tax, Treasury), Operations (Business Management, Customer Service, Trade Support)
  • Technology roles: Covering Networking, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Product Development and more

Meet Our Team

Hong Kong
Loretta Chan
Managing Partner
Hong Kong | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Loretta Chan is the Managing Partner of Wellesley Group, piloting banking & fintech businesses in Asia Pacific. She comes with 15+ years of industry experience and specializes in placing senior-level candidates including C-suite executives across Global Markets, DCM, Private Financing and Corporate Banking. She has a strong track record of completing front office searches across sales, trading, quant, structuring, research, origination business development and relationship managers. In addition to front office search, she also leads specialist recruitment for corporate governance functions (risk, legal, compliance) with proven ability to provide front-to-back talent searches across all-levels.

During the beginning of her search career, she was with Pelham International specializing in Fixed Income/Equity Derivatives. She then joined Robertson Smart as a consultant covering Legal and Fixed Income. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2007, she ran the Hong Kong office of Webbe International, heading the Financial Markets business for Asia. Loretta holds an LLB (Hons) and began her career with Sullivan & Cromwell. She is native in English and Cantonese, and is conversant in Mandarin.

Elysee Lam
Executive Director
Hong Kong

Elysee Lam is an Executive Director of Wellesley Partners based in Hong Kong. She focuses on senior executives’ appointments of the portfolio companies of Private Equity clients in Asia Pacific. She also supports investment and operations professional searches in Asia Pacific.

Elysee has been in executive search since 2003. Prior joining Wellesley, Elysee worked with another Asian-based executive search firm specializing in senior executive recruitments in Commercial Sectors in Asia Pacific. Elysee holds a Bachelor Degree of Social Science and a Master Degree of Knowledge Management. She is originally from Hong Kong and she speaks native Cantonese and fluent English and Mandarin.

Charlene Yeung
Executive Director – Legal & Compliance, Financial Services & Fintech
Hong Kong | London | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Charlene Yeung is an Executive Director at Wellesley Partners, based in Hong Kong. She covers legal and compliance talent search across banking, financial services and fintech sectors in Asia, covering all levels from Associate up to C-suite levels.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Charlene was a consecutive top-10 biller at HAYS recruitment specialising in banking compliance recruitment. She holds a Master degree in Project Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor Degree in Economics.

London
Alice Bagshawe-Sutton
Executive Director
London

Alice Bagshawe-Sutton is an Executive Director with Wellesley based in London. She primarily focuses on executive search for our Private Capital (private credit, private equity and real assets) and FinTech clients across Europe and the Middle East. Secondarily, she also helps with our Southeast Asia market coverage. Alice recently re-joined Wellesleys having spent a year helping to build a successful FinTech practice at Russell Reynolds; she originally joined the firm in our Singapore office in 2015 where she spent seven years focused on Private Capital searches across Southeast Asia and Australia/ANZ. She started her search career in 2009 in London.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Alice spent two years with another Global Search firm in Singapore where she helped build a successful corporate and investment banking practice as well as specializing in senior-level searches within the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. She started her search career in London where she spent three years with a leading European boutique firm focused on Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance searches across Europe. Alice graduated from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland with a Master’s Degree in Theology and Classical Civilization.

Charlene Yeung
Executive Director – Legal & Compliance, Financial Services & Fintech
Hong Kong | London | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Charlene Yeung is an Executive Director at Wellesley Partners, based in Hong Kong. She covers legal and compliance talent search across banking, financial services and fintech sectors in Asia, covering all levels from Associate up to C-suite levels.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Charlene was a consecutive top-10 biller at HAYS recruitment specialising in banking compliance recruitment. She holds a Master degree in Project Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor Degree in Economics.

Melbourne
Loretta Chan
Managing Partner
Hong Kong | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Loretta Chan is the Managing Partner of Wellesley Group, piloting banking & fintech businesses in Asia Pacific. She comes with 15+ years of industry experience and specializes in placing senior-level candidates including C-suite executives across Global Markets, DCM, Private Financing and Corporate Banking. She has a strong track record of completing front office searches across sales, trading, quant, structuring, research, origination business development and relationship managers. In addition to front office search, she also leads specialist recruitment for corporate governance functions (risk, legal, compliance) with proven ability to provide front-to-back talent searches across all-levels.

During the beginning of her search career, she was with Pelham International specializing in Fixed Income/Equity Derivatives. She then joined Robertson Smart as a consultant covering Legal and Fixed Income. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2007, she ran the Hong Kong office of Webbe International, heading the Financial Markets business for Asia. Loretta holds an LLB (Hons) and began her career with Sullivan & Cromwell. She is native in English and Cantonese, and is conversant in Mandarin.

Charlene Yeung
Executive Director – Legal & Compliance, Financial Services & Fintech
Hong Kong | London | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Charlene Yeung is an Executive Director at Wellesley Partners, based in Hong Kong. She covers legal and compliance talent search across banking, financial services and fintech sectors in Asia, covering all levels from Associate up to C-suite levels.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Charlene was a consecutive top-10 biller at HAYS recruitment specialising in banking compliance recruitment. She holds a Master degree in Project Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor Degree in Economics.

Mumbai
Sourabh Chattopadhyay
Managing Partner, Head of Professional Services
Mumbai

Sourabh Chattopadhyay is the Managing Partner and Head of Professional Services with Wellesley Partners and leads the firms India business. He is a generalist with broad success across alternative investments, investment banking, private equity portfolio companies, and professional services.

Prior to joining Wellesley Partners, Sourabh headed Options Group’s executive search and strategic consulting practice in India. Sourabh has also been an entrepreneur and worked in institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Ernst and Young, and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.  Sourabh is an active angel investor and an LP in a few early-stage funds.  He is also an advisor to several startups.  Sourabh is on the board of Khela Ghar, an NGO based out of Calcutta, and a founding trustee of Daya Foundation.  He holds a BBA in Economics from Pace University in New York.

Shanghai
Loretta Chan
Managing Partner
Hong Kong | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Loretta Chan is the Managing Partner of Wellesley Group, piloting banking & fintech businesses in Asia Pacific. She comes with 15+ years of industry experience and specializes in placing senior-level candidates including C-suite executives across Global Markets, DCM, Private Financing and Corporate Banking. She has a strong track record of completing front office searches across sales, trading, quant, structuring, research, origination business development and relationship managers. In addition to front office search, she also leads specialist recruitment for corporate governance functions (risk, legal, compliance) with proven ability to provide front-to-back talent searches across all-levels.

During the beginning of her search career, she was with Pelham International specializing in Fixed Income/Equity Derivatives. She then joined Robertson Smart as a consultant covering Legal and Fixed Income. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2007, she ran the Hong Kong office of Webbe International, heading the Financial Markets business for Asia. Loretta holds an LLB (Hons) and began her career with Sullivan & Cromwell. She is native in English and Cantonese, and is conversant in Mandarin.

Charlene Yeung
Executive Director – Legal & Compliance, Financial Services & Fintech
Hong Kong | London | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Charlene Yeung is an Executive Director at Wellesley Partners, based in Hong Kong. She covers legal and compliance talent search across banking, financial services and fintech sectors in Asia, covering all levels from Associate up to C-suite levels.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Charlene was a consecutive top-10 biller at HAYS recruitment specialising in banking compliance recruitment. She holds a Master degree in Project Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor Degree in Economics.

Singapore
Loretta Chan
Managing Partner
Hong Kong | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Loretta Chan is the Managing Partner of Wellesley Group, piloting banking & fintech businesses in Asia Pacific. She comes with 15+ years of industry experience and specializes in placing senior-level candidates including C-suite executives across Global Markets, DCM, Private Financing and Corporate Banking. She has a strong track record of completing front office searches across sales, trading, quant, structuring, research, origination business development and relationship managers. In addition to front office search, she also leads specialist recruitment for corporate governance functions (risk, legal, compliance) with proven ability to provide front-to-back talent searches across all-levels.

During the beginning of her search career, she was with Pelham International specializing in Fixed Income/Equity Derivatives. She then joined Robertson Smart as a consultant covering Legal and Fixed Income. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2007, she ran the Hong Kong office of Webbe International, heading the Financial Markets business for Asia. Loretta holds an LLB (Hons) and began her career with Sullivan & Cromwell. She is native in English and Cantonese, and is conversant in Mandarin.

Charlene Yeung
Executive Director – Legal & Compliance, Financial Services & Fintech
Hong Kong | London | Melbourne | Shanghai | Singapore

Charlene Yeung is an Executive Director at Wellesley Partners, based in Hong Kong. She covers legal and compliance talent search across banking, financial services and fintech sectors in Asia, covering all levels from Associate up to C-suite levels.

Prior to joining Wellesley, Charlene was a consecutive top-10 biller at HAYS recruitment specialising in banking compliance recruitment. She holds a Master degree in Project Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor Degree in Economics.