This publication understands that James Harley will take over as the new head of strategic recruiting private banking Asia Pacific for ...

This publication understands that James Harley will take over as the new head of strategic recruiting private banking Asia Pacific For Credit Suisse, effective 19 August, 2013. 

Harley joins from Nomura Investment Bank where he was the head of experienced hiring (APAC), leading a team of in-house recruiters across the region focusing on front, middle and back office roles across all wholesale business functions.

Prior to Nomura he worked as head of talent acquisition – Microsoft Hong Kong, where he was responsible for the strategy of the end to end recruitment function for all hiring.

Harley has more than 15 years of extensive experience in the recruitment industry. He will be based in Hong Kong and will be reporting to Nicolas Clerc.

Nicolas Clerc will return to Switzerland to take over as the new Head of Strategic Recruiting in the Private Banking & Wealth Management division. Clerc joined Credit Suisse in 2006 and became part of the Strategic Recruiting team in 2007.

He established the team responsible for South of Europe/Africa, Central and Eastern Europe. He transferred to Singapore in late 2010 to lead the function's Asia Pacific activities where he has been proactive in hiring key relationship managers and managers across a wide range of businesses.