Permanent Governance Hiring

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Danos Associates delivers permanent recruitment solutions across Compliance, Financial Crime, Legal and Risk, supporting regulated organisations with senior and specialist hiring.

We partner with Financial Services firms, professional services organisations and regulators to appoint high-quality permanent talent that strengthens governance capability and supports long-term organisational performance.

What We Deliver

Our permanent hiring solutions support organisations with:

Senior and specialist governance appointments
Team build-outs and succession planning
Growth, transformation and replacement hiring

We recruit across the full governance lifecycle, from experienced specialists through to senior management, ensuring each hire aligns with role requirements, organisational culture and regulatory expectations.

Meet Our Specialists

Our Approach to Permanent Hiring

Specialist-Led Recruitment

Each mandate is led by consultants who specialise in their respective governance discipline, bringing informed market insight, credibility and precise candidate assessment.

Network-Driven Sourcing

We combine targeted search with long-standing professional networks built across regulated industries. This enables access to high-quality candidates — many known to us directly — who are not actively seeking new roles.

Efficient, Measured Delivery

We prioritise quality and pace without compromising governance standards, typically delivering:

Two highly relevant CVs within 48 hours of mandate
A focused, credible shortlist aligned to the hiring brief

Global Coverage

With established teams across Asia Pacific, EMEA, and the Americas, Danos Associates delivers permanent governance talent globally, supported by strong local market knowledge.

Our Experts

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Denis Spearman

Managing Director, Group Head, Compliance & Financial Crime Practice

+(65) 3107 2377 dspearman@thedanosgroup.com View profile

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James Franklin

Managing Director, Head of Legal

+(65) 3107 2377 jfranklin@thedanosgroup.com View profile

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Serene Tan

Director, Compliance & Governance, Asia Pacific

+(65) 3107 2376 serenetan@danosassociates.com View profile

Why Danos Associates

Organisations engage Danos Associates for permanent hiring where consistency, insight and delivery matter.

Proven performance – Fast, reliable permanent hiring across regulated environments.
Trusted partnerships – We work with both long-standing clients and new organisations, with many placements resulting from repeat engagement and referral.
Inclusive hiring – Diverse candidate shortlists delivered through relationship-led sourcing.
Governance-first mindset – Every hire is assessed through the lens of accountability, risk and regulatory context.

Our permanent hiring solutions help organisations build governance teams that deliver confidence and long-term value.

Danos Associates offered much more than simply sourcing candidates.

They helped frame the scope of the search, giving context as to where we could search for our candidate pool and provided a commercial view of the labour market in this field and what we could expect… The shortlist of candidates we received was of a very high standard. Each candidate had been looked at critically.

Nicola Swann HR Director

Danos Consulting offered an excellent Interim Head of Compliance as a solution whilst undertaking our challenging permanent search mandate.

Danos Consulting really listened to our needs, parachuting in a candidate with the right technical skill set and personality. They really understood the DNA of our business which enabled them to provide support effectively when working to tight onboarding deadlines.

General Counsel, Niche Asset Management Firm

Danos Associates spend a lot of time getting to know your team and the culture, which makes it easier when new staff join the business.

In credit risk often the candidate pools have the same skill sets, however there are elements that the CV miss out. The Danos team work tirelessly to understand the skills levels of all candidates and most importantly, they get us quality candidates we can close and bring on board quickly.

Director of Model, Development Banking

Danos was referred to me as the best in the business.

I needed to find risk and compliance staff. My experience corroborates precisely that. Thorough, encyclopaedic market knowledge and execution orientated.

Hugo van Vredenburch Non Executive Director, TMF Group