Melanie Besancenot

Foster Partners

Foster Partners was established as the successor to KPMG Peat Marwick's U.S. Executive Search practice. KPMG Peat Marwick began offering executive search services in 1962 and developed over the course of 27 years to be the largest of the public accounting executive search practices. In 1989, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP in the interest of client independence, elected to divest the firm's executive search practice to a buy-out group led by Dwight E. Foster, partner-in-charge of the KPMG U.S. Executive Search practice. On January 2nd, 1990, Foster Partners officially began operations. In order to further develop and manage its business in Asia, Foster Partners opened their first Hong Kong office in 1998. The decision was made to move their Global Headquarters to Hong Kong in 1999 and subsequently to Shanghai in 2001 to better serve their clients in the region. Foster Partners is currently China's leading, independently owned, boutique, Executive Search firm with a heritage spanning more than 50 years worldwide and 20 years experience directly in China dealing with corporations ranging from small-niche Companies to world leading Western and Chinese Fortune 500 Companies. More than 20 years after its inception, Foster Partners continues to successfully, and consistently, perform senior leadership searches for our clients in specific industry segments worldwide.