Focus on Hiring Leaders

Coming from a family of businesswomen and being a graduate of the ICN Business School in Nancy, it was only natural for Gwladys Costant to choose entrepreneurship. Her first challenge? Developing Robert Walters Luxembourg from scratch. 6 years later, she established her first recruitment agency in Brussels and Luxembourg. As a founding partner, she dedicated herself to it for 6 more years.

In 2014, she decided to set up her own agency: GoToFreedom. For her, money isn’t a value; she prefers to focus on the advice and long-term vision she can offer her clients.

She shares this ethical and more human-centric vision of recruitment with other agencies of the fr2s (Federation for Recruitment, Search and Selection), the Luxembourgish recruitment federation created under the auspices of Fedil, of which she is a co-founder and co-president. Today, she makes her voice heard and rallies recruiters around her, ready to champion the attractiveness of the Luxembourg job market and the best practices of the profession.

Rémi Fouilloy is the Managing Partner of Morgan Philips Luxembourg,  a leading Executive Search firm operating in around twenty countries.  Rémi also manages the activities of FYTE Luxembourg, the specialized recruitment branch of the Morgan Philips group.

Graduated from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and NEOMA Business School, Rémi started his career at PwC in Paris as an auditor for the financial services sector before joining the recruitment industry in 1999.

Rémi worked for an Anglo-Saxon player in the sector for 13 years in Paris, Luxembourg and Zurich before co-founding Morgan Philips in 2013. With over 25 years’ experience, he assists companies in their search for the best executives, experts and interim managers, with a particular focus on the financial sector. He is currently head of the Financial Services practice at European level and therefore has a solid experience of cross-national recruitment and talent attraction strategies.

Hei Wai Kwan is a Partner in the Financial Services Practice with over 25 years of global experience in financial services, strategy consulting, and executive search. Throughout her career, Hei Wai has held senior roles with Bank of Montreal, CIBC, and The Boston Consulting Group. More recently, she built a reputation in executive recruitment working with global and boutique executive search firms where she specialized in insurance, pension plans, banking, asset/wealth management and alternative investments.

Hei Wai’s approach is grounded in deep business understanding, insights on organizational dynamics, and a passion for helping people nurture and evolve their careers. Hei Wai is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion and is known for helping organizations think creatively about talent.

Hei Wai is a Chartered Financial Analyst, holds an MBA from INSEAD, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Toronto. She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese; and is proficient in Japanese and French. Outside of work, Hei Wai volunteers at several organizations to foster diversity and inclusion, and is an avid sailor, trekker, scuba diver as well as a seasoned yoga instructor.

Gabriela Nguyen-Groza is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amrop Luxembourg.

Gabriela’s experience spans across sectors and countries, as a Trusted Advisor for Boards, CEOs and their executive teams. She is specialised in international executive searches (iNED and C-Suite) and leadership advisory.

Her European track-record includes recruiting a multitude of non-executive and executive positions for top teams of multinational companies. Her expertise in search is completed by her activity as a trusted advisor for international Boards, working on topics like Board Effectiveness (Assessment, Development and Composition), Succession Planning, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Sustainable Leadership.

Gabriela is a lecturer and the Co-Chair of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee of ILA (Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs), the Board Members representative body in Luxembourg. She is a Senior Advisor of the EMEA Board of Women in Payments, a global network for women working in the payments industry, and a Senior Advisor of the global board of Neobrain, an AI company in the HR sector.

She studied law and journalism in Romania and she holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Sorbonne, France. Gabriela is trilingual in Romanian, English and French and speaks Italian, Spanish and Arabic.

Camille Olléon is the HR Director for HSBC Continental Europe.

She has spent most of her career in Banking and Insurance, within Human Resources, before joining HSBC in 2018. Her commitment to diversity issues is notable, particularly through her contribution to Financi’Elles, the federation of networks promoting gender diversity in the financial sector, where she led the Observatory for 5 years. She also co-founded the SIGN network at SCOR.

More recently, Camille has sought to diversify her expertise and take on administrative roles within various entities of HSBC.

Philipp von Restorff is currently CEO and Chair of the Executive Committee of ILA, the Luxembourg Institute of Directors.

Previously, he was Deputy CEO at Luxembourg for Finance (LFF), the Agency for the development of Luxembourg Financial Centre. He represented LFF as a member of the Board of Directors of the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative (LSFI) and of LuxFLAG, the Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency for Responsible Investment.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy CEO of LFF, he was Head of Communications at the Luxembourg Banking Association (ABBL), where he also held the position of Secretary to the Board of Directors. From 2014-2018, Philipp was Chairman of the European Banking Federation’s Steering Committee on Communications and CSR.

Jonathan Westhead currently serves as Head of Communications for Luxembourg for Finance (LFF), the agency for the development of the Luxembourg financial centre.

Prior to joining LFF, Jonathan worked at PwC where he was responsible for a team serving clients in the global asset and wealth management sector. In this role, he led projects for some of the world’s largest asset & wealth managers relating to trends and developments in the investment fund industry, as well as developing thought leadership and white papers for clients.  Jonathan has also worked as a researcher and taught undergraduate classes at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

He holds a master’s degree in Ancient Cultures from Stellenbosch University.