O U R O F F E R
Quest Executive Search & Advisory Services is a Swiss firm specializing in recruitment, corporate advisory, and coaching, with expertise in Asset Management, Private Banking, and Corporate Banking.
Founded in 2017, our mission is to help our clients transform their ambitions into lasting realities through personalized solutions that integrate innovation, expertise, and tailored support.
At Quest, we believe that the quality of our services is a key driver of our partners’ success, ensuring their sustainability in a demanding environment. We are committed to delivering excellence, ensuring that each client benefits from a personalized, transparent, and effective approach.
We take pride in this commitment, driven by a deep understanding of our clients’ needs and ambitions. This understanding translates into three complementary areas of expertise: recruitment, corporate advisory, and coaching. Discover how these services align to meet your specific needs.
Executive Search:
Attracting the talent essential to your success.
We identify and integrate professionals capable of meeting your organization’s strategic, technical, or operational challenges. With deep expertise and a personalized approach, we ensure that each recruitment strengthens your long-term capabilities and supports your business vision.
Corporate Advisory:
Structuring coherence, alignment, and continuity within the corporate project.
We support organizations during key phases of development, transformation, growth, or repositioning, when maintaining coherence between ambition, decisions, and operational reality becomes critical.
Our work is centred on the corporate project and its meaningful purpose, understood as the articulation of an organization’s purpose and ambition. From this centre of gravity, we help organizations structure their value proposition, align leadership, and develop the strategic capabilities required to support their evolution over time.
Rather than applying standardized models, our approach consists in building coherent and operant systems capable of giving continuity, direction, and consistency to action.
Coaching:
Developing leaders and structuring professional trajectories.
We assist executives and their teams in strengthening leadership, decision-making, and impact management. Our coaching programs provide practical tools to inspire, unite, and navigate complex environments with confidence.
We also support professionals in career transitions, helping them secure their evolution and take full ownership of their development by aligning choices with deep aspirations and identity.
With a tailored and multidisciplinary approach, we help our clients develop and refine their potential, aligning identity, skills, and ambitions to achieve their objectives.
Who are we ?
CHRISTOPHE MAURON
Since 1997, Christophe Mauron has been active in the Asset Management and Private Banking sectors.
He began his career as a financial analyst at a globally recognized Asset Management firm before taking on responsibility for institutional clients and a UCITS fund, managing over CHF 500 million. In 2003, he joined JPMorgan as an alternative investment advisor (hedge funds), serving Ultra High Net Worth clients in Latin America and the Middle East.
In 2006, he co-founded Lotus Partners, a recruitment firm specializing in the banking and financial sectors across the Lake Geneva region. Building on this experience, he established Quest Executive Search & Advisory Services in 2017, aiming to offer a more exclusive service that blends Executive Search and Advisory.
His academic background includes a Master’s degree in Econometrics (Quantitative Economics) from the University of Geneva and the Federal Diploma in Wealth Management CFPI (CIIA – EFFAS).
Since 2018, he has also served as an independent board member for financial institutions, bringing his strategic expertise and in-depth market knowledge.
PURVEZ SIDDIQI
Since 1994, Purvez has dedicated his expertise to the Private Wealth and Asset Management industry.
He began his career in Executive Search, recruiting senior executives and specialists, before expanding his focus in 1997 to tactical and strategic consulting for Swiss and international private banks, as well as independent wealth managers. He is also a long-standing practitioner of individual and systemic coaching, with a particular focus on leadership. Depending on the needs, he combines these three approaches either separately or cumulatively to support leaders and their teams in tackling transformation challenges and achieving their goals.
Based in Geneva, he was responsible for economic development, best practices (innovation), and team management for several renowned consulting firms, fostering both local and international perspectives. His activities have led him to collaborate throughout Switzerland and in the world’s major financial hubs.
Academically, Purvez holds degrees in International Relations from IUHEI in Geneva, as well as a Master’s and a postgraduate diploma in Philosophy from the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. Since 2015, he has actively pursued continuous education and practical research in cognitive sciences, including programs at Stanford and Berkeley.
In October 2024, Purvez joined Quest Executive Search & Advisory Services as an Executive Advisor. He brings a unique and distinctive perspective to support leaders in their strategic decision-making and business project development.
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CONTACT
Quest Advisory Services
7 Ferdinand-Hodler Street
CH-1207 Geneva
Christophe : +41 78 845 36 35 , cmauron[a]questsa.ch
Purvez: +41 79 446 22 26 , psiddiqi[a]questsa.ch