Conor Hourigan is the founder of Global Wealth Talent, an independent advisory practice supporting wealth managers, fiduciaries, private client practices and family offices on critical appointments. His work focuses on four connected areas: senior hiring for leadership, facilitation of introductions for key client-facing roles, succession planning for exposed seats, and candidate due diligence for near-final appointments, providing a clear external view of credibility, risk and cross-jurisdictional realism.

Conor has spent more than 20 years in wealth management and leadership advisory, working on hundreds of senior appointments and team moves. Roughly half of his career has been with US-headquartered clients in North America; the other half across EMEA, APAC and Latin America with global, regional and local platforms. That mix has given him a practical understanding of how US and non-US firms think about UHNW/HNW clients, growth, governance and risk, and how those dynamics play out day-to-day in different booking centres and firm structures. Over time, he has built a relationship map of around 30,000 people in global UHNW/HNW wealth, fiduciary services and private-client law.

Before founding Global Wealth Talent, Conor served as Senior Partner, Global Wealth Management at Korn Ferry, advising private-wealth managers, multi-family offices, specialist UHNW financing and advisory platforms, and sponsor-backed businesses on leadership and senior hiring. Earlier, he was Co-Global Head of Talent Acquisition at UBS Wealth Management, sitting on the Americas HR Executive Committee in New York and the Global Talent & Recruiting Committee in Zurich, with direct responsibility for senior hiring and team moves across multiple regions. He began his leadership-advisory career with Russell Reynolds Associates and has completed more than 300 leadership mandates and advisory engagements.

Conor’s perspective is shaped by time living and working in London, New York (for more than a decade), Grand Cayman and Guernsey, and by extensive work in Switzerland and the wider offshore and cross-border ecosystem. Born and raised in Ireland, he combines an international outlook with an approach that travels well across cultures and supports trust in sensitive, off-the-record conversations. He holds a B.Sc. in Finance from University College Cork and began his career on State Street Investment Management’s international graduate programme. He is a dual Irish and US citizen.