Agreus group: Recruiting for the world’s most successful families

In this episode, we introduce Tayyab Mohamed and Paul Westall co-founders of Agreus group. Agreus is a leading full-service recruitment firm that works exclusively to solve for the hiring needs of family offices – some of the largest, most successful and high-profile families throughout the world. Unlike traditional business, family offices are unique. Maintaining wealth across generations is notoriously difficult, reflected by the well-known saying “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” This occurs most often because of failed culture, alignment and dynamic – rather than a lack of skill. Hires need to be a cultural fit; personalities in a small team need to gel; values and vision need to align.  

In this episode, Part I (another to follow), we introduce the founders, how and why Paul and Tayyab created Agreus. Their professional life before family office recruitment. The extensive work they do in Family Office Salary benchmarking alongside KPMG. And more critically, discuss the key drivers of establishing a family office. The do’s and don’t and common failures in the recruitment process. On the call we are also joined by Pierre Pineau who leads Agreus’ Asia Pacific division and talk through the needs of families in the region, providing useful context for Australian families to consider how, when and why they should establish a family office – and the alternative ‘hybrid’ models in between.  

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