John Meeks has been appointed as managing director and head of the firm's wealth management and family offices practice, while Geoffrey Bevan has named a director at Global Sage’s office in Hong Kong, covering North Asia and ASEAN private banking.

Meeks was latterly a partner at a boutique executive search firm, where he opened the New York office and launched a practice dedicated to private wealth management. He was formerly a senior executive in private wealth management recruitment at Goldman Sachs, working across 12 offices in the US and Latin America. Earlier still, Meeks was senior vice president of Latin America for global executive recruitment firm Randstad Professionals. There, he spearheaded the firm's executive search practices in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.

Bevan started his career working on the financial institutions team at RBS before moving into corporate banking at Barclays, which gave him significant exposure to Asian clients. Since moving to Asia, he has been responsible for a number of senior placements and team moves within the private wealth management space. He focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, Global Sage said, while his search practice is focused on relationship managers, investment advisory professionals and product specialists.

Meanwhile, the addition of Global Sage’s new Zurich Office will “extend the firm’s reach into the heart of private banking and wealth management,” it said.

Global Sage caters to the private wealth management industry from offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, Beijing and Johannesburg.