Higgins-Miller will be responsible for building and aligning the sales and channel strategy for the Asia-Pacific region to support business growth. She will report directly to Didier Guibal, the executive vice-president of worldwide sales.

Adams Chan

Assurance Services, Hong Kong

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Chan will provide regulatory and compliance advice to financial services industry.

Billy Wong

Assurance Services, Hong Kong Financial Services Practice

Pricewaterhouse-Coopers

Wong will provide assurance and business advisory services to insurance companies.

Aileen Wang

Assurance Services, Shanghai

Pricewaterhouse-Coopers

Wang will provide internal controls, enterprise risk management, internal audit and Sox 404 services to companies in capital improvement plan and insurance sectors.

Thomas Eastling

Director, advisory services

American Appraisal China

Eastling has 10 years of experience working and living in Tokyo. He started his career in investment banking at Nikko Securities and has also worked at Fitch Credit Ratings and Softbank Corp.

Sanjeev Jain

Public sector regional head, Asia-Pacific

Citi Global Transaction Services

In this newly created role, Jain will be responsible for structuring solutions, deepening relationships and developing strategic partnerships with global transaction services' new and existing public sector clients.

Douglas Renwick

Managing director

Securitas Security Services (HK)

Renwick joins from Guardforce Hong Kong, where he was the general manager dealing with all aspects of organisational management including strategic and finance, planning, process development and re-engineering.

Chris Perry

Partner and regional head of services and people

EC Harris

Perry has over 20 years' operational and construction experience, including 10 years in Asia, delivering complex new-build construction and corporate real estate projects throughout the full asset life cycle.

Lew Mon-hung

Deputy chairman and executive director

Pearl Oriental

Lew has over 30 years of experience in financial investment and corporate management. He was the chairman of G-Resources Group. Under him, the management team successfully acquired a US$200 million gold mine project.