Spotlight on China

Steve Brown
Managing Director - APAC & EMEA
Global Management
Steve has enjoyed an exciting and meaningful career journey of over two decades in the executive search and talent industry, having lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Singapore, Chinese mainland, and Hong Kong. He brings a successful track record delivering multiple high-profile HR searches at C-level (group and global) and regional, across various industry sectors. Steve is genuinely passionate about fostering life-long relationships with CHROs, HR Leaders, and CEOs, to promote building diverse teams and inclusive workplaces, ultimately driving creativity and exceptional performance.
Responsible for leading our world-class consulting team across APAC and EMEA, Steve’s purpose is to help companies grow, transform, and excel – by identifying and placing the best CHROs and HR leadership teams who will disrupt, elevate, and realise the people agenda. One of his key drivers internally, is ensuring synergies across the two regions through collaboration and clarity, providing an exceptional service to our HR and business community.
Steve is a member of the Executive Committee at ChapmanCG.
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Katherine Qu
Managing Director
Consulting Team
Katherine Qu is a Managing Director based in Singapore. Since joining ChapmanCG in 2014, she has worked with the team across APAC and around the world to identify the top HR talent across Greater China, Singapore, SEA and APAC.
Before joining us, Katherine ran her own executive search business in Beijing focusing on senior executive roles for leading Chinese companies in the consumer, healthcare and real estate industries. She has also held positions with Hudson and Charterhouse Partnership leading the Healthcare practice and HR function respectively. Katherine’s corporate experience has spanned many different sectors with global leaders such as PepsiCo, Pfizer and Lenovo.
Born in China and educated in both China and the United States, Katherine achieved her Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland. She has worked in China, Singapore and the United States and speaks both Mandarin and English fluently.
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Ben Davies
CEO
Global Management
Ben Davies is the CEO at ChapmanCG and is responsible for the continued expansion of the business globally.
He has played a pivotal role in driving ChapmanCG’s rapid growth across the Americas, EMEA and the Asia Pacific. Ben’s previous experience included leading senior executive search assignments for top multinationals in EMEA, North America and the Asia Pacific for ChapmanCG and prior to that, for the London office of Korn/Ferry International. His global mandate includes enhancing ChapmanCG’s ties with global client headquarters in EMEA and North America.
Ben is passionate about best practice executive search and recruitment methodologies and processes. As a result, he has a heavy focus on driving innovation internally at ChapmanCG. He also advises key clients as they build their businesses internationally, and in particular across rapid-growth and emerging markets.
Ben studied Sports Science at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has successfully completed ultra-marathons in Mongolia and Ecuador.
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Kalkin Cao
Senior Director
Consulting Team
Kalkin is a Senior Director with ChapmanCG based in Shanghai and responsible for leading ChapmanCG’s domestic business in mainland China. He partners with CHROs and CEOs from Multinationals, startups, and Chinese Enterprises to recruit exceptional HR leaders and high-potential talent across every industry sector.
With over a decade of expertise in HR search and consulting, Kalkin brings in-depth market insights and observations during the rapid evolution of the Human Resources profession in China.
Kalkin is passionate about helping both HR leaders and emerging HR talent to unlock their true potential and fulfil their career ambitions by opening career opportunities aligned to their values.
Born and raised in Shanghai, Kalkin is a citizen of the world and enjoys travelling, as well as spending quality time with his family and friends.

The Chinese economy experienced astonishing growth in the last few decades that catapulted the country to become the world’s second-largest economy. Even with Covid-19 disruptions, the recovery of economic activity has been swift and growth is expected to maintain. China continues to be a country of great focus for businesses around the world. As such, the HR community is incredibly important to the framework of both international firms in the country as well as local ones.
Here, our team at ChapmanCG team talks about the compensation landscape for both HR Leaders and for general candidate attraction as well as what makes this great country such a focus point over the next five years.
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