Richard Loh

As the Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard leads the firm with a focus on setting and implementing the highest levels of professional standards and client service — all with the aim of delivering outstanding results for our clients. Concurrently, he is also the Chairman of GlobalExec’s Board of Directors – the elected representative of the partners, chairs the board and partners' meetings and is responsible for providing strategic perspective to the firm's business and finances.

As a professional career coach, Richard develops and engages his clients in a two-way collaborative partnership to help discover their passion and provide a guide toward career fulfillment, supporting their effort to build the skills that matter, stay on track and move toward realizing learning and job goals that provide a sense of achievement. He also assist in the re-design of their professional branding to enhance their marketability in good times (as well as in bad times).

As the Regional Practice Leader for the MRIC's Supply Chain & Logistics/Transportation Practice in Asia, Richard is responsible for strategic oversight and management of the regional practice, which consists of specialist consultants in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, focused on recruiting within the universe of both Supply Chain Service Providers and the Functional Supply Chain.

Richard is responsible for strategic oversight, methodology localisation and local language collateralisation, and management of the newly created business division. He is also accountable for the daily operations of the Guangzhou office.

In this role, Richard acts as the key contact on all training initiatives and is responsible for coordinating group-wide efforts on performance development. At the same time, he also assists the company management on a variety of operational issues across the different offices in Asia.

As a "Recruiter of Recruiters", Richard networks across a multitude of companies and industries identifying, motivating and recruiting talented recruiters or industry experts to join MRI China Group.

Responsible for managing the entire executive recruitment and selection process for regional (Asia Pacific) search assignments within the Logistics/ Supply Chain and Flavors and Fragrance vertical markets.

During his earlier years in the business, he worked as a generalist recruiter across different sectors the likes of Transportation, Logistics/ Supply Chain, Consumer, High Tech and IT. In 1999, he transitioned into a specialist role focusing on Logistics/Supply Chain, serving predominantly 3PLs, Freight Forwarders and Shippers across Asia Pacific, based out of Singapore. During the same period, out of personal interest, he also developed a secondary niche focus within the Asian Flavors & Fragrance industry