Mark Jukes

Mark Jukes is recognized as a market leading Executive Search partner in the Financial Services sector. In 2013, together with Richard Hoskin, he founded Elbrus Partners, a leading London Financial Services specialist search boutique. In June 2023, Elbrus Partners joined Signium and are key partners in our Financial Services Practice.

Areas in which he has operated on both the Sell Side and Buy Side include: Japanese and Asian Equities globally, UK Equities (All Cap Research, Sales and Trading), Corporate Broking, Convertible Bonds and other Equity Derivatives, Risk and Compliance, Investment Management, Proprietary Trading and Primary M&A / Investment Banking advisory.

Mark’s career began with the UK Ministry of Defence where he spent ten years, including a stint in The Rt. Hon. Alan Clarke MP’s Private Office, before joining the prestigious Civil Service Fast stream (which has a 2% pass rate) as the first internal appointee in a decade and despite not being a graduate.

His first move into recruitment was when he joined Hamish Fulton and Associates, initially as a researcher and then as a consultant, working on a wide range of mainly equity focused UK and Japanese / Asian roles, from where he moved to Tokyo and helped establish Spencer Associates.

Eighteen months later the Asia Money magazine poll of head-hunters ranked Spencer Associates 5th overall in Japan, ahead of many of their much larger and better established rivals.

In 2004 Mark was headhunted to Hays Plc the UK’s largest dedicated HR Services and Recruitment provider and helped set up Hays Executive, a newly established Executive Search arm focused on global financial markets.

He then joined NMG as Head of the Tokyo office in October 2005 and transferred to be the London based Managing Partner in 2007, growing the business from three offices to seven (New York, Boston, London, Zug, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore) and fifty Consultants.

Mark is a Liveryman with the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers and was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 2012. Away from work Mark is attempting to prevent his newfound love of golf from becoming an obsession and slowly coming to terms with the fact that new clubs will not improve his game, when the issue is very clearly operator error.