AHC & Partners Ltd.

Executive Search and Corporate Structuring
Board & Executive Assessment and Management Audit
Sourcing Human Capital for Private Equity
Reputation Management and Corporate Communications
Financial and Wealth Management Consultancy

Our People



About Andrew Clowes

Andrew Clowes is the founding shareholder and director of AHC and Partners Ltd. After serving with the Scots Guards, he became a senior manager in United Biscuits and then joined Air Cushion Equipment to run the commercial and industrial side of this Southampton-based engineering business. After the sale of ACE's patents to NRDC, he joined the South African conglomerate Rennies and worked throughout Southern Africa. When Rennies was sold to Jardine Mathesons in 1975, he was asked by Tennants to become general manager of Ducto Tennant, a newly-formed JV between Dubai Transport Company and Consolidated Goldfields.

After six years in Dubai, he returned to the UK in 1982 where he joined GKR (now merged with Whitehead Mann) a leading executive search firm where he served as a main board director and majored on senior financial appointments in Europe and Asia as well as starting a successful search business in India.

After further head-hunting experience with Odgers Ray & Berndtson and Glenn Irvine International, he started his own executive search business in 2005.

About Miki Daulet-Singh

Miki Daulet-Singh is the founder and owner of GKR.Daulet-Singh in Delhi. Started in 1995 in association with Andrew Clowes of GKR, GKR.Daulet-Singh now has offices in Mumbai and Chennai and is one of the foremost senior executive search consultancies in India.

Prior to establishing his executive search business, Surendra was a career banker, first with Grindlays, then as CEO of the British Bank of the Middle East (India) and latterly as Head of Human Resources for the HSBC Group in India.

About Rob Irving

Rob Irving is Managing Director of RHR International's London office. From 1987 to 2002 he was Director of Management Assessment at Whitehead Mann where he developed the firm's Management Asset Valuation methodology which was quickly used by several of Britain's leading companies to assess their top management talent and drive succession planning. During 2002-2003 Rob was retained by Russell Reynolds Associates to help establish their European Assessment Practice.

Prior to joining Whitehead Mann, Rob held two Board level personnel positions with Imperial Group plc and Cullens Holdings plc. He also worked in Iran and Saudi Arabia with the consulting arm of the British Steel Corporation.

Rob holds post graduate qualifications from the Department of Occupational Psychology at London University. As well as his MSc from London University, Rob holds a BA in Sociology from York University and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Commerce at Birmingham University. Recently, he has been a guest speaker on assessment methods at Templeton College, Oxford University.

About William Knight

William Knight specialised initially in financing major capital projects at Lazard Brothers, including the Dubai Dry Dock and Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway.

Moving to Lloyds Bank International (LBI) in 1973, he concluded the initial financing of the Dubai Aluminium Smelter and was then appointed head of LBI's global syndicated lending for governments.

Over the next twelve years he was head of investment banking for LBI in Asia and then in charge of the bank's Portuguese operations before becoming a founding director of Lloyds Merchant Bank and MD of Lloyds Bank Fund Management. In this latter capacity, he pioneered investment funds for emerging markets, including the first London listed fund for Thailand and the first investment fund for Vietnam as well as funds for Eastern Europe, Africa and the Indian sub-continent.

He is currently Chairman of several investment companies and also serves on a number of boards of specialist investment funds, both as a director and as an advisor including the first private equity fund of funds for India.

He has been a regular attendee at World Economic Forum meetings as a speaker and is also a regular participant in delegations for the promotion of financial services on behalf of the City of London.

About Alan Ogden

A former officer in the Grenadier Guards, Alan joined St. James's Corporate Communications as Development Director in 1982 and then became Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Financial Public Relations at Charles Barker City, one of London's oldest financial PR companies.

In 1988, he moved to Hill & Knowlton, at that time the world's largest international PR company, as a Managing Director of their UK office and European Practice Head of Financial PR. Working extensively on international PR projects, he became Deputy Chairman with specific responsibility for business in Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1997, UBS appointed him Head of Corporate Communications for Region Europe until the merger with Swiss Bank Corp in 1998 when he left to establish Alan Ogden & Company Ltd.

He is a founder member of Pro Patrimonio, the Romanian National Trust, and author of several travelogues about Eastern Europe.

About George Kanaan

Founder and director of Resource Consolidated Limited in Beirut and London, George consults to a wide range of clients on real estate finance and investment as well as acting as wealth management consultant to various family offices and institutions.

After gaining an MSc in civil engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA at Bridgeport followed by doctoral degree studies at Harvard Business School, he joined Citibank in New York in 1975. After a posting to Athens, he was then posted to Riyadh, where in 1978 he created the Merchant Banking Group for SAMBA (an affiliate of Citibank). After becoming Executive Director for the Middle East and Africa for First Chicago in London, he rejoined Citibank/SAMBA in 1987 and set up their London branch from scratch. He also started SAMBA Capital Management International, which had $3 billion of assets under management within 5 years. In 1992, George became CEO of Makshaff Services Ltd (London and Riyadh), the private asset management company of a prominent M.E. family, until 1997 when he started his own company.

He is a director of Eastern Goldfields Inc., Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) and a number of other companies.