Overview
Paul Gibson is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Stamford office and a member of the global Financial Services Practice. He leads the consumer financial services sector in the Americas and previously led the financial services infrastructure sector.
Experience
Paul’s work spans both commercial and functional leadership roles, and he has developed specific functional expertise within the audit, compliance, risk, and regulatory spaces. He also works within the firm’s CEO & Board Practice. His portfolio of work includes chief risk officers, heads of operational risk, market risk and credit risk, chief auditors, chief compliance officers, heads of marketing and sales, and divisional presidents and CEOs across all areas of financial services.
Paul led the firm’s US presence in transaction banking, which covers the treasury, cash management, and payments groups of major US and international banks.
Paul joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2007 with seven years of prior talent acquisition experience in London, initially for a boutique recruiting firm and, latterly, internally for one of Europe’s largest consumer and services companies. He covered diverse functional roles, including finance, tax, treasury, human resources, marketing, corporate development, and operations.
Education
Leeds Metropolitan University, Bachelor's Degree in European Languages and Business