Founding Partner | Alternative Investment

Mark Jones

Mark is our founding Partner. Born in the United Kingdom, Mark began his career in the City of London recruiting in the Banking and Financial markets.

He moved to HK over twenty five years ago to help set up and run one of the top boutique search firms in the region, before founding The Laurus Group, where he built one of the top ranked Alternative teams in Asia. He has been focused on the Alternative Investment sector since 2005.

During his time in Asia, Mark has recruited for many of the top global and regional Private Equity funds, Special Situations teams, RE Private Equity, Secondaries teams and Capital Raising teams both within GP’s and within placement firms. Mark has extensive exposure across the region and has worked on searches across all the key markets including Greater China, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Australia along with many of the smaller ASEAN markets. His tenure in the region and the relationships he has built over that time has allowed him unrivalled access to both clients and candidates

Laurus Alternatives – Practice areas

30 years of hands-on
Search experience

With over 20 years of experience within the Alternatives and over 30 years of hands-on Search experience across Asia, Laurus Alternatives offers unrivalled expertise, access to candidates and market intelligence within the Alternatives space

Private Equity

From global names to start up funds, GP’s entering new markets, our experience across the region is unparallelled.

Special Situations

Our understanding of the diverse structures and skill set requirements has allowed to be highly successful within the special situations space.

Infrastructure

An evolving sector for Asia our coverage includes digital infrastructure through energy transition and renewables to the more traditional core sectors.

Real Estate

Our coverage includes all aspect or RE PE for the region along with more diversified investment strategies.

Family Offices

The ever increasing sophistication of Family Offices and the strategic importance of their capital has made this space a key part of our business.

Capital Raising

We have extensive experience across global searches for both GP’s and Placement teams at all levels of seniority.