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Greg Agius
Founder, AGS & Partners
In this episode, Ahmad Ashrafi sits down with Greg Agius, a dynamic entrepreneur who transitioned from private banking to founding a leading recruitment agency in Switzerland. Discover how Greg leveraged his deep understanding of finance and client relationships to build a niche agency specializing in hiring senior private bankers for top institutions.
Swiss banking's value proposition has flipped. The industry moved from "hiding the money" to "making the money" — performance, alternatives, and private equity now drive client relationships, not secrecy.
The client side teaches you the whole board. At a Geneva family office, Greg sat across 23 Swiss custodian banks, learning how in-system advice conflicts with clients' interests in ways out-of-system advisors avoid.
Specialization wins in recruitment. After JP Morgan, Citi, and Hays, Greg built AGS & Partners into Switzerland's specialist recruiter of senior private bankers by going deep in one niche instead of wide.
Timing pivots matters. Greg exited crypto recruitment in 2022 before the sector's collapse — reading market cycles applies to careers as much as portfolios.
