Fabrice Desmarescaux is based in the Singapore office of Spencer Stuart and leads the firm's Financial Services Practice for the Asia Pacific region. He also is actively serving several clients in the Middle East. Fabrice's clients include international private equity and real estate investment firms; asset and wealth managers; and consumer, corporate and investment banks.
Fabrice has more than 18 years of consulting experience. He started his consulting career at Booz Allen & Hamilton before joining McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Fabrice was a partner and the leader of the Southeast Asian financial services practice. More recently, Fabrice worked with Fullerton Financial Holdings, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, on the restructuring and development of two banks in the Temasek portfolio.
Throughout his consulting and operational career, Fabrice has worked with local, regional and multinational institutions in Europe and Asia, including banks, insurance companies and private equity firms on topics such strategy, mergers and acquisitions, performance improvement, risk management and operations. He is a frequent speaker at industry forums, a contributor to the book Banking in Asia: Acquiring a profit mindset, and has taught banking in the M.B.A. program at INSEAD.
Fabrice holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and a master's degree in civil engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris. He is a permanent resident of Singapore and fluent in English, French and Spanish.