Mina Ames is a key member of our global Board and CEO, Financial Services and Digital & Technology Officer practices. She brings a global perspective, having lived and worked in Australia, NZ, Singapore, U.S., UK and Europe, offering deep insights into cultural sensitivities in talent attraction and mobility. Mina plays a pivotal role advising chairs, boards and CEOs on their evolving leadership capabilities needed to shape their organisations in an increasingly complex, technology-driven world.
She has deep expertise across financial services, fintech, technology and SaaS, and is known for helping organisations attract top-tier talent across diverse geographies and cultures. Her core focus is on the transformative power of technology, digital innovation, data and analytics and how these forces are reshaping leadership at both the board and executive levels.
Today, authentic leadership is important to navigating a complex and evolving global landscape has become a leadership imperative to guide organisations through the ambiguity and turmoil. In addition to fintech, technology and financial services, Mina’s specialty areas of focus include data and analytics, digital transformation/acceleration, retail and commercial banking and payments along with CEO succession and non-executive director roles. She’s also well-versed in advising chairs and CEOs on group executive team builds and functional technology team builds.
Global experience: able to calibrate talent across geographies and cultures
- Mina brings deep international expertise across financial services and fintech, with a proven ability to assess and calibrate leadership talent across diverse markets and cultures. Her global perspective, shaped by living and working in multiple geographies enables her to advise clients with precision and cultural fluency.
- She most recently served as managing partner at a boutique executive search firm operating across New York and London. Prior to that, she co-led the global fintech practice at a leading executive search firm, advising both publicly listed and founder-led, hyper-scaling businesses on critical leadership hires.
- Earlier in her career, Mina held senior commercial roles at American Express, MasterCard and Citi, where she played a key role in driving strategic partnership and growth initiatives across global markets.
Mina has an M.B.A. from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) in Australia and an B.A. (Joint Honors) in economics and geography from the University of Portsmouth.