Nigel Cumberland: A Talent Management Expert With over twenty years in international business and over ten of those years in Asia's human resources and recruitment industry, Nigel Cumberland is the founder of the STG Group Ltd, a leading regional provider of innovative talent and leadership management solutions. Clients of STG have included Total, Macquarie Bank, Aon Insurance, HSBC, Siemens and Bank of China in locations as far afield as China, Qatar, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, India, Bahrain, Lebanon and Vietnam.   Nigel had previously spent many years working as a well known senior level headhunter in the Asia region. Nigel is a talented retention consultant and executive coach helping clients with a range of senior human capital issues. He also regularly leads workshops and speaks at conferences and is passionate about helping organizations maximize their talent and leadership potential to achieve the biggest impact on their shareholder value. He comes at this from a business leader’s perspective rather than being a pure HR guru.  Nigel is also a co-founder of businesses in the fields of ‘broadband through power-line’ in Indonesia and in Educational Robotics in Malaysia and Singapore. With these businesses, Nigel has the role of CFO and HR head and sits on the board of directors. He is also on the board of various other regional businesses and organizations including the International School of Kuala Lumpur, RecruitOne Inc and PT Global Solution Comindo.  Previously Nigel lived in Hong Kong and founded and ran an awarding-winning Greater China executive search firm which he sold to Hays plc in 2006. At that time he also founded and chaired the Hong Kong registered Not-for-Profit, "the Getting Back to Work Foundation" which was created to help unemployed Hong Kong professionals get back into the workplace. Before then he had been a regional Finance Director with a UK FTSE100 multinational, Coats plc, working with them all over the world. Nigel is from the UK and was educated at Cambridge University in the UK, obtaining both BA (Hons) & MA (Hons) degrees in Economics. At Cambridge he read Economics and resided at Queens' College (founded in 1448 by King Henry VI's wife). He is also a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is qualified to carry out psychometric & behavioral assessments and as an executive coach.  He wrote the book, Your Job-Hunt Ltd.

Nigel Cumberland Founder & CEO of the STG Group