The wrong senior hire is the most expensive mistake a business can make. The right one rarely answers an ad.
Discreet, market-mapped executive and board search across PNG, Australia and the Pacific — for the C-suite, country-leadership and board roles that define your organisation.
Our expertise in Executive & C-suite
The most senior roles in an organisation are the ones you can least afford to get wrong — and the ones least likely to be filled by someone actively job-hunting. The leaders you want are usually already employed, performing, and not on any list. Reaching them takes discretion, a real network and the credibility to open a confidential conversation.
We’ve placed senior leaders across PNG’s largest employers for years — nationals and expatriates, from country managers to chief executives and board members. Because we’re in Port Moresby and connected to our Australian team, we know the senior market on both sides of the Coral Sea, and we run every search quietly and thoroughly.
What We Recruit
Chief executives
CEOs, managing directors, general managers and country managers
Functional C-suite
CFOs, COOs, CIOs/CTOs, chief commercial & marketing officers, chief risk & legal officers
People & strategy leaders
Chief people & culture officers, chief investment & strategy officers, chief sustainability & transformation officers
Boards & governance
Non-executive directors, board members and company secretaries
At this level, a CV tells you almost nothing.
Every C-suite candidate looks strong on paper. What matters is how they lead, how they decide under pressure, and whether they’ll fit the board, the culture and the realities of operating in PNG.
That’s why our executive search is confidential and market-mapped — we approach the whole market, not just the people who apply — and why every shortlist can be backed by McQuaig behavioural profiling, so you’re hiring on evidence of how someone leads, not just what they’ve done.
The leaders who built the last era are approaching the exit. Few organisations have planned for it.
The senior generation that delivered PNG’s LNG construction era — the executives and operations leaders carrying two decades of institutional knowledge — is approaching retirement just as the next wave of projects mobilises.
Expertise doesn’t transfer through a handover note. We help you build the bench before the seat is empty: succession planning, leadership development and knowledge transfer that grow the next generation of national leaders rather than leaving you to import them at short notice.
From our 2026/27 PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report
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Business confidence sits at 8.3/10 — but confidence in finding the talent to deliver it is only 6.7/10. The gap is widest at senior level.
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58% of professionals have already been approached by a competitor, and counter-offers are rising — senior talent now moves faster and more quietly.
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The PNG LNG-era leadership cohort is approaching retirement, creating a succession gap most organisations have not yet planned for.
How you work with us
Confidential executive search
Discreet, market-mapped approaches to passive senior candidates.
Board & NED appointments
Governance, company secretary and board search.
McQuaig leadership profiling
Build and coach the next generation of national leaders.
Succession & development
Build and coach the next generation of national leaders.
EOR & payroll
Engage and pay expatriate executives compliantly, with or without a PNG entity.
Who we work with
Trusted by some of PNG’s largest employers across resources, banking and financial services, government, infrastructure and FMCG — wherever the right leader changes the trajectory of the organisation.
Senior leaders placed, quietly
We’ve run confidential searches for chief executives, functional C-suite and country-leadership roles across PNG’s major employers — national and expatriate — market-mapped, profiled and placed without the search ever reaching the open market.
The appointments that don't make the news.
Confidential, board and C-suite searches delivered across PNG's major employers and provincial governments, market-mapped and placed discreetly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Senior searches are run discreetly — we approach candidates on a confidential basis and can run a search without your organisation being named until the right stage.
Confidential. Thorough. Market-connected. That’s how we approach every executive search.
Inspiring Greatness to Build Legacies.
