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The wrong senior hire is the most expensive mistake a business can make. The right one rarely answers an ad.<\/h1>\n

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.<\/p>\n \n Discuss a Search <\/a>\n \n Register Confidentially <\/a>\n \"Banner\n\n

Our expertise in Executive & C-suite
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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.\u2028<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n \"Media\n\n

What We Recruit
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Chief executives\u00a0
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CEOs, managing directors, general managers and country managers<\/p>\n \"Media\n

Functional C-suite
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CFOs, COOs, CIOs\/CTOs, chief commercial & marketing officers, chief risk & legal officers<\/p>\n \"Media\n

People & strategy leaders
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Chief people & culture officers, chief investment & strategy officers, chief sustainability & transformation officers<\/p>\n \"Media\n

Boards & governance
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Non-executive directors, board members and company secretaries<\/p>\n\n

At this level, a CV tells you almost nothing.<\/h3>\n

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. \u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The leaders who built the last era are approaching the exit. Few organisations have planned for it.<\/h3>\n

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. \u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

From our 2026\/27 PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report<\/h2>\n