Based in London, Paul Avon leads True House Partners with over twenty-five years’ recruitment experience. A former senior director at Harrison Willis (now Hudson), he co-founded a legal recruitment business and headed the UK arm of a wealth management search firm. Paul has a proven track record in family office recruitment, executive search for wealth professionals and recruitment for trust & corporate services providers worldwide. In 2025, he was recognised for the fifth consecutive year as a trusted advisor to family offices in the Spear's Executive Search & Headhunters Index. He continues to execute senior level briefs in the wealth management arena, successfully placing qualified trust, accounting, legal, tax, wealth structuring/planning, real estate, business development/sales, and investment professionals. Paul’s experience spans onshore and offshore jurisdictions, including mainland UK, the Channel Islands, Monaco, Isle of Man, the Middle East (with a particular emphasis on Dubai and Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), the Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Far East (including Hong Kong and Singapore). His expertise encompasses both domestic market recruitment as well as cross-border search work. True House Partners is a multidisciplinary recruitment firm. Talent is sourced for a wide spectrum of positions ranging from a Finance Director for a single family office in London, a Senior Trust Manager for an independent trust company in the Brtish Virgin Islands to a Managing Director for a corporate services provider in the Seychelles and a CEO for a single family office in United Arab Emirates (Dubai). In addition to our recruitment services, we also undertake project work in a number of related areas including compensation surveys, management benchmarking, reference verification, psychometric testing, on-boarding, personal development plans, identification of potential acquisitions, provision of market intelligence and introduction of advisors. Outside the business, Paul is active in his local community. First elected in 2010 (re-elected in 2014 and again in 2018), he was a Councillor for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In addition, he sat as a member of the Joint Pensions Committee for the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Richmond, a £2.7 billion fund (as of 2022).
