Our Team

Arctiva Partners: Search and Selection Specialists

The Arctiva Partners team brings cumulatively, two decades of functional industry experience in legal, risk and compliance recruitment across Southeast Asia. We understand the nuances of specialised talent and institutional leadership in law firms and financial services.

Rita Chou

Managing Director, Founding Partner

  • Legal & control functions
  • Front Office buy-side
  • Governance
  • Company secretariat
  • Risk & compliance

Rita brings more than 20 years of industry experience as a private banker — a VHNWI veteran with the likes of StanChart and BNPP. Since leaving private banking, she moved into private equity and deal structuring. She brings a wealth of real industry experience in financial services to the table. Her network is her database.

Launching a specialist boutique search firm in Singapore makes sense as the firm leverages her pure-play private banking and front office network while giving back to the Singapore market as an SME in growth mode. Arctiva Partners deploys a two-pronged approach: legal and control functions recruitment, and Front Office buy-side recruitment.

The reciprocal relationship between governance recruitment and the financial services desk provides Arctiva Partners with exclusive access to the best legal, company secretariat, risk and compliance, and front office financial services mandates.

Weiyun Teo

Director | Risk & Compliance | Head of Middle Office Functions

  • Legal
  • Risk & compliance
  • Middle Office — ops & audit
  • Governance & CISO

Weiyun is a specialist search professional with extensive experience across Risk, Compliance and Middle Office recruitment within the financial services industry.

Based in Singapore, Weiyun works closely with leading banks, buy-side firms, commodity trading houses, hedge funds, private equity firms and fintechs across Asia-Pacific, supporting them in identifying and securing high-calibre professionals across the Risk and Compliance spectrum.

A career top biller with more than seven years in recruitment, Weiyun has developed deep market expertise with a particular focus on senior and specialist mandates. Her experience covers In-House Legal, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Compliance, Regulatory Compliance and wider Middle Office control functions.

Known for her speed, precision and commitment to delivering a seamless recruitment experience, Weiyun takes a consultative approach to every search. She has led talent mapping and market intelligence projects across the region for digital banks.

She works closely with both clients and candidates to understand the technical requirements of a role and the wider business objectives, tying together team dynamics and long-term career aspirations to transform a candidate’s career arc.

At Arctiva Partners, Weiyun heads up Middle Office functions and delivers across contingent and retained recruitment and project solutions. Outside of work, she is a doting “pawrent” and enjoys quality time with her family and fine dining.

Based in Singapore

Each Arctiva Partners consultant maintains deep networks within governance circles and stays current with evolving regulatory and institutional trends. Based in Singapore, we serve Asia's most demanding institutions.

Work with a specialist team

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