nTrust & Elevate crestnTrust & Elevate

The firm

Founded in Dubai, built on two decades in the room.

nTrust & Elevate FZE was founded in 2024 in Dubai, specialising exclusively in executive search and senior talent acquisition for the private banking and wealth management sector. We work with a select few international private banks in Dubai on their recruitment needs, and we are building relationships with more of the best names in the business.

We are a young firm. What we bring to a search is not decades of firm history — it is a founder who has spent his career on the other side of the desk.

Nilesh Mashruwala, Managing Director & CEO of nTrust & Elevate

The founder

Nilesh Mashruwala

Managing Director & CEO

He has sat on the other side of the desk.

Nilesh is a results-driven investment and wealth management strategist with over twenty years in the financial sector across the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. His track record includes creating stakeholder value, managing complex investment vehicles, and running multi-million dollar portfolios — as a skilled negotiator who builds strategic alliances and lasting client partnerships, and an entrepreneur with strong technical, analytical, and regulatory grounding.

He is not a recruiter who learned the sector. He was the relationship manager at Credit Suisse and the financial advisor at Merrill Lynch; he built and ran his own regulated advisory business; and he has served as a Chief Investment Officer and board member. He now recruits for the industry he spent his career inside.

The arc

Practitioner

Financial Advisor, Vice President

Merrill Lynch International & Co.

Regulated by ESCA.

Relationship Manager, Vice President

Credit Suisse AG, DIFC

Principal

Managing Director & CEO

SVS Global DMCC

Founder & Sole Shareholder

nTrust Wealth and Financial Advisory Ltd.

Searcher

Managing Director & CEO

nTrust & Elevate FZE

Founded in 2024 to specialise exclusively in executive search for private banking and wealth management in the UAE.

Education

  • Master of Management Studies (MMS), FinanceJamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai, India, 1999
  • Bachelor of Chemical EngineeringL.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1996
  • Honours Diploma in Systems ManagementNational Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1994