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.

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), Finance — Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai, India, 1999
- Bachelor of Chemical Engineering — L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1996
- Honours Diploma in Systems Management — National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1994
