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Founder & Managing Partner

Silicon Valley perspective since 1996—on every mandate.

TL Talent Advisory is founder-led by design. Train Luo brings partner-level attention from mandate definition and market mapping through assessment, offer strategy and close.

Train Luo, Founder and Managing Partner of TL Talent Advisory

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Founder & Managing Partner

Silicon Valley · Asia-Pacific

Among the earliest

One perspective shaped by both sides of the search.

Train entered executive search in 1994 and has worked from Silicon Valley since 1996. He is among the earliest Chinese executive search professionals to build a career connecting leadership markets across the United States and Asia.

His work focuses on executive and critical hires for technology companies building in North America, as well as US companies that need leadership connected to Asian markets, manufacturing ecosystems and supply chains. He combines the discretion and judgment of a search-firm partner with the practical perspective of an in-house global talent and HR leader.

32Years in executive search
1996Silicon Valley since
US × AsiaLeadership-market perspective

Experience

Search partner. In-house leader. Technology translator.

Global search leadership

Built inside the world’s leading search firms.

Partner, Heidrick & Struggles; Senior Client Partner, Korn/Ferry; and China President & Managing Partner, CTPartners.

In-house operator perspective

Understands the client side of the decision.

Global Talent Acquisition Head at DiDi Global; SVP, Executive Recruiting at Legend Holdings; and VP, Human Resources at DJI.

Technical & executive education

A foundation for technology leadership mandates.

B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and an EMBA from Kellogg–HKUST; guest lecturer and program contributor at INSEAD and CKGSB.

Personally engaged

What founder-led means in practice.

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Define

Translate the business need into an outcome-based scorecard.

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Map

Reach competitors and adjacent markets without losing the mandate.

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Assess

Surface evidence, motivation, risk and reference insight.

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Close

Shape the offer, manage trade-offs and protect the outcome.

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