Founding partner of Hobson Leavy, one of New Zealand's leading executive search firms. We appoint Board directors, CEOs and all C Suite executive team roles across a broad range of industries. Career History:February 1994 – April 1997:Auckland, New Zealand RUSSELL McVEAGH SolicitorOctober 1997 – February 2002London, United KingdomQD GROUP (Acquired July 2000 by TMP WORLDWIDE)1997: Consultant1998: Senior Consultant2000: Managing Consultant2001: Associate Director• The QD Group was a British market leading recruitment consultancy specialising in recruiting lawyers for City of London & US law firms, as well as multinational companies. It had 9 offices worldwide & 120 staff. In July 2000, QD was acquired by TMP Worldwide, a Fortune 500 company & owner of Monster.com. I was asked to form a new team focusing on recruitment in the Banking & Finance sectors. I recruited & managed 3 other consultants and was promoted to Associate Director. • Clients included: Barclays, CSFB, Citigroup, Nomura, JP Morgan Chase, Citco, Soros International, Tokyo Mitsubishi International, Arab Banking Corporation.November 2002 – November 2003Auckland, New ZealandHIGHLAND PARTNERS (Formerly TMP Executive Search)ConsultantHaving relocated to New Zealand I remained with the TMP group but transferred to the Executive Search division TMP Executive Search was spun-off from its TMP parent on March 31 2003 and became part of the Hudson Highland Group.November 2003 - June 2006RENTONJAMESPartnerMyself and the two partners of Highland left in November 2003 to form RENTONJAMES. June 2006 - dateHobson LeavyPartnerHobson Leavy is an executive search firm that focuses on executive level appointments across all sectors in New Zealand. We also offer complementary services such as non-executive director search and talent benchmarking.Specialties: Principal in Executive Search with Hobson LeavyServices:Executive SearchNon-executive Director searchTalent retention consultingTalent benchmarkingIndividual due diligence reportsRemuneration reports.