Thomas De Brun Email & Phone Number

Dongguan, Cn

Dongguan, Cn

China

Hong Kong

Dale Carnegie Training of Hong Kong & Macau is a trusted business partner for learning, training and development. Major US, European, Asian and local Hong Kong clients reach out to us to help them drive extraordinary business results by taking care of their most valuable asset: people.Engagement is a critical driver of organizational success and it can be immediately, significantly and permanently improved by working with senior leaders and managers to create cultural shift in the organization. For more than 100 years Dale Carnegie has been helping to improve business performance by improving people performance.My role as Corporate Solutions Trainer is to deliver courses to the highest standards that comply with our ISO 900 Certification. It also involves working with the sales and marketing teams to assist them to promote the Dale Carnegie brand.

Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Working with our clients to help them hire the best performers by providing customised solutions to their unique hiring needs.From Oct 2013 to May 2014Brought in to improve the profitability of a clients Hong Kong office, utilising talent acquisition and business process improvement expertise. Within the first month conducted an in-depth analysis of the problems and communicated these to the owners. Worked with senior management at head office to define the key objectives of the roles. Created a marketing strategy to attract the best performers, which led to the following results :Hired and on-boarded the Country Manager, Recruitment Manager, Accountant & Office Manager and provided further recommendations on how to attract create a more robust talent acquisition strategy and retention program.Hired engineers / project managers to work on financial clients sites in Hong Kong and SingaporeTrained the Country Manager, Recruitment Manager and the MD of the Singapore office how to hire top performersEvaluated the existing hiring process, implemented agreed changes and recommended other short term and long term improvements.Coached and developed existing staff on improved performance and stress management

London, United Kingdom

Relocated from Los Angeles to London in 1998 and established Tower Executive Search Ltd.Built, developed and managed a team of 7 to focus on the financial industryConducted over 200 mid to senior level positions covering equity and fixed income sales &trading, legal & compliance, accounting, IT, investor relations, marketing, PR, equity and fixed income analysis, equity derivatives sales and trading. Conducted training programs on how to hire top talent with major US and European investment banks and hedge funds.Worked closely with all hiring managers and teams to implement a robust hiring process to increase accuracy and reduce time to fill positions. Worked with start ups, established hedge funds and fund of funds to hire top talent in one of the most competitive financial centres in the world.Diversified into the media sector in 2010 to work with a media consultancy in establishing an internal hiring process, developing a long and short-term talent acquisition strategy, training the hiring managers and the hiring team to increase hiring accuracy to the 80/90% level. Developing the existing talent pool by providing one on one personal coaching to key personnel.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Joined the IT Sector Practice and conducted retained searches for mid to senior level managers for clients based in Silicon Valley.

Tokyo, Japan

Opened the Tokyo office of this British firm and was instrumental in making it the most profitable office within 2 years with revenues exceeding $2 million with a staff of 5. Clients included US , European and Japanese investment banks. Conducted a wide variety of assignments from Head of IT, Fixed Income Sales and Trading, Equity derivatives Sales and Trading.

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

Recruiting IT staff for the financial services industry

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed a team of 50 employees in one of the firms divisions that produced refrigeration and air conditioning systems for a major west coast supermarket chain that generated $25 million in revenue. In the role of purchasing manager with an annual budget of $6 million established the supply of all manufacturing materials. This included the negotiation of all supplier contracts and ongoing relationships to ensure on time delivery

London, United Kingdom

Set up and ran a 24hr monitoring service for major UK supermarket clients. This involved initial work on the installation of advanced energy management control systems developed by the parent company in California. Managed a team of 5.