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Simon Girven - Managing Director
A Graduate in Economics and Political Science from Sussex University, Simon helped to establish a search and selection company specifically to source IT professionals for the newly de-regulated Financial Markets in the City of London. Throughout the 90s, he played a lead role in developing this company into the dominant provider on the permanent IT talent market. He personally managed key relationships with JP Morgan, Swiss Bank, Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, Cazenove, Kleinwort Benson and Bankers Trust.
Simon is one of the founding Board members of Deep Blue Associates, which he formed with the participation of prior clients and colleagues.
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Frances Middleton - HR Services Director
Fran has been involved in shaping the careers of individuals and teams for over 25 years. She spent 15 years with the JP Morgan HR function where she held, amongst other roles, the position of senior HR business partner for the pan-European Infrastructure businesses. She also held the role of European HR Director for the Private Clients Business as well as Corporate Finance.
She now leads the Human Capital business within Deep Blue - providing a range of HR consulting as well as individual and team coaching services. She also complements our search & selection activities with bespoke services designed to ensure the success of our placed candidates in their new roles.
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Ian Spencer - Communications Director
Ian trained in the advertising industry and worked for many notable agencies before leaving to form his own advertising company.
Focusing chiefly on recruitment marketing, employee communications and employer-of-preference brand development, this agency grew rapidly. Ian was creatively responsible for a host of clients including: Swiss Bank, UBS, Andersen Consulting (Accenture), JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Sony, Jaguar and the Toyota Car Company.
Following the successful sale of his business, Ian was retained as a marketing consultant by major clients in the energy and financial services sectors. He joined Deep Blue as a founding director and now heads up the employer branding and communication service group - a key part of our integrated service offering.
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Claire Cotter - Senior Consultant
Claire's career started within the Financial Services area of blue chip organisations - principally at Deloitte and Accenture - where she worked closely with the senior management of banks and investment management organisations.
In 2001, she took over the operational management of Accenture's Communications Centre and Help Desk. She managed this central resource and was responsible for attracting many outstanding talents to this internationally respected team.
Claire left Accenture to join EDS before being headhunted to join Deep Blue Associates. She brings a rare objective insight to the business of talent-hunting. She not only appreciates the client's perspective but also the vital importance of cultural fits - matching people and personalities to specific environments.
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Steve Clayton - Executive Search Director
Steve has 25 years' IT/Operations search and selection experience within financial services.
15 years were spent with a leading City recruitment firm, delivering high profile assignments for such clients as: Swiss Bank and SG Warburg. He also established the firm's Search practice, leading assignments for such clients as JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Accenture.
Steve went on to establish an IT Search practice for another City search firm, completing assignments for such clients as Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital. He has also launched and managed his own IT Search practice.
Steve brings this wealth of experience to Deep Blue where he leads the Executive Search facility whilst supporting and complementing the firm's other recruitment services. |
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VALUES
"It horrifies me that Ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School." Sir John Harvey-Jones
It horrifies us too. That's why we have a set of values that underpin everything we stand for and aspire to be...
We hope our values resonate with you.
To learn more about our Values click on: Privacy and Diversity
At Deep Blue Associates, we take the privacy of sources, candidates and clients very seriously. We operate to a strict code of ethics that places a heavy emphasis on protecting confidentiality. We are also registered as a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. We will ensure that the data which you supply to us is processed only for the purposes as set out below and in accordance with relevant legislation and codes.
These are our guiding principles:
Executive searches rely upon the ability to glean commentary and information from a variety of sources that may lead to the identification of appropriate candidates. Whilst under no contractual obligation to these sources, Deep Blue Associates undertakes to maintain the highest standards of honesty, confidentiality and consideration when dealing with them and will only hold, use and process such information to facilitate the placing of candidates.
At Deep Blue Associates, we have deliberately fostered a professional environment where differences of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability, age, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religious and political affiliation are both respected and actively welcomed. We believe that diversity matters. It enriches organisations. And this belief is ingrained in our whole approach to specialist technology-related recruitment and talent development.
Our mission is to help clients locate, select, empower and retain the most talented professionals. It's a very single-minded goal. One that's underpinned by an equally single-minded working principle: merit is the only acceptable form of discrimination.
To ensure that we live by our principles, we have an HR team - headed by Fran Middleton - that monitors not only our own practices but also developments in UK and EU employment, equality and diversity law.
Working in partnership with leading employment law practices, this team assesses the impact and implication of all historic and contemporary legislation. It also keeps a watching brief on Case Law - the critical area where judgement clarifies ambiguity and establishes clear legal precedent.
Regular briefings - given by Fran and her legal experts - ensure that every member of our team is kept fully aware of all developments.
Diversity is certainly not an abstraction at Deep Blue Associates. It is a guiding principle. |
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