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Senior interim transformation director Michael Hyltoft is a recognised expert in Shared Services. He has led a variety of SSC projects from managing outsourcing and near-shoring programmes, to insourcing back into the UK from overseas. Here, he reviews the pros and cons of insourcing and outsourcing.

Emma-Claire Kavanagh, who leads the HR team at Eton Bridge Partners, discusses the options for transactional HR specialists and makes the point that you can still have a senior level career without pressing the transformation button.

Senior Race Coach for London 2012, Dan Hunt played a pivotal role in helping shape the staggering success of Britain’s gold medal winning cycling team. As Senior National Endurance Coach for GB Cycling, he masterminded the achievements of male and female teams as well as individuals to win Gold medals at Commonwealth Games, European Championships, Track World Cups, World Championships and most recently London 2012.
Dan is now Sports Director at SKY Pro-Cycling, where he works with sporting legends such as Sir Bradley Wiggins.

Growing demand for top level financial planning and analysis directors indicates that the time is ripe for CIMA-qualified professionals to take advantage of the market. So says Mark Craddock, who specialises in senior finance and CFO appointments at Eton Bridge Partners.

In a dedicated roundtable discussion, Eton Bridge Partners recently brought together four business transformation experts to hear what they had to say about the challenges of restructuring.
From the critical need to get the timing right, through to the difficulty of engaging employees at all levels and the requirement to leave a legacy; their thoughts provided a powerful insight into the transformation agenda. Read on to find out what they had to say:

Foreign companies such as Starbucks and Amazon attracted the wrath of the public when it was discovered they had avoided paying large corporation tax bills in the UK. Mark Craddock, specialist in CFO appointments at Eton Bridge Partners, considers if there’s likely to be a potential impact in the recruitment marketplace.

The current employment environment in the UK is not necessarily a charitable one for UK CFOs. After all it is an employer's market, writes Mark Craddock from recruiter Eton Bridge Partners. CFOs shouldn't expect large salary increases, especially not regional or divisional ones.

“Your own contacts can be very useful, but you shouldn't rely on them exclusively. You can’t be aware of everything that's going on in the market – that is our job….”

In a fast-changing world leading from the front has its rewards.

The key to implementing a successful business transformation programme is having the right expertise to deliver. But how do you go about gaining those skills in the first place? Andy Montgomery offers some practical suggestions.

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Good succession theory needs to translate into positive action from the highest level if it is going to reap rewards. Toby Burton, executive search specialist in HR at Eton Bridge Partners, regularly recruits HR leaders and says good succession theory needs to translate into positive action from the highest level if it is going to reap rewards.

Eton Bridge Partners has appointed three new team members across its specialist sectors in business transformation, finance and HR.
The appointments bring the number of employees up to 23, a significant increase over the past 12 months, marking a further step towards the company’s goal of being the leading independent executive search and interim business.

If the world economy is on a rollercoaster, what does it mean for a CFO on the move?

In the second of a three-part series on business transformation, Simon Moore, who leads the business transformation practice at Eton Bridge Partners, highlights some golden rules.

Executive search and interim management specialist Eton Bridge Partners is expanding with the appointment of two new recruitment professionals. Alison Rotundo joins the interim Finance team on November 5, while Richard Fisher comes on board with the HR team just a week later.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the research function at Eton Bridge Partners due to career progression and business expansion. Eton Bridge Partners is looking for a first class researcher to specifically support the Finance Practice combining the talents of three experienced consultants. The role will report into Mark Craddock and you will be based in our new offices in the centre of Windsor at Riverside House.

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Executive search and interim management specialist Eton Bridge Partners is celebrating after shooting up the rankings to reach the number five spot in the Institute of Interim Management (IIM) Service Provider Survey 2012.

In the first of a three-part series, Andy Montgomery, associate partner in the HR practice at Eton Bridge Partners, looks at the critical elements for a successful business transformation programme and the involvement of HR.

You might think that as a top level HR Director, having access to insightful and correct information would be a given. After all, facts and figures on performance, trends and employee engagement can make a critical difference to an organisation’s success or failure.

The IMA represents the most established and leading interim management providers in the UK.

Mark Craddock, who specialises in CFO appointments at Eton Bridge Partners, says the demand for natural resources and the energy boom are creating new global hotspots for finance directors who want to make a name for themselves. Here he considers the potential and the pitfalls and asks whether the FDs of the future are brave enough to seek out and embrace the way the world market is changing.

Please click through to view our Summer newsletter with feature articles on our first annual survey; Tanya Sinclair on Business Transformation; and Andy Montgomery on why working together is the secret of success at EBP.

Since our launch in September 2010 we have had the privilege of working with businesses spanning a wide and varied range of markets and sectors. We have worked with great professionals on both sides of the fence; clients, business leaders, interims and executives and through daily dialogue receive feedback on our work every day. We felt the time was right however to put more structure to this feedback which lead us to compile and send our first annual survey of clients & candidates in February 2012.

Tanya Sinclair is an Interim Business Transformation expert who has developed her specialist skills through a combination of “on the job” experience and (by her own admission) learning from her mistakes and those of others.

As we prepare for an exciting future in our new offices, one of the keys to our success will be recruiting new team members with the core skills, enthusiasm and professionalism which we are so proud of. Recent recruit, Andy Montgomery, tells us why he’s glad he made the move to Eton Bridge Partners and the qualities he believes are required to succeed.

We’re delighted to announce that Eton Bridge Partners will soon be relocating to prestigious new offices in the heart of Windsor.

The importance of HR is growing and so are the requirements...

Executive search and interim management provider opts to become a full member of the Interim Management Association

We’re delighted to welcome the first of an occasional series of articles from renowned economist Dennis Turner.

The HR profession is undergoing a period of change at present and the demand for talent able to deal with fundamental change in business is also sought after...

Berkshire-based executive search and interim management specialists Eton Bridge Partners has boosted its HR and finance teams with the arrival of two new recruits.

Business transformation has officially gained a place at the boardroom table after winning recognition as a discipline in its own right.

Two new appointments at Eton Bridge Partners have further strengthened the firm’s expertise in the business transformation and finance sectors.

Read a full account of our seasonal new and views in our latest newsletter.

Guest contributor and experienced transitions specialist, Simon C Jones shares his views on the opportunities for transformational change during difficult times.

Read what the team at Eton Bridge Partners predict for the year ahead.

'How can LinkedIn be both a supplier and rival to the recruitment industry, and can it compete at the top level?'

When companies are squeezed until the pips squeak, where can you go next? Mark Craddock explores the options...

With London 2012 fast approaching, there was an Olympic theme to Eton Bridge Partners’ recent breakfast seminar, held on November 9th.

Mark Craddock takes a look at how the UBS scandal impacts on finance directors and what this may mean for compliance controls.

Eton Bridge Partners launched its new Business Transformation team in style recently, hosting a top level discussion with some of the most respected change management experts in the country.

Eton Bridge Partners secures a top 20 place in their first year in the Institute of Interim Management’s 2011 Interim Management Survey.

Eton Bridge Partners launches its first newsletter

Emma-Claire Kavanagh was recently appointed as a Director of Eton Bridge Partners. Managing their Human Resources practice, Emma-Claire is recognised as one of the leading consultants in the industry.

Eton Bridge Partners is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Danny Bryson, of St James’s Place Wealth Management, to the greatest challenge of his life... swimming the English Channel.

The Thatched Tavern, Ascot, was the chosen venue for the HR Practice to host their latest Supper Club. Set in this charming rural inn, their third Supper Club was booked up well in advance, and once again the evening was a huge success.

The HR practice enjoyed an evening of bringing together senior HR professionals for an informal social gathering at The Duke in Richmond.

20 Chief Financial Officers joined Eton Bridge Partners for an exclusive dinner in the splendid French Dining Room at Cliveden House.

Eton Bridge Partners hosted a strategic reward focussed business breakfast at Pennyhill Park Hotel with guest speakers Mary Robertson and Paula Harvey.

Read the views of the experts from Eton Bridge Partners, Clarkslegal, Grant Thornton, Towers Watson

Read about the scope and level of our expertise in Executive Grapevine’s Guide to Interim Management 2011.

The team at Eton Bridge Partners were joined recently by 80 of their clients to celebrate the launch of their new business.

Please click on the image to view Eton Bridge Partners’ advert in the Financial Times.

Launched on September 1st, Eton Bridge Partners is an executive search and interim management partnership with specialist expertise in Finance, Human Resources and Business Transformation.