Astbury Marsden is an international recruitment firm focused on banking, financial services

Financial services

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 and management consulting

Management consulting

Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....

. It has offices in London

London

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, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. In 2007, the company completed an MBO led by Jonathan Nicholson and Mark Cameron and backed by NVM Private Equity.

Key people:

Tim Moynihan, Chairman

Jonathan Nicholson, Managing Director

Mark Cameron, COO

2009 Revenue: £18,971,200

2009 Net Fee income: £6,557,500

Employees: 80



www.astburymarsden.com

History

1995 - Launch of Astbury Marsden, focused on finance in the banking market.

1997 - Introduction of a technology

Technology

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 offering

2003 - Technology Contracts team begins. Launch of international offering from London.

2004 - Advisory division and Finance Contracts services introduced. Investors in People

Investors in People

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 recognition

2005 - Company achieves ISO 9001 accreditation.

2006 - Recognised for the first time by The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track  as one of the UK’s fastest growing private companies.

2007 - Appear on The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track list for the 2nd year running. The company completes an MBO

2008 - Open Hong Kong office. Recognised in the Real Business Hot 100 

2009 - Recognised as one of Britain's Top Employers and by Best Companies .

2010 - Bronze Investors in People status. Open Singapore office

2011 - 2 star recognition by Best Companies and number 80 in the Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

Operations

Astbury Marsden provides search, contingent and temporary recruitment services for Banking, Financial Services and Management Consulting professionals. The Company specialises in the recruitment of mid-senior level professionals across various fields.

Staff

The organisation has also been voted in the Sunday Times '100 Best Small Companies to Work For' list for 2008, 2009 and 2011 as well as Britain’s Top Employers list for 2008 and 2009.