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McGregor Boyall AssociatesMiddle East

McGregor Boyall 2

About Us 3

Financial Services 4

Commerce & Industry 5

Legal 6

Our Middle East Team 7 - 9

Quality & Diversity 10

Added Value 11

Contact Details 12

Contents

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For over twenty-five years McGregor Boyall has been successfully delivering professional recruitment services to a national and international client base from our London office. We are now bringing the same high levels of service to the Middle East region from our office in Dubai.

We deliver recruitment solutions against a wide range of permanent, interim and contract requirements but whilst the roles we resource are diverse and changing, our approach remains simple, consistent and successful. In a marketplace in which effectiveness and value are increasingly prized by both clients and candidates, we believe that the qualities that have sustained our performance in the past will continue to do so in the future.

We have been successful due to the professionalism, sector knowledge and experience of our consultants. It is their commitment to high levels of service and effective delivery that has allowed us to develop a deep, industry-wide pool of candidates who consistently turn to McGregor Boyall when searching for a new position.

In an international marketplace in which effectiveness and value are increasingly prized by both clients and candidates, we believe that the qualities which have sustained our performance in the past will continue to do so in the future. With offices located in Dubai, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Reading and Singapore we have greater global reach to the talent pool across the Middle East, UK & Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

About Us

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Financial Services

McGregor Boyall has been covering the Middle East region specifically for the past five years and our regional headquarters was formally established in Jan 2012 in Dubai, DIFC.

Our highly experienced consultants work in close collaboration with our London and Singapore teams to deliver against the recruitment and resourcing requirements of a broad range of regional and international financial services clients that include:

– Asset / Investment Management firms

– Consultancies

– Exchanges

– Insurance and Reinsurance firms

– Investment Banks

Our Middle East operation has specialist consultants and full research capability, all with extensive industry experience within the Global and Middle East financial services market coupled with an in-depth appreciation of the cultural diversity across the region. Our business approach is one based on results, of complete transparency, working quickly and efficiently whilst always delivering to the highest levels of ethics and integrity. Our objective is always to ensure that we develop long term trusted relationships with clients and candidates alike.

Our core focus is to identify, attract and deliver high quality professionals across:

– Asset Management

– Compliance

– Corporate & Wholesale Banking

– Corporate Finance

– Finance

– Group Strategy & Research

– Information Technology

– Private Banks & Wealth Managers

– Ratings Agencies

– Regulators

– Retail Banks

– Wholesale / Commercial Banks

– Marketing & Communications

– Operations

– Private Banking & Wealth

– Retail & Commercial Banking

– Risk Management

– Treasury & Global Markets

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Commerce & Industry

Whether you have a challenging appointment to fill or multiple vacancy requirements McGregor Boyall’s Commerce & Industry practice has an extensive network and global reach to find the best talent for your business.

Consistently delivering recruitment and talent management services across all industry sectors, we are well equipped to deal with a diverse range of skill sets, and recruitment levels. Our client portfolio ranges from SMEs to global blue-chip organisations:

– Energy

– Engineering

– Financial Services

– Oil & Gas

– Pharmaceutical

– Public Sector FMCG

– Transportation

We have extensive experience of successfully placing mid to senior level candidates in positions throughout the Middle East and Africa, across the following disciplines:

– Finance

– Human Resources

– Information Technology

– Sales & Marketing

– Supply Chain & Logistics

– Technical & Engineering

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Legal

With more than ten years’ experience in the sector, our Legal team recruit professionals into permanent positions across the Middle East region.

Through a mix of contingency based recruitment and retained search and selection, McGregor Boyall’s Legal division is able to offer flexible, tailored recruitment solutions. Through our network we have established a trusted and valued presence in this marketplace. Roles we recruit for include:

– Company Secretaries

– In-house Lawyers

– Legal & Ethical compliance professionals

– Private Practice Associates & Partners

Headed up by a qualified lawyer, the McGregor Boyall Legal division specialists have over five years’ experience in the Middle East region and have developed a network of local and international candidates in the area. We work in partnership with leading global institutions, as well as SMEs and start-ups, using our local expertise to effectively source the right talent.

Our knowledge of the legal sector allows us to offer a tailored approach to suit the individual requirements of our clients and candidates, providing advertised selection and search services as required.

We are a well-known and established player in the market who has worked hard to develop strong relationships with the relevant candidate pools, allowing us to provide our clients with access to global talent. Most importantly, we value our long lasting relationships, all of which are built on trust and our teams’ dedication to the job at hand.

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Our Middle East Team (1)

Tel: +971 4 377 0603Email: [email protected]

Richard Lett Regional Director, Middle East

Richard graduated from Durham University in 1996 with a BA in Arabic with Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. For the past fifteen years, Richard has been specialising in financial services recruitment both in London and the Middle East. His personal track record includes multiple successful placements at a mid to senior level across banking and financial services. Most recently these have been across Global Markets, Wholesale Banking, Treasury and Global Markets, Asset Management, Risk Management, Compliance and IT. Prior to moving to the region, Richard headed the banking division of one of the City’s leading financial services recruitment firms in London. Richard is Regional Director and responsible for McGregor Boyall’s Middle East operations based from Dubai, DIFC. He lives with his wife and two sons in Dubai.

Stuart SmithAssociate Director, Banking & FS

Stuart started his career in recruitment with an international brand leader in June 2006, based in the UK, placing qualified senior finance professionals into the banking and commerce & industry sectors. He transferred to the Middle East at the start of 2008 with a mandate to establish their banking and financial services business in Qatar. The business quickly became the clear market leader and retained that position throughout his entire tenure. He was a consistent top international biller and has an enviable record of success with the well known local, boutique and international banks and operates at a C-Suite and Senior Executive level. Whilst his main focus since arriving in the Middle East has always been the Qatar market, he has also successfully placed people in diverse locations such as Libya and Sudan, working with mature and newly established entities - and even those that are yet to start trading.


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Giles ButtonPractice Leader, Banking & Financial Services

Giles graduated from Swansea in 1996 with a BA in Business Studies. For the past ten years, Giles has focussed on financial services recruitment across Europe, Asia and Middle East from mid level through to ‘C’ level management roles. Giles has a wealth of experience recruiting primarily on Investment, Corporate, Treasury and Wealth Management roles on both contingent and retained assignments. He has lived and worked not only in the UK, but Tokyo and now Dubai, giving him an appreciation for different cultures and sensitivities around the world. Giles is a Senior Consultant within the Dubai team and responsible for helping grow McGregor Boyall’s footprint across the MENA region. He is married and lives in Dubai with his wife and daughters.

Nicola McCartHead of Commerce & Industry

Nicola graduated in 1998 with a BSc Mathematics for Business Analysis and in 1999 MSc (dist) in Logistics. She began her career in recruitment, working through the ranks from trainee recruitment consultant to Director. Nicola has been successful in setting up a number of profitable supply chain divisions in both the UK and the UAE. In September 2010 Nicola came to Dubai and worked for Morgan McKinley where she established their Commerce & Industry desk with a focus on Supply Chain recruitment. In 2012 she established Hamilton Recruitment in the UAE. Nicola’s drive and passion for Logistics and Supply Chain lead her to establish ‘Women in Logistics Middle East’; this is a not for profit organisation based in Dubai in partnership with the Institute of Logistics, with the remit to develop and encourage women in the field of Logistics throughout the Middle East.



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Sami QureshiHead of Legal, Middle East

Sami joined McGregor Boyall in 2012 to oversee the legal and compliance function for the Middle East team, having been a legal and compliance recruiter in the region since 2008. Prior to coming to Dubai Sami was based in New York, where she spent three years with a leading international recruitment firm. Sami has a proven track record having consistently recruited Senior Lawyers and Compliance Officers within regional institutions, multi-national corporations and top tier law firms. Prior to her career in legal recruitment, Sami practiced as a litigator in Manhattan for several years. She graduated from a top tier law school in Washington, DC and completed her LL.M from Fordham University in New York. Sami is admitted to practice in both the state of New York and Washington, D.C.

Reinier KasperHead of Finance, Accounting & Audit Practice

Reinier heads up the Finance, Accounting & Audit practice for McGregor Boyall which specialises in the recruitment of mid to senior level finance professionals across Financial Services as well as Commerce & Industry. His personal track record includes multiple successful placements in Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Retail & Hospitality, FMCG as well as Professional Services. Some examples of mandates he has worked on are; CFO, Finance Director, Internal Audit Manager, roles across Financial Planning & Analyses as well as newly qualified roles across financial accounting and management accounting.

Prior to McGregor Boyall, Reinier managed the Financial Services division for a global, US-listed recruitment firm as well as the international search division for one of the City’s leading recruitment firms in London. With over eight years of experience in UK & Europe and over five years of experience in the Middle East, Reinier brings a wealth of experience as well as a solid network of candidates and clients. Reinier graduated from a leading University in the Netherlands with a Bsc in Marketing Management.



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Tel: +971 4 377 0605Email: mo’[email protected]

Oliver Mitchell-FoxSenior Finance, Risk and Audit Practice

Oliver started his recruitment career in 2011 with one of the UK’s leading financial recruitment agencies, specialising in the areas of Audit, Governance and Risk across the competitive London market. He then spent a number of years recruiting within the Oil and Gas industry, headhunting niche engineering skill sets to fill assignments from some of the world’s most well renowned oil operators across a variety of global locations including the Middle East, Europe and South America. After moving to Dubai in 2013 Oliver joined a world leading fortune 500 engineering consultancy and contractor to be part of their in-house recruitment team and successfully recruited over 100 members of staff for their Middle Eastern business across both their corporate and engineering functions.

Oliver is a Durham University Graduate with a BA in Sociology and a Diploma in Computer Science. He has a rare and unique blend of in-house and agency recruitment experience across multiple sectors and locales. Returning to the sector in which he started his recruitment career, Oliver has joined McGregor Boyall with the remit of continuing to grow the finance, governance, audit and risk sectors.

Marea O’TooleHead of HR & Talent Management Recruitment

Marea is a Middle East recruitment specialist with five years’ regional exposure in the Executive Search space. Marea joined McGregor Boyall having worked on numerous local and global mid to senior level mandates. Throughout her career she has worked in partnership with many major global brands, firms and also various regional small medium enterprises. Marea has a particularly strong network in the UAE with excellent relationships underpinned by her years of experience.

Prior to McGregor Boyall, Marea focused on senior level appointments primarily within legal; private practice, Fortune 500 companies and top tier local companies. Her regional footprint includes successful assignments in the UAE, KSA, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain and North Africa.

Marea joins McGregor Boyall to focus on building the Human Resources and Talent Management practice for the MENA region.

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Quality & Diversity

A focus on quality has always enjoyed a critical position at the heart of McGregor Boyall’s service offering.

Accompanying our commitment to ethical business practices, the firm’s key policy commitment is to quality. McGregor Boyall has therefore chosen to promote quality as the key organising principle of its operations by gaining ISO accreditation BS EN ISO 9001. Since then we have been audited by a member of the British Standards Institution on an annual basis and have been awarded continued accreditation. Our Pride in Quality programme includes:

– Quality Management System for client satisfaction

– Post-Assignment Quality Surveys

– Recruitment Assignment Performance Reviews

– Continuous Consultant Performance Measurement

Additionally McGregor Boyall operates a comprehensive Diversity & Inclusion Policy that states that everyone shall be treated equally, irrespective of gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, ethnicity or national origin.

All applications for employment are managed on an individual basis and the grounds for selection are based purely on a candidate’s skills, qualifications and aptitude. Our best endeavours are made to ensure that this is applicable to every applicant; regular monitoring is performed throughout the recruitment process.

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Added Value

McGregor Boyall regularly conducts market research programmes to provide individual clients and market participants in general with timely human resourcing and recruitment related data.

Our Business Support Team assists with all added value requirements, marketing and public relations support where required by the client. Recent examples of such added value services include publications on:

– Salary benchmarking

– Updates on recruitment and demand for skills

– Updates on level of demand for expertise

– Indicators of shifts and changes in hiring patterns

– Impacts of new regulations

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Contact Details

Primary ContactRichard Lett

Telephone+971 4 377 0603

[email protected]

AddressMcGregor Boyall AssociatesOffice 513, Liberty HouseDubai International Financial CentrePO Box 506635Dubai, UAE

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