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​​As part of Cornwallis Elt Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) strategy, we’ve committed to planting a tree for every permanent placement we make as a business. At Cornwallis Elt we operate with responsibility and accountability at our heart. We are committed to doing the right thing, for our clients, candidates, colleagues and communities. To meet the needs of our peo...

​As is tradition, Cornwallis Elt will be making a donation to a chosen charity this Christmas. After the events of this year, we have decided to donate to Tabletochki. Tabletochki is the biggest childhood cancer charity in Ukraine. Since 2011, Tabletochki has been creating favourable conditions for high-end medical care and psychological support and improving Ukrainian child...

​Cornwallis Elt are thrilled to announce the opening of our second site in Birmingham!We spoke to three members of the Cornwallis team Eddie Cheadle, Principal Consultant, Russell McIntrye, COO, and Andy Johns, Managing Director about what this next chapter in the Cornwallis story means to them and to the business.Eddie CheadleEddie Cheadle has been with Cornwallis for eigh...

​Following on from our recent inclusion in the Recruiter HOT 100, Cornwallis Elt has also made it into the Recruiter HOT 10 Technology or Technical list for the first time.The list breaks down the best performing Technology, STEM and Technical recruitment companies in the UK, with Cornwallis Elt, ranked 10th.This year’s wider HOT 100 was heavily represented by Tech companies...

​Our latest ‘View from the Top’ industry forum was a colourful two-parter, focusing on data management and curation on the buy-side. ​In our first event, Riju Sathyan, Head of Transformation at Fidelity Investments, led tech and transformation leaders from asset management, hedge funds, private equity, FinTech plus a couple of firms outside the industry through a spirited de...

​The list of “Hot 100 Recruitment Companies” has been released and Cornwallis Elt was delighted to be ranked 19th this year overall, up 16 places from 35th in last year’s list.The list reflects what was an incredibly challenging year for the recruitment industry, but despite this, sectors such as IT and digital took a materially increased share in the HOT 100 making signif...

Last week, we were thrilled to host another ‘View from the Top’ industry forum. Our event, chaired by Laura Weatherup of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, brought together global heads of operations and COO’s from large asset management organisations to discuss hybrid working, work/home strategies and Plan B and beyond. In our closed, Chatham House rules environment, design...

​Each festive season our colleagues at Cornwallis Elt choose a charity to donate to. This year we’ve chosen a charity that has become close to all our hearts, with our director Russell personally experiencing, and advocating for, the excellent care provided by Moorfields Eye Hospital.Moorfields Eye Charity is now the largest charity in the UK dedicated to funding eye health ...

Last week Cornwallis Elt hosted the most recent of its (virtual) forums for technology seniors in the London market insurance firms. The debate, led by Paolo Carraretto of Canopius, was centered on the different digital strategies in context of Blueprint two, and the necessary changes to data infrastructure, we also touched on their current thinking on “smart working”.Big th...

​Global talent solutions specialist, Morson Group, has completed the acquisition of London-based Cornwallis Elt as it focuses on scaling its service offering and enhancing its footprint within the capital’s thriving professional services and technology markets.Cornwallis Elt specialises in providing personalised recruitment solutions to financial services, digital & media an...

​Yesterday afternoon, our WIT committee had the privilege to attend the TechSheCan charity launch event. The charity was created to inspire young people to pursue careers in technology and to help the gender imbalance within tech.As we know, the Women in Tech stats are still not where they need to be and TechSheCan aims to change this ratio by teaching children about technol...

​Last week saw Cornwallis ELT host the most recent of its' client CTO forums virtually for Private Equity CIOs/CTOs on the changing role of technology. It's a subject we covered earlier in the year with larger Buy Side firms – but this one ranged from the role and controls around “citizen developers” in the business to how best to start building a data science capability. V...

​Well done to the Cornwallis Elt team running the Standard Chartered Great City Race last night (Tuesday 20th July) and raising money for Futuremakers, a global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in our communities. The race was back this year as a live race round the streets of the City of London having taken place last y...

​Last week Cornwallis Elt hosted another virtual forum for CTO's of mid-sized Sell-Side firms on the subject of the ever changing role of IT organised by our own Henry Hickley and James Kidd. This is being impacted not just by the obvious onset of cloud providers but by the rise of “citizen developers” in the business as well increasing emphasis on data, and on operational r...

​This week we ran another of our virtual forums, this time it was a discussion group for senior managers in IT within the Lloyd’s Insurance Market. Jeff Crawford at Beazley led us through a very open discussion on the outlook for the Lloyds Blueprint initiative, it’s impact on data, and on each firm’s strategic developments. We also touched on current thinking regarding retu...

The last week has seen Cornwallis host two forums for 'Heads of Change / Heads of Business Change' within the Buy-Side.The discussion has been wide ranging from how to shift focus to strategic change, what is the half-life of a process flow model, to the wider functions of a business change team.Thanks to Nick Watts (at Federated Hermes) and to Iain Edwards for leading the d...

On Friday afternoon, Cornwallis Elt were delighted to celebrate our 20th Anniversary in business, hosting a fully covid compliant and socially distanced lunch, followed by live music and entertainment at the Eight Club in Moorgate. We would like to thank all of our employees, both past and present, as well as our clients, our candidates and suppliers for their contributio...

​Last week saw Cornwallis Elt host the first of its CTO virtual forums for the Lloyds insurance market on various aspects of digital transformation.Much of the debate was around the organisation of IT and similar disciplines, and the move to centre around digital transformation and product led organisations including IT functions (or should we say technology resources with t...

Cornwallis Elt hosted the most recent of its virtual CTO forums last week - two parallel sessions led by Darren Hodges of Federated Hermes, and Scot Baldry of T. Rowe Price – thanks again to both.The subject (highly topical) was the changing role of IT – with the challenges/ opportunities of cloud provision of infrastructure, business resident developers, the rise of busines...

​Thanks to Catherine Newton (member of our WIT Committee) here at Cornwallis Elt for setting up an interactive forum this week with Yota Trom (Founder of Women In Tech Club) to discuss the different initiatives that companies are running to tackle the gender imbalance with the technology industry!It was informative to hear from all attendees on their experiences and more bro...