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​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...

Following on from the success of previous forums, yesterday saw Cornwallis Elt host the first of its ‘Smart Working and Future Design of the office’ discussions, with Heads of Operations and COO's within the Asset Management industry. It was a very interesting conversation that covered everything from flexi-working to workplace psychology!Many thanks to Ray Green at TPI for ...

​Cornwallis Elt are delighted to announce that we have signed up to the 'Tech She Can Charter", in conjunction with PwC, and in so doing, joining 190 other organisations that have pledged to work together in creating equal opportunities for women within the tech industry. The charter's key initiatives initiatives are to:1. Enrich education: educate and inspire pupils, especi...

We are pleased to share that we have renewed our commitment to the FCSA Supply Chain Charter, and therefore to continue operating a preferred umbrella company supplier list made exclusively up of compliant and transparent FCSA Accredited Members who have undergone extensive due diligence. The FCSA Supply Chain Partner Charter creates a clear framework of principles and val...

​Cornwallis Elt are delighted to once again be placed in the Recruiter Hot 100 list, complied by Agile Intelligence for Recruiter magazine and rating the UK's recruitment companies according to net fees (GP) per employee. Cornwallis Elt this year are placed 35th on the list, one of our highest ever placings. For the full report please visit https://issuu.com/redactive/docs/r...

​Cornwallis Elt are delighted to announce that we have recently signed up to the Tech Talent Charter, joining over 500 UK companies in making public our commitment to improving Diversity & Inclusion within the technology industry. We are excited and honoured to be able to use this partnership as a springboard to further build out and expand our policies of diversity, in...

​Last week saw Cornwallis Elt host the second of our virtual forums of 2021, with more Heads of Operations and COOs within the Asset Management industry facilitated again by our own Henry Hickley.Similar to the first session, the theme was focusing on responses to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and challenges of working from home. Discussions ranged from observed changes in the...

​Last week saw Cornwallis host the first of our virtual forums in 2021, this time with Heads of Operations/COOs within the Asset Management industry facilitated by our own Henry Hickley. The theme was similar to some of the CTO forums that we held last year, focusing on responses to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and challenges of working from home. Discussions ranged from obse...

​We are very pleased to announce that, as of the start of 2021, Cornwallis Elt has now migrated our accounts environment over to Xero, a market leading cloud based platform. This was one of a number of major enhancement projects that the company undertook during 2020, ensuring that the business took significant steps forward, even during a year hit heavily by a global health...

​As a continuation of a series of technology leadership forums that Cornwallis Elt have been hosting, last Wednesday saw our 9th roundtable event facilitated by our own Henry Hickley.Attended by a number of Infrastructure leaders within the Financial Services industry, the discussion focused on how they have adapted their firms infrastructure to facilitate WFH and the techno...

​As has become an annual tradition, Cornwallis Elt will be making a donation to a chosen charity this Christmas. After such a challenging year there are so many deserving causes and we have decided to donate to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.  Many of us were inspired by the brilliant documentary ‘Rob Burrow: My year with MND’ and we are proud to be supporting this fa...

​Great to see Beazley, one of our long standing insurance clients supporting women in tech. For full details please visit the link https://www.beazley.com/london_market/supporting_young_women_in_tech.html​

​As a continuation of the CTO/Head of IT forums that Cornwallis Elt have been hosting, Wednesday saw our 7th round table event take place, this time facilitated by Ben Shilliam, CTO at Coller Capital. Attended by a number of leaders within the Financial Services industry, the discussion focused on how we have adapted to WFH and the new challenges we are facing in Lockdown 2....