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BIE Group completes management buy-out

Long-established executive search and interim recruitment firm BIE Group has completed a management buy-out from The Cornhill Partnership. Three managers, led by chief executive Rob Walker, have become equal equity partners in the business in a deal which has also seen continued investment by Barclays Ventures, a division of Barclays corporate banking. The two other [...]

Press Release: A message from Rob Walker

“Contrary to rumours circulating questioning BIE’s future viability, we will shortly be announcing an exciting new development in the company’s ownership and management. In the meantime, I can say that BIE is in rude financial health,” Rob Walker, chief executive of BIE Group. Jeremy Morgan, joint head of Barclays Ventures, BIE’s  private equity backers for [...]

Thinking of Hiring an Interim Finance Director?

Business Insider Magazine reports on the benefits of hiring an interim FD. BIE’s Executive Director Steve Dengel comments on what an interim can bring to the table. Click here for the full article.

Senior finance head-hunter joins BIE Group

Jonathan Jones has been hired by BIE Group to bolster its senior finance search practice. Jones, who has more than two decades of international experience in resourcing finance functions, was previously head of executive search at a finance-focussed recruitment firm. This latest move reunites him after 20 years with former colleague Rob Walker, with whom [...]

BIE’s Steve Dengel joins round table debate on turnarounds

BIE Group executive director Steve Dengel joined a panel of corporate advisors convened by Midlands Business Insider  magazine in October to talk about business turnarounds. Read the Turnaround Round Table article.pdf  

Three new senior consultants join BIE Group

BIE Group has made three new appointments, strengthening its executive search and interim management practices. Dan Harden joins as a managing director in BIE’s Search practice after operating as an independent consultant for three years. Before this and following four years in the British Army, he spent eleven years at a senior level working for [...]

BIE Group ranked No.1 for service quality by 2,000+ interim managers

BIE Group has beaten more than 150 UK recruitment firms providing work to interim managers after being voted number one by members of the Institute of Interim Management (IIM). The finding is part of the latest IIM annual market survey, which was published on 6 September and aggregates data from more than 2,000 interim managers, [...]

The witch hunt to end disguised employment could harm interim managers

Last February, a political storm arose after stories appeared in the media alleging some senior public sector executives were dodging tax because, although in full-time roles, they were not paid as employees by the government departments that hired them. These people, it was claimed, were disguising their true employment status and exploiting the rules by [...]

Popularity of cloud-based ‘Workday’ HR management software fuels strong demand for HR interims

The rapid rise of SAP and Oracle ERP software challenger ‘Workday’ has created a shortage of appropriately skilled HR professionals and a consequent rise in demand for interims who have them, according to Gordon Whyte of BIE Group. Whyte, head of HR interim at the specialist executive search firm, said: “Workday is fast becoming recognised [...]

No Archer Mathieson name in merger with BIE

BIE Group will be the new name for the soon-to-be-merged Archer Mathieson and BIE Interim Executive, two formerly separate companies within The Cornhill Partnership. From 2 April, BIE will lose the tag ‘Interim Executive’ from its name and begin trading as BIE Group, with two distinct but tightly integrated divisions offering both senior-level executive search [...]