Working at Blakemore Recruitment

The founding Partners of Blakemore Recruitment have an extensive background specifically within Financial Services Recruitment and have worked both individually and together at a number of market leading and respected national Financial Services recruitment firms.

Blakemore hopes to bring to the financial services recruitment arena a refreshingly new approach to recruitment. The founding partners having worked within large national recruiters we have come to appreciate that what Clients and Candidates most want from recruitment is the ability to truly understand their needs and wants. We take a truly professional and individually tailored approach to recruitment taking the time to provide employees and employers with a genuinely consultative service to get the right results quickly and efficiently. We specialise within the Financial Services industry and help companies to source candidates across a wide variety of roles. Typical examples include:

• Wealth Managers
• Independent Financial Advisers (IFA)
• Investment Managers
• Private Bankers
• Sales Managers
• Compliance Officers/Managers
• Paraplanners
• IFA Support
• Employee Benefits (Admin/Sales)
• Group Risk Admin/Healthcare
• Investment Support/Admin
• Investment Analyst/Research
• Tied Advisors
• Corporate IFA's
• Bancassurers
• Broker Consultants
• Pensions Consultants
• Pensions Admin

With over forty years combined experience within the Financial Services Recruitment marketplace the founders of Blakemore Recruitment provide to both Clients and Candidates the highest levels of knowledge, professionalism and market expertise across a wide range of job disciplines including IFA's, Private Bankers, Paraplanners, Mortgages Consultants, Pension Consultants and IFA Support Administrators and we have an extensive knowledge and understanding of all of today's relevant product sectors including Personal Financial Planning, Private Banking, Employee Benefits, Investments, Mortgages and Life/Medical Insurance.

The level of Clients that we deal with on a regular basis are wide and varied, ranging from National IFA firms, Banking Groups and Major Investment Houses to small regional firms and mortgage brokers.

The Directors are:

Ash Patel

Ash is one of the founding partners of Blakemore Recruitment. He began his Financial Services recruitment journey in 2004 with a FTSE 100 firm. He specialises in placing financial services professionals at all levels in both sales/technical roles. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, playing poker and 5 a side football.

Desmond Menewe

Des originally came from a Financial Planning background having worked for a City IFA before he began his career in Recruitment in 1998. He specialises in placing a wide range of staff including IFAs, Investment Managers and Compliance professionals. When not hard at work, Des loves to play golf (very badly) and being a chauffeur to his family.