OUR PREVIOUS BACKGROUNDS

David Symes (Managing Director) – David qualified as a Chartered Accountant then moved to Banque Indosuez (now Credit Agricole) in Audit. In 1988 as the original Financial Services Act 1986 came into force he joined the Guardian Royal Exchange (a FTSE 100 Insurance Group, now part of AXA) to help set up their first Compliance Department as Deputy Head of Group Compliance, in charge of Fund Management and later all Regulated Insurance activities. In 1994 he moved into recruitment, setting up CRS in 1996 and also working as a Compliance Consultant as well as assisting various UK bodies on Compliance or HR issues e.g.

• assisted the Financial Services Skills Council in developing a system of standards for Compliance & AML
• chairs the London Society of Chartered Accountants Compliance Group which he co-founded in 1988
• structures the main specialist Compliance salary survey (i.e. re job titles/responsibilities and sectors)
• has advised the UK’s leading technical publishers on the history & current operation of Compliance & Regulation as well as leading specialist conference organisers (and has spoken on such)

Inan Rashid (Associate Director) – After gaining 12 months experience of regulated sales with a leading bank during a sabbatical year from the University of London, Inan joined Prudential Bache Securities as a graduate trainee where he spent an 18 month period involved in AML and KYC work. After this Inan spent three years with Mizuho International (Global Investment Bank created by the triple merger of IBJ, Dai-Ichi Kangyo & Fuji Banks) in mainstream Compliance covering Equities, Fixed Income, Derivative Products & Corporate Finance, until joining CRS in 2004.

Darren Ruskin (Principal Consultant) – Darren started his career in Market Regulation at the London Stock Exchange where after nearly three years he left to take on in-house compliance roles. He first spent 18 months at Daiwa SMBC in an equities front office compliance role before moving to Sucden in a similar function for two years, also now looking after commodities trading. He then worked at ADM for a further two years in Compliance covering all products including derivatives, until joining CRS in 2005.

Chris Clarke (Consultant) – Chris worked in the hospitality sector before joining Standard Bank (a Global Corporate & Investment Bank) where he spent 2.5 years supporting both their UK & International offices in a variety of Compliance & AML/KYC roles before joining CRS in 2007.

OUR SUPPORT TEAM

Paul Stanczyk [Resourcer]
After graduating, Paul spent over 10 years in the Market Research and Consulting sectors in a variety of roles until moving to the Compliance field. He then spent two years as an Account Manager with the leading provider of Compliance Information products then moved to a City Recruitment firm for a year as a Compliance Recruiter before joining CRS.

Patricia D’Arcy [Office Manager]
Patricia started work training as a Customer Services Manager with a leading retailer before working as an administrator in a legal team and finally spent 18 months as a Recruitment Consultant for Administrative staff before joining CRS.

Lisa Raven de Burca [Administrator]
Lisa originally worked in the Property sector and since 1990 has been in the Recruitment Sector, mainly working for Compliance Recruitment specialists but also for Finance & IT Recruiters too.

CONTACTS & ADDRESS

32 Threadneedle Street
London EC2R 8AY
Tel: 020 7763 6230
Fax: 020 7763 6131
Email: recruit@compliancerecruitment.com