London – 24 July 2015 – Fidelio Partners, the Board Development and Executive Search consultancy, today announces the appointment of Angie Coad and Professor Bob Garratt as senior consultants. Angie has extensive experience in the financial services industry encompassing Corporate Affairs, Strategy and Investment Banking while Bob has a worldwide reputation in corporate governance and Board development and has written extensively on the subject. Both will be part of Fidelio’s fast expanding Board Practice, while Angie will assume additional responsibilities in managing Fidelio’s multilingual research team.
Angie was a top rated sell side analyst specialising in the life and non-life insurance industries for a number of leading investment banks, before helping to establish an award winning reinsurance broking research team. More recently, she has focussed on Corporate Affairs and Strategy within the (re)insurance industry. She says “Fidelio’s research team has always been motivated to provide rigorous and innovative Executive Search solutions for clients, and I am keen to continue developing that process. I have also been very impressed by Fidelio’s creative and considered approach to Board Development, and look forward to leveraging the team’s wide-ranging expertise.”
Bob is a company director, consultant and highly regarded academic and works globally in the fields of corporate governance; Board and director evaluation and performance; large-scale organisational change and strategic thinking. On becoming a senior consultant with Fidelio’s Board development team, Bob says “My career has been centred on helping individual Directors and Boards become more effective. I am excited to be helping Fidelio in this regard, and also participating in their inaugural Development Programme for Senior Female Executives, ‘A Seat at the Table’.”
Gillian Karran-Cumberlege, co- founder of Fidelio, added “The combination of Angie’s research expertise and Bob’s reputation and insight as a leading international authority on corporate governance and Board development will be important additions to Fidelio’s offering. Both will contribute materially, as Fidelio helps clients to build Boards and leadership teams that deliver value to stakeholders and shareholders.”