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Eva Kingston is a Client Partner in the London office of Korn/Ferry International, and a member of the Firm’s Global Financial Market.

With more than a decade of executive search experience within the financial services marketplace, Ms Kingston focuses on investment/corporate banking and retail financial services in emerging markets as well as corporate functions within the financial services sector (risk, compliance, finance and operations).
 

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Joshua Wimberley is a Senior Client Partner in Korn/Ferry International’s Atlanta office, and a member of the Firm’s Global Financial Services Market as well as the Financial Officers Center of Expertise.

With almost a decade of executive search experience, Mr. Wimberley has worked extensively with regional, mid-market and boutique financial services firms. He recruits senior executives in general management, finance, wealth management, equities, investment banking, and alternative investments for the world's top investment banks, commercial banks and asset management firms. He also recruits risk management and sales and marketing executives.

As a member of the Firm's Financial Officers Center of Expertise, Mr. Wimberley conducts CFO and Controller searches for leading banks and financial services companies.

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Broadband Talent Management

What are the different ways to develop talent ?





By Eva Kingston and Joshua Wimberley

In the wake of the stresses on the financial markets following the Bear Stearns debacle, the subprime meltdown, the ongoing credit crunch and the rapidly changing regulatory landscape, financial services organizations in the United States and abroad are being severely tested. These events, coupled with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the intervention by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department in rescuing AIG and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with the sale of Merrill Lynch and Wachovia have been referred to by some as “the perfect storm.” And they have raised troubling questions regarding some long-held tenets in economics, finance and deregulation

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