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Symbiosis Search is dedicated to excellence in providing a focussed and added-value service to our clients, who range from start-ups to market leaders like WebEx and global giants like Microsoft.

Highlighted below are some comments from people who have worked with us and our founding-Directors, Nick Povey and Andrew Parker:

• "Throughout my time working with Andrew during Blue Martini's hyper-growth period, he showed himself to be an exceptionally able recruitment manager, supporting me and adding considerable value and expertise in building our organization across the EMEA region and in targeting, selling and hiring the best talent. His contribution was extremely effective at both a strategic and a tactical execution level and Andrew was well respected and liked by both his team and senior management colleagues."
  John Crouch, VP European Operations - Blue Martini Software

• "Symbiosis Search has proved to be extremely pro-active in finding the highly-skilled people necessary for our business success. Their high level of involvement and understanding, and attention to the entire recruitment process, were key to our hiring success. Symbiosis really understands our business and the goals on which we are focussed. I personally find working with Symbiosis Search a great pleasure, as they continually add value and help guide us in our hiring approach, ensuring we have the team in place to achieve our objectives."
  Rudolf Das, Managing Director EMEA - Excelergy

• "Symbiosis Search has recently helped me search for and recruit a Managing Director for a leading global technology company. I was very impressed by their knowledge of our business and the contacts they had inside the industry. Within a short period of time they had presented me with a short-list of applicants, all of exceptional calibre. Both the company and I were extremely satisfied with the service that we received."
  Sandra Haffner, Human Resources Consultant

• "Nick Povey has performed a number of searches for me across Europe and enabled me to hire high calibre individuals into Kalido, at a time when we were growing our sales organisation and entering new markets. I would not hesitate to recommend him to others seeking to recruit in the software industry."
  Gerry O'Brien, VP Worldwide Sales - Kalido

• "I found Symbiosis Search extremely professional during every step in securing my new role as Account Executive for the UK/Ireland territory for Excelergy. After initially identifying and approaching me, they took the time to assess and profile me in-depth, offer career guidance and introduce me to their client, before they successfully placed me in a role I am thrilled to fulfill. I would have no hesitation in recommending their services."
  Mike McCloskey, Account Executive - Excelergy

• "In his capacity as Director Recruiting EMEA, Andrew proved himself to be highly capable in supporting me and in planning, managing and executing our growth across Europe. His highly proactive and professional hands-on approach gained him and his recruiting organization enormous credibility and respect with Blue Martini senior management and added real value to our business. Andrew became, in very short order, a trusted advisor to the Vice President European Operations and his judgment was relied upon in myriad ways to include organizational planning, staffing strategy, competitive intelligence and candidate assessment. I would recommend Andrew's services strongly, particularly to those technology organizations seeking to grow their international business."
  Ross Rich, VP Global Recruiting - Blue Martini Software

• "We used the professional services of Symbiosis Search to recruit a senior executive in our UK operation. The process was superb. Symbiosis clearly demonstrated their experience for this kind of task. The effort was smooth, flawless and in fact, exciting. After the initial brief, Symbiosis did their homework carefully and with great thoroughness. We were presented with a group of excellent candidates with accurate assessments of their skills and backgrounds."
  Dr. Joseph Shapiro, Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer - ECI Telecom