Taxation Specialists
Ewen joined Pure in 2002 to focus on recruiting tax professionals across all sectors of the commerce tax market. Ewen focuses on recruiting at tax director and head of tax level internationally, and has built strong relationships with an extensive number of FTSE-listed, financial services and overseas organisations.
Ewen joined Pure as a qualified tax adviser with a wealth of corporate tax experience gained from four years at KPMG. This tax experience, coupled with his depth of market knowledge, has enabled Ewen to build an excellent reputation across all levels and disciplines of the tax arena. Ewen graduated in Civil Engineering from Herriot Watt University.
Outside work Ewen is a keen tennis player and has competed nationally for Scotland. Continuing to play at county and club level, Ewen is currently a member of Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club.
Charles is the co-founder of the Pure Group. He is a well known figure in the industry and specialises in recruiting senior level tax professionals across the banking, practice and commercial sectors. Charles has 18 years’ experience undertaking executive search and selection assignments at partner, director and senior management levels. He has also managed numerous high-profile recruitment marketing campaigns for a wide range of clients.
Charles graduated from Southampton University in 1987 and, after a short spell training in audit, began his career in executive recruitment.
As well as spending time with his family, Charles enjoys rugby and cricket from the safety of the stands or armchair. He regularly goes to the theatre and enjoys London’s excellent restaurants.
Dalia heads up the interim team at Pure Recruitment and has worked there since 2004. She recruits primarily at Senior Manager and Head of Tax level across commerce and industry and financial services.
Dalia graduated with a law degree from Birmingham University. She then gained over three years’ experience working for a global recruitment company, specialising in interim tax and legal recruitment.
In her spare time, Dalia enjoys travelling the world and fine dining.
Iain has been a Director of Pure since 2005.
Iain Directs the EMEA Tax business across all service lines. This involves leadership of the business and personal handling of key partnership or Head of Tax assignments. If you would like an overview of the full range of sectors and disciplines Pure covers in Tax, or if you require impartial career advice, you should contact Iain in the first instance.
Iain has 13 years' Tax and Financial Services search experience. He joined Pure in 2003.
Previously Iain worked for a medium-sized search practice at which he set up and ran the banking and commerce sector teams. Prior to this he trained in a Big Four tax division having gained a postgraduate degree in Law.
Iain was born to a Danish mother, brought up in Edinburgh and worked and studied in Italy. He enjoys taking his young family on cross country skiing and mountaineering holidays.
Paul works in the Commerce team and specialises in recruiting from Senior Manager to Head of Tax.
Since joining Pure in 2005, Paul has successfully recruited for a number of leading companies and has established relationships with companies within the FTSE 100, 250 and overseas multinationals.
Paul trained in tax at KPMG in London and followed this with an in-house tax role at Reckitt Benkiser plc, before joining Pure. He read Law at Hull University.
Chris is the co-founder of the Pure Group. He has a leading reputation in tax and front office banking search. He has been responsible for some of the highest profile and most senior moves in the last decade in these disciplines. Specifically, Chris handles partner and team moves in the profession and director level assignments in commerce and banking.
Chris spent his early career with Arthur Andersen as a tax consultant in their London office after reading Law at Leeds University.
Chris’s interests include golf and marathon running, though seldom at the same time.
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Barrie leads our Asia Search Practice from our Hong Kong office.
Through our flexible, whole market, approach he works with a broad range of Commerce & Industry, Financial Services and Private Practice clients on their senior Tax, Legal and Finance needs.
A UK tax qualified professional, Barrie joined Pure in early 2004 to build our market leading tax professional services business in the UK. From 2006 he then led the development of our wealth advisory business completing assignments with a broad range of tax structured finance, investment advisory, private banking and professional services clients.
Barrie recruits across Tax and Wealth Advisory and leads our Legal and Finance offerings.
James operates within the tax and finance sectors in the EMEA region. His remit includes Heads of Business, Tax and Finance Directors and Senior Analysts.
Having spent four years recruiting within capital markets for a UK plc in the London market, James moved to Japan to start up and launch the brand in Tokyo. Within four years, James established the brand as a market leader in financial services and commerce recruitment, both in the contingent and retained sectors.
James graduated in Accounting and Law from Kingston University.
James is an enthusiastic sportsman with a keen interest in cooking and travel.
Liisa operates within the tax sector in the EMEA region. Her remit includes tax roles throughout the European region.
Liisa has spent over four years working in the financial services sector. She worked for an international bank in its in-house tax department. Prior to that, Liisa worked in practice, gaining corporate tax experience from Ernst & Young and mixed tax experience from BDO Stoy Hayward.
Liisa graduated in Law with Business.
Her interests include cross-country skiing, languages, travel and socialising.
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