Halsey Keetch

Please find details of our upcoming breakfast events at Halsey Keetch We have two fantastic sessions lined up for January 2025. As ever, at each event you will join us for a seated presentation, which is designed to be warm, inclusive and insightful. We will provide a light breakfast, coffee and good company. These events are very popular and places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis: 1. Leading the Governance, Regulatory & Controls (GRC) Functions in a Paradoxical World: Crafting Resilient Teams, Behaviours, and Cultures for Uncertain Times, with Goldcrest Partners 👉 Join us for a masterclass with Richard Hill and Tim McEwan, leadership development coaches from the London based consultancy Goldcrest Partners, who specialise in developing talent across the financial services industry. We invite GRC leaders (Risk Management, Compliance, Financial Crime, Internal Audit and the Board) from our network to this fantastic session which will help you expand your potential to: ✅ Become the Leader Your Paradoxical Environment Demands: Understand how you can rise to the challenge of leading in a world filled with contradictions. ✅ Develop a Pipeline of Talented Leaders: Establish a robust talent pool capable of meeting these challenges in their unique ways. ✅ Create a Context for Resilience and Adaptability: Foster an environment where your function and organisation can become comfortable with questions that have multiple right answers. Date: Thursday 16th January, 2025 Time: 8.30 - 10am Location: The Halsey Keetch City Office - The Gold Room, 1 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND 👉 The Skilled Person Review Workshop for NEDs, with BDO We will be joined by Shrenik Parekh, CFA from BDO to discuss navigating the complexities of a Section 166, hearing from him on a range of matters including: ✅ An overview of an S166 and the different types of reviews conducted the process for a S166 ✅ Key challenges, findings and top tips of undertaking these reviews ✅ What happens after an S166 ✅ Key notes and messages for NEDs Date: Thursday 30th January, 2025 Time: 8.30 - 10am Location: The Halsey Keetch City Office - The Gold Room, 1 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND Places are limited. Please RSVP to request a space: caroline@halseykeetch.com

Here at Halsey Keetch we are absolutely dedicated to assisting our clients across the financial services industry to manage risks and remain compliant whilst seizing opportunities in a complex business environment. Our expertise in retained governance, regulatory and controls search enable financial institutions to thrive responsibly and achieve sustainable success. We have been the go-to executive and board search boutique in these specialist areas for nearly 40 years as a business, and now for nearly a decade as Halsey Keetch. It brings us great pleasure to launch our new website today, with updated branding in process as part of our continued adaption and evolution as a forward-focused firm. Please take a look and keep us in mind if your organisation needs help identifying and securing the very best in leadership level talent across Risk Management, Compliance, Financial Crime, Internal Audit and the Board as 2025 approaches: www.halseykeetch.com

It's very hard to capture in photos the buzz that is in the room at our Halsey Keetch breakfast events. This morning was fantastic. Today, we gathered bright and early at our City office to hear from Joy Harcup and Helen Hopper to deep dive into one chapter of their book, The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships, which is of particular interest to us. Along with a room full of guests from our network we discussed how executives and the board: ✔ Establish and manage their respective roles and responsibilities ✔ Stay aligned in complex, highly regulated and fast-moving environments ✔ React psychologically when boundaries are blurred, lines are crossed, or when it's a struggle to feel in control in high stakes situations ✔ Can contribute at a strategic level to the best of their collective ability The conversation was helped along by hot coffee, fresh fruit and pastries and by the contributions from our wonderful community. Thank you so much to Joy and Helen for joining us and for giving an insightful and engaging presentation, and also to our guests for sharing your time with us once again, and for contributing to such a rich discussion. Alex Rickard Anita Karppi Carol Richmond Christopher Forster David Kenmir Devyani P Vaishampayan Diane Moore Eamonn McGrath Edward Panek Elise Trenerry Elliot Berman Gerald Raingold Ian Jameson Janine Menasakanian Jeannette Lichner Jonathan Eifion-Jones Justin van Wijngaarden Karina McTeague, LLD, FRSE Kate Fulker Lucy Hasson Maura Sullivan Rebecca Urang Simone Lavelle Richard Smith Stephen Burke Vinay Mistry Alex Keetch

Thank you for having me Women on Boards UK I had a rare opportunity to be alone on my drive and listen to podcasts without any distractions on my way to Cardiff, which was followed by a really energising evening listening to the stories of my fellow speakers Dawn Gunter and Melanie Proffitt and saying a few words myself. I was in the company of Helen Rhydderch-Roberts our fantastic Head of Research, who for once didn’t have to travel far for work as Cardiff is her home ground. It was a pleasure to meet so many new people and I hope to build on those new connections and get to know everyone better. There were so many inspiring take-aways from the evening. At the heart of them all was the power of being authentic and true to your own strengths, confident enough to back yourself but open and humble enough to listen and learn from others around you (no matter how senior you become), alongside being curious and willing to take the odd risk… in summary - go for it, whatever stage of your life or career you are in. And there was a cherry on top in the form of a little something to take home 😀

It was such a pleasure to start my day at AllBright today, as a panellist on a fantastic event organised by Stephanie Slade, who I have got to know well over the course of the last few years through our involvement with the Diversity Project - Investment Industry and also because I was lucky enough to be her executive coach for 6 months a couple of years ago. The event was aptly called ‘Women Who Rise and the focus of the panel discussion was on building your own brand, knowing and articulating your value and the importance of resilience, which is something I have had to work very hard on developing over recent years! The atmosphere was warm and inviting and it was just a really great conversation. Thank you Stephanie for putting it all together and for inviting me to take part. I was extra honoured to be sat between fellow panellists Helena Morrissey and Clare Forster who have unbelievably impressive careers, so I basked in their light for a couple of hours and learnt more than a few things about their own career stories. A great morning.

Halsey Keetch are excited to join Executive Development at Cranfield School of Management for an exclusive, 1-day programme tailored for existing and aspiring Non-Executive Directors in the financial services sector. Alex Keetch and Caroline Sarah Keetch will talk to attendees about the role of an INED, how to think about building a portfolio, and will provide ideas and tips from their perspective as a specialist executive search firm operating in this space. The comprehensive programme offers an opportunity to enhance your knowledge and experience of being an effective FS NED while expanding your professional network. Date: 22 October 2024 Location: Farrer & Co LLP, London Book your place >> https://bit.ly/3WZVVPZ Early bird ticket prices are available to purchase until 31 August 2024

🔅 Getting GRC leadership talent matters sorted over summer 🔅 We hope you are enjoying summer 2024 so far. Here at Halsey Keetch, we believe summer provides an opportunity for reflection and rejuvenation. Work slows down somewhat and deeper organisational issues within Governance, Regulatory and Controls (GRC) functions can be contemplated.   This summer, we would like to offer clients our assistance in addressing any leadership resourcing, succession planning or general organisational issues that are at hand across their GRC functions. These services are exceptionally insightful, bespoke and enable our clients to address a wide range of talent-related questions, whilst providing direct access to the talent market for hiring purposes if a complete search process is not required.   We are delighted to be able to offer a 20% DISCOUNT ON ALL PROJECTS COMMENCED BEFORE 1ST OCTOBER 2024, meaning that the value-for-money we always offer through our competitive pricing will be even greater. If this is of interest to you then please contact us for more information or to see a sample of how we conduct and present our research projects.  Organisational questions and issues that our talent mapping and succession planning product can assist with are nuanced and vary from one project to the next. Some examples of how our work can assist you in your thinking are below:   ✅You have worked hard to improve your GRC functions and continuity is important: do you have adequate succession plans in place for your Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, or Head of Internal Audit?    ✅Your long-serving Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, or Head of Internal Audit is planning their retirement: there may be a successor in the team – but who else in the market might be suitable?    ✅We live in an age of surprises, where no eventuality can be ruled out: have you taken ‘key person risk’ sufficiently into account in relation to your most important SMF positions?    ✅You have very specific requirement for a very important GRC leadership hire: how do you go about understanding your options for success within a niche, competitive hiring market?    ✅ Changes to company boards can be gradual, or pressing, but always business-critical, whilst enabling cognitive diversity is recognised as best practice: do you have a view on the INED population of greatest interest to your main or subsidiary boards, for both current and future purposes? We look forward to helping you. caroline@halseykeetch.com