For immediate release 1 December, 2011

Frankfurt headquartered financial and professional services specialist ingeniam joins IIC Partners

FRANKFURT-IIC Partners, one of the world’s largest retained executive search organisations, is pleased to announce that ingeniam of Frankfurt, Germany, has joined the group.

Established in 2002, by partners Norbert Abraham and Norbert Theimer, ingeniam is widely recognized as a leading player in retained executive search in Germany, and further a field, cross financial services (banking, tax and audit, legal, other professional services and knowledge-based sectors.

Both Mr Abraham and Mr Theimer said they selected IIC Partners because the organization and its members shared the same business philosophies that ingeniam was committed to.

“We share IIC Partners’ business approach at ingeniam: We aim to contribute to our clients’ business success. We are also passionate entrepreneurs and we are proud to take responsibility for our clients’ reputation in the market,” Mr Abraham said.

“Over the last nine years we have established a specialized boutique brand for financial and professional services industries headquartered in Frankfurt. Now moving out of a global and national downturn we feel it is time to re-enter the international arena – and this time with the leading independent professionals in almost any economic center of the world. This is why we decided to join IIC Partners,” Mr Abraham added.

Norbert Theimer said ingeniam’s owner-driven flexible structure combines the highest professional consulting standards with local knowledge in search fields free of client conflicts.

“It is our experience that the size of an international executive search organisation is not necessarily an indicator of its quality. It is the personality and the attitude of the individual consultants that makes all the difference!” Mr Theimer said.

“A solid balance between global corporates and national champions - that is the mix we are striving to achieve in our client base. Both depend on each other in creating a world of talents in our markets,” he added.

IIC Partners Chief Operating Officer Martin Vine said the organization was thrilled to have attracted a firm of the caliber of ingeniam.

“We had been actively seeking to identify the leading independent retained executive search specialist in financial and professional services in Frankfurt and I am very pleased to say, ingeniam have now joined us,” Mr Vine said, adding: ”ingeniam’s knowledge, focus and enthusiasm will be a tremendous asset to IIC Partners as an organization and to our individual members.”

IIC Partners is the world’s eighth largest executive search organization with 53 offices in 37 countries. An affiliation of individually successful, independently owned retained executive search firms, it has strong global reach with exceptional local focus and knowledge. IIC Partners will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2011.

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For further comment from IIC Partners, please contact Polly Stewart by telephone on +44 (0) 7789220254 or by e-mail at pstewart@iicpartners.com