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Company: Michael Page International
Company Description: Michael Page International is one of the world's top headhunting and employment agencies. Temporary and contract job assignments make up the bulk of the company's business, with the rest being permanent positions. Overall, the company operates through about 135 offices in 28 countries, serving such customers as Ernst & Young, Clifford Chance, and AstraZeneca.
Nomination Category: Sales Awards Individual Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Regional Manager of the Year

Nomination Title: Oliver Watson, Regional Managing Director

    Tell the story about what this nominee achieved since the beginning of July last year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

        Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment
consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent,
contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the
Americas.

        Michael Page International was ranked the #1 Executive Recruitment Firm in the
New York area for the fourth year in a row, by Crain’s New York Business.
2010 Financial Results:
Q4 gross profit of £119.8m up 32.2% (31.4%*) on Q4 2009
·2010 gross profit of £442.1m, an increase of £90.4m or 25.7% (23.8%*) on 2009
UK (26% of Group) Q4 gross profit of £30.7m up 15.7% on Q4 2009

        "We are clearly benefiting from our geographic and discipline diversification.
We have seen steady growth in the UK and strong growth in most of Europe,
Australia and North America. However, with more than 40% of our fee earners now
operating in our newer markets, including Asia, Latin America and the Middle
East, with faster growing economies and limited competition, we are making rapid
progress and are ideally placed for this to continue.

"During the fourth quarter, we added significantly to our platform in these
faster growing markets, growing headcount organically (up 11%) and opening five
new offices, including one new country, Chile. At the beginning of 2011, we are
continuing our strategy of organic development with the launch of businesses in
three new countries, with offices in Doha, Qatar, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and
in Mumbai and Gurgaon, New Delhi, in India.

"This takes our geographic platform to 32 countries. With the depth of Michael
Page management experience that we have placed around the world in established
and new markets, combined with the increasing confidence in world economies, I
am optimistic about our prospects for 2011."

    List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

        http://investors.michaelpage.co.uk/directors
http://www.michaelpage.com/content/8-about-michael-page.html 
http://www.michaelpage.com/content/290-number-1-executive-recruiting-firm.html
http://investors.michaelpage.co.uk/ir/mpi/ir.jsp?page=news-item&item=577731083372720
http://investors.michaelpage.co.uk/ir/mpi/ir.jsp?page=news-item&item=577731083372720

    Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the nominee:

        Oliver Watson is the Regional Managing Director UK of Michael Page International.
Oliver joined Michael Page in 1995 as a consultant in London. He was appointed
Director of Michael Page UK Sales in 1997 and then Managing Director in 2002. In
2006, he was appointed Regional Managing Director for Michael Page UK Sales,
Marketing and Retail. In 2007, he launched Michael Page Middle East and has
since developed the office network across the region. In 2009, he became
Regional Managing Director for Michael Page UK Finance, Marketing and Sales, and
Michael Page Middle East, Scotland and Ireland.