Howard Mannion joins as partner and Valerie Nott as director in the UK Asset Management arm of the business. Both previously held senior positions at Citisoft, a leading investment management consultancy.

Gillian Lofts, UK Asset Management Leader commented: "Howard and Valerie will be working closely with the Asset Management and IT Advisory teams here in the UK, providing us with a greater breadth and depth of knowledge in the asset management industry. Their experience will also be utilised by our other financial services teams. Our asset management business now has the unique combination of the level of expertise you would expect from a specialist, coupled with a truly global delivery platform."

Howard was at Citisoft for 20 years and most recently was CEO for the EMEA region. He advised clients on global application and data strategies and was responsible for delivering large transformation projects.

Valerie has worked in investment management consultancy for the last eleven years and held a business development role in Citisoft. Valerie is currently working with a third party administrator to help it compete more effectively and gain additional revenues from its middle office.

Commenting on the appointments, EMEIA Asset Management Leader Roy Stockell said: "Within asset management, we continue to form multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective across our breadth of professional services. We are continuing to build our market-leading capability in financial services and the acquisition of new talent and internal promotions in the asset management space worldwide will further our dominance of the market."