
Ashley
Hobkinson
Odgers Berndtson
Cape Town office
Ashley Hobkinson is a Partner in the South African office of Odgers Berndtson based in Cape Town. Working primarily in the Consumer Products, Telecommunications and Financial Services markets with a countrywide remit built on over ten years’ international executive search experience.
Ashley has developed a significant Retail practice completing “C” level assignments as well as HR, Logistics Planning and Senior Merchandising roles. He also heads the “Restless Minds” initiative, a program specifically aimed at increasing the level of “Black Economically Empowered” executive talent relocating to Cape Town.
Earlier he was a Director with Michael Page International launching their Sales & Marketing practice in South Africa; prior to this he worked in New York for 5 years establishing their East Coast executive recruitment business.
Ashley holds a BSc from the University of Leeds.
Technological advances, globalization and the Internet are reshaping the rules in today's consumer & retail services market, demanding exceptional talent at the top.
Financial services firms require strong leaders, global visionaries and superbly qualified professionals to move them forward in the 21st Century.
In technology, with apparently boundless application and insatiable markets, it is the human factor - leadership - that differentiates the stellar successes from the rest.
The demand for new leaders is endless for both information & communications organizations selling into the enterprise, as well as convergent, web and wireless enabled technology businesses.