Executive search firm CPB Partners has launched.

Founded by partners Simon Clark, Nicholas Purdue and Gerard Bland, the firm will focus on life and health insurance/reinsurance, general insurance, pensions, employee benefits and outsourcing markets.

Bland says: “We are proud and excited to have the opportunity to provide both existing and prospective clients with a tailored and specialist service for their own distinctive recruitment requirements.

“Having worked together for more than five years, we felt it was both the right time and the right environment to begin this venture as a team.”