Watson Gardner Brown is a highly specialized Executive Search boutique servicing the Canadian Financial Services Industry. The firm was established in 1993 and remains committed to providing customized, cost-effective and value-added search and human capital consulting to the financial services industry.

Watson Gardner Brown was founded by Colleen Watson who has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years. The objective of the firm is to provide high quality targeted research-based Executive Search with a strong understanding of the industry. Our practice in Executive Recruitment covers all functions within the financial services industry.  We focus on the Capital Market areas both on the buy side and the sell side of the street.  Our areas of expertise include Risk Management, Investment Operations, Investment Technology, Compliance, Institutional Equities and Fixed Income Sales, Research, Trading and Investment Banking.  In addition, we have conducted search in all areas of Portfolio Management.

Watson Gardner Brown has recently acquired Talent Capital & Associates (TCA). We offer to clients customized products and solutions in areas of talent management for all businesses. Some of our products includes assessments of key managers as it relates to recruitment, mergers and acquisitions, leadership coaching, and team building. Although our primary market is Canada, we have completed assignments for Canadian firms with offices in the U.S. and the UK.