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Logan Naidu

Logan Naidu

Logan is the founder of Dartmouth Partners and Group CEO of Kernel Global. He has a notable track record in recruiting across financial services but with a particular focus on M&A and Private Equity.

About

He began his career at JPMorgan and PwC in Corporate Finance. In 2005 he co-founded the Cornell Partnership before exiting via an MBO, and founding Dartmouth in 2012.

While running the firm from a strategic perspective, Logan uses his recruitment expertise to guide consultants in the execution of roles and continues to work on senior advisory and investment mandates.

Logan has a desire for individuals and businesses to work together to mutually flourish and enjoy shared successes, and this is reflected internally at Dartmouth. Dartmouth’s success is partly due to Logan’s drive to succeed, and this has been recognised with numerous industry accolades:

  • Shortlisted for EY Entrepreneur of the Year (2023)
  • Shortlisted for Great British Entrepreneur (2023)
  • LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders (2021)
  • Debrett’s People of Today (2017)
  • The Sunday Times as one of Britain’s 500 most influential people (2016)
  • Shortlisted for Recruitment Entrepreneur of the Year and GB Entrepreneur of the Year in the services industry (2015)

A committed Christian, he is the father of three noisy children, husband to one ever-supportive wife, and a serious tennis and fitness nut.

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“In an industry not defined by high standards, we deliberately and publicly set our bar high. I want Dartmouth to produce excellence and display kindness. We need to question and measure everything we do internally and externally to reflect that and be made accountable to it.”

Logan’s Articles

Industry reports

Industry reports

2020 Investment Banking Compensation

    For a copy of the report, please get in touch via info@dartmouthpartners.com.   At this time of year, there are usually two key topics o
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Industry reports

2012 Analyst compensation report

It seems apt to start this bonus survey with one of my favourite recent quotes from the 2012 Olympic Games. In the “New Normal” we've had to re-adjus
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2013 Analyst Compensation Report

  It's been a bit of a runaway eight months so far this year, with barely a pause for breath to take stock. M&A activity has picked up pace, most
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2014 Associate to VP Compensation Report

  As January brought the wettest start to a year since records began, we were struggling to maintain the optimism that a new year brings.  We've s
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2013 Associate to VP Compensation Report

Following the boom years of instant gratification, we have had almost five years to adjust to an era of practising the virtues of patience, self-cont
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

The New War for Talent

  The War for Talent was a book published in 1997 by McKinsey & Company to illustrate the fight for talent in the 1990s during the dotcom era. The
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

Can You Learn To Be A Leader?

  From an early age, I wasn't one to boss the kids around at Kindergarten and I had no inner yearning to be captain of the sports teams (however,
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

Life is a gift, make the most of it

  In the 25th December, a former aide of Tony Blair, Kate Gross passed away from colon cancer. She was 36, my age, and left behind two five-year-o
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2015 Associate and VP Compensation Report

The catch-all platitude of “cautiously optimistic” seems to have quietly dropped the caution. We're on the cusp of breaking the all-time FTSE high, s
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Industry reports

2016 Analyst to VP Compensation Report

  It's a game of two halves. It's not over ‘til it's over. Two classic sporting platitudes that could be applied nicely to what we're witnessing i
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2014 Analyst Compensation Report

  Twelve months ago we wrote of a pick up;  both M&A and ECM activity had gathered pace and the question was whether we were experiencing a 2010-e
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Career Advice

Career Advice

How to pick the best job

“Jobs are booming but real pay is down” was a headline feature in City AM this morning. In some ways this comes as a surprise, particularly when we'
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Career Advice

Career Advice

Counter-offer Culture

  The act of resignation is often a daunting one. At the junior end of the market employees may be leaving their first professional ‘home', a plac
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

Performance Under Pressure

  Working in a high-pressure environment can be demanding enough, but adding in the challenge of navigating one or more interview processes dials
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

The impact of corporate burnout

  In the last few years, the issue of mental health and well-being has rocketed into the mainstream corporate agenda. Corporate burnout, executive
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2017 Analyst to VP Compensation Report

  We've just completed and released our IB analyst to VP compensation survey. So, how are bonus numbers looking? 2016 was an unpredictable year, w
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2017 Analyst to VP Compensation Report Q3

  It's September and we have four months left that will define our 2017. So far it's been one of the hottest recruitment markets I've seen for yea
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2018 Analyst to VP Compensation Report

  2018 has started at a real gallop, with few signs of momentum stalling. We're now 10 years into nearly the longest bull market run on record.
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Thought leadership

Thought leadership

COVID-19: We stand together

  I'm sure I know what you're thinking, “not another COVID-19 message” - how many ways are there to say, it's business as usual for us. I complete
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2019 Investment Banking Compensation Report

  For a copy of the report, contact us via info@dartmouthpartners.com.   The soap opera that is currently playing out in Westminster ends with
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Industry reports

Industry reports

2018 September Analyst to VP Compensation Report

  For a copy of the report, please contact us today at info@dartmouthpartners.com. As I write it's starting to feel very much like it's nearly t
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