The former KPMG chairman, Simon Collins, has taken up a job at a technology company that places graduates in corporations after developing their data skills.
Collins, who left KPMG in 2017, has joined Kubrick as a non-executive director.
The company helps businesses to access digital skills by employing graduates, putting them through intensive training in data skills and deploying them to large corporate customers for two years. After the placement, the graduate can join the company without recruitment fees, which the majority do, or return to Kubrick. Clients in the UK and US include JP Morgan, Schroders and Jaguar LandRover. More than 1,500 data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing professionals have completed the scheme so far, and 250 are in training. Many are