Welcome to Active Human Capital Group
At Active Human Capital we believe that people are the essence of the differentiation between a company and its competitors.
As organisations change and adapt in response to today's challenging market conditions, it is necessary to recruit the very best people to help a company stay ahead.
Our individual experience is broad but we choose to focus our services on financial, professional and technological markets which encompass the following core areas, thus giving a more efficient and specialised service:
- Audit & Accounting
- Banking & Private Equity
- Business Advisory & Consulting
- Communication & Information Technology
- Consumer & Industrial Markets
- Non-Executive Directors
- Public Sector & Not for Profit
  
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The purpose of IRC Global Executive Search Partners is to internationally harmonise recruitment processes in order to provide unsurpassed quality management in search and selection activities.
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news – 26th may 2010
A voice for business in the West Midlands
AHC Chairman, Richard Boot, one of the region’s leading business figures, has been given an ICAEW West Midlands Lifetime Achievement Award. BWMSCA President, Sally Beavan, said he was, “a first rate Ambassador for Business in the broader community and with Government, AWM and key regional organisations”.
 Richard Boot FCA, Chairman
Richard Boot has been a staunch advocate for business in the region”, she told chartered accountants at the Annual Regional Awards lunch in Birmingham.
In presenting Richard with a lifetime achievement award, Sally said, “in a career of over 35 years in the West Midlands, Richard has made an exceptional contribution to the Business Community.”
Business Career
Throughout his business and professional career Richard, who was born in Birmingham, has been totally committed to this region. A well known Senior Partner for 20 years with KPMG he was, as Managing Director, instrumental in setting up and developing their high profile Management Consulting and then Corporate Finance practices, which changed the mould of the traditional professional practice.
These successful businesses became large employers and important components of the emerging Professional and Service sectors in Birmingham and the West Midlands. As a Regional Board member for the overall practice, he was part of the Executive team, which grew KPMG in the Midlands to being a business employing over 1,200 staff.
Richard has created new businesses throughout his business career. He personally initiated and was founding Chairman of the firm’s UK Centre for Manufacturing Consultancy and he worked hard to establish the team here in Birmingham to support manufacturing industry. He also created and was Chairman of the UK Automotive Group in KPMG from 1999 until 2009.
Since leaving KPMG as a Partner in 2002, Richard has been involved with a number of local companies and is Chairman of Active Human Capital Group.
Institute of Directors (IoD)
In addition to a demanding professional career, Richard has served the IoD with distinction since the 1980s, initially as Regional Secretary and then as West Midlands Regional Chairman from 1994-1997. He is just completing an extraordinary second three-year term as Chairman, which he took up again at the IoD’s request in 2007.
From 1994 until 2007, he was also on the National Council of the IoD and served on the Audit & Risk Committee for much of this time. During his periods of office, it is generally acknowledged that Richard has made an exceptional and sustained contribution to IoD activities and to the wider business community.
Richard has been a first rate Ambassador for Business in the broader community and with Government, AWM and key regional organisations. He has used his position to lobby for the business community and to promote the values behind good business.
These have been challenging times of late and Richard has worked hard to make a real difference by developing programmes to help support members adapt to the dramatic changes in the economy.
Importantly, Richard has been a long-term and committed advocate of assisting younger people and instituted schemes for experienced members to mentor both younger members and those in Education looking to careers in Business. He is an enthusiastic supporter and sponsor of the Young Directors Group.
Together with partners at AWM, the regional universities, and JobCentre Plus, the IoD has helped the Graduate Internship programme take in excess of 400 graduates off the unemployment register, whilst providing valuable business experience. Richard was instrumental in engaging the IOD in this successful scheme.
Richard has also served as the IoD’s representative on the Council of Economic Advisers in the West Midlands and is their National representative on the Regional Economic Council jointly chaired by the Chancellor and Lord Mandelson .
Throughout his involvement, Richard has been keen to work with other business organisations and as such been an active contributor in the creation of a unified front for Business. He has worked extensively with others towards the creation of Business Voice West Midlands (formerly West Midlands Business Council), which now represents the collective views from a range of business groupings.
As a BVWM Board member, he has been particularly active and visible in helping take the key issues to policy makers and raising the concerns of business on a whole range of issues, including the structure of Regional Government and the role of RDA.
He has worked to establish close relationships between the IoD and organisations seeking to assist armed service personnel. Despite challenging times, Richard has made important changes in the IoD and leaves it with clear succession, a strong regional committee, active branches and with finances in good order.
Charitable work
For a number of years now, Richard has been an active Trustee, supporter and sponsor of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Museum in Warwick, which promotes the contribution of those who served in our ‘local’ regiment and is a facility to help educate school children and the wider community in the contribution of the military to modern society.
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