VENATUS CONSEIL JOINS THE MANDRAKE GROUP

Montreal, September 15th, 2008 - The Mandrake Group has just acquired Venatus Conseil. The two firms will be merging their operations by December 2008. A new year, new premises, a new platform and a bigger team for 2009!

The entire Venatus team is very proud to now be a part of the Mandrake family, which is one of Canada's foremost executive search and consulting firms. As a strategic partner to some of the world's leading businesses, Mandrake's services include consulting, corporate restructuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances for long-term results. The Montreal office headed by Normand Lebeau was founded in 1998 and comprises a team of seasoned, knowledgeable consultants that you will soon have the opportunity to meet.

This merger aims to create synergy to better meet clients? and partners? expectations, in terms of practice complementarity as well as geographically, thanks to offices in Toronto, Calgary and a vast international network via the IESF (International Executive Search Federation) partnership.

Over the past few years, many requests have been formulated to diversify Venatus Conseil?s practice into marketing, sales, production and operations roles: these wishes have now been granted. By keeping the advantage of its ?talent broker? trademark and its corporate recruiting specialization, the team will be able to meet all clients? and partners? recruiting needs with the same high level of quality, know-how and thorough candidate evaluation.

The Venatus Conseil founder, Nathalie Francisci, now Executive Vice-president for the Mandrake Group,  would like to express her thanks for the trust over the past ten years, which has allowed the firm to become a recruiting market leader: It is a privilege to have you as clients and partners, and together we will continue to build and develop your corporate teams.