ABOUT MANDRAKE Founded in 1970, Mandrake is one of Canada's leading consulting firms specializing in executive search and other strategic advisory services. Mandrake is one of the largest privately held executive search firms in the country and is 100% Canadian owned with two offices in Toronto and in Montreal. Mandrake has considerable expertise in a number of practice areas including: Government & Public Sector, Automotive & Transportation, Consumer Goods, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Broadcasting, Publishing, Retail, Financial Services, Advertising & Communications, Creative & Design, Information Technology, Telecommunications, and Business and Professional Services. As a direct contact professional search organization, our fundamental goal is to advise clients by identifying, evaluating and attracting exceptional individuals who in turn, build exceptional organizations. Our mission is to cause organizations and people to fulfill their purpose. The ultimate testimony of our achievements has been the numerous past candidates who have, as their careers grew and developed, remained with us to become steadfast and loyal clients. We are very proud to be able to list among our clients many of Canada's blue chip companies and indeed some of the most respected companies and brands in the world. Our clients include Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ontario Place Corporation, Business Development Bank of Canada, Canadian Blood Services, Royal Canadian Mint, CN Tower, SMART Toronto Technology Alliance, Effem Foods, Molson Breweries, Rogers, and CBC. Mandrake has successfully completed over 7,000 searches, gathered more than 200,000 individuals in our database, and recruited hundreds of CEO's and other senior executives. Mandrake has four operating groups; Executive Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Alliances, and Organizational Consulting. Mandrake's nearly 50 full-time employees are headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal and Calgary. Globally, Mandrake has access to a network of non-equity associates in the USA, Mexico, Argentina, UK, France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, Thailand, and Malaysia. Additionally, Mandrake's global reach has been solidified recently by becoming a member of the International Executive Search Federation (www.iesf.com) which is a federation of independently owned executive search firms, each having an established and strong professional base in its own country.