David Broome, VMA Group executive board director, founder of its internal communications practice and most recently head of its executive search team, has left VMA to join Oskar Yasar Partnership as managing partner.

He will focus on establishing the partnership’s internal communications executive recruitment business and building on the continued growth of its wider corporate communications offering.

Oskar Yasar Partnership, which will change its name to Broome Yasar Partnership, was established in 2013 by former VMA Group international managing director and Citigate Dewe Rogerson consultant, Oskar Yasar. The partnership has had a is a leading boutique consultancy offering dedicated executive search and recruitment consultancy services to corporates and agencies in the UK and globally, helping to appoint some of the most talented corporate communications, agency and investor relations professionals.

In addition to its current cadre of partners, it has also been announced that Polly Fergusson, former Pelham PR adviser and senior financial journalist, is joining the partnership as an adviser and associate partner. In addition, Al Loehnis, former founding director of Investis, the leading digital communications services provider, has also joined as a board adviser.

Yasar says, “We are incredibly excited by our success to date as well as our future growth plans with these significant appointments. In addition, we’ve been amazed by the goodwill shown by our clients and candidates, which has been humbling. This new team, in addition to the Partners we have in place, is regarded as a major player within the executive recruitment arena and our combined experience within it is peerless. Partnership will not just be the name on our door – it’s our promise to work as a dedicated and long term partner with our customers, who we believe to be both our candidates and clients. We have an innate understanding of what that promise should be.”