Simon London, a former colleague of mine, and management writer for the Financial Times is leaving the global business newspaper and is joining McKinsey, the leading management consulting firm that publishes the acclaimed McKinsey Quarterly.

The FT San Francisco bureau has never managed to send anyone back to London, once here, nobody returns: Nick Denton, Roger Taylor, Andrew Heavens, Louise Kehoe, Paul Abrahams, Tom Foremski, Scott Morrison, Simon London.

Remaining in SF bureau: Richard Waters, Chris Nuttall (newly arrived).