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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Staffing Agency space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
John F. Ferraro
Board Of Director of ManpowerGroup
Mr. Ferraro became a member of the Advance Auto Parts Board of Directors in February 2015 and was appointed Lead Independent Director in November 2015. Mr. Ferraro served as Global Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ernst & Young (EY), a leading professional services firm from 2007 to December 2014. In addition, Mr. Ferraro served as a member of EY’s Global Executive board for more than 10 years. Prior to his COO role, Mr. Ferraro served in several senior leadership positions at EY, including Global Vice Chair Audit. He joined EY in 1976 and has served a variety of global companies. Mr. Ferraro is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees of Marquette University.
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About : ManpowerGroup is a multinational human resource consulting firm, providing recruitment and assessment, training and development, and more.
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Nigel Wray
Non-Executive Director of Domino’s Pizza
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino’s Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors. Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community. Nigel still calls the area home, too – having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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About Domino’s Pizza: Domino’s is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery.
Stephen Britto
Finance Director of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Ben Broughton
Owner and Director of Primis
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About Primis: Primis is a provider of talent solutions to the technology sector.
Bradley Bartlett
Founder and Director of LMRE
Brad spent 8 years at one of London’s leading independent agencies as Director of Corporate Services. In 2017 he joined the highest funded VC backed property startup in Europe leading their leasing and corporate strategy teams. Brad wants to link the strongest talent in property with the most innovative ideas in PropTech.
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About LMRE: LMRE is placing talent into the proptech sector within UK and international real estate.
Louisa Dickins
Founder and Director of LMRE
Lu Lu started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director and oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa now has co-founded LMRE, and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate.
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About LMRE: LMRE is placing talent into the proptech sector within UK and international real estate.
Mark Brewer
Non Executive Board Director of The SR Group
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About Brewer Morris, Frazer Jones, The SR Group: The SR Group consists of specialist recruitment consultancies.
Anthony Davies
Executive Director – Operations & Client Services of The SR Group
Anthony joined The SR Group in April 2012 from Hudson, where he was Head of Bid Management for the UK & Ireland agency business and global RPO division. Prior to this he worked with a global remit at Advantage Professional, managing all bids and corporate projects including technology and process roll out, overseas expansions and integration of new business acquisitions. Anthony was promoted to Commercial Director in January 2014 and is responsible for all pitch and PSA activity within The SR Group, corporate responsibility and diversity.
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About The SR Group: The SR Group consists of specialist recruitment consultancies.
Mark Elwig
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Staff Heroes
Proven Commercial leader with a track record of driving growth through technology sales with Enterprise customers across multiple sectors including Hospitality, Retail, Travel and Entertainment. Experienced go-to market strategist and sales leader. Deal brokering at a global level. International experience within EMEA and US. Focus, drive and great people skills having lead several sales, business development and client account teams for both Fortune 500 and start-up organisations. Experience in setting up and building out sales and marketing teams from scratch and most recently co-founding and running the commercial arm of an innovative staffing marketplace start-up, operating within the Hospitality sector in the UK. Specialties: Business development, Sales, business strategy, account management, client services, licensing, white label, B2B partnerships, European & Global sales, SaaS software sales, launching a start-up.
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About eBay Advertising, mydeco, Staff Heroes: Staff Heroes is an on demand & AI technology marketplace reinventing the world of work, connecting businesses and workers more efficiently.
Jez Clark
Co-founder & Director of Eden Smith
Jez is a Co-founder and Director of Eden Smith, a specialist European data and analytics staffing company. Realising this market requires more than a job matching service Jez and Co-Founder Matt incorporated the company with one primary objective, to support businesses and help job seekers make sense of the #BigDataRevolution by sharing information, facilitating introduction and offering un-bias talent strategy and consulting services. Jez has been successful as a Consultant and Director in the staffing industry just shy of twenty years, he has helped many businesses adopt innovative strategies to attract niche talent and helped job seekers position themselves for hire. Ultimately the team at Eden Smith & their data and analytics consulting partners act in an advisory capacity, ensuring successful engagement between businesses and job seekers. We are here to help.
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About Eden Smith: Eden Smith is a specialist data & analytics staffing and consulting business based in central London.
Nicholas Deveney
Director of Consulting and Emerging Technologies of Eden Smith
Nicholas Deveney is the director of consulting and emerging technologies at Eden Smith.
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About Eden Smith: Eden Smith is a specialist data & analytics staffing and consulting business based in central London.
Nicholas Deveney
Director of Consulting and Emerging Technologies of Eden Smith
Nicholas Deveney is the director of consulting and emerging technologies at Eden Smith.
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About Eden Smith: Eden Smith is a specialist data & analytics staffing and consulting business based in central London.
Tom Williams
Co-founder & Director of Business Development of Rota
Tom Williams is a co-founder of Rota, a mobile app that connects a variety of hospitality venues with trained and vetted staff, offering better working conditions, value and quality to all stakeholders.
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About Rota: SAAS Mobile and desktop Apps to provide Total Workforce Technology for the whole workforce (internal and external)
Tom Hibberd
Founding Director of iO Associates
Following a successful recruitment career within the S3 Group, Tom took the decision to fulfil the long term ambition of building a company from inception, and so in 2009 jointly founded Panoramic Associates Ltd. Having experienced significant success and exciting growth within the senior level staffing sector, it was time to launch phase 2 of the plan, the development of a group company to house both Panoramic Associates and the new technical brand, iO. Tom has an extensive background in the provision of specialist contract, interim and permanent resource into specific industry sectors, and technology based recruitment forms a large proportion of this experience. A visionary & adaptable business leader, well versed in developing mutually beneficial, long term business relationships. Proven in building and managing teams of recruitment professionals with a core focus on creating exciting career opportunities through the development of individuals at all levels.
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About iO Associates: iO is an industry leading IT search firm, with specialist disciplines including FinTech, development, analytics, IT security and more.
Neil Willis-Stovold
Managing Director of iO Associates
Neil previously worked for the S3 Group across multiple offices in the UK and Australia, progressing from Trainee to Management, and then to S3 Group’s Australia Director for the last 4 years. Driven by a client centric and partnership approach, Neil has a proven track record of developing staff at all levels, establishing and maintaining key client relationships and evolving these relationships into effective, long lasting and successful business partnerships. “iO is the coming together of Panoramic Associates’ consultative approach to recruitment, with a passion for understanding Technical and Digital recruitment in the world today, for the benefit of our clients.”
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About iO Associates: iO is an industry leading IT search firm, with specialist disciplines including FinTech, development, analytics, IT security and more.
Mark Lloyd
Director of iO Associates
This strategy has proven successful throughout his career, whether that’s meant taking the extra time to listen to the aspirations of his clients and candidates, understand the individual motivations of his teams, or develop winning strategies to grow the businesses he’s been involved in. Having jointly founded the Group in 2009, this successful formula, in conjunction with Mark’s considerable experience, has been a key factor in the Company’s success to date. And with the launch of iO, Mark and the other founders bring with them a unique blend of expertise and knowledge which collectively inspires a great deal of confidence that the business is destined for tremendous success as they continue on their exciting journey.
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About iO Associates: iO is an industry leading IT search firm, with specialist disciplines including FinTech, development, analytics, IT security and more.
Donna Carolan
Client Solutions Director of Hunted
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About Hunted: The biggest hurdle to growth for recruitment companies is finding and hiring recruitment talent.
Ana Jantolic
Business Development Director of XML International
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About XML International: XML International (est. 2004) is a global staffing group, with our global HQ in London.
Owanate Bestman
Founder and Director of Bestman Solutions
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About Bestman Solutions: Bestman Solutions is a cyber security staffing resource firm that aids security and technology leaders.
Helena Sullivan
Group Marketing Director of Trinnovo Group
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About Trinnovo Group: Trinnovo is a recruitment firm that brings together three market experts to promote diversity, inclusion, and workplace innovation.
Kevin Sharkey
Commercial Finance Director of Ezy Recruitment Solutions
Kevin started his career with Grant Thornton in Birmingham auditing small and medium-sized businesses across various sectors. In 2006, he joined a medium-sized construction company in the West Midlands as Group Financial Director. Kevin founded KSA Associates in 2011 to provide small businesses with the best-practice financial management and part time Finance Director Services. KSA quickly build up a specialist niche within the recruitment sector acting for a number of temporary recruitment businesses across the Midlands as their part time FD. Kevin went on to jointly create Ezy Recruitment Solutions with Nathan Golby in 2015. He is married with two young children, is a keen Aston Villa supporter and enjoys running and playing golf.
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About Ezy Recruitment Solutions: Ezy Recruitment Solutions provides recruitment support services.
Pawan Lokwani
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Pawan is a young, successful, and award-winning entrepreneur based in the UK . He has experience in the talent market globally in Europe, Americas and Asia for more than 15 years and has successfully built teams globally and sold enterprise solutions to global clients.
His passion to channel growth and economic opportunities make him stand out from the crowd. Pawan began his career with one of the world’s largest consultancy firms in India. In recognition of his outstanding performance, Pawan was moved up the ladder and transferred to the firm’s London headquarters where he, once again, outshined his peer group. He has led projects for few of the world’s largest institutions like Warner Brothers, Ofcom, Universal Pictures, Cadbury etc.
While he achieved unprecedented success in his career, Pawan was quick to pay heed to the entrepreneurial spirit within him to set up his own Technology consultancy firm in the UK. By the time he was 35, Pawan had already expanded businesses to five countries employing over 80 people.
At an early stage of his entrepreneurial journey, Pawan had a clear-sighted vision to steer opportunities in the disruptive technologies and thus started building AI business to get 10X returns on the efforts deployed.
With a background in Sales, Technology and team development, Pawan is successfully scaling up the Talent AI B2B saas venture – Recruitment Smart Technologies to achieve global heights
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Yusuf Jazakallah
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Yusuf Jazakallah is a Director at Recruitment Smart Technologies.
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Nick Charalambous
Co-Founder and Director of Few&Far
Nick Charalambous is the co-founder and director at Few&Far.
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About Few&Far: Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.
Samm Green
Co-Founder and Director of Few&Far
Samm Green is the co-founder and director at Few & Far.
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About Few&Far: Few&Far helps companies stand out, build teams, and set the foundation for growth.
Stephen Herniman
Finance Director of Meet
Stephen Herniman serves as finance director at Meet, a recruitment company focused on the life science industry.
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About Meet: Meet is a recruitment solutions provider in the life sciences industry.
Andy Hallett
Investment Director of SThree PLC
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About SThree PLC: SThree is a company and has three key elements are market specialisation, organic growth and homegrown management.
Sean Schwarz
Founder and Managing Director of RAFT Recruitment
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About RAFT Recruitment: RAFT Recruitment is a recruiting firm that places executives, software, machine learning, and robotics engineers.
Nanik Mirpuri
Deputy Managing Director of Fluido
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About Fluido: Nordic Salesforce Platinum Consulting partner. We make customer data meaningful in the moments that matter the most.
Pinal Patel
Deputy Managing Director of Fluido
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About Fluido: Nordic Salesforce Platinum Consulting partner. We make customer data meaningful in the moments that matter the most.
Nick Cochrane
Director & Founder of Zebra People
Nick Cochrane is the Director of Zebra People and Founder of UX People.
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About Zebra People: Zebra People is a digital recruitment agency bringing together the smartest Digital talent.
Ben Clarfelt
Director of Zebra People
Ben Clarfelt is a Director and User Experience Recruiter at Zebra People.
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About Zebra People: Zebra People is a digital recruitment agency bringing together the smartest Digital talent.
Karen Ovenden
Operations Director of Hireserve
Karen is responsible for the day to day business operations of Hireserve and making sure we have a happy, well supported and valued team. Contributing in just about every business function (with the exception of coding) Karen knows the business inside and out, from product to people. Away from the office you may find Karen still checking her emails… But when she does manage to switch off it will be when taking the Director of Morale (Mabel) for walks, going to see the latest blockbusters or surrounding herself with her family for a cooked meal.
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About Hireserve: Hireserve a thriving UK recruitment technology company.
Dominic Starkey
Marketing and Communications Director of Search Consultancy
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About Search Consultancy: Search Consultancy is one of the UK’s recruitment consultancies.
Michaela Reaney
founder and Managing Director of Gradvert
Michaela is the founder and MD of Gradvert. She drives the company’s strategic direction and commercial focus as well as staying close to many of our clients and universities. Michaela has a decade of experience in global talent management and recruitment with FTSE100 organisations. An authoritative figure in the news on education, employability and and policies effecting young people, she takes great pride in driving a brand and organisation that supports the development of professional skills and behaviours in our future leaders.
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About Gradvert: UK’s leading graduate recruitment and training companies
Dan Collier
Co-Founder, Director of Sales and Strategy & CEO of ElevateDirect.com
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About ElevateDirect.com: Productivity enhancement tool for recruitment across all workforce categories
Johnathan Johnson
Executive Director NES Fircroft of NES Fircroft
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About NES Fircroft: NES Fircroft is one of the world’s largest technical and engineering recruitment specialist, offering jobs in Oil & Gas, Energy and Power.
Edward Farquhar
Director of Grace Personnel
With over 15 years of City experience specialising in SMEs, Ed has invaluable experience in guiding and working with management teams.
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About Grace Personnel: Grace Personnel provide recruitment for permanent and temporary office support personnel throughout Maidenhead.
Julie Sharpe
Director of Sharpe Recruitment
Julie’s experience comes from the last 30 years working in The Design, Fashion and Media industry including TV post production and facilities, Fashion, photography and online ecommerce, covering business development, sales, marketing, PR and customer service.
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About Sharpe Recruitment: Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs.
Joe Davis
Director of RSU Services Ltd
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About RSU Services Ltd: RSU Services Ltd is a Croydon based company and is specialized in setting up individual home based Recruitment agencies.
Daniel Nash
Co-Founder and Director of IC Resources
Daniel Nash is the co-founder and director of IC Resources.
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About IC Resources: IC Resources develops and delivers insightful and relevant recruitment solutions to the technology community.
Neil Dickins
Co-Founder and Director of IC Resources
Neil Dickins is the founder and director of IC Resources.
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About IC Resources: IC Resources develops and delivers insightful and relevant recruitment solutions to the technology community.
James Galloway
Co-Founder and Director of IC Resources
James Galloway is the co-founder and director of IC Resources.
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About IC Resources: IC Resources develops and delivers insightful and relevant recruitment solutions to the technology community.
Michael Hobson
Director of MySalarySurvey
LinkedIn – https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michaelhobsongv Email – michael@mysalarysurvey.com
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About MySalarySurvey: We develop world class web applications to help our partners around the world launch powerful websites, focused on talent acquisition.
Laura Clarke
Founder and Director of FinTech Global Careers Ltd
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About FinTech Global Careers Ltd: FinTech Global Careers are an executive talent agency specialising in World-Class talent within the FinTech niche.
Iain Blair
Managing Director of Revoco
Iain Blair is the managing director at Revoco.
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About Revoco: Revoco is a recruitment company that offers a variety of services to clients who seek talents in tech.
Mark Packman
Director of Productiv Delivery Ltd
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About Productiv Delivery Ltd: Productiv Delivery is a nationwide bespoke delivery service.
Will Hirons
Director of Productiv Delivery Ltd
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About Productiv Delivery Ltd: Productiv Delivery is a nationwide bespoke delivery service.
Ian Byrne
Account Director of Productiv Delivery Ltd
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About Productiv Delivery Ltd: Productiv Delivery is a nationwide bespoke delivery service.
Wayne Shilito
Director of Productiv Delivery Ltd
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About Productiv Delivery Ltd: Productiv Delivery is a nationwide bespoke delivery service.
Del Connolly
Senior Director – Head of LHi Group Manchester of Lawrence Harvey
Del Connolly is a senior director and head of LHi Group Manchester at Lawrence Harvey.
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About Lawrence Harvey: Lawrence Harvey is a recruitment company that offers recruitment service with a difference.
