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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 Founder operating in the Recruiting space. If you think a Founder 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.
Sergiu Matei
Founder of Index
Sergiu Matei is the founder of Index, the London-based platform helping enterprises like Vodafone and Twilio find and hire world-class remote software developers, and be globally compliant from the get-go. Before launching Index, Sergiu founded Travod, the translation marketplace providing 2,000+ brands such as Amazon and Swissport with locally hired translators in 100+ countries in every continent across the globe.
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About Index, Index.dev: Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
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Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Nicholas Shekerdemian
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Headstart
Nicholas Shekerdemian is the co-founder and executive chairman at Headstart.
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About Headstart, The Venture Collective: Headstart is diversity recruiting software focused on breaking the cycle of exclusion.
Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Jack Beaman
Co-Founder & CEO of Syft
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About Fuse Universal, Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Novo Abakare
Co-Founder & COO of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Rosemary Forsyth
Founder & General Partner of The Forsyth Group
Rosemary has been the General Partner of the Forsyth Group since she founded the company in 1981. Recognizing the potential growth of Information Technology within business, the Forsyth Group was the first Executive Search Consultancy to focus on the emerging technology market. Rosemary has developed extensive search experience across all technology sectors and conducts “C” and Board level assignments for technology companies in the UK, E& W Europe and the United States. Rosemary is is a key contributor to the investment community, and is an investor in Seedcamp. Rosemary holds a Master’s degree with honors in Psychology and an M.Litt degree in Educational Psychology, both from Aberdeen University in Scotland. Rosemary sits on the Aberdeen University Sixth Century Campaign Board, The Board of Governors of the School of Communication & Arts 2.0, Innovate Europe, Snowball and is an advisor to TalentPuzzle and BraveNewTalent.
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About Said Business School, University of Oxford, The Forsyth Group: The Forsyth group is a boutique executive search firm.
Peter Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Imployable
Peter Kelly is a Former Royal Marines Commando and the CEO and co-founder of Imployable. In 2018 Peter won the regional and national NatWest Great British Entrepreneur of The Year Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit
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About Imployable: Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career
Morgan Sowden
Co-Founder & CTO of paydesk
Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud.
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About Facebook AI, paydesk: On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Oliver Adderley
Founder and Managing Director of Jobster
Oliver Adderley is the founder and managing director at Jobster.
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About Jobster: Jobster is an online recruitment agency based in the United Kingdom
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.
Ziad Tassabehji
Co-Founder of YapJobs
Ziad Tassabehji is the Director of Innovation and Investments at Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company; a multi-billion dollar government sponsored initiative to promote advanced energy and sustainability technologies. Ziad is on both the executive and investment committees of the Masdar Clean Tech Fund.
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About Gaia Greenenergy Holdings, YapJobs: Real Time Hiring App for Hospitality & Retail
Olivier Kerckhove
VP / Founder of Storm5
Olivier Kerckhove is the VP and Founder at Storm5.
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About Storm5: Storm5 are global RetailTech recruitment experts, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Oliver Fisher
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Springpod
Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Chris Abbass
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Phil Blaydes
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Vivek Doraiswamy
Co-Founder / CTO of MeVitae
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About MeVitae: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
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.
Robert Walters
CEO and Founder of Robert Walters
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About Robert Walters: Robert Walters is a global, specialist professional recruitment consultancy.
Alex van Klaveren
Founder & CEO of Kandidate
Alex Klaveren is Founder & CEO at Kandidate and previously he was CEO at MedicExchange.
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About Kandidate: We place candidates in their next commercial role and guide them through their startup career at fast-growing, VC-backed companies.
James Uffindell
Founder & CEO of Bright
James Uffindell is Founder & CEO at Bright.
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About Bright: Bright is an online recruitment network that connects graduates, undergraduates and professionals with suitable job opportunities.
Romanie Thomas
Founder & CEO of Juggle Jobs
Romanie Thomas is Founder at Juggle Jobs.
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About Juggle Jobs: Juggle is an information technology company that offers a SaaS platform for the future of work.
Clare Cooper
Founder and Vice President of Storm3
Clare Cooper is the Founder and Vice President at Storm3.
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About Storm3: Storm3 are a global HealthTech talent marketplace, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Lukas Neumann
Co-Founder, Chief Engineer & Architect of Invenias
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About Invenias, MEMOS Software, University of Oxford: Invenias provides software solutions to the executive search and strategic recruitment sector.
David Wilson
Co-Founder & CTO of One Model
David Wilson is Co-Founder & CTO at OneModel.
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About One Model: One Model, a talent analytics accelerator, enables HR departments measure the productivity and efficiency of their workforce.
Dominie Moss
Founder & MD of The Return Hub
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About The Return Hub: The Return Hub is a recruitment firm in the financial services sector.
Kane Halsey
Founder and CEO of Pickr
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About Pickr: Pickr is an on-demand staffing platform for people and businesses to connect and work together.
Andrew Lavelle
Co-Founder & Managing Director of TalentPool
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About Alvius, TalentPool: TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates.
Gregory Asmolov
Co-Founder of PitchMe
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About King’s College London, PitchMe: PitchMe is a skills-based talent marketplace introducing multilayered profiling of skills and innovative matching algorithms.
Ian Langley
Founder of Airswift
I am more confident than ever about our prospects. I believe these new, better defined, roles for the senior team will help concentrate our top minds to deliver even more for our clients and the business. Both Janette and Peter have been instrumental in growing the company over recent years and these positions will enable them to combine their talents in a highly productive way. I believe that the business is exceptionally well placed to take advantage of improved market conditions and we couldn’t be more excited about the future.”
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About Airswift: Airswift is an oil and gas jobs and recruitment agency.
Charles Sekwalor
Founder of Movemeback
Charles Sekwalor is Founder at MoveMeBack. Entrepreneur, mentor, advisor and investor focused on building startups that drive change and positively influence people’s lives.
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About COS Vetures, Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Oyin Solebo
Founder of Movemeback
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About Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Hugo Rodger-Brown
Co-Founder & CTO of YunoJuno
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About YunoJuno: Online platform connecting freelancers and clients in the creative and technology sectors
Keith Jones
Co-Founder of Jobs The Word
He is passionate about leveraging my experience, expertise and networks to help Entrepreneurs build successful businesses and realise their dreams. Actively seeking Angel Investment Opportunities, providing both seed and growth capital.
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About Jobs The Word, Key Ventures Consulting (KVC): Jobs The Word is an employment service utilizing big data technologies to tap into candidate markets and promote employment brands.
James Silverman
Co-Founder of Hunted
James started his career with Michael Page before joining a startup rec2rec business Paddington Partners. He led PP’s global expansion and worked with recruiters and recruitment/search organisations across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. James is responsible for the overall strategic direction at Hunted and is hands on leading the Customer Success and Talent Advocacy teams.
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About Hunted: The biggest hurdle to growth for recruitment companies is finding and hiring recruitment talent.
Guy Tam
Co-Founder of Hunted
Guy started his career at Michael Page before going on to run global projects for a leading international artificial plant company. Guy heads our day-to-day operations and leads our tech and product development. With an unparalleled eye for detail and a great photo he’s the man to speak to about our product roadmap and an awesome team pic.
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About Hunted: The biggest hurdle to growth for recruitment companies is finding and hiring recruitment talent.
Wendy McDougall
CEO and Founder of Firefish Software
Wendy McDougall is the CEO and founder of Firefish Software. Prior to that, Wendy served as a regional director at TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement). She was the founder and managing director at 9-20 Recruitment.
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About Firefish Software: Firefish Software is a recruitment and marketing SaaS platform that helps recruiters reach, engage, and recruit top candidates.
Amanda Cai
CEO and Founder of Icontract Ventures Ltd.
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About Icontract Ventures Ltd.: iContract connects professional contractors with recruiters to match jobs
Paul De Francisci
Co-Founder of Icontract Ventures Ltd.
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About Icontract Ventures Ltd.: iContract connects professional contractors with recruiters to match jobs
Miguel Heinonen
Founder & CEO of Heirizon
Miguel is in charge of overall operations and strategy at Heirizon, where he manages the growth as a brand and the expansion of the company. Miguel graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Entrepreneurship, and received his MBA in Global Business Administration.
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About Heirizon: Heirizon is a leading job board that aggregates jobs within 7 miles of your desired location. The platform helps users find jobs in a visual process as well as shows the companies hiring in real-time.
David Allison
Co-Founder and CEO of GetMyFirstJob
David is the Co-Founder and CEO of GetMyFirstJob Limited. He is passionate about improving access to opportunities for young people and helping business access the next generation of talent. Following a career with Ford where, after a number of roles from advanced product development to European product planning, he discovered his passion for organisational and people development. David was instrumental in setting up and running Ford’s partnership with Loughborough University and was Director of the Henry Ford College. Having gained an MBA, David left Ford to focus on Learning and Development. Following a number of senior roles at specialist training and L&D businesses, he co-founded GetMyFirstJob in 2011. David has served as a Trustee / NED of NCFE, one of the UK’s leading awarding organisations, and was designated a National Leader of Governance in 2014 following his work with schools. He remains a visiting lecturer at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University.
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About GetMyFirstJob: GetMyFirstJob is a web-based platform that improves the speed and quality of matching young people to the right apprenticeship.
Maria Tanjala
Co-Founder of Big Couch
Maria is the co-founder of Big Couch, a fintech startup, energising the entertainment industry with a new financial model: Crewfunding. Since 2017, Big Couch has been developing a new product, FilmChain on the blockchain, in partnership with Imperial College London. In 2018, they have been awarded an innovation grant from Innovate UK. Maria has been a prominent figure at film industry events and festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Berlin, Glasgow etc. She produced and associate produced two feature docs and one drama.
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About Big Couch, FilmChain: Big Couch is the ‘crewfunding’ platform that empowers filmmakers, connecting them with crews that invest in projects they believe in.
Nicky Garcea
Co Founder, Chief Customer Officer, Chartered Psychologist of Capp
Nicky Garcea is a Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Cappfinity. She is an accredited industrial psychologist. Nicky works with Cappfinity clients globally and heads up the Americas. Nicky has over 20 years’ experience working with global. She is a pioneer in recruiting and developing for strengths and the recruitment and promotion of unrepresented talent. Nicky is a regular keynote speaker on candidate experience and immersive recruitment technology.
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About Capp, Cappfinity: Capp is a global leader in strengths-based assessment.
Clare Johnston
CEO and Founder of The Up Group
Clare is the Founder and CEO of The Up Group, a leading international executive search and networking firm focused on the digital and technology sectors. She has an extensive global network and hosts regular sector events attracting some of Europe’s most exciting investors, entrepreneurs as well as executives from start-ups through to global corporates. Clare’s earlier career was as a Management Consultant for Detica, an international technology consultancy, as well as being co-Managing Director of an executive search firm. Having self-funded and grown The Up Group from the ground up to a twenty person business shortly opening its Berlin and New York offices, Clare was recognised in Management Today’s influential ‘35 Women under 35’ list, as well as listed on Growing Business Young Guns 2012 awards. Clare graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Management Sciences from The University of Warwick.
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About The Up Group: The Up Group company provides online recruitment, professional placement, and career consulting services.
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.
Abhishek Nakhate
Founder & CEO of Zoom Abroad
Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur with a problem-solving attitude, challenging the status quo. With over 13 years of the international student recruitment industry, Abhishek has experience working as a Director in International University, as an agent, as a service provider and have fist hand experience of being an international student. Determined to address and solve some burning problems in the student recruitment industry. With passion & compassion towards a student’s career, Abhishek also expertise in Career advisory and mentoring. Likes public speaking, motivational stories, Table tennis and ofcourse family.
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About Zoom Abroad: A free AI platform which connects students to the best-fit universities globally, saving them TIME and MONEY.
Greg Kalym
Co-Founder of You Are Uncommon
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About You Are Uncommon: You Are Uncommon is an onsite consultancy for recruiting agency.
Matthew de la Hey
CEO & Co-Founder of inploi
Matthew is co-founder & CEO of inploi, a recruitment marketing platform built to connect great employers with the future of the workforce. With employer branding at its heart, inploi empowers companies to speak to candidates as consumers of workplaces, helping them to tell their stories with captivating videos, images, and written content in order to engage active and passive candidates. When actively hiring, inploi’s software is a powerful recruitment tool incorporating job post creation and distribution, applicant tracking, CV-parsing, candidate-job matching, proactive talent search, video profiles, instant messaging, video calling, file sharing, programmatic job advertising and more. For jobseekers, inploi provides a beautiful professional presence making it easy to access career-related information, apply for job opportunities, and connect and communicate with employers, and with each other. Matthew is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and a two-time Weidenfeld Scholar.
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About inploi: inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.
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.
Laura Degiovanni
CEO and Founder of TiiQu
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About TiiQu: TiiQu is a trust mechanism derived by immutable verifiable sources about one’s ID, Work, Knowledge, Performances
Gary McKay
Co-Founder & MD of APPII
Gary is the co-founder and managing director of APPII, a blockchain start up revolutionising CV verification and employee background checking. APPII was founded in early 2016 and is based in London. He has more than 20 years’ experience across many different industries including financial services, media, staffing and recruiting, and management consulting. All of his roles have centred around using his technology experience and knowledge to transform businesses and disrupt business models. Born is Scotland, Gary studied Building Surveying at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, before moving to Australia for 18 years where he studied at the UNSW Business School and was awarded a Master of Business and Technology.
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About APPII: Using blockchain technology to quickly and simply verify identities, backgrounds (such as criminal history) and career history (CV / Resume)
Matt Rantell
CEO & Founder of The Square
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About The Square: The Square is an award winning workforce management platform & hiring marketplace for construction businesses.
Ollie Povey
Co-Founder & COO of Tempo
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About Tempo: Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
Ben Chatfield
CEO & Co-Founder of Tempo
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About Tempo: Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
Beverly Shaw
Co-Founder of ClickIQ
Beverly Collins is the Co-Founder of ClickIQ.
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About ClickIQ: ClickIQ is an automated job advertising platform uses the latest AI and programmatic technology to manage.
Richard Collins
Co-Founder of ClickIQ
Richard Collins is the Co-Founder of ClickIQ.
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About ClickIQ: ClickIQ is an automated job advertising platform uses the latest AI and programmatic technology to manage.
Adam Gordon
CEO & Co-Founder of Candidate.ID
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About Candidate.ID, Social Media Search: Candidate.ID is a marketing automation software specifically developed for recruitment.
Allan Lloyds
Founder & MD of Product Forge
Founder & Managing Director, Insight Arcade Ltd
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About Product Forge: Product Forge bring together developers, creatives and entrepreneurs to build new products that solve real world problems.
Kondwani Mwangulube
Founder of Myjobo.com
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About Myjobo.com: Myjobo.com is Malawi’s leading online site for jobs, recruitment and careers. It covers both the formal and informal employment marketplace.
Geoffrey Banda
Co-Founder & Director of Myjobo.com
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About Myjobo.com: Myjobo.com is Malawi’s leading online site for jobs, recruitment and careers. It covers both the formal and informal employment marketplace.
Alice Weightman
Founder & CEO of The Work Crowd
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About The Work Crowd: The Work Crowd is changing the way talented people choose to work and how work finds talented people!
Chris Keeling
Founder and CEO of Jobtrain
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About Jobtrain: Streamline recruitment and secure top-talent through Jobtrain’s innovative applicant tracking system and online candidate management.
Alison Keeling
Co-Founder & Director of Jobtrain
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About Jobtrain: Streamline recruitment and secure top-talent through Jobtrain’s innovative applicant tracking system and online candidate management.
Alex Dover
Founder of Prism Digital
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About Prism Digital: Prism Digital are a DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure focused Talent Partner.
Andrew Barnes
Managing Director and Co Founder of 6prog
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Hannah Birch
Co-Founder of 6prog
After graduating in Marketing, Hannah took a management path by delivering projects in the public sector and managed ‘return to employment’ schemes for ex-offenders. More recently Hannah managed the back office of a consultancy firm in the UK. In her spare time, she ‘enjoys’ being a general taxi service and keeping fit.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Hannah Birch
Co-Founder of 6prog
After graduating in Marketing, Hannah took a management path by delivering projects in the public sector and managed ‘return to employment’ schemes for ex-offenders. More recently Hannah managed the back office of a consultancy firm in the UK. In her spare time, she ‘enjoys’ being a general taxi service and keeping fit.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Ray Barnes
Co-Founder of 6prog
Ray began programming as a school boy on an IBM 360 and has not stopped since! He has developed software for many industries, focussing recently on data-driven sport websites. A keen orienteer, he is often an official taking responsibility for 3500 competitors at the largest UK events. Any spare time is devoted to climbing hills and ticking off trig points.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Kyle John Probert
Founder of Transparent Talent
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About Transparent Talent: Transparent Talent is a staffing agency that provides recruiting services to a variety of sectors.
Eyal Ben Cohen
CEO/Founder of Verifile
Eyal Ben Cohen is the CEO and Founder at Verifile Ltd – Employment Screening Company. He worked for WorkPass Limited as CEO/Founder. He is a graduate of Cranfield University with an MBA in Business Administration.
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About Verifile: Verifile is a provider of global CV verification and background screening services.
Nicholas Barton
Founder & CEO of The Barton Partnership
Nicholas founded The Barton Partnership in late 2007 and has succeeded in building a niche executive recruitment firm with an enviable reputation within the Strategy, Transformation and M&A arena. From a standing start, he has built a team of professionals renowned not only for their talent acquisition skills but also their subject matter expertise with offices in London, Europe, New York and Asia. Throughout his career he has specialised in, and successfully executed, on over 250 senior retained and contingent assignments across Commerce, Financial Services and Professional Services both in the UK and Internationally.
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About The Barton Partnership: The Barton Partnership is a niche Executive Recruitment firm providing permanent and interim solutions in strategy, transformation, and M&A.
Ben Kaminsky
Founder & CEO of EVA.AI
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About EVA.AI: HR Tech Automation Platform
Nikki Cochrane
CO-CEO & Co- Founder of DigitalMums
Nikki set up the business with Kathryn so the weight of our flexible mission falls on her shoulders. She comes out in hives if she has to leave E8 and is the only person under 90 with an addiction to wine gums.
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About DigitalMums: Digital Mums is a social media skills training.
Kathryn Tyler
Co- Founder of DigitalMums
Kathryn set up the business with Nikki so shares our responsibility for changing the world for mothers everywhere. Also known as #onetakeTyler or #Katinthehat – she has more aliases than Jason Bourne.
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About DigitalMums: Digital Mums is a social media skills training.
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.
Christopher Platts
Co-Founder & CEO of ThriveMap
Chris Platts is CEO of ThriveMap, a provider of personalised, pre-employment assessment software for volume hiring.
A former recruiter, Chris has experienced the problem of relying on intuition when making hiring decisions. ThriveMap helps companies to redeuce attrition and improve hiring decisions via realistic work simulations that take candidates through a digital “day in the life” experience of a job. Prior to starting ThriveMap, Chris was CEO of TalentRocket a culture-first talent marketplace.
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About ThriveMap: Personalised pre-employment assessments for volume hiring
Lionel Viet
Founder of AssessUp
Founder of AssessUp.
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About AssessUp: The first objective platform for detecting and promoting talented professionals
Andrew Donnelly
Founder and Director of Kloodle
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About Kloodle: Kloodle is the Social Network for Graduate Recruitment and Student Employability in the UK.
Phillip Hayes
CEO & Founder of Kloodle
Phillip Hayes is a CEO & Founder at Kloodle.
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About Kloodle: Kloodle is the Social Network for Graduate Recruitment and Student Employability in the UK.
Fergus O’Brien
Co-Founder of Khonvo
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About Khonvo: Khonvo is a team of tech enabled recruiters who do their best to keep their focus on the human elements of recruitment.
James World
Co-Founder of Tungl
James World joined Imburse as Solution Architect in 2021.
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About Imburse, Tungl: Tungl is a tech assessment platform designed to streamline tech recruitment and enable data driven hiring decisions.
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Chris Sahota
CEO and Founder of Ciesco
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About Ciesco: Corporate finance advisors to technology-enabled media and marketing businesses
Srdjan Radojcic
Co-Founder of One Assessment
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About One Assessment: One Assessment is talent development & analytics platform for building high-performing workforces.
Magdalena Slowinska Janowitz
Co-Founder/CEO of Includeon
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About Includeon: An accessible platform matching remote jobs with disabled e-workers, creating a happy online workplace and a more inclusive society.
Matthew Edge-Wilkins
Founder and Director of Intalent Solutions
After an early career in financial services, working with large blue-chip organisations – Barclays, Zurich Insurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers; Matthew’s recruitment career started in 2003 as the result of a chance meeting in a bar in Sydney, Australia whilst in the middle of a 12 month round-the-world adventure. That meeting led to Matthew joining Freespirit Consulting who provide support and talent management services to contractors, obtaining a four-year sponsorship in the process. 12 months later, Matthew joined the International Student Placement Centre (ISPC), which has since been bought out by Sydney University.
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About Intalent Solutions: Intalent is a leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing solutions to companies in the property sector.
Simon La Fosse
CEO, Founder & Co-Chairman of La Fosse Associates
Simon has worked in technology executive search for the last 20 years. Up until the end of 2006 he worked for a leading executive search firm and helped to grow the business from an embryonic team to an international organisation of over 500 people. Simon was part of the executive team that took the organisation public in 1997 and left to start La Fosse Associates at the beginning of 2007. La Fosse Associates has since grown to a position of prominence as one of the most respected technology search firms in the UK, and is poised for further significant growth.
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About La Fosse Associates: La Fosse Associates focus all our efforts on providing an outstanding service to our clients and candidates
Thiago Azevedo
CEO & Founder of ZOA Robotics
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About ZOA Robotics: A Startup developing affordable robots inspired by nature.
David Courreau
Director & Co-Founder of find’m
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About find’m, Signal AI: find’m is the first hybrid recruitment business with a video proposition. find’m brings a unique methodology that goes far beyond a job spec
David Copple
Founder & CEO of Shine Interview
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About Cornerways Consulting Ltd, Shine Interview: Shine Interview is a cloud based video interview and shortlisting platform.
Hilary Roberts
Founder, CEO & Owner of HRC Recruitment
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About HR Consultancy, HRC Recruitment: HRC Recruitment is the multi-sector consultancy that delivers high-end service and opportunities at all levels.
Juliet Eccleston
CEO and Co-Founder of AnyGood?
Juliet is CEO and co-founder of the crowdsourced talent platform AnyGood?, an open network where professionals recommend other professionals for roles. AnyGood? launched in 2017 after Juliet’s frustration with the recruitment industry collided with her interest in the sharing economy. Since then AnyGood? has attracted interest from national and industry press, as well as large corporates and small to medium sized businesses who are looking for new ways to find great people. AnyGood? successfully crowdfunded their initial seed round and are set for significant growth in 2019. The team’s commitment to good design principles has enabled them to develop a solution which helps to level playing field for candidates. This includes a proactively curated network, to ensure a good representation of society and as a result greater diversity of recommended candidates. Prior to AnyGood?, Juliet delivered large scale change programmes for over 20 years within Financial Services, Retail and Government. Juliet has held senior Programme roles at Egg, BBC, Sainsbury’s, Legal & General, Fidelity Investments & Britannia Building Society amongst others.
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About AnyGood?: AnyGood? is making a bold stand in this new economy.
Logan Naidu
CEO and Founder of Dartmouth Partners
Logan is the founder and CEO of Dartmouth Partners. He has a notable track record in recruiting across financial services but with a particular focus on M&A and Private Equity. While running the firm from a strategic perspective, Logan uses his recruitment expertise to guide consultants in the execution of roles. He continues to work on the delivery of more senior advisory and investment mandates. Logan studied to Masters level at the University of Birmingham before entering the City in 2000. He began his career at JPMorgan and PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Corporate Finance. Logan co-founded the Cornell Partnership in 2005 before leading a successful exit of the financial services and graduate business to form what is now Dartmouth. Logan has a desire for individuals and businesses to work together to mutually flourish and to enjoy shared success and this is reflected internally at Dartmouth. Dartmouth’s success is partly due to Logan’s drive to succeed.
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About Dartmouth Partners: Dartmouth Partners is provides recruitment consultancy.
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.
