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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Managing Director operating in the Human Resources space. If you think a Managing 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.
Patrick Wehrmann
Group Managing Director & CEO, StepStone UK of StepStone
Patrick Wehrmann joined StepStone 2012 as member of the supervisory board. In February 2014 he was appointed to his current role as Group Managing Director with specific responsibilities for the group businesses (Totaljobsgroup, Jobsite, SAON UK) in the UK, Mergers and Acquisitions and international HR. Before joining StepStone as Group Managing Director, Patrick served as Managing Director of Axel Springer Digital Classifieds. In this position he held several supervisory and advisory board positions in the digital classifieds businesses of Axel Springer worldwide. Previously, he was Commercial Publishing Director / CFO of the BILD Group and the Axel Springer Magazine Division as well as COO/CFO of the Axel Springer Magazine and International Division. In the beginning of his career he held several positions in the French, German, US and UK businesses of Axel Springer. Patrick graduated in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. He also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Dijon (France) and at the University of Colorado.
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About StepStone: StepStone is a leading international provider of software and services for the human capital management sector.
Alex Fourlis
Managing Director UK of CareerBuilder
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About Broadbean, CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is an online platform specialized in HR Software-as-a-Service to help companies with the recruitment process.
Mark Feingold
Managing Director of Reward Sciences
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About Reward Sciences: Reward Sciences is an easy-to-use platform that enables organizations to incentivize and reward human behaviors wherever and whenever.
Haitham Al-Khatib
Managing Director of Clearmove
Founder @ Clearmove
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About Clearmove: Clearmove specializes in the fields of relocation services, global mobility, travel, and enterprise solutions.
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.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
J. Nicholas Starritt
Managing Director of Sirota Consulting
Nick Starritt joined Sirota as a Partner in 2002 after leaving BP plc., where he had been the Group Vice-President Human Resources since 1998. In his time at BP, Nick led the global HR function as BP grew to become the UK’s largest organization, through a series of mergers & acquisitions. During this period, he was recognized by different external awards as the UK’s top HR professional. Before this role, Nick was Head of Financial Services for the European joint venture between BP and Mobil Oil, based in Brussels, and before that, General Manager of Shared Services for Mobil’s European & African business. His earlier career was characterized by successive senior roles within Mobil’s international Human Resources function, based in the USA and UK and working globally on various organization change, remuneration and HR projects. Since joining Sirota, Nick has successfully built the EMEA operation, acquiring many well-known clients such as Shell, Rolls-Royce, Qatar-RasGas, ING, TNT and the European Bank. Between 2003 and 2009 he was also a non-executive director of Northgate Information Solutions, a FTSE 200 company, and is currently a Director of the Performance & Reward Centre (Parc).
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About Mercer, Sirota Consulting: Sirota Consulting is a global provider of employee engagement solutions that offers the full breadth of organizational assessments, surveys.
Paul Owen
Managing Director of Sales Talent Spotters
Paul set up Sales Talent Spotters in 2011 to help companies find and retain good salespeople and to help people with the proven ability to sell – or the potential to sell (his particular passion) – to find great jobs. Like many business people, he identified a gap in the sales recruitment market having experienced recruitment services that claimed to do much but failed to deliver. Prior to setting up Sales Talent Spotters, Paul spent 15 years developing market-leading services alongside successful sales teams. Highlights included a property company which he grew by 400% in 5 years and a trade body he set up from scratch to over 400 members in 3 years. In 2012, as part of his mission to find new sales talent, he launched the nationwide skills programme – Let’s get Britain selling!© – to introduce thousands more people to the world of sales. It is now delivered at over 30 universities across the UK. A regular and engaging speaker at business events on all things sales, he is a judge of both National Sales Awards and Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Sales Talent Spotters: Sales Talent Spotters is an exceptional recruitment firm.
Andrew Griffin
Managing Director of Oakhall
Andrew Griffin is the managing director of [Oakhall Ltd](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oakhall#/entity). Previously, he was the senior vice president of industry and investor relations at [Monitise](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/monitise). Prior to Monitise, Griffin worked at Robertson Stephens and UBS, holding positions as technology equity analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the [University of Southampton](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-southampton-2#/entity).
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About Oakhall: Oakhall is a specialist and unique firm of consultants that helps boards and executive teams increase there company performance.
Bob Teasdale
Managing Director of MyHRToolkit
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About MyHRToolkit: MyHRToolkit is an HR software package specifically designed for small and medium sized (SME) businesses.
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.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Ben Moss
Managing Director of Robertson Cooper Ltd
Ben Moss is Managing Director @ Robertson Cooper Ltd.
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About Robertson Cooper Ltd: Robertson Cooper is a company that promote benefits to employee well-being.
