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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 CEO’ operating in the Staffing Agency space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
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.
Aidan Cramer
Co-founder / CEO of Stride
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About Stride: Deep jobs marketplace connecting sales talent with jobs at tech companies.
James Lloyd-Townshend
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tenth Revolution Group
With over two decades of experience leading staffing firms, James Lloyd-Townshend is an experienced CEO with a strong track record of identifying under-served niche markets. He builds and scales highly profitable, market leading international cloud recruitment brands and training academies, all of which outperform their peers by several orders of magnitude. As Chairman and CEO, James has created a business that allows anyone with the ambition to succeed and reach their goals in an environment that is genuinely inclusive. James is an Economics and Accounting graduate from the University of Newcastle and has attended the executive program at Manchester Business School as well as several other business schools in Europe.
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About Tenth Revolution Group: Tenth Revolution Group is the global leader in cloud talent solutions, uniquely equipped to deliver digital transformation through people.
Andrius Balkunas
CEO & Founder of ParcelABC
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About ParcelABC: ParcelABC is a logistics company that unites thousands of local and international delivery 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.
Whitney Hawkings
Co-Founder and CEO of Flowerbx
Whitney Hawkings is a co-founder and CEO of FLOWERBX.
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About Flowerbx: Flowerbx is an online, wholesale, flower-delivery service.
Mark Chaffey
Co-founder & CEO of hackajob
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About hackajob: Hackajob is a data-driven and engaging recruitment platform that matches top digital talent with exciting companies.
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.
Jennifer Johansson
Founder & CEO of Placed App
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About Placed App: Placed is a mobile-first recruitment platform helping the high labour churn, service industries access permanent staff.
Ann-Christine Roope
Founder & CEO of Ethan Partners
Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.
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About Ethan Partners: Ethan Partners is a specialized executive search firm.
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.
Steven Rawlingson
Founder and CEO of Samuel Knight International
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About Samuel Knight International: Samuel Knight International is a Energy and Rail recruitment specialists Company.
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.
Ben Ayme
CEO of SkillSnap
https://skillsnap.com/profiles/1-ben-laurent-ayme
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About SkillSnap: SkillSnap is the only web-based recruitment platform which helps recruiters and hiring managers recruit LESS by identifying the best fit.
Aled Morris
CEO of Harris Hill
Aled is the Chief Executive and owner of Harris Hill Limited (including Harris Hill Independent Schools), and the Managing Director of Harris Hill Executive Search. With an extensive and highly successful 19-year track record as a CEO in the recruitment industry, he previously spent a further 10 years as a Chartered Accountant in PricewaterhouseCoopers, and 4 years as a commercial Finance Director. He is a graduate of Oxford University and is a Trustee for the Addiction Support and Care Agency, and the Chair of London Welsh Mini Rugby. His appointments include the Development Director at Queens Gate School, Bursar (also at Queens Gate), CEO with St Michael’s Hospice, CEO with Rotherham Hospice and the Finance Director with Parkinson’s UK.
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About Harris Hill: Harris Hill is a specialist recruiter to the charity and not-for-profit niche markets.
Albert Ellis
Chief Executive Officer of Staffline
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About Staffline: Staffline is a national recruitment organization with more than 350 locations across the UK along with specialist welfare to work division.
Scott Erwin
Founder and CEO of HireHand
Scott Erwin is the founder and CEO at HireHand.
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About HireHand: HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
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.
Chathum Henegama
CEO & Co-Founder of XpressJobs
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About XpressJobs: XpressJobs is Sri Lanka’s premier Job Board. A marketplace tasked to help companies hire the best talent.
Christopher Platts
Co-Founder & CEO of ThriveMap
Christopher Platts is Founder of ThriveMap.
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About ThriveMap: Personalised pre-employment assessments for volume hiring
Ali Hanan
Founder & CEO of Creative Equals
All Hanan is an award-winning creative director who marketing sector for the last 19 years. Along the wa lack of diversity within the industry, so in 2015, she s project, now an award-winning organisation with the VCCP, HavasLondon, Ogilvy, The Engine Group, AMV pioneered a data-driven, people-powered model for Media Equality Standards, which has become the be companies a review, rating and a roadmap for lastin has worked in the advertising and she has seen the impact of the -t up Creative Equals as a side backing of companies including 1900 and many more. Her team liversity, the Creative, Digital and chmark for the industry, giving change.
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About Creative Equals: Creative Equals is here to work with industry, agencies and recruitment to create more pathways to success for female creative talent.
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
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
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.
Paul Andrews
CEO of JobsInKent.Com
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About JobsInKent.Com, JobsInKent.Com: JobsInKent.Com is a staffing and recruitment website that lists new jobs with local businesses in and around Kent.
Robert Bye
CEO & Co-founder of Availo
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About Availo: Meet then hire local freelancers
Teresa Fox
Founder and Co-CEO of Vennpoint Limited
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About Vennpoint Limited: We match and connect organisations, professionals and experts in an online marketspace
Adam King
CEO of TrafficLight Solutions
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About TrafficLight Solutions: Find a trusted freelancer instantly. Grow your talent pool effortlessly.
