Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Developa.io - We help the best founders win. Developa is a people and talent consultancy with deep expertise and experience operating in and supporting start-ups backed by A16z, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Balderton, Google Ventures, Tiger Global, and Atomico.
• Who we work with? Founders in Seed-Series C companies. We do not work at the pre-revenue stage.
• As experts in People & Talent we work as headhunters, coaches, and consultants. Content writer for VCs.
• Let's schedule a call: https://calendly.com/bethdevelopa

Jul 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Tarabut is the first and largest regulated Open Banking platform in the MENA, with distributed teams in Bahrain, UAE, Saudi, London. Seed - Series A close ($32 mil round)
• Investors include Tiger Global, Target Global, Visa, & Lumia Capital
• 2022, Forbes top 25 FinTech Middle East list
• 2022, Winner Open banking platform of the year - Entrepreneur Middle East Awards
• Executive team reporting to CEO
• Expanded teams creating an international business
• Gap analysis. Mapped the current state and designed high level target operating model
• Defined and realigned people and talent vision, strategy, and execution (business & stage aligned)
• Defined north star for People & Talent and operational metrics
• Line manager to distributed teams
• Executive recruitment, onboarding, and advisory
• Executive prioritisation framework for decisions on people and hiring plans
• Introduction of key initiatives e.g. org design, values embed, onboarding for expansion, goal setting, levelling and progression tracks, Share options restructuring and education, compliance, new tooling for performance & HRIS.
• Highlights include >80 hires. YTD offer and acceptance for 2022 on leaving almost 90%, 9.3/10 new starter onboarding experience scores (at 90 days), low regrettable turnover
• Decided not to move to UAE. Left to start Developa.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• Volunteer & advisory for Girls in Tech

Aug 2017 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• CloudNC is a deep tech AI company disrupting the precision engineering world.
• Full stack technology business
• Major investors include Episode 1, Atomico, Autodesk. Seed- Series B ($45mil round)
• Reporting to CEO
• Responsible for:
• Building the company from scratch
• People and talent strategy and execution
• Line Manager People & Talent teams
• Leadership business partnering
• Implemented People & Talent tech stack
• OKR implementation
• Continuity planning for our vision toward a 24/7 operation
• Launched a compliant precision engineering factory from scratch
• Lead change management and business continuity through Covid (9.1/10 engagement score for our response to Covid)
• 'Best Fast-Growing Companies' in the UK - RocketList/Otta
• Highlighted flexible companies to work for list - Flexa
• Forbes & TechCrunch features
• Featured often in the top UK lists for AI companies

Apr 2017 – Aug 2017 · 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Interim role leading on resourcing senior talent reporting to one of the partners. Objective to launch offices and network from scratch outside of London.
• Sourcing senior talent across UK creating new networks, (and London when required) for high-profile client deliveries
• Feedback loop/design on recruitment process and offer calibrations
• Successfully built a network of vetted talent outside London, when this had failed to launch pre-Beth!

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Internal talent role as Tech talent advisory to CIO and wider engineering heads as part of agile transformation and replacing their previous RPO.
• Single handedly led tech recruitment end-to-end
• 100% direct recruitment record of more than 60 tech hires (59 sourced - true story. 1 direct)
• Turned 70% contractor heavy model to permanent employees
• Handled >15 open vacancies at any time
• Headhunted across SLT and VP level
• Led our women in technology awareness
• Career fairs brand and talent ambassador
• Transformational cost saving vs RPO they had been paying
• Left to continue consulting as a contractor

Sep 2011 – Jun 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Business Development acquiring clients across the tech start-up, SME space and FastTrack 100 list
• Consulting and business partnering with Founders, CTOs, VP Engineers and In-House Talent Teams
• Recruiting across the full software development lifecycle across multiple languages
• Built desks from scratch in Product Management and later in C# .Net
• Headhunting for senior leadership positions UK and International
• Job Spec Design, benchmarking, offer handling and negotiation
• Qualified Prince2 Practitioner (Project Management)
• Cold-calling and biz dev expertise
• Achievements:
• Top 3 company biller in UK
• Nominated for an Individual Global Award
• Winning team 2 years consecutively