Oct 2025 – Mar 2026 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Employee 34 and first recruiter (on a small team), helping to grow Liberate from 34 to 80 people in 5 months.
• I have personally made 21 Hires across: GTM, AI, Product, and Engineering:
• Hiring for positions including: Sales Leaders, Account Executives (Insurtech), Solutions Engineers, Product Managers, AI Engineers, SW Engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers
• Handling HR functions including: Onboarding, Offboarding, I9s, Benefits admin, equipment etc..

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2025 – Present · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Talent IP is a Recruiter Community. We bring Talent Acquisition folks together IRL. We run monthly meetups for TA pros and special events for TA leaders.
• We have over 300 members and have hosted events in SF, LA, NYC, and Boston so far.

Dec 2024 – Apr 2025 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Hands-on recruiter personally hiring for all senior G&A and GTM positions whilst also leading a small team of recruiters in India

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• PeopleTech Partners is an early-stage advisory and investment group that leverages the insights of current People leaders operating in top-tier businesses to accelerate the growth of companies in their portfolio.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Syelo is an exclusive invite-only community of internal recruiters and master networkers who are hand selected for their excellent track records. Our community is built on recruiters coming together and empowering each other in an effort to elevate our professional lives, and connect exceptional people with exceptional career opportunities.

Jul 2024 – May 2025 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Jan 2017 – Dec 2024 · 7 yrs 11 mos

• Currently managing West Coast GTM Hiring Global Executive Search, and all US Machine Learning, engineering and Product Hiring.
• In 2017 I was promoted to Head of Talent Acquisition. Over the next 6 years I grew PubMatic from 300 to 1100 colleagues and a successful IPO.
• As a hands-on AdTech Recruitment leader, I have hired for all areas of the business across the US, EMEA and APAC. I currently manage a small team of recruiters that has scaled from 5 to 12 depending on the needs of the business whilst also taking a lead role in hiring for all Senior Director and above positions as well as all product hires.

Feb 2016 – Jan 2017 · 11 mos

Mar 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Hired as the first recruiter in EMEA and APAC.
• Launched and staffed new offices in Italy, Sweden, Germany, India, Japan, and Singapore
• Hired staff in all the above plus London, France, and Australia
• Reduced time to hire from over 60 days to 42 days
• Hiring for Country Managers, VPs, Programmatic salespeople, Programmatic account managers, AdOps Managers, Agency sales managers, and back office positions.
• Grew and managed a team of 3 (2 recruiters and 1 admin) based in EMEA and APAC.
• In 2015 I made over 50 direct hires making a saving of $780,000 against expected agency fee's.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr

Oct 2013 – Mar 2014 · 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• My position at Pearson involved managing the recruitment process for internal and external talent to support an organisational design and change management programme. I was responsible for the CTO Tech Ops work stream, recruiting for VP and Director level tech roles across EMEA, APAC and the US.
• Pearson is a global education company. Through technology we have a once in a generation opportunity to change education, enabling learners around the world to achieve greater educational outcomes, at lower cost.

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

• I took on the role of Talent Acquisition Manager (Recruitment Manager) for base79 to facilitate rapid expansion following venture round funding. Initially a 3 month position the contract was extended due to further international growth as well as growth of the UK based development and product teams.
• End to end recruitment of contract and permanent staff members across Technology (Development, Product and UX), Business Development, Ad Sales, Technical Operations, Marketing, Finance & HR in UK, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, US (CA and NY) and Australia.
• The role included: Managing 1 other recruiter based in Berlin, Implementing a cloud based ATS system, candidate attraction and direct sourcing, organizing tech events and recruitment fairs, working with Universities to recruit graduates and interns, setting up and managing agencies on the PSL, building a candidate pool for future requirements, filtering and interviewing candidates, making offers and onboarding.
• Managed a req load of up to 20 international roles at a time making 52 direct (non-agency) hires in 11 months

Jul 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Joined the team at International SOS initially for 4 weeks to assist with a large intake of new staff. Recruiting for a variety of positions including; Marketing, Sales, IT and Medical.
• Other project work so far has included planning assessment centres, writing and updating interview templates, creating tests, interviewing candidates, support and planning for a careers fair, and working with agency suppliers.
• Contract Dates:
• July 2010 to October 2010
• October 2011 to November 2011
• July 2012 to November 2012 (Oct - Nov Interim Recruitment Manager)

Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 · 5 yrs

• I founded TAG Recruitment in 2008 and, during five tough years of recession, grew the company to seven staff. My time was split between Sales/BD and signing new clients, sourcing candidates, and the day-to-day running of the company.
• I managed a team of 5 Recruiters. Setting targets, training, coaching and motivating to meet targets.
• Historically, I have specialised in recruiting for positions I have worked in, such as IT Management and Infrastructure Management. However, as a small agency, I have also covered mobile (Android and IOS) and web development (PHP, Python, .net, and Ruby), technical sales, and Account Managers.
• For the final two years of my time with TAG, I moved into digital recruitment, specializing in AdTech, Media Sales, and Account Managers.

Nov 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bromley, United Kingdom

• Started as IT Manager and then changed career to become a Recruitment Consultant.
• DP Connect are a market leading recruitment agency. I initially joined as IT Manager and after 4 months made a transition into recruitment. Specialising in Windows and Unix Infrastructure positions.
• As IT Manager - Providing Network Support, Desktop and Help Desk Services to over 50 staff at head and remote offices

Apr 2004 – Nov 2006 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Business Systems Analyst / Advanced Support Services. Working alongside the business to support, enhance and validate Clinical IT Systems.

Jan 2002 – Apr 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• 2nd and 3rd line server and network support.
• Responsible for managing outsourced support
• Running IT projects

Jan 2001 – Dec 2001 · 11 mos

• Specialist support, BA and project work to trade floor, directors, legal departments and HR.

Feb 2000 – Jan 2001 · 11 mos

• Outlook support specialist.
• 1st and 2nd line support to 3000 users. NT4.0 and W95 desktops on an NT4 Enterprise network
• Outlook Trainer / Office Trainer / Excel Trainer / Office roll-out Engineer
• Providing Outlook 2000 and MS Exchange training and roll-out support
• 1st - 3nd line support to 120 senior users. NT4.0 and W95 desktops on an NT4 Enterprise network