Guy Allen

Founder

Bristol, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 100% fill rate on retained assignments
  • Billed £3.2m during tenure at Reed
  • Expert in AI and Tech recruitment
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Tech Recruitment Specialist with expertise in AI, ML, and heavily regulated markets.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceLeadershipContract RecruitmentTeam ManagementData

Other Skills

Machine LearningComputer VisionSoftware EngineeringProduct ManagementAgileCloudDevOpsArchitectureBillingBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceFundraisingIT RecruitmentNHS RecruitmentSales

About

I build Tech functions for AI-focussed Start-ups & Scale-ups. Usually early-stage to Series D across the full lifecycle incl. AI, ML, Computer Vision, Leadership/Architecture, Data, Software & Product. Founders, Tech Leaders & VCs: Do any of the following hiring challenges sound familiar? 🔍 Struggling to find not just skilled talent, but those with domain experience to add value immediately? 🤔 Failing to get the rare combination of Academia / R&D AND Real-world deployment experience? 🤦‍♂️ Hiring great people who use you as a stepping stone and leave for Big Tech companies? 🚀 Wanting to build a market reputation to attract top talent, but unsure where to start? 🤯 Recruiters flooding you with way too many CVs of varying quality / "spray and pray" approach? 😕 Thousands of applicants to consider for each role, but few really exciting you? If any of this resonates, you're not alone. These are the challenges I hear from tech leaders daily. Over the past 11 years, I’ve helped build Tech teams across Deep Tech and Heavily Regulated markets, including Healthcare/HealthTech, BioTech/Pharma, Robotics, Surveillance, Manufacturing, FemTech, PropTech & Built Environment (IoT & OT Security), AgriTech, Insurance/InsurTech, Finance/FinTech and more. I’ve filled hundreds of roles with the industry's best talent and built an extensive network along the way. Where others fall short, I deliver with speed and precision, ensuring a great experience for both clients and candidates. I’m proud to maintain a 100% fill rate on all retained assignments throughout my career. Here’s how I ensure success: 🤝 Forming a true partnership, acting as an extension of your business 🧠 In-depth discovery meeting to understand your business, culture, processes and challenges. 📞 Detailed briefing call with hiring managers to nail down the true requirements and desirables. 🎯 Consultative approach based on market insights to craft a tailored solution & candidate journey. 🛠️ Advanced search tools and my decade-long network to identify top talent. 👥 Thorough screening: a MINIMUM of 30-minute interviews (ideally over Teams / in-person), ensuring candidates match not just in skill and experience, but cultural fit and expectations. 🔍 Honest candidate presentation, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses, against requirement. 💼 Protecting and promoting your brand & market reputation, collecting candidate feedback & insight. Let’s connect to discuss how we can help your business grow: ✉️ guy.allen@futura-talent.com 📞 UK: +44(0)117 476 7670 📞 USA: +1 929 339 0838

Experience

12 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Futura talent

Founder & Managing Director

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Technology recruitment supporting Start-ups & Scale-ups in building their Product & Engineering teams covering the UK, EU & USA in DeepTech & heavily regulated markets.
  • We’re on a mission to put humanity back into recruitment.
  • While we leverage bleeding-edge technology, artificial intelligence and automation to headhunt the best talent, we combine this with actual human intelligence and a personal, empathetic approach to ensure an engaging and positive experience for our clients and candidates alike.
  • Skillsets / roles we specialise in:
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Computer Vision
  • Data
  • Software Engineering & Test
  • Product & Agile
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Leadership & Architecture
  • Our market is start-ups from early-stage to Series D, typically DeepTech / heavily-regulated markets:
  • Healthcare / HealthTech / Medical Devices / BioTech / Pharma / Synthetic Biology
  • Finance / FinTech / Insurance / InsurTech
  • AgriTech / PropTech / Built Environment / Manufacturing / GreenTech (IoT, OT Security)
  • We understand the nuances of these sectors and are able to hunt down talent with the right combination of skillset, domain knowledge and cultural fit.
  • We can headhunt from your competitors for people to add value immediately, or from other sectors with similar challenges to bring a new perspective and build more robust solutions.
  • To find out what we can do to help your business, or help you on the next step in your career, get in touch today:
  • Email: info@futura-talent.com
  • UK: +44 (0) 117 476 7670
  • USA: +1 929 339 0838
  • Website: https://futura-talent.com/
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer VisionDataSoftware EngineeringProduct Management+5

Reed

9 roles

Executive Head of Practice: Technology

Promoted

Oct 2023May 2024 · 7 mos

  • In my time at Reed:
  • Personally billed £3.2m across my tenure
  • Personally billed over £650k in a year at my peak
  • Top billing contracts consultant in Reed Technology over 6 separate years
  • Top biller in Reed Technology over 4 separate years
  • "Will you be proud?" award for going above & beyond during the pandemic
  • 3rd & 5th individual highest individual billing months on record for all of Reed
  • Oversaw the growth of my team from circa £686k to just shy of £1.5m annual income over 4 years
  • Increased profit flow-through of my team from circa 20% to consistently between 29% - 42% annual average over a 4-year period
  • Billing Manager role, 60% contract focussed 40% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing teams of up to 11 (including Team Leads / Managers), perm and contract recruiting across the tech space in the South West of the UK.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam ManagementBusiness Development

Senior Head of Practice: Technology

Jun 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Billing Manager role, 60% contract focussed 40% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing teams of up to 9 consultants, perm and contract recruiting across the tech space in the South West of the UK.
  • Also interim manager of our Cardiff Tech team for around a year during this time.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam Management

Senior Executive Practice Manager

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos

  • Billing Manager role, 60% contract focussed 40% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing teams of 5-7 consultants, perm and contract recruiting across the tech space in the South West of the UK.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam Management

Executive Practice Manager: Technology

May 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Billing Manager role, 60% contract focussed 40% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing teams of 5-7 consultants, perm and contract recruiting across the tech space in the South West of the UK.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam Management

Senior Practice Manager: Software Engineering & Data

Promoted

Mar 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Billing Manager role, 80% contract focussed 90% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing a team of 3 perm consultants recruiting in the South West of the UK.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam Management

Practice Manager: Software Engineering & Data

Jul 2017Mar 2018 · 8 mos

  • Billing Manager role, 90% contract focussed 10% perm focussed for personal billings. Managing a team of 2 perm consultants recruiting in the South West of the UK.
BillingContract RecruitmentTeam Management

Principal IT Contracts Consultant

Promoted

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos

  • Principal IT recruiter focussed on Data & BI as well as Software Engineering in the South West of the UK
BillingContract Recruitment

Senior Contract IT Recruitment Consultant

May 2016May 2017 · 1 yr

  • Contract IT recruiter focussed on Data & BI as well as Software Engineering in the South West of the UK
DataBusiness Intelligence

Contract IT Recruitment Consultant

Oct 2014May 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Contract IT Recruiter focussed on Data & BI in the South West of the UK
DataBusiness Intelligence

South west wildlife fundraising ltd

2 roles

Assistant Area Co-Ordinator

Promoted

Apr 2014Oct 2014 · 6 mos

  • South West Wildlife Fundraising LTD is a Fundraising agency owned by and working on behalf of 7 of the Wildlife Trusts based in the South West: Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Avon, Wiltshire, Worcester, Gloucestershire. It aims to get more people to join and donate as monthly direct debit paying members.
  • Recruiting new members for Devon and Somerset Wildlife Trusts at events and venues around the area.
  • Inducting and training new membership recruiters.
  • Creating literature to train new staff how to recruit new members and maximise membership rate.
  • Managing projects on the improvement of stands, equipment, display materials, incentives and mandate forms.
  • Arranging mystery-shopping, and liaising with Trusts accordingly.
  • Performing Business Development calls in order to build and develop relationships with venues and events across Somerset and Devon to have fundraisers to attend and work at.
  • Monitoring performance of fundraisers at venues and re-booking accordingly.
  • Keeping myself and my team up to date with the policies and goings-on of the Trusts.
  • Contributing to membership marketing and display materials.
  • Supplying and monitoring necessary clothing and exhibition equipment to membership recruiters.
  • Ensuring quality control and legal compliance in all elements of the membership recruitment process.
  • Managing and maintaining strong relationships with client Trusts and assist in responding promptly to any complaints or concerns as well as regularly meeting with them to provide updates on performance etc.
Data

Venue Booker / Membership Recruiter

Nov 2013Apr 2014 · 5 mos

  • South West Wildlife Fundraising LTD is a Fundraising agency owned by and working on behalf of 7 of the Wildlife Trusts based in the South West: Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Avon, Wiltshire, Worcester, Gloucestershire. It aims to get more people to join and donate as monthly direct debit paying members.
  • Recruiting new members for Devon and Somerset Wildlife Trusts at events and venues around the area to support and donate by monthly direct debit.
  • Performing Business Development calls in order to build and develop relationships with venues and events across Bristol, Bath and the surrounding area to have fundraisers to attend and work at.
  • Monitoring performance of fundraisers at venues and re-booking accordingly.
  • Staying informed and up-to-date about the goings on and policies of client trusts.
FundraisingBusiness Development

Marine conservation society

Membership Recruitment Officer (Fixed-Term Contract)

Jul 2013Dec 2013 · 5 mos · United Kingdom

  • The Marine Conservation Society work around the UK protecting our seas, our shores and the wildlife that inhabit them through a wide variety of avenues.
  • Travelling around the UK to events and venues nationwide, promoting MCS and persuading the public to support the organisation through membership and a monthly donation by direct debit.
  • Performing Business Development calls in order to build and develop relationships with venues and events across the UK to attend and work at either by myself or with other staff attending.
  • Staying informed and up-to-date about the goings on and policies of the charity.
  • Regularly meeting others within the organisation to advise on a variety of aspects of marketing, literature and fundraising strategy.
  • Giving Public talks to large crowds at events to promote the charity and membership.
  • Training non-fundraising staff how to successfully recruit new members and maximise membership rate.
  • Created literature to train non-fundraising staff as well as future fundraising staff how to recruit new members and maximise membership rate.
  • While in the role I substantially increased the average rate of new memberships as well as the number of new members recruited per event.
  • I completely changed the way the charity approached the public on a face-to-face individual basis as well as consistently exceeding my targets.
FundraisingBusiness Development

Education

University of the West of England

Politics — International Relations

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Strode College

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Huish Episcopi Academy

Jan 2002Jan 2007

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