Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• CEO & Founder — Obsidian
• We build the exec teams behind some of techs most successful teams
• Trusted by top VCs and scale-up CEOs to:
• → Find leaders who unlock growth
• → Fix what’s breaking before it costs millions
• → Build teams that go the distance
• ✅ 2000+ execs placed across CPTO, CPO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CDO
• ✅ Specialists in team architecture, leadership transitions & hybrid scale
• If your team’s scaling or breaking, we’re the call before the damage hits the boardroom or the valuation

Apr 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Sold

Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I consult on a bi-monthly basis to help facilitate growth, acquisition, retention and strategic recruitment solutions for the brand.
• My role is more of an advisory capacity now ensuring longevity of the brand and its solutions.
• Skills include advising on:
• Retained Head hunting
• Executive search
• Strategic Recruitment solutions
• Contract, Permanent and Interim appointments
• Senior mandates into Technology focused organisations

Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Sold
• To gain a wider breadth of knowledge from all sides of recruitment I decided to help create a new job board to fully understand the needs from a candidate perspective.
• Bored of all the job boards not working so we developed something better, a job board that actually delivers as promised, relevant jobs to candidates and relevant candidates to the right jobs.
• Much more proactive approach than our competitors to connect the right people with the right jobs and quickly.
• Focused on business development to attract and retain some superb market leaders on board advertising and a fantastic candidate response, delivering better results than our competitors who had been around forever.
• Whilst performing Business development i also took care of high level executive placements, senior mandates and Branded Recruitment advertising campaigns for companies that wanted an exclusive, discrete solution for their critical hires.
• Skills included but not limited to:
• Retained Head hunting
• Executive search
• Strategic Recruitment solutions
• Contract, Permanent and Interim appointments
• Senior mandates into Technology focused organisations
• Branded recruitment advertising
• Managed resourcing solutions

Sep 2003 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Sold
• Owner of a Senior Level, discreet Head Hunting firm, Co-owner of contract consultancy and rec company specialising in building Global leading technology companies through strategic business placements. Proven history of building extremely successful teams within startups taking them to large profit, IPO, etc. Then of course your larger companies, Top 5 etc again hugely successful building UK and Ireland divisions, particularly large PS divisions within this field in a rapid time period.
• I have contributed to many a now market leader and am looking to work with companies who want the best people, who have that something that makes the best of market stand up and listen, the exciting once in a lifetime opportunities that are so fun to build.
• I am always interested in new ventures, new ideas (really new not "redone"), the insanely impossible that could just work always gets my attention ( but not always my investment :-) )
• Skills include:
• Retained Head hunting
• Executive search
• Strategic Recruitment solutions
• Contract, Permanent and Interim appointments
• Senior mandates into Technology focused organisations

May 2001 – May 2003 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom