I have been in recruitment since 1985 when I joined hays, and five years later gained my first Directorship of ERC which became the founding company of the PSD group. My personal recruitment work was mostly in retained search for senior technology positions around Europe. PSD was formed in 1992 and I was responsible for the group’s Technology and IT recruitment business in the UK. I also started up and managed the extension of the businesses into France, Germany, Holland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the US. We floated the company on the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and in 2001 I became the CEO of the Accord Group in Central and Eastern Europe which was a technology and generalist search business in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia and Romania.

In 2002 I took up the position of CEO for Aquent in Europe which was a company in Creative and Marketing recruitment. The business was losing money and grew steadily into profit in 2004 and headcount was taken from 25 people to 215 in 2008. The growth was spread across 11 offices all over Europe. This was mostly through organic growth but four companies were acquired during that time. I had worked with Rob and Paul for 7 years so it was a natural progression to start Nakama together. I have worked in all recruitment services and extensively in Europe, Asia and Australia, and this is where we are growing Nakama.

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