Barry Cranford Email & Phone Number

I am proud to be the leader of a purpose-driven tech talent agency that exists to serve the tech industry and create a better society. I would love to hear from you if you are:• A CEO, CTO or Talent Leader looking to grow your tech team including engineers, DevOps or leaders• Looking for a talent partner to help attract diverse talent into your teamAlso happy to help:• Fractional CxOs looking to figure out how to win more business• Aspiring Speakers looking to get on the conference circuit• Anyone from an underrepresented group in tech looking to find ways to progressOur team builds tech teams for some of the most interesting startups, scalps and projects in London and the UK, and we are passionate about finding creative ways to do so.We also build and run initiatives and communities to help people in areas including mentoring, career progression, open source software, and genuinely helping the tech community. Our goal is to both give back and pay forward to the industry, and we are committed to making a positive impact on the industry and society.Since our inception, we have always gone above and beyond pure revenue generation to find ways to give back to the industry. Some of our achievements include making 5000 personal introductions between mentors and mentees, building a free 12-week course for new speakers, and organising over 1000 tech events for tech communities in London. It all started in 2007, shortly after creating RecWorks, when I started looking for creative ways to find the industry's top talent, and I built a community of Java software engineers (now 8000+). I soon became consumed by the collaborative nature of the software engineering industry and open-source ecosystem and got the bug for building communities and serving them. I found that building communities and initiatives that really help people has been the best way to build deep trusted relationships with some of the top talent in the industry.Looking forward I am excited to continue helping the next generation of scaleups in the industry build their tech teams with some of the top tech talent we can find. I am also looking forward to working towards our goal of helping new speakers step onto the free conference speaking course and we are working towards making 10,000 mentor introductions through our Meet a Mentor group.If you want to talk about diversity, hiring, speaking, mentoring, building teams, conference speaking or anything related to the above, please connect with me.

Listed skills include Recruiting, Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Technical Recruiting, and 8 others.