Armadillo sources, vets and assigns high-calibre interim managers, independent consultants and professionally qualified experts on a short to long-term interim basis. Our practice area covers: CEO; COO; CIO/IT Manager; FD/Financial Controller; Manager (eg: supply chain, operations, CRM, HR); programme/project manager; subject matter specialist, trouble-shooter, special project manager within IT, finance, operations, supply chain, outsourcing, process improvement and HR.

Exec-Appointments Ltd runs 3 market-leading online executive-level job boards: www.exec-appointments.com, www.mba-direct.com, and www.non-execs.com. The business was acquired by The Financial Times in November 2007 and provides the online advertising platform for Financial Times Recruitment Solutions.Responsibilities• Developing sales of online advertising to major recruiter and corporate clients• Helping agency and in-house recruiters to develop candidate attraction strategies and to leverage employer brand values• Working with agency and in-house recruiters to position exec-appointments.com as a significant tool to enable clients to achieve improved quality-of-hire, time-to-hire and cost-per-hire standards for executive recruitment• Managing The Non-Executive Director, a one-stop shop site providing information and job opportunities for individuals looking to develop a portfolio career, developing content, membership, sponsorship and a programme of seminars and workshops• Investigating opportunities for profitable commercial developments across all FT-owned print and online platforms

Owner-manager of an executive search business providing bespoke director-level recruitment services to clients across a number of business sectors.

Set up a new boutique executive search business with a former colleague to continue handling senior executive recruitment on behalf of a number of clients within the international manufacturing, engineering, consumer and retail industries.Responsibilities• Client management• New client development• Execution of searches to stringent quality and time constraints

GKR was a leading executive search firm, and the largest UK-owned search business at the time (subsequently acquired by Whitehead Mann, now part of Korn Ferry).• Joined as a Researcher, taught an excellent ‘toolkit’ of candidate and lead generation skills, including candidate identification, candidate screening• Promoted to Consultant to take full responsibility for client search execution• Managed a team of junior consultants and researchers involved in collecting sector-specific data and candidate generation.