I joined Alvarez & Marsal as a Manager in February 2015 and I was promoted to Senior Manger in 2018 and to Director in 2021. A&M is the fastest growing consultancy in Europe and I am responsible for the recruitment of exceptional experienced hires for our European businesses including Restructuring (Financial & Operational Restructuring, Debt Advisory & Insolvency), Corporate Finance, Transaction Advisory Group and Valuations. I identify and headhunt candidates for our opportunities across EMEA. I am also responsible for the management & development of an exceptional team of Senior Managers, Managers and consultants who recruit across all our UK business units including Financial Services, Disputes & Investigations, Corporate Transformation, Private Equity Performance Improvement, Digital Technology Services and Data Analytics.I have managed the build out of our new Corporate Finance team, building this from 2 Senior Directors in July 2023 to a team of 5 MDs and almost 30 professionals in the UK and with Managing Director level candidates at final interview in Europe. I am actively running recruitment campaigns in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Romania, Dubai and Riyadh. I am also responsible for recruitment for our team in the Cayman Islands & the British Virgin Islands. Roles are based all over Europe and the Middle East - apply via our careers page - https://careers.alvarezandmarsal.com/

A&M is the fastest growing consultancy in Europe and in this role I was responsible for hands on delivery of recruitment assignments in addition to leading the team responsible for the recruitment of experienced hires for our European business across a number of business units including Restructuring (Financial & Operational Restructuring, Debt Advisory & Insolvency), Transaction Advisory Group, Valuations, Disputes & Investigations, Private Equity Business Technology & IT Transformation and Data Analytics. In this role, I led the recruitment for our Global Transactions Advisory in the existing locations of London, Amsterdam and Stockholm and was responsible for recruiting both Managing Directors and their teams as we launched new teams in Paris (2018), Zurich (2019), Geneva (2020), Madrid, Milan and Dubai (2021). I also led the expansion of our Valuations team from 4 people in London & Frankfurt in 2015 to a team of 70 highly skilled professionals across Valuations & Business Modelling in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Madrid by 2022.

I joined Alvarez & Marsal as a Manager in February 2015 and I was promoted to Senior Manger in 2018 and to Director in 2021. A&M is the fastest growing consultancy in Europe and in this role I was responsible for the recruitment of experienced hires across all our business areas in the UK and across Europe. In 2017 & 2018 I was responsible for the build out of 3 new business areas within our Restructuring service line; Insolvency (now one of the largest teams in our business) & Financial Restructuring Advisory (initially in the UK and then expanded across Europe); and Debt Advisory in the UK, Germany and, more recently, France. Roles are based all over Europe and beyond - apply via our careers page - https://bit.ly/2PBsgqt

Balanced People was a specialist Finance & Accountancy Recruitment firm. We provided finance professionals with a wide range of career opportunities across SMEs and large blue chip companies.

I founded a recruitment consultancy that specialised in headhunting experienced Consultants for Recruitment firms. I worked on specific client briefs and identified candidates with the right mix of skills and experience for roles. I also offered a fully managed recruitment service which included reference checking and panel interviewing. Built the company from zero to fully profitable with a strong pipeline of ongoing and forcast business inside 6 months.

I led the Commerce & Industry division, EM Finance at EM Group. I managed up to 13 Recruitment Consultants, Trainees and Researchers. We worked on contingent and retained assignments across a wide range of sectors including but not limited to Retail, Media, Telecoms, Property, Energy, Oil & Gas The Commerce & Industry team won division of the year (calculated by revenue) in 2004-2005, 2005 - 2006, 2006 -2007 under my leadership.

Trained as a specialist recruitment consultant winning Preferred Supplier contracts with BT, the BBC and the Kingfisher Group. Worked with other blue chip clients including Walt Disney, Reuters, Sainsburys, WHSmith, Woolworths, B&Q, The Economist and Aurum Mining.