Troocoo are an Australian privately-owned, national executive search, recruitment, contracting and outsourcing solutions business. We are passionate about building successful and sustainable organisations through the provision of innovative and inclusive recruitment and talent solutions.Our brand promise is ‘invested in people’ and everything we do circles back to how we enhance the candidate and client experience. We believe our role is critical in equipping clients with the right talent, enabling potential to be discovered and realised.Our team focuses on the delivery of recruitment solutions within specialist disciplines and provide expert advice to inform hiring decisions within key markets. We have extensive experience in recruitment methodology, in combination with deep and engaged professional networks, nurtured through ongoing relationships nationally.Our purpose is to understand and then champion the essence of a person, role, or organisation, to drive exceptional outcomes within the employment market.This is underpinned by our genuine passion and desire to help both people and employers be successful by connecting individual aspiration and organisational capability.

I am a Co-founder of Troocoo Venture Fund, which was established in 2017 to invest in a diversified portfolio of technology start-ups. The funds investment objective is to focus on scalable, capital-efficient technology start-ups where the strategy is to invest early (seed). Due to our expertise in recruitment we have a strong understanding of people so we invest in founders and leaders who are passionate, driven and motivated to solve business problems. We plan to build a large, diversified portfolio and have made four investments to date, with the goal of helping other people be successful.

Through my networks, I look for opportunities to introduce people and businesses to the work of ReachOut Australia. ReachOut is Australia’s leading online mental health organisation for young people, providing practical support to help them get through everything from everyday issues to tough times. With a mission to help all young people be happy and well, ReachOut.com delivers direct help to over 100,000 Australians each month as well as supporting schools and mental health professionals to better support young people.Please feel free to contact me on the details below and I look forward to connecting with you to discuss ReachOut further:Mobile – 0410 292 332Email – scott.horton@troocoo.comhttp://au.reachout.com/

LiveHire (ASX: LVH) is a technology company providing a cloud-based productivity platform for the human resources and recruitment industry that allows employers to interact with candidates in real time. LiveHire delivers talent-on-demand for all enterprises at scale and the platform enables clients to leverage their employer brand, talent database, networks, referrals and digital assets to invite and curate quality talent into a single destination, a private Talent Community of live profiles. LiveHire delivers proven and significant value to its clients through strategic sourcing, workforce planning, reduced time to hire (cost), improved quality of hire and in creating an exceptional candidate experience. Building a Talent Community allows an organisation to develop access to sustainable talent pools and enables proactive hiring across all of their business, delivering time to hire and quality of hire efficiencies.

u&u. is a recruitment partnership of highly experienced consultants committed to achieving exceptional results for both their clients and candidates. They have offices in Brisbane and Sydney and hold two brands; u&u Recruitment Partners (permanent and contract recruitment) and Acquire Search (executive and board search). I was a Founding Director and Board Member of both u&u Recruitment Partners and Acquire Search responsible for u&u’s strategic management. For five years I was responsible for leading the client facing team and during this period the business experienced significant revenue and profitability growth. In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, u&u was recognised by BRW as one of Australia’s top 100 fastest growing organisations.As Director for Client Development, I was responsible for developing strategic relationships with new and existing clients in Brisbane and nationally. I was focused on working with Boards, executive teams and senior management to determine how u&u could best add value through traditional and innovative people solutions. I developed an extensive connection to senior leadership teams in ASX listed businesses, not for profits, statutory authorities, government entities, SME’s and private equity firms. During the past six years I undertook a large number of executive search assignments and these were focused on Board, CEO, CIO, CFO, CMO and COO appointments. In January 2014 I was responsible for winning a managed service contract with Queensland Urban Utilities, which is a five-year HR Services contract for permanent recruitment, remuneration and benefits, organisational design and IR. This was the first managed services win for u&u so I had to design and develop an innovative and bespoke service offering, which ensured that u&u won this significant contract.In September 2015 I made the decision to sell my equity share in u&u after six highly successful years and negotiated my exit from the business at the end of 2015.

Hudson help their clients achieve greater organisational performance by assessing, recruiting and developing the best and brightest people for their businesses. There are 3,600 employees in more than 20 countries and they are dedicated in providing unparalleled service and value to their clients. I managed five divisions at Hudson in Queensland. Human Resources, Financial Services, Public Sector, Legal and Sales, Marketing & Communication.

D&B is the leading provider of global business information. D&B's products and services are drawn from a global database of over 100-million companies in 200 countries worldwide. The four main divisions are; Sales & Marketing, Risk Management, Supply Management and E-Business. I was part of the Sales & Marketing division with the core role of increasing sales and gross profit by developing D&B's largest direct clients.

GTT is an independent telecoms and technology integrator providing bespoke solutions to enterprise customers on a global basis. Products include data, voice, global IP roaming, mobile, internet access, web-hosting and co-location services. At GTT I was responsible for two main clients and I worked with an account team in New York, Paris, Dusseldorf and New Delhi.

Vodafone Group PLC is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company providing a wide range of services including voice and data communications. I was employed by Vodafone Corporate to manage their largest Londaon based UK customers in the finance and legal sector. I was targeted on increasing voice and data expenditure in a number of major blue chip clients through cross selling the full range of Vodafone products and services.

Xerox Corporation is a $15.7 billion technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy smarter document management strategies and find better ways to work. I was originally employed by Xerox in September 1994 as a graduate trainee. In January 1995 I moved into the new business sales team and had an extremely successful year in my first fall year of sales. I was promoted to the national account team in January 1996 where I was tasked with managing existing accounts and delivering new business. Following another successful year I was promoted into the corporate account team to manage Xerox UK's largest direct clients.