Following the successful acquisition of my previous business Rowan; I am delighted to be taking up the role of Director role within the Business Services division of Drax. Working with Privately Owned/Backed SMEs and the Private Equity Network, we help our clients to maximise the value of their leadership teams and enhance the value of their company.

Following a high period of growth; I am delighted to be stepping into a Director role with Rowan leading the Sales & Marketing division within our Private Capital function. We work with SME Owner/Founders to appoint business leaders across key business functions including Sales, Commercial, Marketing, Product, Tech & IT.Being an SME owner and/or SME founder owner-managed SME is a unique proposition. You could be strategising at board level, training staff, overseeing operations and winning new business over the course of a single day.We do understand that challenge, and that’s why we have an unparalleled record of working with SME founders of owner-managed businesses, and a broad and extensive network of senior candidates with experience in these types of entities.

I proudly assumed the position of Head Of Rowan's Sales & Marketing Division leading a small team to deliver Executive Recruitment/Head-hunting for C-Suite and Executive hires across the following functions; sales, commercial, marketing, product, tech & IT; on behalf of privately-owned/privately backed businesses nationwide.We understand that every SME and its culture is unique, and we take care to match leaders we engage with to our SME clients – specifically. Our ability to search for, attract, engage with, assess and shortlist the very best leaders in the marketplace is unrivalled. It is the right combination of people that drives business growth, and we undertake all of our Executive Search assignments with this in mind.

Associate Director in Rowan's Sales & Marketing Division - Responsible for hiring management and senior sales and commercial professionals into Northwest based privately owned/privately backed businesses.Rowan, an LCap Group Company, works with high growth, private capital and PE-backed businesses to fuel SME growth across the UK. We provide leadership expertise to our Clients through our specialist SME Executive Search capability. With access to the Leadership Dynamics product suite we are able to provide data-driven insights on our clients' leadership teams.>330+ years experience in our 35+ strong team>1,200+ senior leadership appointments made solely in private capital and private equity-backed SMEs>£1.5bn in client exit value in the last 3 years>770+ businesses have been supported by Rowan throughout their SME lifecycleRowan are part of the LCap Group: Altus Partners, Drax Executive, Leadership Dynamics (an LCap Product), & PACE.

Secondary Team Manager for Veritas Education, LancashireAt Veritas, we firmly believe that one thing that the Recruitment sector and the Education sector have in common is that they are both 100% focused on people. Within our Management team we have over 50 years Recruitment and Education experience between us and we have very clear thoughts about how important person to person relationships are within this industry.With this in mind, we have a policy of meeting with every single Teacher or Support staff and every single school that we work with to make sure we have the right depth of relationship to do our jobs properly.

Pioneering Branch Manager for the newly formed Lancashire division We’re CER – a UK-wide education recruitment agency placing teachers and education professionals in short-term, long-term and permanent roles. Personal and professional, our service begins and ends with people – from the consultants we hire, to the teachers we place, and the close relationships we build with clients.

Began as a Trainee Consultant; progressed to Branch Manager covering Lancashire & MerseysideTeaching Personnel is the UK’s leading education recruitment agency. Since 1996 we have registered hundreds of thousands of teachers and classroom support staff who have chosen us to help them find work in UK classrooms. Our mission statement captures the essence of what we do, the services we provide and what is really important about the work undertaken by our branches. Making a Difference Every Day through Staffing, Intervention and SupplyWe are recognised for our stringent vetting procedures, career enhancing CPD Academy, customer experience and sector specialist approach to school recruitment. Every academic year we provide staff to over 5,000 schools delivering a national service on a local scale from our 80 branches.We commit to 'quality' always aiming to provide the best services, the best candidates and the best value. We strive to be the 'leading' agency in the market, making sure we have sufficient branch staff, locations and candidates to meet all of the staffing needs at our client schools. We are committed to being 'expert' at what we do by training our staff to understand the schools market and the importance of fulfilling the special and often unique requirements of each individual school. We want to be recognised as... Quality - Leading - Experts **Nov 2015-May 2016 - Secondment. Former Director approached me to re-join Express Gifts for a 6-month project launching a brand new call centre in the Philippines. I relocated, lived and worked in the Philippines during this period. I returned to Teaching Personnel once we completed the project and I was back in the UK.

1 of 2 Pioneering Customer Service Managers on the ground in the Philippines to assist with the launch of a brand new call centre. Express Gifts, now Studio Retail provides a personal shopping service to around 1.8 million customers each year through a combination of direct marketing and online via the studio.co.uk and ace.co.uk websites.Shoppers may choose to pay for their purchase within 28 days, or take advantage of a monthly credit programme.