GATENBYSANDERSON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Project Co - Ordinator
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant / Education
Adeline began her recruitment career in 2008, working across various sectors and levels. Managing teams and offering bespoke solutions to business, she developed her Business Consulting skills including HR services and Industrial Relations Specialist support. With a desire to see upskilling in the candidate market, she partnered with training providers to offer specialised and bespoke training, learnerships and internships in the relevant sectors.
After relocating to the UK and four years prior to joining GatenbySanderson, Adeline was driven by a desire to make a meaningful impact in the world of education and directed her expertise towards the Education sector. Placing skilled professionals in the sector, she demonstrated her ongoing commitment to identifying and attracting candidates to meet diverse needs in different areas.
Adeline joined GatenbySanderson in July 2023 as a Senior Consultant and focuses on Interim Leadership within Education. Understanding the need for highly skilled and experienced Interim candidates who can immediately deliver, she is committed to linking and supporting the best individuals for the job. With a solution focused mindset, she understands the need for business continuity and offers support for specific projects or during a transitionary period.
Alexander started his career in Executive Search working for a boutique search firm in Bristol, before relocating to the Northwest with family and joining us in 2021.
He sits across the Local Government and Housing sectors and is an experienced Researcher, having worked with both private and public sector clients across the UK and Europe.
Alexander has a particular passion for social care roles with Local Government partners, working with the Staff College to deliver the Upon Programme for aspirant Directors of Children's Services.
Alfred is an Assistant Researcher who works on the identification and attraction of high-quality candidates for our Housing and Local Government Practice.
Job Titles:
- Principal Consultant
- Principal Consultant / Education
Ali has spent the last 13 years working in Higher Education within both Professional and Commercial Services.
Joining us from Warwick Employment Group, where she worked at Director level, Ali has extensive experience of delivering commercial revenue along with generating projects across both Russell Group and Post-92 institutions to improve the student experience.
Her experience includes close work with senior leadership teams to improve teaching practice; and delivering positive institutional change across a wide range of academic disciplines. Her passion and area of special interest is in improving the student experience.
Ali works in partnership with universities to source the diverse leadership talent required to make higher education a value for money investment.
Alison started her career in human resources and in-house recruitment, leading graduate and volume recruitment campaigns.
Here she is responsible for conducting in-depth individual leadership assessments to inform recruitment decisions. In addition, she plays a key role in providing on-boarding support to leaders, including psychometric feedback, maximising team performance and 360 feedback. Her experience spans both Central and Local Government, Housing, Health and the Not-for-Profit sectors.
Not only do we benefit from her wealth of C-suite executive profiling experience, but also her experience working as a consultant psychologist in the design and delivery of assessment centres for recruitment and re-structures, development centres for high potential programmes, 360 feedback, executive coaching and leadership development programmes for UK public sector and global commercial organisations.
Alison holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology. She is a Chartered member of the CIPD and Graduate member of the BPS and is qualified in a wide range of psychometric test including OPQ, Wave and HDS.
Outside of work, she enjoys running and spending time with her young family.
Andrew's previous experience includes being responsible for the executive recruitment strategy at a boutique Leadership and Search Consultancy. His roles supported high profile clients with a wide range of recruitment services, including end to end managed services of large-scale Digital programmes. With a strong recruitment background in Digital Change and Transformation leadership roles for both the private and public sector, Andrew joined us to specialise in search, and work closely with the DDaT practice to support its expansion.
He is passionate about building and nurturing relationships with technology, digital and data professionals across a diverse client portfolio, and is committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive recruitment process.
Avneet joined us in 2022 moving from teaching. She works with public sector and consultancy organisations within local government, helping source and place interim executives from board-level to mid-senior.
The interim roles she commonly recruits for include CEO, COO, CFO, Chief People Officers, Directors of Strategy, and Transformation. The Team are also well placed to source Director Level, Deputy Director, and Senior Managers within Local Government, in areas such as Operations, Finance, Workforce and OD, Transformation, Project/Programme Management, IT, Governance and compliance as well as Adults and Children's Social Care and more.
Ben has over 15 years of recruitment experience and has helped London boroughs, counties, and districts appoint to positions across Children's Services, Corporates Services, and Place-based services at Head of Service, Assistant Director, Director, and Executive Director levels.
He has a particular interest in helping local authorities find people who cannot just deliver services, but who can positively impact an organisation's culture and play a part in local government. Thereby solving some of the big challenges society currently faces around inequality, social injustice, and climate change.
Ben's profile on joining GS is here.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Consultant
- Executive Search Consultant
Chantelle is an Executive Search Consultant in our Housing practice, proud to support the sector in finding and securing the very best talent. Passionate about inclusive recruitment processes, she enjoys advising on methods to increase the diversity of candidate pools. Furthermore, she encourages emerging talent from minority groups and has recently achieved her Level 7 qualification in coaching and mentoring.
She is a vastly experienced recruiter, adept at navigating a variety of sectors and functions. Based in the South West of England, she partners with Housing clients on Executive and Non-Executive appointments in the region and nationally, and has an interest in housing development companies.
Previously, she was Head of Talent at GatenbySanderson, leading our internal recruitment as part of our HR team. As a business partner to our leadership team, she developed our own hiring strategies and values-led recruitment processes, in addition to personally sourcing great talent.
Before GatenbySanderson, Chantelle worked in the Co-op's Executive Resourcing team, based in the Manchester head office, recruiting across the top 200 population of leaders in this £11bn turnover member-owned organisation.
Her earlier career had foundations in executive research, from executive search through to talent mapping and competitor intelligence projects for clients ranging from the public sector through to FTSE 100 businesses.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Co - Ordinator
- Senior Project Co - Ordinator / Education
Job Titles:
- Recruiter
- Head of Interim Leadership
Craig is a career recruiter whose early career included a decade supporting public sector clients and establishing an Interim Practice specialising in appointing senior leaders into the NHS. Since then, his primary focus has been delivering work across Social Care, Education and Public Health within Local Government.
With a national remit supporting clients, candidates, and colleagues alike, he takes a keen interest in supporting those who are entering the interim leadership market for the first time, as well as continuing to assist those that he has worked with for many years.
Craig's experience spans appointing into extremely tough improvement roles, innovation fund backed roles, Local Government Reorganisation, consultancy contracts as well as more traditional gap cover requirements. These are broadly at Director, Assistant Director, and Head of Service level.
His internal focus is the growth and development of the Interim Leadership team with a keen eye on training, practice improvement and quality assurance as well as representing the team within the senior leadership team.
Prior to joining us David worked as a Selection and Assessment Manager in several education charities, with responsibility for scheduling, designing, delivering, and evaluating fair, valid and reliable assessments and development centres for graduate recruitment and other high-volume programmes. They have experience designing and delivering programme improvements and new assessments at short notice, as well as delivering impactful and useful training. They also spearheaded diversity and inclusion initiatives within and outside these organisations.
Delicia started her career in Executive Search working for a boutique firm in London and later joined a leading management consulting firm. She is an experienced Researcher who has worked internationally on mandates across Europe and US for private sector clients within Transport, Infrastructure and broader Industrial.
One of Delicia's passions is to bring a fresh perspective to identifying and engaging with diverse talent in the Local Government and Housing sectors.
She holds an MSc in Organisational Psychology from City University of London.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Partner / Education
Dr Becca Franssen has almost a decade of executive search experience, working with a wide range of institutions and organisations. Before moving into executive search, Becca had an early academic career at both the University of Westminster and King's College London. She spent several years in the Admissions Office at the American School in London, as well as coaching basketball, football and athletics there. Earlier in her career, Becca worked in advancement at the University of Alberta and for the Government of Ontario.
Becca works with the Education Team to appoint outstanding candidates in leadership roles in universities and the wider education sector. Her focus in search has been to build diverse and creative candidate fields, while ensuring that each candidate has a positive experience through the process. She is committed to EDI and delivering this through every search.
Becca holds a BA in Development and International Studies and History from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, an LLM from the University of Westminster and a PhD in Law from King's College London.
Becca enjoys being with her two dogs and keeping fit, including running and cycling. She has cycled from coast to coast in England (Whitehaven to Tynemouth) and participated in a number of triathlons. She is currently training to run a marathon in 2024.
Eleanor has over 20 years' experience within the field of recruitment including 10 years within the field of Interim Health and Care.
She partners with Health Clients who are seeking interim solutions to short term gaps in their leadership structures, supporting them with sourcing Executive and Managerial Talent to further new projects or structural changes. Her relationship with candidates enables her to leverage her network to source the very best available talent to fulfil client's urgent and immediate leadership vacancy requests whilst also providing interim professionals with opportunities to advance their careers.
Eleanor's remit covers the North and Midlands and she works with a wide variety of NHS Organisations and Health Boards. She and her team regularly recruit to Director level and Senior Management posts in both operational or corporate support functions in the NHS and other Board level roles including Interim CEO, COO, CFO, Chief People Officers, Directors of Strategy and Transformation, Chief Nurses, and Medical Directors.
Beyond this, Eleanor is also the Chair of our internal Women's Affinity Group which is one of our ‘Employee Voice' steering groups. In this role she engages and works with several colleagues across our business to encourage ideas, steer conversations and facilitate action plans which ultimately aim to increase our employee engagement.
Eleanor holds an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing as well as an MSc in Human Resource Management. She is also CIPD qualified.
Job Titles:
- Not for Profit Practice Lead
Emma specialises in senior executive leadership and Non-Executive appointments and has experience of working with both the public and private sectors to identify talented leaders of the future. She has worked internationally and was based in HK SAR for four years; she also has Chief People Officer experience gained in the UK.
In the public sector Emma has worked with the GLA, systems regulators, NHS Trust boards, ALB's and central government to deliver impactful and inclusive recruitment campaigns, with a particular interest in delivering complex assignments in the regulation, health, infrastructure, energy, transport and regeneration sectors. In the private sector Emma has worked with financial services organisations including asset managers, insurance companies and mutual building societies.
Emma is also a qualified yoga teacher.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Co - Ordinator
Prior to joining executive search Emma worked for the BBC, and commercial radio for over 20 years as a newsreader, reporter, producer and editor. From here she worked for over three years in a small executive search organisation working with HE institutions and third sector and charity organisations. She joined us in 2022 as part of the Not-for-Profit team.
Emma has worked on senior leadership, board level and interim roles engaging with: Aberystwyth University, Aston University, Autism Centre of Excellence, Bangor University, Canterbury ChristChurch University, London Metropolitan University, MillionPlus, University of Bath, University of Central Lancashire, University of Hull, University of Kurdistan Hewler, University of Suffolk, University of Sussex, University of the West of Scotland, University of Wolverhampton, Y Care International and York St John University.
She has a BA Hons in Journalism.
Erin supports our Local Government clients with their Interim Leadership assignments sourcing and placing suitable interims.
With a strong recruitment/search background in Digital Change and Transformation leadership roles for both the private and public sector, Fatima has joined GatenbySanderson to specialise in search, and work closely with the DDaT practice to support its expansion. She has previously supported high profile clients
Fatima is passionate about supporting and developing diverse leaders and future-talent within technology.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Local Government
Frazer has worked across the Public & Not for Profit sector since 2007, delivering over 100 board and executive level appointments. He has operated as a Board Director for over 3-years and brings a wealth of experience to his campaigns.
Specialising in the appointment of senior managers and leaders in Local Government Frazer uses his broad networks and knowledge to ensure his clients get real choice in the selection process; looking at talent both within and outside the sector has been key to his success to date.
Gary joined us in 2012 specialising in senior local government search and selection. His focus has been developing our search offering across Wales and the North of England and growing our presence in this area.
He is a highly experienced recruitment professional who has worked on a wide range of senior appointments at Chief Executive, Director and Heads of Service level across the full range of local government services.
Gary's emphasis has been working with strategic leaders who are passionate about facilitating sustainable change; particularly attracting candidates from diverse backgrounds to support local government deliver high quality, value for money services. He has a particular interest in organisational change, economic growth, and community engagement; as well as transitioning individuals across sectors and bringing commercial skills into the public sector.
Graeme Bilsland joined GS as a Partner in the Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) practice in September 2023. He has over 25 years‘ experience in hiring across the technology leadership domain covering roles such as CIO, CDIO, CTO and IT Directors for clients ranging from some of the most successful global technology businesses through to early stage companies looking to enhance their technology leadership function.
Graeme has established a strong network in the technology leadership marketplace through his experience in helping to build the IT Search and Selection business at Harvey Nash, and then leading the CIO Practice for Gillamor Stephens before running the CTO Practice at Renaissance Leadership.
He plays a key role in helping Gatenby Sanderson to grow its DDaT service offering across a wide range of clients, all with the common goal of shaping a better society.
Job Titles:
- Senior Projects & Operations Manager, Leadership & Talent Consultancy
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Consultant
- Associate Consultant / Education
Hilda started her career in Executive Search in London in financial services, specialising in EMEA Capital Markets.
She joined us with extensive search and selection experience and works nationally and internationally across the wide client base of higher education.
Over the past couple of years her work has included campaigns on senior academic and professional services roles for universities, such as Edinburgh, Reading, Birkbeck and University of London, as well as senior appointments with regulators and non-departmental government bodies, such as the OfS and UKRI amongst others.
Hilda graduated with a master's degree in political Sociology from the University Paris Diderot in France.
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher
- Senior Researcher / Education
Jacqueline led the research for the not-for-profit and international development sectors for a boutique search firm, frequently undertaking mandates for hard-to-fill or highly niche critical roles in challenging markets like Central and South Asia, and Africa.
She leverages on her broad and international experience in her work here with us within the Education Practice. Jacqueline brings a track record of delivering exceptional talent for senior academic, professional services, and non-executive director appointments for higher education institutions including University College London, Royal College of Art, University of Exeter, University of Adelaide, The New School in New York, British University in Egypt, and Habib University in Pakistan. Placements in the wider education sector include senior leaders of schools and colleges, and critical global appointments in education organisations such as Teach For All.
Her empathetic approach and appreciation for diversity in all its forms are honed by a multicultural upbringing across four cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, and London).
Dedicated to youth development and conservation education, she volunteers as a leader with the Scouts, and serves on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Commission on Education and Communication.
Jacqueline holds a MSc in Business and the Environment and a BSc in Ecology, both from Imperial College London.
Job Titles:
- Diversity & Inclusion Advisor
Jades career has included being a Police Detective for 16 years, specialising in child protection and domestic abuse. This position, and her lived experience as a black woman has enabled her to educate and inspire meaningful and long-lasting change within D&I. Joining us Jade now works in close partnership with the Senior Leadership team to ensure that we are at the forefront of driving positive and disruptive thought leadership and innovation around D&I, which drives impact and influences change both internally and across our public sector clients.
Sitting on both the Strategy & Marketing and HR team, she advises on diversity and inclusion to ensure maximum internal and external influence.
Her valuable experience providing D&I consultation to Police, NHS, local government, schools, and local businesses impresses upon the importance of a holistic approach to employee's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. One important focus is on highlighting the dangers of racial disparities and insufficient diversity, especially within public sector.
Jade attended and consulted at Steering Groups and Critical Incident Meetings, providing policy and procedure review, and critical friendship to organisations, public and private sector.
She has created and managed employee support networks, collaborating across networks such as race, women's, LGBT+, Gypsy/Roma/Traveller, faith based and disability, to understand and support intersectionality. Jade has also delivered lessons and training inputs to the education sector, providing anti-racism, hate crime and inclusion awareness to all ages, from early years to secondary. Her passion for increasing race awareness led to training employees and Police officers, educating on unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, strength of allyship, and cause & effect.
In addition to this Jade has project managed several D&I initiatives with employees and the community, across a broad age range, partnering with multiple key stake holders such as UCAS, Apple and Motherwell Cheshire charity to deliver shared aims. The initiatives were around improving diverse recruitment, uplifting public confidence, and supporting employee retention and career pathways with confidence and leadership coaching.
Jade has delivered Keynote speeches and is a confident public speaker.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Co - Ordinator
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant / Education
Jenny is a Senior Consultant, Leadership and Talent Consultancy within Education. She brings over 10 years' experience working with Higher Education institutions across areas including board diversity and inclusion, equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership development and inclusive research cultures.
She joined GatenbySanderson from Advance HE where she held a number of roles, most recently as Head of Membership working with universities in the UK and internationally. Her work included supporting Higher Education institutions to navigate challenges and adopt best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, governance and teaching and learning.
Prior to this, Jenny spent five years at an executive search firm, first as a Researcher, and subsequently supporting clients as a Consultant and Senior Consultant. Her specialism focused on academic and research roles in Higher Education, and roles internationally including in Europe and Central Asia.
Jenny holds BSc in Psychology from University of Bristol, MSc in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently working towards a Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London.
You can read more about Jenny here
Job Titles:
- Senior Delivery Consultant
- Senior Delivery Consultant / Education Housing
Jo has worked in the Not-for-Profit sector managing Arts charities for the last 20 years, including the Royal Court Theatre and Good Chance Theatre in London and Calais.
For the last year, Jo has been with our Interim Leadership team, recruiting leaders in Education, NFP, Regulation and Housing.
Regularly working from Executive level to Heads of Department, Jo is focused and dedicated to finding the very best fit for an organisation.
Joanna's professional life started in the fast-paced hospitality sector. Transitioning into senior and international HR roles in pioneering online organisations saw her leading change and restructuring processes, and innovating talent management practices.
In recent times she has specialised in developing leadership, consulting and learning capabilities within the professional services sector, focusing her consulting and delivery experience on culture change.
Joanna's areas of expertise include organisational and leadership development, performance optimisation, relational coaching and individual growth, social and action learning, agility and sustainable innovation, and learning proficiency.
Jon's experience prior to moving into Executive Search and Selection, was at Birmingham City Council, where he was a Corporate Services Manager, leading several service improvement projects in HR, IT, Marketing and Organisational Development.
A highly experienced and nationally recognised recruitment professional he has over 25 years' experience in the recruitment field. His career encompasses both the Public and Private sectors. Jon brings his experience to lead a wide range of senior appointments at Chief Executive, Director and Head of Service level throughout the public sector.
Jon has an MBA and is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
He also holds the CIPD Advanced Certificate in Employment Law and is a qualified psychometric assessor, registered with the British Psychological Society.
Job Titles:
- Practice Lead
- Practice Lead / Education
Julia's earlier career included leadership fundraising roles at UCL, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Cranfield School of Management and King's College London before moving into executive search in 2008.
She brings over 20 years of experience working in the higher education and not-for-profit sectors, first as a development professional and most recently in executive search. Prior to joining us she worked for two other prestigious Executive Search firms as Partner and Director of the Education Practice respectively.
Julia's hands-on experience of working in education and the wider not-for-profit sectors has equipped her to intrinsically understand the complex and individual needs of clients. In addition, her experience of being both a client and a candidate means Julia strives to provide an excellent experience for both parties.
Her current role involves leading on a range of leadership roles for a broad range of universities and charities.
Julia also has substantial experience helping organisations re-shape their senior leadership teams during times of organisational change.
Julie has been recruiting senior leaders in the public sector for over 15 years. Before joining us, she had a long career in a similar delivery role with a leading executive search and interim provider, placing executive level interim candidates within education and local government.
She is part of the interim leadership team, and her work focuses on the delivery of interim assignments, engaging with clients regarding executive level requirements and identifying and working with candidates throughout the recruitment process. She deals with roles in housing, not for profit, central government, regulation, and higher education, primarily at CEO, Director, and Assistant Director level.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant / Education
Juliet's earlier career included working for the University of Sheffield before relocating to Wales where she joined Cardiff University. Prior to search, her career was in HR. Once in search Juliet was the Director of a boutique generalist search agency in Wales where she led assignments in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
Having experience of being a candidate, she returned to us as a Senior Consultant, attracted by the opportunity to bring her search experience and her university HR experience together. Juliet has a particular interest in clinical academic recruitment, having worked in Medical and Dental Schools on joint appointments with NHS partners.
A member of the Education Practice, Juliet partners with clients in the Higher Education sector to deliver senior leadership and niche academic appointments. Working closely with our team of Researchers and Project Co-ordinators, she takes overall responsibility for the successful deliver of assignments and takes great pride in delivering a quality service to our clients and excellent support for her candidates.
Juliet holds an MSc in HR Management from Sheffield Hallam University. Her first degree was in Geography from Oxford University.
She is a Fellow of the CIPD, recognising her 20+ years' experience in HR.
Katherine's early career included working on internal senior recruitment and digital development for a multi-national blue-chip. This saw her move into a market-leading search firm furthering her expertise in Infrastructure and Transformational Leadership recruitment. Her work has been directly in the public sector, supporting new and growing technology firms across the Midlands.
As a Senior Researcher within the DDaT Practice Katherine has spent her career with us recruiting senior management professionals across a diverse portfolio.
She is passionate about supporting and developing diverse leaders and future-talent within technology.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Project Co - Ordinator
- Principal Project Co - Ordinator / Education
Katrina gained her experience as a Regional Director for a large international search business, and prior to that worked as a solicitor and Deloitte consultant.
She joined us in 2005 and leads the Regulation and Professional Standards practice and our work in handling high volume panel and committee member roles for regulators.
Katrina brings particular expertise in handling complex cross-sector appointments. She has managed numerous high-profile Chief Executive, Director, Chair and Board appointments across Regulation, Membership and Professional Standards, Central Government, Ombudsman and in the Faith sector.
Khadeeja joined us as a Researcher in February 2023 working across our Central Government, Regulation and Faith practices. She has worked in executive search since January 2021, and prior to joining us was Joint Head of Research in another firm.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Researcher / Housing Local Government
Job Titles:
- Assessment & Talent Consultant and Data Scientist
Job Titles:
- Head of Leadership & Talent
- Head of Leadership & Talent / Board Practice Central Government
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Education
Job Titles:
- Director of Strategy & Marketing
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Project Co - Ordinator
Job Titles:
- Project Team Manager
- Project Team Manager / Education Not for Profit