BROADGATE STAFFING - Key Persons


Adrian McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Senior Advisor to Trinnovo Group
​Adrian has been a Senior Advisor to Trinnovo Group and Broadgate for many years. He has enjoyed a 40+ year career, including: Partner of a top-10 UK law firm; European IT Director of a global insurer; Governance and Risk Technical Specialist with the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); Group Customer Director for Lloyds Banking Group; and Fintech supervisor for the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). Nowadays, Adrian brings his lengthy career experience to bear, advising well-known companies and financial services firms as a board effectiveness reviewer and trainer, executive coach, and mentor (often to Company Chairs, CEOs, and other board members). Adrian works closely with Broadgate and Trinnovo Group recruiters on C-suite and INED searches.

Alex Willshere

Job Titles:
  • Group Director of Talent, People & Performance
​​​Alex owns our People strategy and is accountable for aligning that with our overall group strategy. Our people strategy incorporates five key pillars; Talent Acquisition, Development, Performance, Retention and Management - ensuring we are hiring the right people and that they are joining the right leaders and teams, reducing the time it takes to unlock their potential, providing the right environment and tools to retain our top talent and ensuring the right performance management mechanisms are in place. Alex started in recruitment in 2010 after studying Business & Marketing at Sheffield Hallam University. The first 10 years of Alex's recruitment career was spent in sales and leadership roles before moving from Trust in SODA to our group Learning and Development function. Since then he has brought together our Talent Acquisition, PeopleOps, HR & Learning, Development & Performance teams into a broader Talent, People and Performance team.

Ashley Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Trinnovo Group CEO & Co Founder
​​​Ashley has over a decade of experience in the global recruitment market. His breadth of knowledge encompasses international mobility, alternative delivery models, and change management. A proven entrepreneur in the field of recruitment, Ashley co-founded the award-winning Trust in S...

Callum Dudrenec

Job Titles:
  • Principal Consultant
​​​Callum is a Principal Consultant in the LondonAccounting, Finance and Audit team focussing on recruiting senior Accounting, Finance and Audit professionals into leading insurance, banking, and fin-tech organizations across the UK.

Cassidy Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager, Legal & GRC
Cassidy has a degree in Law from Brunel University and leads our Legal, Risk and Compliance teams. With over 10 years of recruitment and commercial experience, he takes pride in delivering a personal, proactive and solutions-led approach to staffing. Cassidy specialises in senior legal recruitment and successfully partners with international and boutique law firms, blue-chip organisations and high-growth SMEs. He is well-networked with a proven track record delivering in his specialist areas of business legal services, financial services and technology.

Connor Nurse

Job Titles:
  • US Senior Principal Recruitment Consultant
Connor Nurse has been making meaningful connections as a specialist Risk and Finance recruiter for over six years. After joining Broadgage back in 2018, he built a varied portfolio expanding across buy and sell-side firms throughout the UK. After a successful three years spent developing a community-led talent network, Connor relocated to Boston to build out Broadgate's US presence on the East Coast as a committed team leader. Connor focuses on mid to senior and board-level appointments in Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, and Fraud. Through his consultative approach to recruitment, Connor enjoys building bespoke talent solutions for a diverse portfolio of clients across the US financial services space, ranging from Tier 1 banks to Series A startups. As an ambassador for Ex-Military Careers, Connor is dedicated to helping veterans make the transition from the military to a fulfilling civilian career.

Daniel Tapsell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Contract and Interim
Dan is an Industry-leading recruitment and outcome delivery professional. He has over six years of experience in providing interim solutions and outcome-based solutions for clients within the financial services industry. Dan is one of the founding members of Broadgate Search and has been their highest-performing consultant for the past five years. Dan has a 1st class honours in Economics and is currently embarking on a Human Capital MBA with Cranfield University. By leveraging a vast network of contractors and a creative approach to building simple solutions to complex challenges, Dan has been able to provide numerous solutions to clients all over the globe. "I joined Broadgate Search as one of the founding members of the business. I started because of the unlimited learning potential, but most importantly, because of the career trajectory and progression available. Four years later I'm running my own division of the organisation and expanding the business into multiple new ventures."

Darren Hogan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Consultant
  • Recruitment Consultant
​Darren is a Principal Recruitment Consultant working in Broadgate's Dublin office, where he specialises in Compliance and Financial Crime. Darren is originally from Dublin but now lives in Wicklow with a stop in Sligo along the way. He came from a background in customer service, having worked in various call centres for a number of years. Darren also has a passion for sports, music and food. If he's not watching sports, he'll most likely be listening to music and baking/cooking.

David Torpey

Job Titles:
  • Principal Consultant
​David focuses on placing mid to senior-level Accountancy candidates across the Irish Commerce and Industry market. David graduated with a degree in Human Resources in 2018 and has since gained over 3.5 years of valuable experience in the field of Accountancy recruitment. His expertise lies in the Accounting and Finance market in Dublin, where he has successfully managed recruitment processes for clients across practice, financial services, and industry.

Elliott Snowball

Job Titles:
  • Team Leader
Elliott Snowball leads the Fund Administration and Operations team here at Broadgate, where he focuses on senior-level appointments for middle and back-office positions throughout investment management and financial services. Elliott's team partners with a diverse range of clients throughout the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg. Elliott specialises in hiring for the alternative investment space, operations, and business development, where he enjoys helping innovative leaders build defensible, dependable functions. After earning a first-class degree in Economics from Bristol University, Elliott spent three years working as an Accounting and Finance recruiter, focusing on a wide variety of sectors. In 2021, he joined Broadgate to pursue his interest in the Financial Services sector.

Ethan Stacey

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Recruiter
  • Recruitment Consultant
​​Ethan is currently an associate recruiter at Broadgate Search. He will be recruiting for finance and accountancy across the UK. Prior to his move to Broadgate, he had a wide variety of roles, such as roofing technician, EPOS mechanic and more.

Gareth James

Job Titles:
  • Director of Sales Permanent
Gareth manages the UK & EU permanent teams, covering Accounting & Finance, Fund Accounting & Operations, Governance, Risk, Compliance & Legal. Gareth established the A&F team, before moving into a management oversight role. Gareth has a degree in Ancient and Medieval History from Birmingham University. He also has an excellent sports record - Gareth has played cricket for England schoolboys and academy-level football at Tottenham Hotspur. He started with Broadgate in 2017 after four years in recruitment. He is the account manager for several of our most prestigious financial services clients.

Georgia Mason

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Recruitment Consultant
Georgia recruits within the Legal and Governance space across the UK and Ireland.​Ge... Georgia has a degree in Law from the University of Kent. She also has a lot of fun doing sports in her spare time, especially cheerleading which she used to do throughout university where she performed across the country in competitions. She has just started at Broadgate in September 2023 specialising in legal recruitment across Europe.

Helena Sullivan - CMO

Job Titles:
  • CMO
​​Helena is our CMO, leading marketing strategy and delivery for all Trinnovo Group brands globally. Her team are responsible for communities, social media, and thought leadership including events, podcasts and blogs, digital marketing, bids and tenders, and more. Helena started her recruitment marketing career in London twenty years ago. She has worked exclusively in marketing for recruitment, for a number of global, multi-brand organisations, delivering marketing solutions in Europe, the UK, the USA, Asia, Australia, and the UAE. She is passionate about marketing and loves working in the recruitment sector due to its fast-paced and ever-changing nature.

James Wilsher

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Recruitment Consultant
​James specialises in Accountancy and Finance recruitment in the UK.James has a Business degree from the University of Southampton. He channelled his expertise in Marketing, Business Management and Corporate Entity Development. Outside of finance, James is a competitive football player...

Josh Duggan

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Consultant
  • Fund Administration and Investment Management Recruiter
  • Specialist
​Josh Duggan is a specialist fund administration and investment management recruiter here at Broadgate. After travelling the world for two years, Josh was searching for a new opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life, and recruitment presented the perfect opportunity. Since joining Broadgate's Fund and Operations team back in ...

Kalya Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Consultant
​Kalya specialises in recruiting compliance talent across the UK market. Kalya began her journey in recruitment after graduating from Coventry University last year with a degree in Economics. Since then, she's fostered a wealth of relationships across the compliance and regulatory market wo...

Kevin Adam-Hein

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager - Governance, Risk & Compliance
​Kevin specialises in the recruitment of Risk, Compliance and Financial Crime professionals from mid to senior levels, including non-executive director positions, across multiple sectors: Financial Services, Insurance, Corporate, Retail & Investment Banking, and Asset Management. Kevin is based in Dublin, Ireland.Kevin spent sever...

Lauren Finlay

Job Titles:
  • Principal Consultant, Accounting & Finance
​Lauren focuses on delivering diverse talent to successful, inclusive, high-growth environments within Accounting & Finance in Ireland. Lauren has a degree in International Business from the University of Leeds. After graduating from university, she lived in Wales for 9 months before travelling to Indonesia and then to Australia, w...

Luana Boni Chagas

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Consultant
​Luana Boni Chagas is a Recruitment Consultant who specialises in recruiting Compliance and Financial Crime professionals in Ireland.Luana was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thanks to a sports scholarship she received, she lived a few years in the U.S. while completing her college studies and pla...

Lucy Neal - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Marketing Director
  • Associate Marketing Director and Co - Founder of Women
A dependable and empathic team leader, Lucy Neal is Broadgate's Associate Marketing Director and Co-Founder of Women in DevOps, an international community on a mission to close the DevOps gender gap and inspire future leaders in tech. Lucy is responsible for planning and delivering Tri...

Matt Carter

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Client Engagement
Matt is one of the founding recruiters of Broadgate, joining the business as a start-up in 2015. Matt was instrumental in helping the business grow quickly, specialising in Governance, Risk & Compliance recruitment with a focus on exceptional candidate support and strategic client advice.With over t...

Matt Goddard

Job Titles:
  • Head of Legal & Compliance
Matthew heads up Trinnovo's Legal & Compliance team for all of our brands globally. Matthew's team focus on total business protection, delivering an exceptional onboarding experience for our customers, utilising emerging technologies and integrations to improve our proce...

Meet Ben Adams

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and International Managing Director
Meet Ben Adams, the Co-Founder and International Managing Director for Broadgate. Ben co-founded Broadgate in January 2015 with a clear vision: to create a recruitment agency built around people, culture, and excellence.Through its

Micha Swallow

​​Micha is our Learning, Development and Performance Lead and is involved in all of our coaching and facilitation for Broadgate. Micha is dedicated to creating collaborative, innovative, and top-tier learning experiences for both entry-level and seasoned consultants, spanning 12-week academies, personalised coaching, and a mix of in-person an...

Nathan Hodeib

Job Titles:
  • Principal Consultant
Nathan focuses on placing fund accounting and depositary professionals across Luxembourg and senior finance professionals across Germany and Switzerland. Nathan has over four years of recruitment experience. He h...

Richard Williams

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Senior Principal
​Richard Williams is a Senior Principal Consultant with over ten years of experience in risk and compliance recruitment, focusing on mid to senior and board-level appointments in both financial and non-financial risk. Since joining the Broadgate team back in 2018, Richard has enjoyed helping a diverse range of companies grow and scale by conn...

Scarlett Worthington

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Recruitment Consultant
​Scarlett focusses on Fund Administration and Investment Management in the Luxembourg and European markets. Scarlett graduated from East15 Acting School with a practical degree in World Performance. She has now stepped into the world of Financial Consulting and is excited to kickstart her career.

Sean Woolley

Job Titles:
  • Group Financial Controller
​In 2023, Sean joined a pivotal role at Trinnovo Group, spearheading the finance, legal, and compliance divisions. With a distinctive expertise in fostering business expansion through organic growth, acquisitions, and turnaround strategies, Sean's professional journey began with the establishment and subsequent sale of his engineering company...

Teni Ade-Ojo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Recruitment Consultant
​Teni is an Associate Recruitment Consultant professional focused on Governance, Risk and Compliance in the Luxembourg and European markets.Teni graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in Corporate Finance Law. Outside of her legal career, she loves to lend her voice to matters related...

Toby Jupp

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Consultant
Toby is part of our Governance, Risk and Compliance team, specialising in the Credit Risk niche - handling everything from risk analytics, credit risk modelling and data.