THE RECRUITMENT NETWORK CLUB - Key Persons

Annabel Cole

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Employment Lawyer
Law Specialist

Annabel is a employment law specialist and has over 20 years experience providing strategic, pragmatic and commercially focused advice. She acts for businesses, senior executives and individuals providing advice at critical times when there may be a need to restructure a company, achieve change management or deal with employee management issues. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

David Higgins

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Strategic Advisor

David is an entrepreneur and pioneering business leader that founded one of the world's leading brands in IT recruitment, professional services and outsourcing. He has a wealth of experience and a demonstrable track record of business growth, strategy and successful acquisitions both in the UK and internationally. His specialties include: change management, acquisitions, sales, advisory, business strategy and growth.

Dawn Hampton

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Recruitment Director
Strategic Advisor

Dawn is an experienced contingent recruitment director, with significant experience building contract business who offers business consultancy, personal development, leadership training and coaching & mentoring. Dawn's 'do better, be better' philosophy in all her work helps businesses of all sizes to accomplish their goals and instil invaluable leadership skills in managers. As a strategic advisor, Dawn will be conducting TRN Club member business reviews, coaching and advising members, sharing insights, best practice and her experience and expertise.

Ed Smith

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Sales Manager

Ed is responsible for attracting and consulting with new members, he has an extensive recruitment background having spent 12 years in the industry. He is passionate about helping new members get involved and helping them reach their business goals. Ed loves sports and spends his free time swimming and running.

Emma Reeves

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Operations Executive

Emma is Operations Executive for The Recruitment Network and is responsible for supporting TRN's operations and the development of TRN World and its content. Emma has previously worked in software support, customer experience and product development so always takes a customer centric approach when developing TRN World strategies. Emma enjoys spending her free time taking long walks in the countryside, preferably with a friend/family member's dog alongside her (until she gets her own).

Gary King - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:

Commercial Director
Member of the Board
Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Global Recruiter

Gary is the Commercial Director of The Global Recruiter, the world's largest recruitment specific magazine, focusing on editorial for those involved in supplying staffing solutions both globally and within their regions. The Global recruiter is distributed to UK and Ireland, Northern Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, Middle East, North and South America and China and was the first publisher in the staffing industry to deliver a multimedia platform across all mobile devices as an app.

Gordon Stoddart - Founder

Job Titles:

Co - Founder
Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Business Coach

Gordon is a business coach, speaker and trainer with a proven track record in business, team and individual transformation. Over 15 years, Gordon has helped businesses within the recruitment sector and beyond to achieve their potential, enjoy profitable growth and outperform the market through a focus on customer experience and leadership. Gordon spent 10 years transforming his family business from a regional player into the UK's largest privately owned food distribution business, turning over £200m and employing over 1,200 people prior to a successful trade sale.

Graham Palfery-Smith

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Member of the Recruitment Network Team

Graham Palfery-Smith has been involved in the recruitment industry for over 35 years. He is an accomplished and highly experienced strategic senior manager who has run a wide range of specialist recruitment businesses internationally, including HW Group, Robert Walters, Faro and FiveTen Group. A highly effective communicator and a team creator, Graham brings an energetic, enthusiastic and passionate approach, international contacts and an excellent market intelligence network.

Heidi Robus-Toner

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Operations Executive

Heidi is responsible for supporting the running of the company's finance operations and implementing the TRN Partnership programme. Heidi is a highly-organised, people person and has spent the last 12 years working in a variety of industries, both agency and client-side before joining The Recruitment Network. Heidi enjoys spending her free time running and cycling when she is not having days out with her two children.

Hung Lee

Job Titles:

Editor
Industry Expert

Hung Lee is the editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood. He is a recruitment industry professional with over 15 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, founder of award winning online recruiting platform WorkShape.io, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood - the best weekly newsletter in recruitment.

Ioana James - CMO

Job Titles:

Head of Marketing
Member of the Recruitment Network Team

Ioana is the Head of Marketing for The Recruitment Network and is responsible for managing all content, social media and marketing automation technology for the business. With over 12 years experience leading marketing and brand initiatives, Ioana has a focus on CRM strategy implementation, customer engagement, customer retention and customer loyalty.

James Osborne - Founder

Job Titles:

Co - Founder
Member of the Recruitment Network Team

James is an award-winning business consultant, advisor and entrepreneur, with an international board level background in the staffing and recruitment sector, ultimately as GM within one of the largest HR and Recruitment service providers in Australia. As Chairman of The Recruitment Network, James works with recruitment business leaders, helping them to achieve significant growth, performance improvement and competitive advantages acting as a Non-Executive Director, consultant, trainer and strategist for numerous fast-growth recruitment businesses.

Jennie Child

Job Titles:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Talent Leader

Jennie is a passionate talent leader with over 18 years experience in the creative communications industry.

Jeremy Snell

Job Titles:

Recruitment Trainer

A supportive community for recruitment leaders to drive performance and profitability with purpose.

Joanna Hart

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Operations Executive

Jonathan Wright - Chairman

Job Titles:

Chairman
Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Non - Executive Director
Strategic Advisor

Jonathan is a Chairman and non-executive director to a portfolio of growth businesses in the Recruitment & Human Capital industry as well as a speaker on growth management. Drawing on 30 years of experience in the sector clients engage Jonathan to help them drive growth and to achieve an exit event or to raise development capital; he now has over 30 successful transactions under his belt. His transactions have realised over £350m for shareholders.

Kate Oliver - COO

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Operations Director

Kate began her career working for a large innovation company, providing extensive management and support to the lead inventors. She worked across a number of sectors ranging from hospitality to FMCG and on a variety of projects developing new brands, products and business models. Since joining Innergy in 2010 she continues to utilise her project management skills and is now responsible for the running of the company's operations.

Kelly Hawkes

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Systems & Operations Executive

Lauren Mason

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Member Support Executive

Louise Archer

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Trainer

Lucy Tarrant

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Commercial Lawyer
Managing Director of Cognitive Law Limited

Lucy is the Managing Director of Cognitive Law Limited, and a practising solicitor. She has over 24 years of financial and contractual dispute resolution, 20 of those years as a qualified Solicitor. As well as running the business on a day to day basis, Lucy specialises in providing commercial legal services to the recruitment sector. She assists recruitment companies in maximising their business potential and their position in the market place.

Marc Cohen

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Executive VP of North America
Industry Leader

Marc Cohen is an industry leader with over 20 years experience in managing, building and exiting recruitment businesses. Most recently sold ConSol Partners, an award winning technology staffing company he co-founded and led to over $180m in sales with placements in over 40 countries. Having formerly resided in and led operations in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA, Marc develops a global approach to ideas from his base in Los Angeles, California with a focus on advanced recruiting solutions. Marc brings energy and true market knowledge with a passion for learning, strategy, innovation and ability to look at the details behind a business.

Mike Whatman

Job Titles:

Leadership Coach
Leadership Coach / Social Media

Natalie Brenchley

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
Support Manager

Natalie is the Member Support Manager for The Recruitment Network. She is responsible for supporting all members across the network and assisting with the running of the company's operations. Before joining Natalie worked for the NHS helping to run the Out of Hours doctors service, providing extensive organisation in their rostering and day to day management of the company's operations. Natalie enjoys spending her free time doing yoga and catching up with her friends and family.

Neil Carberry

Job Titles:

Member of the Recruitment Network Team
CEO at the REC
Industry Leader

Neil is CEO at the REC, the leading membership organisation for recruitment/staffing firms and individual recruiters. Neil is a member of the council of the conciliation service ACAS and of the Low Pay Commission, which makes recommendations about the level of the National Minimum Wage. He is also the chair of a small academy trust.