Experience

Newchip Accelerator

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Start-Up/Scale-UP MENTOR

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  🚀 The #1 Online Accelerator: 💰 We provide founders with all of the tools and skills necessary to build, scale, and fund their startups. 🌍 1000+ Portfolio Companies Globally 📈 $450,000,000+ Raised Mentor, soundboard, friend and advisor to some of the most exciting TECH Scale-up and Start-up ventures out there. I advise on how to secure funding, route to market, pitch decks, how to effectively build and grow high performant teams, staff retention, company culture, streamlining process. Show less



HL POWERSOFT LIMITED

• London, United Kingdom

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2012 - Present

  Co-founded and bootstrapped a bespoke SaaS start-up providing CRM systems to the recruitment industry. Our system is GDPR compliant and designed with best practice at its core, leveraging BIG DATA Analytics, scalability, security, simplicity and customisation. We have incredibly robust candidate and business development functions, reporting, pipeline tracking, management analytics, invoicing and CV Parsing all built in and more features and API's to come. Having worked for many years in the recruitment sector, I decided to address the age old problem of the dreaded CRM solution- disillusioned with overly complex, clunky, redundant, non compliant and time consuming recruitment systems and CRM's we decided to take action and create our own. Created by recruiters for recruiters our flagship product combines best in breed technology with intuitive design and functionality. I've worked on most of the common systems as well as some bespoke systems and nothing has ever felt fit for purpose. We have created a solution that puts these issues to bed. Simple, effective and time saving. Ready to Launch in 2019, we are currently interested in speaking with investors, accelerators and Angel's and of course innovative recruitment businesses looking to trial a cutting edge recruitment CRM system. Show less



Potter Johnson

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate IT Recruiter

  • Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

  Potter Johnson is a multi-sector recruitment consultancy that prides itself on offering both its clients and candidates a quality, trust-worthy and reliable service. Potter Johnson is a multi-sector recruitment consultancy that prides itself on offering both its clients and candidates a quality, trust-worthy and reliable service.



Logic Engagements

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

  Logic Engagements is: A significant player in the global IT & Software Engineering recruitment sectors, providing first class candidates to large ‘blue-chip’ organisations and some of the hottest start-up and scale-up companies on the tech scene. Established for nearly 25 years our network in unparalleled. Acknowledged by many organizations as a Preferred Supplier. It is our mission to provide a recruitment service that far exceeds our customers expectations by identifying, qualifying and submitting the best possible applicants. Our Goal: Our goal is to constantly improve our service using the best technology , developing and refining our database of potential candidates, understanding our customers better and developing and rewarding our own people. Show less



Commercial Property Advisors Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Field Sales Manager- London and Southeast

  • Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

  I head up all sales operations for the London and South East territories- Our team of business rates specialists handle the entire appeal process on your behalf to achieve the best possible result, leaving you to run your business uninterrupted. Our focus is very much on customer satisfaction by ensuring high levels of customer service and our diligence in achieving the best possible results for our clients. We deal with all aspects of rating appeals. Our entire service is provided on a strict "no performance, no fee" basis. We win over 90% of our cases- get in touch for a free risk audit on your commercial property! Show less



Brookwood Search & Selection

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Feb 2019 - Jul 2019

  The London office is Brookwood’s specialist IT centre; we cover a range of verticals within IT and my speciality is the Full Software Development Life-cycle. I focus on a whole host of different roles, from Java Developer to CTO and everything in-between. Using our combined experience of nearly 20 years within the IT sector, my team and I are well placed to understand the needs of both our clients and candidates alike. Using our extensive database, all the most cutting edge recruitment tools and technologies as well as our expansive network built up over many years, Brookwood IT provides a comprehensive recruitment and headhunting service covering both the contract and perm markets. Show less



Most Valuable Professionals LTD

• London, United Kingdom

• Managing Director

  • Oct 2012 - May 2018

  Here at MVP we strive to provide a professional, consultative and specialist contingency-based recruitment service focusing on the IT software and sales sector. We pro-actively head hunt the very best candidates in our sphere, and having a solid background in IT, sales and recruitment our team of specialist consultants know exactly what they are looking for and where to find it. If you are an IT professional seeking that all important "next step" in your career it is vital that you deal with a company that truly takes the time to understand want you need, your key motivators and what you want out of your career, MVP has the networking capabilities to place you within an organisation that not only appreciates your unique skill sets and personal goals but also has the capabilities to enhance you as an individual. Our trained consultants are supported by the latest software but nothing beats a face to face meeting, we endeavor to meet all our candidates face to face and can arrange interview facilities nationwide for our clients on a cost free basis At MVP we take pride in spending the time getting to know you and your business model. We ensure all our consultants are going the extra mile to identify your company culture and ensure we seek out your most valuable professional every time. we want to make your recruitment pains a thing of the past- we make hiring the best as simple and cost effective as possible. For more info check out www.mvp-uk.com or follow us on twitter @mvpuk Show less



Career Break

• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Travelling

  • Mar 2012 - Oct 2012



Salt

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Candidate Manager

  • Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

  Salt is a specialist recruitment consultancy that represents everything that is innovative and emerging in the digital and software world Based in London with international networks we successfully completed thousands of searches for hundreds of clients across 30 countries and 50 cities. Salt is a specialist recruitment consultancy that represents everything that is innovative and emerging in the digital and software world Based in London with international networks we successfully completed thousands of searches for hundreds of clients across 30 countries and 50 cities.



Travelling

• Travelling Man

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2011

  I took a year out and found myself travelling through Indonesia, Bali, Thailand and Singapore it was superb :) I took a year out and found myself travelling through Indonesia, Bali, Thailand and Singapore it was superb :)



Robertson Sumner

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Recruitment Consultant

  • Apr 2010 - Jul 2010

  3 month temp role assisting the director with demand creation, Robertson and Sumner specialise in attracting the very best I.T sales people on the market, they have major accounts with companies such as SSI, and Cisco. My role was to support the consultants as well as cold call new companies and build a future pipeline, I built relationships up with companies such as Compuware, Aladdin/Safenet, Cryptocard and many more. 3 month temp role assisting the director with demand creation, Robertson and Sumner specialise in attracting the very best I.T sales people on the market, they have major accounts with companies such as SSI, and Cisco. My role was to support the consultants as well as cold call new companies and build a future pipeline, I built relationships up with companies such as Compuware, Aladdin/Safenet, Cryptocard and many more.



CVS Business Rent & Rates Specialists

• United Kingdom
• Leasing Non-residential Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Telesales Exec

  • Oct 2009 - Apr 2010

  Full time sales role based in London city, CVS specialise in business rate appeals, they have been established 16 years and had a strong presence up North from their Manchester based head office. In October we set up the London branch from scratch, we were a small team of 8 telesales execs and 4 field based reps. Heavily KPI driven role where I was targeted to make 200 calls a day and book at least 4 quality appointments a day for the field sales reps to close. We were targeted to generate 500k worth of rateable value per week. We were assigned postcodes and could target any company with commercial premises that had not submitted an appeal within the 5 year period allocated. Every day was different, you could talk to the owner of a corner shop one minute and a be talking to the Managing Director of huge multinational companies the next. I was consistently in the top 2 for KPI tracking and generated more revenue than anybody else in the London office as well as 95% of people in the Manchester office. Show less



Mead Partners Limited - Search & Recruitment For Tech & FinTech

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development/Head Hunter

  • Mar 2009 - Dec 2009

  Dual role of demand creation and fulfillment within the I.T security and software sales arena . I worked on some high profile I.T sales recruitment roles as well as building a database from scratch and creating brand awareness. I had my first real experience of aggressively targeting candidates from competitors of my clients as well as arranging interviews and selling jobs to potential candidates. Dual role of demand creation and fulfillment within the I.T security and software sales arena . I worked on some high profile I.T sales recruitment roles as well as building a database from scratch and creating brand awareness. I had my first real experience of aggressively targeting candidates from competitors of my clients as well as arranging interviews and selling jobs to potential candidates.



CD Recruitment

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business development manager

  • Mar 2008 - Dec 2008

  I was Head-hunted to re-start the Technical Sales division after it had been dormant for nearly 8 years. I was given free reign over the dormant database and could target any sales organisation with a technical biased across the UK excluding medical and I.T sales. I predominately targeted the UK OEM market, oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, electrical and mechanical engineering, industrial and aerospace companies. My average fee was 6k and my fee would never drop below 18% of final salary (including car charge).I never missed a target and was top of the call stats every week. I negotiated national PSL status with some huge companies including Karcher, Honeywell and Dowding and Mills and made 2 successful placements at E2v worth 8k each. I billed a total of 136k made up of 18 perm placements,my largest deal was worth £12,900. Show less



BMS Performance

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • Jan 2008 - May 2008

  Trainee recruitment role within the commercial sector, I was able to target any company in the South East of England that started with the following letters: B, D, F,L,U,C. I was mentored by the Divisional Manager and the Sales Director who taught me the processes’ involved in not just taking a vacancy but taking a realistic and commercially viable job, while opening up a clients requirements to match the candidates we had available at the time. Trainee recruitment role within the commercial sector, I was able to target any company in the South East of England that started with the following letters: B, D, F,L,U,C. I was mentored by the Divisional Manager and the Sales Director who taught me the processes’ involved in not just taking a vacancy but taking a realistic and commercially viable job, while opening up a clients requirements to match the candidates we had available at the time.