Speakers
Future thinkers to current practitioners
Future thinkers to current practitioners
Event Hosts
James Osborne
Chairman
The Recruitment Network
James Osborne
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.
Keynote Speakers
Sophie Hopley
Employer Brand Director
Searchability
Sophie Hopley
With a background in marketing across a variety of sectors, Sophie joined the Searchability Group in 2015 to head up brand activities across their UK IT Recruitment operations.
Since then Sophie has gained qualifications in employer brand leadership, launched Searchability’s dedicated employer brand consultancy JobHoller, presented to global audiences on the topic of employer branding and worked with start-ups to global names in tech on a variety of strategic campaigns.
Over the past seven years Sophie has also helped grow the Searchability brand into a leading name in the IT Recruitment sector, expanding into global markets in the US and Europe and winning multiple awards for marketing and employer branding.
James Osborne
Chairman
The Recruitment Network
James Osborne
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.
Adam Tobias
Co-Founder
Inventum Group and APSCo ED&I Partner
Adam Tobias
Adam Tobias has worked in the staffing industry for over 20 years and his experience spans recruitment, executive search, management roles and leadership development. He advises organisations on inclusive talent attraction strategies and processes, and his approach to inclusive recruitment focusses on Ethics, Risk & Performance.
Adam’s passion for ED&I was born from his desire to remove the barriers faced by diverse and underrepresented talent in the job market. Adam is a co-founder of Inventum Group, a leader in inclusive talent solutions and he recently designed and delivered APSCO’s Inclusive+ Recruiter training program.
Panel Hosts
Denis Pennel
Managing Director
World Employment Confederation
Denis Pennel
Based on his long term experience in the field of work and HR services, Denis Pennel is a well-respected analyst of labour market at European and global level. Work futurist and best-seller author of several books (including “The Ego Revolution at Work”), he is regularly invited to act as keynote speaker and lecturer for forums, hearings or conferences. He has been ranked as one of the Top 100 most influential HR professionals at global level (ranking by Staffing Industry Analysts).
Denis Pennel was appointed in 2005 as CEO of the World Employment Confederation, the global professional association representing the employment industry. In his role, he is in charge of promoting the interests of the staffing sector before international institutions, such as the European Union (EU), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Bank or the OECD. He is also a member of several international think tanks and seats at the board of some research institutes.
Louise Triance
Managing Director
UK Recruiter
Louise Triance
Industry hub, recruitment industry fixer, host of recruitment events and technology showcases as well as a trained psychometric assessor.
Louise created, and runs, the UK Recruiter knowledge network which was established back before recruitment networking even existed. The network is the most comprehensive set of information, services and links to all in the UK recruitment industry.
Over the past 20 years she has hosted hundreds of events for recruiters, blogged regularly for more than 15 years and published in excess of 1000 weekly newsletters to an organically grown network of 30,000+ recruitment professionals.
Specialties: Recruitment research, psychometric analysis, writing for recruitment publications, using the internet for recruitment purposes, event organisation, consulting, networking, and advertising.
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https://ukrecruiter.co.uk/
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Panelists
Rhona Carmichael
Regional Managing Director, Scotland, UK North & Ireland
Harvey Nash
Rhona Carmichael
Rhona Carmichael was appointed Managing Director Scotland, UK North & Ireland at Harvey Nash in 2020 after successfully launching, building, and leading the Scotland business from a start-up in 2008. Rhona’s role includes responsibility for Scotland, Ireland, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, and Nottingham.
Rhona is heavily involved in a variety of initiatives to encourage more females to consider a career in technology, as well as supporting disadvantaged groups into employment. Rhona has worked to advise some of the UK’s most successful organisations on talent attraction, retention, and workplace culture – from start-ups that became unicorns to well-known brand names and digital and technology teams shaping the public sector.
At Harvey Nash we specialise in Digital & Technology recruitment, and the war for talent has never been so hard fought in that space. Counter offers, huge salary inflation and the rise of fully remote jobs is meaning competition is fierce – both for our clients and Harvey Nash when we recruit for ourselves.
Candidates can be demanding – whether it’s fully remote, a high salary, a role with purpose or flexibility they call the shots and employers are struggling to keep up with the change and disruption. Our role is about more than matching CV’s to jobs – it’s now more than ever about holistically advising clients on absolutely every aspect of attraction and retention.
Matt Coburn
Strategic Partnerships
Sonovate
Matt Coburn
Matt heads up Strategic Partnerships at Sonovate, working with partners to build connected platforms and a market leading ecosystem to support recruitment agencies, consultancies, and labour marketplaces.
Matt has over 20 years’ experience in banking and fintech. In his role with Sonovate, Matt focuses on developing value propositions and products that bring together best in class companies to meet the demands of an ever-changing business landscape.
As the need for flexible working grows, so does the requirement to put together solutions that offer the flexibility, transparency and speed required to recruit, place and pay contractors and freelancers on time in the UK and across the globe.
Gary Cordery
Regional Sales Director
Bullhorn UK&I
Gary Cordery
As Regional Sales Director, Gary leads Bullhorn International’s Field Sales organisation with a primary focus on the UK & Irish Recruitment markets.
Since joining Bullhorn in 2015, Gary has held a variety of positions focused on managing the growth and strategic partnerships of key Accounts and Affiliations.
Prior to Bullhorn, Gary worked at Usablenet, assisting some of the largest organisations around the world with their Web Accessibility and Mobile Application strategies. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from the University of Roehampton
John Gaughan
CEO
Finlay James
John Gaughan
With over 26 years’ Recruitment experience within the Tech Sales and Marketing space. John has worked with some of the hottest Tech companies in the world.
Finlay James was established in July 2003 and continues to be one of the fastest growing specialist Tech sales recruiters globally. As CEO, John is responsible for the day to day running of the business however together with Sara, FJ’s COO ( and his wife) he now spends more time on the growth of London and Chicago.
As a business, Finlay James aims to be renowned for bringing visions to life and be a global market leader within the Tech Sales industry.
The company also offers a Graduate division ‘Talentskowt’ which kick starts and nurtures sales and marketing careers in Tech.
Neville James
UK Sales Director
CloudCall
Neville James
Neville is the UK Sales Director at CloudCall. He’s a highly successful, data driven, Business Development & Sales Leader with a solid track record in building enduring business relationships and delivering against client’s needs.
Terri Wickett
HR & Talent Acquisition Partner
TritonExec
Terri Wickett
At TritonExec, Terri spearheads the firm’s HR and talent acquisition offering, which has been her specialism throughout her career to date.
Having joined TritonExec following six years in her previous firm, she single-handedly grew the HR and talent acquisition hiring team to ten people, and helped a number of high profile VC-backed firms build their C Suite, HR and leadership teams.
Her experience goes beyond talent acquisition, but also helping clients resolve issues around retention, culture and workplace diversity – all areas in which she has delivered on for a number of VC firms between series’ A-C in hyper scale mode.
Bilal Khan
Associate Director
Grant Thornton
Bilal Khan
ACA qualified Associate Director working within Grant Thornton’s Corporate Finance Lead Advisory team in London.
Joined Grant Thornton in September 2011 as an Audit Associate specialising within the Financial Services sector.
