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Chris Jackson
Founding Director
Chris set up Understanding Recruitment in 2007 having spent 13 years working his way up to Director level at one of the UK’s leading Tech Recruitme...
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Dale Swords
Founding Director
Dale has over 20 years experience operating within the technology recruitment sector. After securing a 2:1 Journalism Degree he joined one of the U...
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Sam McBroom
Director
Sam was one of the first Graduate Consultants to join Understanding Recruitment. Through his tenure, he's grown teams and divisions that focus on v...
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Suzy Bolton
Group CFO
Suzy started with Understanding Recruitment as the Financial Controller in May 2013 before taking on the role of Financial Director in 2015, headin...
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James Hunt
Associate Director
James joined the U’s as a trainee in 2013 following a stint in hospitality. After 2 years he started the FinTech team, which has since grown to 7 c...
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Miles Hunt
Non-Executive Director
Miles has over 20 years of international recruitment, talent management and entrepreneurial experience. He's taken companies from start-up to IPO, ...
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Tom Parker
Head of DevOps & SRE
Tom joined the team after graduating in 2009 and has moved through the ranks into a leadership position. He's now responsible for managing and grow...
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Tom Rankin
Head of Data & Digital - NFP
Tom has been with Understanding Recruitment since 2012, when he joined as our very first Apprentice. Since then, a lot has changed and Tom heads up...
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Matthew Ferdenzi
Chief Operating Officer - Acceler8 Talent
Mat joined the team in 2015 after spending a number of years as a jobbing actor – his career somewhat peaking at what many critics call ‘the best t...
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Nicola Parker
Delivery Manager
Since joining in 2011 Nicola has successfully progressed within the business, now heading up one of the largest teams at Understanding Recruitment....
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Arjun Gillard
Head of .NET
Arjun joined Understanding Recruitment in the middle of 2019 having spent 8 years working for a recruitment company working his way up from trainee...
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Jack Cascarino
Head of Contracts
Jack brings nine years of experience working in the Digital and Tech space to UR to head up our brilliant contracts team. Jack worked his way throu...
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Ben Mellows
Head of Front End
Ben heads up our Front End team and has 15+ years of technical recruitment experience, previously progressing from Resourcer to Director at another...
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Jana Timm
Head of Marketing
Jana is our Head of Marketing who oversees the global growth of our brand since joining in 2018. She’s an experienced marketer with a background in...
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Emily Kitamura
Global Head of Talent Acquisition
Emily joined Understanding Recruitment in June 2016 as our Internal Recruiter. Emily was previously a successful consultant within the Education se...
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Lisa Booth
Head of HR
Lisa joined Understanding Recruitment at the start of 2017 as our Contracts and Compliance Manager. She graduated from the University of Hertfordsh...
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Emma Mathiesen
Head of Training & Development
Emma joined Understanding Recruitment as Training and Development Manager in 2019 after spending nearly 10 years as a Recruiter. She is focused on ...
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