Experts from across the industry
Experts from across the industry
The Judges
Adam Bolton
Member Services Director
REC
Adam Bolton
Adam is a membership professional with over 20 years’ experience across a range of sectors including leadership and management, accountancy, engineering, and recruitment.
He has held a number of senior roles in professional bodies including the Institute of Directors, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Leadership and Management, and the Association of MBAs.
Adam has worked at the REC for over five years in a number of roles, including Account Director – South and Sales Director and most recently as Member Services Director, where he oversees the development and delivery of member services and products.
He holds the IoD Diploma in Company Direction and is a Fellow of the ILM. Outside work he is a keen musician, beekeeper and trustee of a community-lead arts charity in Margate where he lives with his wife and two boys.
Chris Bryce
Chief Executive
Freelancers & Contractors Services Association
Chris Bryce
Chris Bryce is Chief Executive of Freelancers & Contractors Services Association. Chris joined FCSA in January 2022 with an accomplished record of delivering excellence, growth, cultural change, and influence across a range of complex businesses and non-profits. His overall aim is to ensure all parties in the supply chain – especially workers served by FCSA members – can expect the highest levels of compliance, transparency, and reliability and to raise standards of compliance across the industry.
Chris began his career in sales, becoming Sales Director of a business logistics company and then moving on to become its General Manager. He then stepped into the world of contracting and consultancy at several financial institutions, delivering multiple global-scale change programmes as a consultant Programme Director. Chris has also acted as President of The European Forum of Independent Professionals (EFIP), a collaboration of national associations from across Europe which represents independent professionals at EU level through targeted research and advocacy.
Kim De-ath
Director of Client Experience
3R.co.uk
Kim De-ath
Kim is a recruitment professional with 20 years’ experience. Having worked as a recruiter across a variety of organisations, she truly understands the day-to-day challenges of growing SME recruitment businesses. She regularly advises recruiters on best practice and trends for agencies looking to innovate and stand out from the crowd.
As Director of Client Experience, Kim ensures that recruitment businesses working with 3R get the funding, technology and support they need to solve the day-to-day operational pressures and challenges they face. Educating ambitious recruiters on running efficient, compliant businesses so they can focus on growth, being competitive in the market and able to scale at pace in the UK and beyond.
Andy Dunne
Managing Director
TEAM
Andy Dunne
Andy Dunne is Managing Director at the TEAM, the largest network of independent recruitment companies in the UK. He is passionate about networking, ethical businesses, and helping others succeed.
He has over 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry, and in his current role, he leads a team that is dedicated to fostering growth, collaboration, and excellence in the recruitment sector. He is also a strong advocate for ethical practices and industry standards
Samantha Hurley
Operations Director
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies
Samantha Hurley
As Operations Director at The Association of Professional Staffing Companies Sam has responsibility for the development of APSCo’s presence and reputation within the UK. She ensures innovation, development and improved delivery of existing and new members services, resources, and engagement through the various delivery teams, and the continuing improvement and development of the operational running of the UK business.
Sam has over 30 years’ experience in the UK recruitment sector, and previously ran APSCo’s legal and public affairs offering. Prior to joining APSCo in May 2013, Sam owned and ran a legal services company and held senior management positions within the recruitment sector.
Simon Kent
Editor
The Global Recruiter
Simon Kent
Simon Kent is the Editor of The Global Recruiter, online and on paper. He has written extensively across the recruitment industry and more widely in HR covering employment law, technology and pay and benefits.
His work has appeared in the national press and international business journals.
“I’m looking for excitement and innovation. The entries that stand out for me are those that show commitment, enthusiasm and enjoyment for delivering a great service every time.”
Miles Lloyd
Founder & CEO
Northstar People
Miles Lloyd
Since 2004 Miles has been providing sound expert advice and actively supporting recruitment sector businesses. Miles’ experience lends itself to working with recruitment leaders and business owners to work on their businesses and individually, to be the best versions of themselves that they can possibly be. His expertise very much has a focus on; Company Strategy & Planning, Organisational Performance & Capability, Business Development & Growth and Leadership coaching & mentoring either in isolation or often as part of successfully navigating organisations through significant transformational change. Having supported over 60 organisations, Miles has a very broad understanding of all main recruitment sectors and markets and products/services as well as more recently advising HR and Talent Acquisition service providers.
Interestingly Miles has; Group CEO, CCO & CSO experience in the Recruitment, Invoice Finance, Bill & pay back office, intermediary/umbrella, practice/psc accountancy and talent tech sectors, as well as been involved in and advised recruitment agencies and business who have been acquisitive and those who have successfully exited from a trade sale, BPO and EOT perspectives. Miles is founder & CEO of Milestones, Co Founder & Partner of Northstar People and als Co Founder of Level=, who are a marketing leading DEI lead ‘consciously inclusive talent acquisition’ RPO solutions provider for Sport Business.
Paul Sharpe
Founder
Northstar People
Paul Sharpe
A co-founder of NorthStar People, Paul has pretty much worked with in all aspects of the industry including large national agencies, an SME technical agency, and three years working in-house recruiting for BAE Systems.
Having led multiple sales teams to thrive and sell a variety of talent services, he understands the value of marketing, research, and innovation to stand out from the crowd. His expertise and down to earth approach have resulted in creating a strong network of trusted relationships and friends for life, within the recruitment sector. With this trust, he has personally built, sold, and implemented a number of RPO and MSP solutions along with selling bespoke Talent Advisory Solutions. In addition, he has led multiple teams at the coal face of agency recruitment supplying Blue and White-collar workers, engineers, digital and IT specialists. Most recently Paul has used his experience to advise both organisations on how to outsource and agencies on how to build and sell talent solutions.
David Thornhill
CEO
Simplicity
David Thornhill - CEO of Simplicity: A Visionary Leader in the Recruitment Industry
David has honed his craft throughout his career, specialising in identifying and remedying productivity and efficiency challenges within recruitment businesses. Fuelled by a desire to find more effective solutions for recruiters, David embarked on a quest for innovation. Faced with the inadequacy of existing support systems, David pioneered developing the first-ever software model integrating payroll, invoicing, sales ledger, funding, and management reporting. This groundbreaking achievement marked the origins of a transformative journey.
In 2004, David partnered with fellow recruitment industry heavyweight Tom Atkinson to establish Simplicity, driven by a shared vision to revolutionise the efficiency and profitability of the recruitment landscape. Together, they assembled a team of like-minded recruitment experts to develop the industry’s first full-service back office and financial solution tailored to recruiters’ unique challenges.
Today, the fruition of their vision is evident. Simplicity has emerged as one of the fastest-growing providers in the market, having facilitated billions in funding, processed millions of timesheets, and facilitated the growth of thousands of recruitment businesses over the past two decades. Under David’s leadership, the company has continually invested millions of pounds in research, technology, and talent, further solidifying its position as an industry leader.
David Thornhill’s commitment to innovation and excellence continues to propel Simplicity forward, driving the company’s mission to empower recruiters with the tools and resources they need to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.
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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