The Judges
Experts from across the industry
Experts from across the industry
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.
Kim De-ath
Director of Client Experience
3R.co.uk
Kim De-ath
Kim is a recruitment professional. Having worked as a recruiter for 12 years across a variety of organisations, she truly understands the day-to-day challenges of starting-up and 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 the start-ups and SME businesses working with 3R get the best funding, technology, service and support to solve the day-to-day operational pressures and challenges recruiters face. Educating ambitious recruiters on running efficient, compliant businesses to they can focus on growth, being competitive in the market and able to scale at pace.
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.
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.
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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“We are over the moon about winning the Global Recruiter’s ‘Best In-House Training Award 2023’! We don’t just train new people who join the company – we create programmes that support every stage of a career from trainee to C-suite. Winning this award celebrates our journey towards this vision! Thank you Global Recruiter!” – Gravitas Recruitment
