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Team Members

Head Office

Mark Seymour

Founder Director

Mark is a recruitment legend and the rock on which we stand. A pioneer in search and selection, he has over 35 years’ experience in the industry, a good number of these as UK Director of one of the world’s largest recruitment companies.

Emlyn John

Founder Director

An experienced, commercially focused people and performance professional, Emlyn spent 15 years supporting leading SME and FTSE-250 companies across the Southwest, Midlands, Wales, and London before setting up Seymour John.

Emma Norvill

Finance Manager

From managing cashflow and preparing monthly management accounts to completing our VAT returns and ensuring our contractors get paid, Emma is over it all. As an original member of the team, she is the fount of all knowledge.

Louisa Pugh

Business Support Manager

Lou has been with us from the very beginning. As an original team member, she has overseen the setting up of many of our systems and processes, providing finance and administrative support across the whole group.

Tammy Bilbrough

Accounts Assistant

A regimentally organised multi-tasker, Tammy provides finance and administrative support for our consultants, clients, and candidates across head office and the Southwest.

Stephen Whitfield

Head of Brand & Content

Steve’s role is to tell the world about what we do, how we do it, and why everyone should be using us. When he’s not creating value-added insight for our growing fanbase he’s gently persuading us all to stay on message.

Public Services Midlands & South

John Lavictoire

Director

With over 20 year’s specialist experience, John is a leading expert in public and social sector recruitment. As such, he has become the go-to consultant for difficult-to-fill executive and NED roles across the sector.

Sophie Peters

Director

Sophie works alongside senior public sector leaders to help transform services through technology. Put simply, she helps healthcare systems do more with less, turning ambitions into transformative reality.

Nathalie Allday

Associate Director

Nathalie is a public sector recruitment specialist with over 15 years’ experience, working both in the UK and internationally. She works with senior leaders to help them acquire the finance talent they need to meet the well-documented challenges facing our public services.

Maria Edwards

Associate Director

In a sector where funding is being squeezed, yet demand keeps growing, Maria helps her clients secure the strategic, adaptable leadership talent with the capacity to deal with the scale and pressure of meeting the challenge head on.

Tanya Lavictoire

Office Manager

Tanya has over 15 years’ experience, working within the recruitment industry – as a resourcer, consultant, and now as the Office Manager of our busy Public Sector South team.

Anne Gregory

Senior Administrator

Our excellent reputation is built on exceptional client and candidate care. This is largely down to people like Anne who ensure a seamless experience for everyone, throughout the recruitment process.

Public Services North

Nathalie Bell

Compliance & Administration Officer

Nathalie oversees all aspects of registration and compliance, ensuring we achieve the high standards of due diligence expected of us an awarded public sector framework supplier.

Mark Britton

Principal Consultant

Hugely experienced, Mark has been working in recruitment since 1990. Heading up our project and programme management practice he brings all that experience to bear for the benefit of his clients.

Martin Chadwick

Principal Consultant

Martin is a finance recruitment specialist with over 20 years’ experience working across the public sector. A change-management expert, he helps organisations improve performance and drive transformation by facilitating restructuring programmes.

Will Griffiths

Director

Will is passionate about the UK’s public services and has spent the best part of 20 years as he describes it: “Helping them improve by finding great people to help run them.”

Jonathan Phillips

Director

Reassuringly experienced and extraordinarily well networked, ‘JP’ has been securing C-suite and senior transformation, PMO and project talent for public sector organisations across the Northwest, since 1992.

Kevin Round

Associate Director

A Welsh-speaking Welshman, Kevin is an exceptionally well-networked public sector recruitment consultant. Although focused primarily on supporting NHS clients across the North of England, his reach and reputation stretches across the country at senior and board level within the finance arena.

Eric Tomlinson

Director

Eric is a senior finance and executive search & selection professional with over 20 years’ experience. A director of our public sector team in the North of England, he is a go-to specialist consultant for the NHS.

Southwest

Emma Hughes

Associate Director

Emma has over 20 years’ experience connecting clients with the game-changing Finance talent they need for the next step of the journey.

Rhian Mountjoy

Principal Consultant

Rhian has the best part of 25 years’ experience helping organisations in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire secure the finance talent they need to successfully guide them through the continuing economic and political uncertainty.

Tammy Bilbrough

Accounts Assistant

A regimentally organised multi-tasker, Tammy provides finance and administrative support for our consultants, clients, and candidates across head office and the Southwest.

Strategic HR: People & Change

Victoria Beadle

Director

A director of our strategic HR consultancy, Vic is a CIPD qualified HR leader who is passionate about organisations creating cultures that empower people to be successful. She is an advocate for employee engagement that gives people a voice.

Kate Hardcastle

Director

Kate is a Chartered MCIPD HR professional and one of our business-improvement gurus. With over 20 years’ experience in consulting and other business-improvement roles, she inspires individuals, leaders, and organisations to perform to their best.

Jo Boichot

Director of People Services

As a Chartered MCIPD HR professional with over 25 years’ experience, Jo heads up our advisory services. She is our employment law, mediation, and ER guru, although her technical subject matter expertise stretches across the full HR function.

Louisa Pugh

Business Support Manager

Lou has been with us from the very beginning. As an original team member, she has overseen the setting up of many of our systems and processes, providing finance and administrative support across the whole group.

Louise Griffiths

Associate

An FCIPD HR Professional, Louise offers a wealth of expertise and experience from over 25 years in a variety of senior HR roles and industry sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, scientific research, and wholesale.

Andrea Richardson

Associate

Andrea is a strategic and commercial HR generalist with a strong understanding of employment law and experience across a range of industries and business structures.

Rachel Walker

Associate

Rachel’s experience stretches across the function. As such, she is supremely effective at delivering HR advice in operational and customer-facing environments where quick and effective solutions to people issues are crucially important for business performance.

Lesley Linley

Associate

Lesley is a successful people development and change specialist with over 20 years’ experience gained in a range of sector environments; corporate, voluntary, and statutory.

West Midlands

Simon Lowe

Director

Simon is a senior finance and executive search and selection specialist with over 20 years’ experience. He is an expert in the acquisition of ambitious, commercially astute talent to lead PE-backed and owner-managed SMEs into the next phase of their development.

Phil Topper

Director

Viewed by his clients as the ‘industry benchmark’, Phil has the best part of 25 years’ experience in senior finance and executive recruitment, centred in Shropshire and across the West Midlands, Powys, and Staffordshire.

Michelle Willetts

Associate Director

With over 16 years’ experience, Michelle has an exemplary track record for recruiting high quality accountancy support staff and part-qualified accountants for SME, public sector and large corporates across Shropshire and the Black Country.

Lee Walker

Associate Director

Lee is an accountancy guru and finance recruitment specialist with the best part of 20 years’ experience – the majority of which has been spent in and around the Shropshire region.

Joe Woodall

Senior Consultant

Part of the leading end-to-end finance recruitment team in the region, Joe specialises in connecting client organisations with the best emerging talent, to help them develop and grow.

Richard Northall

Principal Consultant

Having sat on the other side of the desk, in leadership roles for large-scale manufacturing and distribution businesses, Richard knows what great looks like. He approaches recruitment for his clients in the same way he did as a stakeholder, diving deep to find the perfect fit.

Lydia Johnson

Principal Consultant

An experienced, well-networked recruitment consultant, Lydia is a commercial and business-support specialist, connecting top talent with corporates and SMEs across the region.

Helen Sawbridge

Senior Consultant

Helen is an experienced finance recruitment specialist with a proven track record for the successful delivery of end-to-end people resource solutions across both the private and public sector.

Vicky Johnson

Senior Administrator

Our reputation in the industry for outstanding client and candidate care is down to outstanding people like Vicky. It is her dedicated support that enables an extremely busy team of consultants to shine.

We know what great looks like

Whether through permanent and interim recruitment or project consultancy and solution delivery, we are people experts who work with expert people to support, develop, and guide our clients’ organisations.

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