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.
People & Change: Strategic HR
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.
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.
Sarah Harvey
Associate Director
A DDaT, and programme and project leadership specialist, Sarah sources the game-changing talent her public sector clients’ need to successfully meet their change and transformation ambitions.
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.
Andrew Thomlinson
Principal Consultant
Dru works closely with NHS Finance teams to deliver complete top-to-bottom interim recruitment solutions, aligned with their strategic ambitions, and tailored to their specific resourcing challenges.
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.
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.