Speakers

David Hurst, CEO, Onrec - Conference Chairman

David Hurst founded DH Publishing Ltd in 1999, to provide HR Directors and recruiters with information on the online recruitment market. The company now creates forums of discussion, by sharing information online, in print and in person with conferences around the world, bringing experts and practitioners together to discuss and exchange information.

 

John Husselbee, Chief Investment Officer, North Investment Partners

John Husselbee is the Chief Investment Officer of North Investment Partners, an independent discretionary investment management company, dedicated to delivering innovative, practical and profitable investment solutions to a variety of carefully selected clients. As founding director, John launched North in August 2005 and has over twenty years’ experience in running multi asset, multi manager portfolios garnered at both Henderson Global Investors, where he was Director of Multi Manager Investment, and prior to that at Rothschild Asset Management, where he was responsible for the launch and ongoing management of their portfolio management service. John is a well-respected commentator within the UK mutual fund industry and sits on the judging panel for the prestigious Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards.

Katie Reed, Online Marketing Consultant, Direct Line Group

Katie is the Online Marketing Consultant within the Resourcing team at Direct Line Group, responsible for the careers website, search marketing, social media and CRM. Katie started her career in newspaper sales promotion and marketing for weekly titles in the South West as part of DMGT. She then moved into fashion marketing for JD Williams Group, launching the menswear brand Jacamo anddelivering the retention activity for both menswear brands owned by the group. Entering the world of financial services marketing in 2008 with a direct marketing role at HBOS, this was followed by full mix and online roles at Swinton Group before joining Direct Line Group in May 2011. The Direct Line Group careers website has recently won the 2013 ONREC award for Best Corporate Graduate Website and is a finalist for Best Client Careers Website at the S1 Awards 2013 as well as being shortlisted for Best Careers Website at the 2012 In-house Recruitment Awards.

Jason Gowlett, Head of Resourcing, Direct Line Group

Jason heads Direct Line Group’s resourcing team, leading the development and delivery of the company’s end-to-end recruitment journey for a diverse range of roles from actuaries to spray painters! Jason started his career at RBS Group in 1986.  His first job was sorting cheques in the clearing department and since then he has held roles covering almost every part of RBS Group, before moving into recruitment 9 years ago.  Previous roles include setting up and leading a lending centre as well as leading call centre operations.  Jason has also been involved in and led a number of change programmes before joining RBS Insurance (now Direct Line Group) in January 2011. Jason successfully led the separation of the resourcing functions from RBS Group, which included introducing new teams, technologies and processes.  Jason’s team recently won the 2013 ONREC award for Best Corporate Graduates Website and are final nominees at the 2013 Recruiter Awards for ‘Best in-House Recruiter’, ‘Best In-house Recruitment Team’, ‘Most Effective Employer Brand Development’ and ‘Graduate Recruitment Website’.

Alex Nickolay-Kell, Property, Careers & Classifieds, Google

Working with clients across Property, Careers & Classifieds. Ensuring our clients have a full understanding of how the Google suite of products (including YouTube, Search & Display) increases the exposure & impact with their target audience.

Fredrik Tukk, Head of Communication, Branding & Marketing, Maersk

Experienced manager with more than 15+ years from project management, corporate strategy, operational strategy and effectiveness, internet and market development. Extensive international experience from Change Management with the ability to see the commercial opportunities even within highly technical areas. Succesful leader of multicultural teams in cross boarder projects to deliver results that lasts. Background both in managment consulting (Arthur Andersen/Celerant/Framfab), industry (Energy/Oil/Telekom/Automotive/Process/ Manufacturing) as well as start-ups. Specialties:Change Management, Process improvement, Corporate Strategy, Performance Management, Operational strategy and implementation, Business Development, Market Development. 10+ years in management consulting, 5 years with senior management, and 3 years with start-ups

Matt Alder, MetaShift

Ever since he first worked with the web back in 1997, Matt Alder has been fascinated by the emerging technologies that change the way companies go about recruiting people. He implemented the UK’s first Mobile Recruiting campaign way back in 2002 and is recognized as a highly influential recruitment futurist as well as a leading digital, social and mobile strategist. Using his unrivalled experience of leading digital migration within large organizations and unique insight into the opportunities emerging technologies can offer, Matt helps businesses get the very best out of their recruiting activities by helping them integrate new approaches into their existing digital recruitment strategy. As well as delivering pragmatic business solutions that connect go ahead organizations with the elusive talent they seek, Matt’s also a respected commentator, a regular blogger, and an accomplished public speaker. 

Claudia Tattanelli, Global Director, Universum

As the Global Director, Claudia Tattanelli leads the strategic development for the Universum brand with a strong focus on business development as well as client and partnership expansion. Previously Claudia was the CEO of Nova Global as well as CEO of Universum’s American and Asia/Pacific operations of Universum Group, which today includes the subsidiary groups of Universum Communications, Springboardr, and WetFeet. With over 15 years experience in employer branding, Claudia has extensive experience from the global recruitment scene working with many of the world’s largest companies and organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 100 firms, on their employer branding and recruitment strategies. As a thought leader in employer branding, Claudia has been quoted in top publications around the world including Businessweek, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Washington Post and The Economist speaking on topics ranging from diversity and women recruitment issues to the war for recruiting and retaining top talent. She has also been featured as a guest on Fox TV, Bloomberg and CNBC’s Morning Call. Before entering the recruitment and employer branding world Claudia, who is also known as Chloe, was working at Sotheby’s N.Y. She grew up in Florence, Italy where she also attended both the faculties of Law and Philosophy at the "Universita´degli studi di Firenze". 

Stephanie Weiss, Trainer & Recruiting Specialist, AIRS

Stephanie started her recruitment career at Lockheed Martin as the Intern Program Manager who recruited entry level candidates of all specialties and across the spectrum from non-technical to technical. She eventually moved over to experienced professional recruitment where she took great pleasure in finding highly cleared engineers of all disciplines for multiple sites. She discovered true satisfaction through creating the social media strategy for the leadership association within Lockheed Martin, and training her fellow recruiters on the newest technologies and search methodologies. Stephanie holds a BS in Psychology and a MS in Human Resources Management from Texas A&M University. She is looking forward to working with you on your next search, and connecting with you in class.

Pavlos Paschali, Specialist Employment Law Solicitor, Levenes Employment

Pavlos has been with his firm since 2002 and qualified as a solicitor in March 2004. He regularly represents businesses in the recruitment sector dealing with both advisory matters and disputes. A full profile is available here.

Richard Alberg, CEO, MyWorkSearch

Richard Alberg is founder and CEO of Myworksearch Ltd (www.myworksearch.co.uk), an innovative online service that handholds an individual on the journey into employment.  It uses sophisticated technology to provide workflow automation, eLearning, activity management, data, reporting and the company’s proprietary Nudge Engine® to inexpensively, affordably and at large scale assist jobseekers.  Prior to MyWorkSearch Richard founded Psychometric Services Ltd (PSL).  PSL developed and published psychometric tests and was a pioneer in the field of online recruitment.  Kenexa purchased PSL in 2006 and Richard became a Senior Vice President with responsibility for their European and then their Asia-Pacific businesses. Richard is a frequent industry commentator and has contributed to print and broadcast media. He has spoken at conferences throughout the world and is one of the guest experts on a series of industry training videos.

Lila Dowie, Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager, Anthony Nolan

Lila Dowie is Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager at Anthony Nolan with over 10 years experience of managing corporate and commercial partnerships.  Successes include managing a partnership with Wilkinson that generated £1.6m against a £1m target.  Before joining Anthony Nolan, Lila spent four years at Help a London Child managing strategic partnerships including Marriott Hotels, Fitness First, ITV and Gourmet Burger Kitchen.  Prior to joining the charity, Lila worked for five years as a producer for Xfm and the BBC working with the likes of Vodafone and producing shows for, among others, Adam and Joe, Lauren Laverne and Steve Wright. 

Ann O’Leary, Head of Recruitment & Register Development

Ann is Head of Register Development at Anthony Nolan and is responsible for ensuring the optimum size and composition of Anthony Nolan's Register of potential bone marrow donors.  This involves managing all areas of recruitment, education and retention of donors on the register.  Ann has been working in the area of altruistic donor recruitment for 7 years, having spent 4 years with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service before moving to Anthony Nolan. Anthony Nolan has recently won the Charity Times award for Charity of the Year 2012, a Creative Out of Home (Transport) award and a Cannes Radio Lion award for their recruitment campaigns. 

Belinda Johnson, Owner, Worklab

Belinda is owner of employment research consultancy, Worklab. She is also an associate at Econolyst - one of the world's leading consultancies dedicated to 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing. Both through Worklab, Econolyst and in her previous capacity as a Director of Knowledge & Insight for one of the world's largest HR services companies, Randstad, she has spent most of the last decade researching the forces that impact organisational need for people - all facets of work, working and workplace. She also monitors the shifting sentiment towards the way that people wish to be engaged in work. Belinda was author of the REC's Recruitment 2022 report, published at the end of 2012 and is currently working on another commission from the REC Technology Sector group.

Russell Crowe, Founder & CEO, CvWow.com 

With a wealth of knowledge and experiences spanning over 16 years of executive search and selection with global retail brands. Russell Crowe founded CvWow.com back in 2010 when he saw a gap in the market for a fixed price rpo solution.  Working with some of the biggest names across multiple industry sectors, CvWow.com has become the pioneers in Fixed Price Recruitment throughout Europe.  Accessing the biggest network of recruitment job boards CvWow access Europe’s biggest candidate database.