The Onrec Online Recruitment Trade Conference Speakers

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David Hurst, CEO, Onrec - Conference Chairman

David Hurst founded DH Publishing Ltd in 1999, to provide HR Directors & 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 & practitioners together to discuss & exchange information.

Gareth Jones, Community & social engagement strategist with expertise in HR, resourcing, marketing, technology

Gareth has over 23 years experience operating at senior executive level in HR, Business Development, Marketing, Technology and Recruitment. He is chief Inmate of BrubakerHR, www.brubakerhr.com a niche consultancy, which focuses on leveraging social insight for improved business performance.  He is also co founder of ConnectingHR, the rapidly growing, socially driven, HR community – www.connectinghr.org. Before founding Brubaker, Gareth was Head of Marketing and Technology at the Stopgap Group the largest Independent HR and Marketing recruitment firm in the UK.  At Stopgap he pioneered the use of social approaches in both candidate attraction and client development.  With additional responsibilities for business strategy, he has spent the last 2 years deconstructing the recruitment business model and challenging some of the industries most fundamental conventions. A regular commentator and blogger on the future of the recruitment landscape, he now works with a variety of businesses from tech start-ups to established blue chips, advising on marketing and product strategy, social and real time employee engagement, communities and exploring new revenue streams through social commerce strategy.

Scott Keyser, MD, Invitation2tender.com

Scott helps organisations in any sector to consistently win more bids, tenders, proposals and pitches. Scott’s background includes eight years with Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers as a trainer and consultant, five years as a freelance copywriter and a number of years as an advertising account executive with J Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi. As a National Proposals Consultant with Ernst & Young helping practice teams to win major tenders, Scott helped the UK firm to double its tender win-rate. Now running his own training and consulting practice (www.scottkeyserproposals.com) in how to win more business, he draws on that formative experience. His clients hail from construction, recruitment, law, education, publishing, media, health and social care, the voluntary and community sector, and central Government. Scott offers training in bid writing, proposals best practice and pitching. His consulting services include ‘hand-holding’ bid support, bid document and tendering process review, pre-qualification and advice on pre-submission client meetings. His premium product is the ‘90-Day VIP Bid Transformation Programme’ that bundles all his products and services together to take an organisation’s business development to the next level of performance and revenue. He’s written 40,000 words of a book on bids, tenders and proposals, due out later this year. Scott also runs Write for Results (www.writeforresults.com), a business writing training practice that transforms people’s writing. Though many of his clients are professional services firms, his most loyal client is The Economist, whose staff he’s trained around the world since 2004.

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.

Ciaran O'Sullivan, Sales Director, comScore, Inc.

Ciaran O’Sullivan is Sales Director at comScore Europe, where he is responsible for new business and is a specialist in Media, Video and Ad Metrix including the Ad Effectiveness suite. Ciaran started his journey in digital 12 years ago launching three online start ups before moving to agency side as a Digital Media Manager where he worked with household brands such as The Post Office, HBOS and Staples.  Now in his fourth year at comScore, Ciaran is a well known face across the agency, publisher, ad network and consultancy landscape.