THE UK ADVISORY BOARD
Talent acquisition leaders with global expertise.
TOBY CULSHAW
Head of Talent Intelligence, Philips
Toby has recently been appointed Head of Talent Intelligence at leading technology company, Philips.
With over 10 years’ experience in the industry, Toby has expert knowledge of the most effective talent attraction strategies. He is also a talented writer with many of his articles being published within popular recruitment magazines, websites and forums.
JONATHAN BRIGGS
Group Head Talent Acquisition, Aviva
Jonathan is the newly appointed Group Head of Talent Acquisition at Aviva. Prior to his latest role, Jonathan was appointed Head of Talent Acquisition at Thomson Reuters where he was responsible, globally, for the Intellectual Property and Science division
With over 10 years’ experience in Talent Acquisition, Jonathan believes he has developed a high level of resilience and a particular set of influencing skills.
MARIA MCLACHLAN
Head of Resourcing – Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience, Barclays UK
A seasoned recruitment professional with a range of agency and in-house experience gained across multiple industries.
Maria currently works for Barclays where she is responsible for entry to executive level resourcing across Personal Banking & Client and Customer Experience teams for Barclays UK, leading a team of Resourcing Business Partners and an RPO who together deliver over 4000 critical hires every year.
NOEL BROWN
Global Talent Acquisition Leader, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Noel is a business-focused HR leader with significant global experience in delivering Talent Acquisition best practices, while building organisational capability that drives results.
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, he is constantly looking for smarter ways to improve processes and services through technology, scale, employer brand and candidate experience worldwide.
JANE REDDIN
Talent Director, Balderton Capital
Jane delivers transformational talent acquisition and team development programmes which enable the Balderton start-ups to acquire the very best talent for maximum business impact
Helping start-ups to scale has been her constant career driving force. She has transacted >450 senior hires for innovative companies, built international and new-market teams, and helped in-house talent leaders build their TA and HR capability.
FIONA BEATTIE
Talent Acquisition Director, IQVIA
Fiona has almost 10 years’ experience working at Quintiles. She is an experienced international Talent Acquisition professional and was recently appointed as Global Head of Quintiles’ Talent Acquisition Academy.
The Academy focuses on establishing, designing and rolling out a global training programme designed to train and develop the Talent Acquisition Team and the Hiring Manager Team of Quintiles internationally.
JON HULL
Head of Resourcing Delivery at Nationwide Building Society
Jon Hull is an HR and Talent Management leader with over 18 years’ experience. As Head of Resourcing Delivery at Nationwide Building Society, he is responsible for helping drive the transformation of the Customer facing recruiting and the Tech and Transformation agenda.
Jon has strong international experience and a track record for managing diverse teams. This year he was shortlisted for In-House Recruitment Leader of the Year by Recruiter Magazine.
JENNIFER MULLEN
Talent Acquisition Leader, EMEA
Jennifer Mullen is currently the Talent Acquisition Leader at Intuit where she is responsible for driving innovation and recruiting talented individuals who share the organisations unique ethos and culture. With offices currently in London, France, Germany and Israel, Jennifer has extensive international recruitment experience.
With an impressive portfolio of recruitment roles within other large multinational companies including Expedia and Yahoo, Jennifer has gained wealth of Talent Acquisition expertise over the last 8 years.
JEMIMA DIAB-KING
Head of Digital Resourcing, Whitbread plc
Needle in a haystack specialist, Jemima is an experienced recruiter having begun her career in life sciences executive search conducting searches across Europe and North America before spending 7 years as part of the award winning Dixons / Dixons Carphone resourcing team recruiting in all corporate functions, eventually specialising in marketing, eCommerce and digital.
Recently, Jemima’s joined up with a number of her former Dixons colleagues at Whitbread, assuming responsibility for digital and marketing talent acquisition.
CHRIS BARTON
Vice President of Client Services, Cielo Talent
Chris has worked in the RPO industry for 10 years and is currently Vice President of Client Services for Cielo Talent. He leads a number of customer relationships and is responsible for designing global hiring programmes predominantly in the Engineering and Technology industry.
KEVIN CHUA
Senior Human Resources Director, APAC at Medtronic.
Kevin is an experienced HR Director with specialist expertise in organisational development. He is HR Business Partner for the Minimally Invasive Therapy Group (MITG) and Quality & Regulatory Affairs in Asia Pacific for Medtronic.
Kevin has a broad range of extensive regional and global HR experience in Fortune 500 companies (medical devices, life sciences, oil & gas, shipping, corporate finance) and premier public administration organizations in Singapore. He is a strong team leader, having led large APAC and global teams.
SANDY NG
Head of Talent Acquisition AMEA at Mondelez
Sandy has been recruiting top talent in a variety of industries for 19 years. As Head of Talent Acquisition for AMEA region at Mondelez, Sandy strives in building a high performance team, by hiring the right candidates for the right job at the right time.
Sandy is passionate about people and works hard to understand candidates’ skill sets and capabilities. Those insights help her to maximize their potential and provide them with vast opportunities – benefiting themselves, as well as the company. Sandy firmly believe that talent acquisition is a partnership – not a transaction.
EMMA JONES
Founder, Future of Work
Emma is a talent leader with over 20 years’ experience across a broad section of people and talent disciplines. She has worked in businesses from boot-strapped tech start-ups to global enterprises, across the UK, US and Australia.
Her real passion lies in solving talent related problems, understanding what the future of work will bring, introducing change and taking people on the journey to new and better ways of doing things. This is the reason Emma founded Future of Work in July 2017.
DAVID CHERRY
Director, Talent Acquisition APAC and Japan at CrowdStrike
David has worked in recruitment for 13 years. As Director of Talent Acquisition APAC and Japan, David is responsible for ensuring that FireEye meets its hiring goals for the region.
As a key member of the Global Talent Acquisition team, David acts as a leader and strategic partner in the development of the vision, direction and long term plans for the TA team. He has proven ability in designing and calibrating robust and sophisticated recruitment processes, requirement planning, developing & executing innovative sourcing strategies, people management & team leadership.
MATTHEW COLEMAN
Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning at Caltex Australia
Matthew is an experienced recruiter having worked in the industry for over 14 years, working across banking, finance and professional services. He moved in to the agricultural industry when he joined GrainCorp in 2016 after spending 6 years with Deloitte in Sydney. Matthew has successfully transitioned the GrainCorp talent acquisition function from an RPO solution to a forward thinking and strategic in-house recruitment model. GrainCorp is Australia’s largest agribusiness and a top ASX 100 company, with diversified operations that span four continents and the global food supply chain.
Matthew has real interest and expertise in talent acquisition strategy, EVP, employer branding and talent acquisition transformation.
COREY ARCHARD
Group Talent Lead at WPP AUNZ/GroupM | Advisory Board Member at Candidate.ID
Corey’s last role was building an internal Talent function from the ground up in a high growth multi national. He focussed on hiring outstanding people to deliver for their audiences and clients across their digital, editorial and sales functions.
Corey is a talent leader with experience in a wide cross section of people and talent disciplines. He has worked in businesses from boot-strapped tech start-ups to global enterprises across the UK, US, Malaysia and Australia.
MARY BUTLER
Director Talent Management Australia and NZ at Aecom
Mary helps organisations take a holistic approach to the talent lifecycle to address the rapidly-evolving shift in the workplace environment. Her work prioritises people solutions, helping to mitigate risk, and enabling businesses to adapt to recent developments such as multi-generational workforces, the rise of the gig economy, talent scarcity, digital disruption, IoT, the need for scalability, and associated ambiguity.
Mary also partners with organisations’ leaders to align their talent strategy to their business requirements by developing an organisational and talent review, identifying a talent pipeline, building leadership bench-strength, developing a high-performance culture, and ensuring engagement and retention strategies are owned by the whole business.
STEVE HUNT
Steve Hunt, Global Head of Recruiting at Coupang
Steve has over 20 years of experience in resourcing and recruitment across EMEA, Asia Pacific and the Americas. He has a wealth of knowledge over many industries, leading international teams and major change programmes. His key competencies lie within EVP creation, employer branding, marketing and social.
Steve has a track record of building teams, delivering change (people, process & tools) and serving as a business partner to achieve organisational objectives at a global level.
WILL INNES
Vice President, Cielo
Will is a brand and marketing professional at heart, with the majority of his 20-year career spent in the design, build and activation of talent brands. He’s worked with start-ups through to global organisations in rapid transformation and combines that with both broad sector and regional experience. He loves playing at the intersection of strategy, creativity, technology and people.
Based in Australia, he maintains a global role but is focused specifically on APAC, as Vice President for Cielo, one of the world’s leading RPO organisations.