In 2003, he founded Human Capital, a boutique executive search firm focussed on the mid and downstream Energy and Natural Resource sector. Headquartered in London, the company now has offices in Geneva, Houston, Sao Paulo, Singapore and Sydney and generates fee income of over USD 15m annually.  Having established and grown the business internationally over the best part of twenty years, following a successful MBO, Justin moved from CEO to Non-Executive Chairman.

In addition to his role as Chairman at Human Capital,  Justin set up Hyvve in 2019.  Hyvve is the first boutique consultancy focussed specifically on assisting the owners of medium sized recruitment companies to grow and ultimately realise their equity value.  Creating Hyvve has enabled Justin to work with a broad range of staffing organisations, combining his love of business with the experience he has gained over the past two decades as a recruitment business owner.

He is an experienced business owner, leader and recruitment/search consultant having built multiple teams in the UK, as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA. With a focus on senior level hiring in vertical markets across professional services and large multinational businesses, Pure Search became pre-eminent in its markets.

After leading the company through a successful third-party acquisition in September 2019, Charles exited the business in late 2020, delighted that the legacy he helped to create is maintained through the exceptionally capable and highly talented management team that remained.

Charles is passionate about helping recruitment firms grow and adds significant value to entrepreneurial businesses. Working with recruitment leaders and CEOs in an advisory capacity, Charles provides clarity of thought at both a strategic and operational level, helping them to scale and evolve their organisations.

Over a thirteen year period, Andy successfully grew Axon which he then merged with Watson Moore in 2015 to create Axon Moore, one of the largest independent specialist recruitment companies in the UK.   Andy fully exited the business in 2017 and now works with a variety of SME organisations supporting growth, mentoring and offering advice on creating value.  Prior to taking the entrepreneur's path in founding Axon, Andy spent eight years in the UK and overseas with the Michael Page Group.

Phil adds significant value to companies as a hands-on CFO combined with strategic and commercial skills.  He delivers at both operational and board level and has a proven track record in the management of change, process development, leadership, business assessments and best practice.

A few examples include:

• Appointed by Non-Exec Directors / Investors to provide clarity and overall financial health checks across a portfolio of recruitment businesses.  Where required,  he then led restructures, process improvements and system implementations.
• Engaged to support a professional services and technology recruiter to reorganise their finance department. Phil reviewed the reporting and compliance for four overseas trading entities and thereafter developed board level reporting for the group and brought the accounting for these entities inhouse.
• Steadied the ship whilst a search firm went through a restructure of its finance department. Phil made considerable improvements to their management information reporting, gave their systems and processes an overhaul and assisted in the recruitment of a new Financial Controller, as well as improving the overall efficiency of the finance team.

Natasha now specialises in supporting CEOs and boards to develop their people strategy; improving and driving business performance through leadership and culture. She also mentors and supports leaders looking to become board-ready.

Natasha started her career as a recruiter at SThree with recruitment specialists Progressive in 1994. In 1997, she was the founding Managing Director of Pathway (now part of Real Staffing Group) and headed up SThree's first office in the Middle East in 2008.

She became a senior board member with SThree PLC in 2005 when it listed on the UK stock market. She had responsibility for establishing new offices in Moscow and São Paulo, aligning the group to improve synergies and efficiency, and supporting the CEO and main board to design and deliver the global group strategy. In 2008 she took responsibility for the global People function (HR, Learning and Development and Strategic Implementation). In 2011 she established the 'Identity programme' for SThree, a programme designed to support the development and progression of women within the organisation.

In 2014 and 2015 SThree was recognised by The Times in their Top 50 Employers for Women, with Natasha personally being named Opportunity Now's Diversity Champion. She was also a founding member of Women In Recruitment, of which she is now the Chair. Between 2008 and 2011, she sat on the board of APSCo (Association of Professional Staffing Companies).

With over 25 years in recruitment and RPO, Jeremy brings a wealth of experience in his capacities as a board director, advisor and investor.

Until January 2019, Jeremy was the founder and Managing Director of Talent Collective, now the talent consulting division of Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS). Initially founded by Jeremy, Talent Collective is a management consultancy specialising in talent acquisition. Following the acquisition of Talent Collective by AMS in 2014, Jeremy became part of the AMS Executive Team during a five year period of unprecedented growth, culminating in an £820m acquisition by OMERS Private Equity in July 2018.

Prior to founding Talent Collective, Jeremy founded and built Capital Consulting, a pioneer in the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry, which was also subsequently acquired by AMS in 2008.

His early career was spent running graduate recruitment at NatWest Bank, as a Director at Robert Walters (initially based in the UK and subsequently setting up and running their operation in Australia) and as the Head of Recruitment at Vodafone.

Trevor is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Institute of Marketing. He led the marketing function at Penna Plc, a top three HR consultancy, and was Marketing Director at Medacs Healthcare, the leading provider of locums and agency nurses to the NHS.

Since becoming a consultant in 2013, Trevor has specialised in advising SME consultancies and executive search and recruitment firms. Clients include Stratum International, Swann Global, Regan & Dean, and Eton Bridge Partners.

Both strategically and operationally she has helped both her employer and client organisations attract, engage and retain the best talent.

As part of her early recruitment career at Robert Walters, Abi was part of the founding team of Resource Solutions, the Recruitment Process Outsourcing division of Robert Walters plc, where she was Operations Director.

She then became part of the founding teams of boutique, specialist RPO and talent consulting companies Capital Consulting and Talent Collective, both of which were subsequently sold to Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS).

Abi has been involved with creating and growing companies from the ground up, with particular emphasis on Operational Delivery, Client Services and Corporate Planning.

Abi co-founded Hyvve with Justin Pearson in 2019

He has a strong track record of successful change initiatives across a broad range of industries, including the recruitment sector where he has worked Adecco and TMP.

He is regularly quoted in various publications for his thoughts and views on a variety of technology related subjects including cloud, digital transformation and leadership. In addition, Brad is the Founder of The CIO Circle; a network of CIOs with the aim of improving businesses through technology leadership.

At Adecco, Brad held a global role responsible for a budget of E24m per annum. He was responsible for transforming UK&I business infrastructure to a cloud based utility priced model across 13 different business units, 3200 employees and 260 offices. At TMP he led all technology aspects of an MBO from the parent company, separating all systems and services and designed and delivered an inhouse technology function and reduced overall technology expenditure.

With a stellar career at BDO, where he was ultimately Audit/Advisory Partner, Tony is a highly experienced Chartered Accountant with exceptional leadership, client management, business winning and technical skills.

Being part of the Leadership Team at BDO, Tony has experience of both managing and leading professional service firms. He is a board adviser (both UK and internationally) on technical, regulatory and business issues to a range of organisations. Tony is an excellent communicator with a strategic yet pragmatic approach to business and clients, and his wide knowledge of professional services firms, audit and risk/governance is enviable.

Tony is a widely known expert in Recruitment, having acted for businesses ranging from niche agencies to multi-national quoted organisations. He advises on all aspects of growth; including financial, commercial, strategy and ultimately, sale and shareholder value. Clients have included, Robert Walters, Hydrogen, K2, Huntress, SR Group and Directorbank.

Most recently, 2014-2019, as CEO of London headquartered FiveTen Group, he had strategic responsibility for a diverse portfolio of PE owned, market leading specialist recruitment businesses, c.£ 70m turnover and 450 staff across the UK, Mainland Europe, Russia, UAE, India, US and Asia-Pac. Renowned brands included Marks Sattin (Finance & Accounting), EMR (Digital, Marketing), Laurence Simons (Legal), Greythorn (IT) and Antal Russia. Mark and his team executed on a brief to restructure/refocus the group, improve operational and financial performance, and ultimately achieve a final liquidity event for shareholders (achieved via six separate sale transactions 2015-2019).

A PriceWaterhouse qualified ACA, Mark began his recruitment career with Michael Page UK, spent seven years with Bernard Hodes UK, ultimately as COO of this award winning, integrated consulting and recruitment marketing firm, before joining Hudson. Initially, as MD of the UK HR and Legal recruitment businesses and as MD Asia from 2007, Mark reshaped and grew the Asia wide businesses during and post the GFC.

Today, Mark’s focus is on conducting business reviews and health checks, advising on business turnaround and restructuring exercises, and the requisite refining and re-imagining of strategic growth plans (often including diversification into adjacent or new specialisms and geographies). Further areas of focus include: coaching and mentoring business leaders, developing management teams; international expansion, notably into Asia and UK; and M&A consulting and advice, including exit planning and early preparation for sale.