• Founded Charity Recruitment (now CR Search and Selection) in 1986.
• Currently Chief Executive of CR Search and Selection - provider of recruitment services to the UK's charity and non-profit sectors.
• Trained at the London School of Economics and has 15 years' human resource management experience in commercial and private sector organisations including WH Smith.
• Specialises in executive search and selection at board level including trustees.
• Acknowledged expert on the not for profit sector and frequent spokesperson to the press.
• Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising, Trustee of SightSavers International, Chair of the Remuneration and Succession Planning Committee for Scope, MCIPD and Fellow of the RSA.
• An experienced search consultant with commercial and not for profit experience
• Twenty years experience of Corporate Affairs with a leading global property company that includes:
- board level experience of developing and implementing public affairs and communications' strategies for a variety of businesses.
- experience of investor and media relations, crisis management, corporate restructuring, re-branding as well as managing large scale corporate hospitality events.
- coaching and mentoring individuals throughout the company.
• Member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) [FANY (PRVC)] and Case Worker for SSAFA Forces Help.
• Arts graduate (BA (Hons)), University of Kent, Canterbury. ACCA Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (CDipAF).
• Member of Chartered Institute of Public Relations (MCIPR), Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (FRSA). Member of The Institute of Fundraising (MInstF).
