About / operating record
A career at the intersection.
For fifteen years I’ve built teams and the systems around them: as a founder, a Managing Director with P&L ownership, a global talent leader, a product operator, and an advisor to startups and AI companies.
Career
2011 → now
Executive search, company building, global talent leadership, product operations and AI agents at work. From the first search to the projects I’m building today.
01 / 08
Since 2026 In production
WeR
Talent Advisor
Behavioral AI for financial institutions — €4M pre-seed, Mastercard live.
- Building the talent system and hiring the founding team.
02 / 08
2025 — 2026
Chapter 2
Managing Director
Ran the European business. Won €3.3M in new ARR over twelve months. Then rebuilt how Europe operated.
- Led recruiting programs across Germany, the US, the UK and India and directly hired a Chief Product Officer.
- Rebuilt EU People Ops so a Germany-based operator, supported by agents working within clear rules and human oversight, could replace reliance on three UK shared-service roles. The model became the reference for the group’s wider AI transformation.
- Delivered a consulting project on executive recruiting (NDA).
- P&L owned
- Europe
- new ARR won in twelve months
- €3.3M
- recruiting programs led
- 4 countries
- shared-service reliance removed
- 3 roles
03 / 08
2022 — 2025
Zalando
Global Lead, Talent Acquisition
Europe's leading fashion platform makes its AI bet — and needs the org built.
- Led talent acquisition globally—a team of 22 across Europe and China—for AI and machine learning, Research, Technology, Commercial, Product, Design and corporate functions.
- Built a cross-functional AI organization from zero to 120 people in six months across Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and Finland; 42% were diversity hires under the organization’s internal reporting definition. Led market entry, executive search, and a Technology and AI hub in Shenzhen.
- Launched AI/ML and Research early-careers programs and an Associate PM MBA program; built an interviewer training system on hiring data and neuroscience — 1,000+ trained.
- Rated Delivering Breakthroughs — Zalando's top performance tier (~3% of the org).
- AI organization in six months
- 0 → 120
- Time to Hire
- −32%
- Offer acceptance
- +21%
04 / 08
2019 — 2022
Audibene / Hear.com
Product Operations
Promoted from Talent Acquisition Lead
An EQT Ventures-backed HealthTech, scaled toward IPO — then the crossover.
- Led three talent-acquisition teams across the US, Germany and India; doubled the function and grew the technology organization from about 70 to 180 people; directly hired 40+ people before IPO, including the Group Technology Officer and senior Commercial, Product, Platform, Data and information-security leaders.
- Promoted to build Product Operations 0→1: established Tech and Product OKRs with the executive team, cut 75% of low-ROI projects, and release cycles ran ~20% faster.
- Technology organization
- ~70 → 180
- Direct hires pre-IPO
- 40+
05 / 08
2016 — 2019
Wave
Founder
Before building talent systems inside companies: building the company.
- Co-founded a talent strategy firm; bootstrapped to £1M revenue in two years.
- Hired product, engineering, AI/ML research and executives for scaleups, quant funds (Monzo, Two Sigma, Quadrature Capital) and enterprise (Aviva, Santander).
- Revenue in two years, £0 raised
- £1M
06 / 08
2014 — 2015
Campbell North
Senior Consultant
Search for quant funds and tier-1 VC-backed startups.
- Hired product, GTM, AI/ML research and tech for Palantir, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, Rappi and Hudl (VC) and Travelex (PE).
07 / 08
2012 — 2014
Salt
Product Recruiter
Product recruitment, London.
08 / 08
2011 — 2012
Hays
Tech Recruiter
Technology recruitment — where the craft started.
References / contact
Seen up close.
Selected references from senior leaders across my career can be introduced privately.
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