Head Office
Mark Seymour
Founder Director
Mark is a recruitment legend and the rock on which we stand. A pioneer in search and selection, he has over 35 years’ experience in the industry, a good number of these as UK Director of one of the world’s largest recruitment companies.
Emlyn John
Founder Director
An experienced, commercially focused people and performance professional, Emlyn spent 15 years supporting leading SME and FTSE-250 companies across the Southwest, Midlands, Wales, and London before setting up Seymour John.
Emma Norvill
Finance Manager
From managing cashflow and preparing monthly management accounts to completing our VAT returns and ensuring our contractors get paid, Emma is over it all. As an original member of the team, she is the fount of all knowledge.
Louisa Pugh
Business Support Manager
Lou has been with us from the very beginning. As an original team member, she has overseen the setting up of many of our systems and processes, providing finance and administrative support across the whole group.
Tammy Bilbrough
Accounts Assistant
A regimentally organised multi-tasker, Tammy provides finance and administrative support for our consultants, clients, and candidates across head office and the Southwest.
Stephen Whitfield
Head of Brand & Content
Steve’s role is to tell the world about what we do, how we do it, and why everyone should be using us. When he’s not creating value-added insight for our growing fanbase he’s gently persuading us all to stay on message.
Operational & Strategic HR
Victoria Beadle
Director
A director of our strategic HR consultancy, Vic is a CIPD qualified HR leader who is passionate about organisations creating cultures that empower people to be successful. She is an advocate for employee engagement that gives people a voice.
Kate Hardcastle
Director
Kate is a Chartered MCIPD HR professional and one of our business-improvement gurus. With over 20 years’ experience in consulting and other business-improvement roles, she inspires individuals, leaders, and organisations to perform to their best.
Jo Boichot
Director of People Services
As a Chartered MCIPD HR professional with over 25 years’ experience, Jo heads up our advisory services. She is our employment law, mediation, and ER guru, although her technical subject matter expertise stretches across the full HR function.
Gemma Molyneux
People & Change Business Partner
An exceptionally well qualified and experienced HR professional, Gemma is an HR generalist in its truest, knows-it-all sense. Expertly balancing the operational with the commercial, hers is a people-centred approach to business growth.
Louisa Pugh
Business Support Manager
Lou has been with us from the very beginning. As an original team member, she has overseen the setting up of many of our systems and processes, providing finance and administrative support across the whole group.
Louise Griffiths
Associate
An FCIPD HR Professional, Louise offers a wealth of expertise and experience from over 25 years in a variety of senior HR roles and industry sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, scientific research, and wholesale.
Andrea Miller
Associate
Andrea is a strategic and commercial HR generalist with a strong understanding of employment law and experience across a range of industries and business structures.
Lesley Linley
Associate
Lesley is a successful people development and change specialist with over 20 years’ experience gained in a range of sector environments; corporate, voluntary, and statutory.
Rowena Wilson
Associate
A leadership mentor and performance coach, Rowena draws on her operations leadership background to support businesses through organisational and cultural change.
Public Services Midlands & South
John Lavictoire
Director
With over 20 year’s specialist experience, John is a leading expert in public and social sector recruitment. As such, he has become the go-to consultant for difficult-to-fill executive and NED roles across the sector.
Sophie Peters
Director
Sophie works alongside senior public sector leaders to help transform services through technology. Put simply, she helps healthcare systems do more with less, turning ambitions into transformative reality.
Nathalie Allday
Associate Director
Nathalie is a public sector recruitment specialist with over 15 years’ experience, working both in the UK and internationally. She works with senior leaders to help them acquire the finance talent they need to meet the well-documented challenges facing our public services.
Maria Edwards
Associate Director
In a sector where funding is being squeezed, yet demand keeps growing, Maria helps her clients secure the strategic, adaptable leadership talent with the capacity to deal with the scale and pressure of meeting the challenge head on.
Tanya Lavictoire
Office Manager
Tanya has over 15 years’ experience, working within the recruitment industry – as a resourcer, consultant, and now as the Office Manager of our busy Public Sector South team.