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With his personable charisma, unflinching professionalism and steely determination, Mark Foster, once Britain’s fastest swimmer and now one of the best-loved sports commentary faces on TV, is a consummate and impeccable awards host and an awe-inspiring motivational speaker.

Mark’s award winning partnership with Clare Balding from the aquatics centre during the Olympics in 2012, made him a household name. Mark also co-hosted the BBC coverage of the World Swimming Championships from Barcelona with Gabby Logan.

In addition to his sporting portfolio, Mark is also known for his numerous TV appearances, such as ITV’s ‘Beat the Stars’ and as one of the ‘Superstars’ athletes. He regularly appears on BBC news and radio in his role of Ambassador of Pools 4 Schools, a programme to increase participation in swimming amongst primary school children. He also had appeared on Celebrity Juice on ITV2 for Sport Relief, and made an impact on a Paralympic special of the Channel 4 show The Million Pound Drop with Countdown Presenter Rachel Riley. They won £50,000 for charity

Marcell is currently employed within Global Talent Acquisition at Adidas. Marcell has also recently joined the Board of Directors at the Together Trust. Marcell is experienced in TA, DEI, Mentoring, and Public speaking.

He is also an advisory board member of, Leaders Meet Diversity, supporting access to sports industry careers for people from disadvantaged groups. He is also part of the Manchester Metropolitan University mentoring programme, giving ongoing mentoring support to MMU students taking their first steps into the industry from education.

Ros is Head of Resourcing at mydentist, leading a large in house resourcing function who source clinicians and the full range of support roles for over 550 dental practices across the UK.

Based in Manchester she joined mydentist in 2014 as Senior HR Business Partner and assumed her current role in Jan 2022.

She is passionate about supporting mydentist to increase access to dentistry through recruiting dentists and other clinicians in what is arguably one of the most scarce and challenging recruitment markets. Sourcing from the UK including new graduates as well as overseas channels from EEA and the rest of the world.

Ros is also responsible for the onboarding journey of all clinicians from offer accepted to starting in practice, maintaining engagement over what can be a lengthy process can only be achieved through delivering a tailored high quality service facilitated through a dedicated onboarding team.

An internal recruitment leader and Chartered Member of CIPD who is passionate about candidate and hiring manager experience.

Having worked in agency recruitment for around 8 years I made the move internally in 2019 and have thrived in streamlining recruitment processes, developing recruitment strategies, and developing teams of recruitment professionals.

Positive, proactive and enthusiastic Senior Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Specialist with over 8 years’ experience in recruitment. Starting my career in recruitment I worked for P3 where looking after Sales and Marketing recruitment. In this role I demonstrated and had a proven track record of success, generating over £1.2 million in revenue on a Regional and National level dealing and working with SME’s through to large FTSE 250 organisations. Strong negotiation, account management and relationship management skills has led to me delivering consistently in a multi faceting and ever-changing business environment.

After a very enjoyable and successful time working at Zuto where I was responsible for building, growing and embedding an internal recruitment function which will allowed the business to grow across all levels and sectors where we recruited over 350 new hires I was lucky enough to offered the chance to join Kellanova (Kellogg’s). Here I am responsible for driving the recruitment across the UK and Ireland concentrating but not limited to Commercial, HR and Legal recruitment requirements across all levels from entry to director level. Sitting within the HR team I am responsible for ensuring that the best talent is not only joining the K family but developing and progressing in their roles.

With experience of working alone, within a team and managing teams of up to 30 staff I am extremely motivated, passionate and focused with everything I set out to achieve.

Award winning TA Leader, focused on candidate and customer journey. I am experienced in creating & implementing recruitment strategy via both small & large budgets that require creative flair and through effective leadership, I am able to drive change and deliver results.

Charlotte Housely is a Senior Resourcing Business Partner, who partners with senior business leaders to strategise and implement recruitment campaigns and projects whilst working towards a marketing leading time to hire.

She coaches and develops a fantastic award winning direct hire team, recruiting across all specialist recruitment areas including Finance, Risk, Audit, Digital, IT & product. Leading on graduate and emerging talent campaigns for successfully fill skills gaps.

Charlotte is a passionate leader focused on providing fantastic service to both hiring manager and candidates.

Positive, proactive and enthusiastic Senior Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Specialist with over 8 years’ experience in recruitment. Starting my career in recruitment I worked for P3 where looking after Sales and Marketing recruitment. In this role I demonstrated and had a proven track record of success, generating over £1.2 million in revenue on a Regional and National level dealing and working with SME’s through to large FTSE 250 organisations. Strong negotiation, account management and relationship management skills has led to me delivering consistently in a multi faceting and ever-changing business environment.

After a very enjoyable and successful time working at Zuto where I was responsible for building, growing and embedding an internal recruitment function which will allowed the business to grow across all levels and sectors where we recruited over 350 new hires I was lucky enough to offered the chance to join Kellanova (Kellogg’s). Here I am responsible for driving the recruitment across the UK and Ireland concentrating but not limited to Commercial, HR and Legal recruitment requirements across all levels from entry to director level. Sitting within the HR team I am responsible for ensuring that the best talent is not only joining the K family but developing and progressing in their roles.

With experience of working alone, within a team and managing teams of up to 30 staff I am extremely motivated, passionate and focused with everything I set out to achieve.

Neil helps organisations get the most out of technology, having held product, marketing and sales roles in leading tech businesses like Sky, BT and Plusnet. At Tribepad he's passionate about transforming the recruitment landscape, to make TA fairer and more effective for companies and candidates.

Tribepad is used by more than 25 million people across the globe in 16 languages. Clients include The BBC, Tesco, Subway, NHS Professionals, Grant Thornton and The Church of England.

Founder of Neurosight.

An award-winning assessment professional with a focus on conceptualising and delivering innovative assessment products and solutions.

Robin is the Vice President of Sales, EMEA at Appcast. In this role, Robin leverages his extensive industry experience, deep understanding of programmatic technologies and pay-for-performance products to help enterprise companies find quality hires, maximise their talent acquisition budgets, and demonstrate clear recruitment ROI.

Prior to joining Appcast, Robin served as Senior Director, Head of UK for ZipRecruiter UK, where he oversaw the strategic direction and expansion of the UK business and transformed a start-up into a market leader. Robin has been driving revenue growth and sales excellence within the TA industry for over 16 years, in which time he has developed influential relationships across a wide portfolio of the world’s largest enterprise companies.

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Becca is a leading voice of the AssessFirst mission to transform global Talent Acquisition and Development.

She joined AssessFirst with an experienced background in HR, Operations and Recruitment management in UK Retail, Engineering and Finance sectors. Inclusivity and cultural fit are critical components of successful Recruitment strategies; the key to success – she says – is predicting how and why people find purpose through work.

Collaborating with some of Europe’s leading organisational psychologists, Becca has enabled AssessFirst’s international growth: with their behavioural assessment software actively used by over 10,000 Recruitment and HR professionals in 35 countries.

Tom Hacquoil founded Pinpoint in 2018 after the realisation that clunky, outdated recruitment tech was creating a terrible experience for both candidates and recruiters. He set out to build a better ATS, with the help of his two friends Bill Rogers and Tom Luce. And Pinpoint was born.

Since then, Tom is proud of the impact Pinpoint has made by supporting companies that design clothes, package food, produce TV shows, and research cancer.

Before Pinpoint, Tom held director roles at software and cybersecurity businesses, and founded a coding bootcamp for Digital Jersey aimed at closing the island’s tech skills gap. Tom has always been passionate about building world-class teams—Pinpoint was designed to help businesses all over the world do exactly that.

Dave has worked in employer branding, talent attraction and media strategy for 15 years. In this time, he has, and continues to, support organisations such as Vodafone, JLR, Evri, G4S and 100s of others, with their various employer branding and recruitment challenges.

Co-Founder and Chief Sales Director at Occupop, a cutting-edge AI-enhanced recruitment software for SMBs, David’s role involves spearheading the global sales strategy across the EU, US and APAC. David has several years of commercial experience in sales, recruitment, training & retail. 

David is also highly involved in product design and leveraging the power of AI to maximise efficiency and efficacy in recruitment.

David has several years of commercial experience in sales, recruitment, training & retail. Always driving to exceed personal & professional goals.

Currently Co Founder and Sales Director at BidRecruit.io and responsible for building a global sales strategy. Focused on market mapping and generation of warm leads, sales strategy for Irish and UK markets, future planning for sales strategy EU, US and APAC, hiring and training of sales team, developing sales targets, lead on all sales activity, cold calls, warm leads and demos, converting pipeline of leads to sales.

Liam has worked in the creative industry his entire career, with the last ten of those in employer branding and marketing. He’s had the pleasure of leading the creative development of employer brands for organisations of all shapes and sizes. From technology giants who are changing the world, to housing associations and building societies helping people look after theirs.

Having been immersed in the world of recruitment and talent acquisition for almost 20 years, Matt has assisted hundreds of organisations with developing robust hiring programs to help mitigate the compliance, reputational and financial risk of a bad hire.

Matt is responsible for driving growth at Sterling in the EMEA market, overseeing sales strategy across all industries, and collaborating closely with enterprise organisations to understand their background screening and identity needs and creating tailored solutions to build trusted environments for employees, customers and partners around the world.

Chartered occupational psychologist with a breadth of experience in developing and implementing assessment, selection and development solutions. I provide consultancy support to both test publishers and to businesses looking to introduce products and solutions to enhance their selection and development capability.

My experience has given me the opportunity to work in, and with, a wide variety of organisations ensuring that the solutions they deploy are the best fit for them. This may mean advising a client to use an off the shelf product and supporting them in its usage through to developing a one-off bespoke assessment/development initiative.

My pragmatic yet professional approach has ensured that the solutions I provide are effective, efficient and timely. I have successfully managed a large number of multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish and have often worked closely with IT, marketing and HR teams to ensure a joined up approach.

From initial job analysis through competency development and product/assessment design and validation, I ensure my clients receive a solution that is a true reflection of their wider needs, not simply a short-term fix to an immediate problem.

More recently I have trained as an integrative psychotherapist. I run a small private practice in Derbyshire.

Paul Sykes is Regional Sales Director at CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent job board. He has worked in the industry for over 20 years and plays a key role in developing CV-Library’s offering to meet the hiring needs of recruiters across the UK.

Paul joined the company in 2018 having previously been responsible for a number of UK operations within a large multinational recruitment consultancy. He leads CV-Library’s ongoing development of support and delivery to its non-staffing customer base, seeking to help businesses of all sizes get the best out of their recruitment functions.

Siobhan is an experienced public speaker who specialises in creating greater awareness for apprenticeships. Having worked the majority of her career supporting young people within education.

Siobhan has developed a real passion for the Early Careers landscape and the unique skills and opportunities it can develop for an individual. Now working for UCAS, she uses her position to advocate for apprenticeships.

Siobhan engages with a range of stakeholders within Early Careers, both with raising awareness in barriers that the UCAS audience face in accessing apprenticeships and in assisting organisations to have meaningful engagement with potential applicants across the country.

Siobhan is dedicated to assisting UCAS with creating stronger parity between traditional HE routes and apprenticeships, so that the public can make more informed decisions about future pathways.