Andrew Harvey
Chief Executive Officer
Before embarking on a career in recruitment, Andrew worked as a marketing and communications professional in the financial services sector. Since making the switch to recruitment in 2005, Andrew has specialised in recruiti...
Lucy Cairncross
Managing Director
After working at Condé Nast Publications for 6 years, Lucy made the switch to communications recruitment in 2005 and joined VMA GROUP as a Senior Consultant 3 years later. Now, as Managing Director, Lucy is responsible f...
Willem de Ruijter
Executive Director, Europe
After a corporate career in consultancy services and consumer goods, Willem began managing headhunting/recruitment services more than 15 years ago. As Executive Director/Board Member for VMA GROUP he heads up all executive...
Matt Gibbs
Associate Director, Interim & Contract
Matt joined VMA GROUP as a consultant back in 2016 with a background in sales and marketing. He’s since secured fantastic contract positions for over 250 communications professionals. Matt now heads up our market-leading contract division of four consultants and a compliance manager, cov...
Sara Tehrani
Account Director, Internal Communications
Joining VMA GROUP in 2013 as a researcher, Sara has progressed to the role of Account Director, leading our Permanent Internal Communications team in the UK. Having built a network of loyal clients and quality internal comm...
Nisha Darbar
Account Director, Communications
Joining VMA GROUP's External Communications team in 2017, Nisha has a wealth of communications experience - previously working in PR and Communications recruitment and prior to that, a career in PR. As Account Director, Ni...
Mark Muscroft
Account Director, South West
As Director of VMA GROUP's Bristol based office, Mark supports clients and candidates across the South-West UK with their recruitment needs, covering internal, external and change communications on both a permanent and interim basis.With over 25 years recruitment experience, including co-founding his own specialist recruitment consulta...
Crystle Pearce
Managing Consultant, Internal Communications
Having 15 years of recruitment experience in the UK and South Africa, Crystle joined VMA GROUP in 2018 and now recruits for mid to senior level internal communications professionals across the UK and Europe.
Julie Mazzei
Principal Consultant, North & Midlands
Julie leads VMA GROUP's North and Midlands practice for the UK, responsible for both permanent and interim teams. She is one of our most successful and senior consultants with an unrivalled network of the industry’s top talent outside of London. There is arguably no other...
Joanne Watkins
Principal Consultant, Communications
Having previously held a range of in-house and agency communications roles, Joanne joined VMA GROUP's Permanent External Communications team in 2010. Joanne specialises in the placement of senior level B2B corporate commun...
Deborah Le
Principal Consultant, Interim & Contract, Communications
Deborah specialises in the appointment of senior internal communications and change communications professionals, for interim and contract roles. Having focused on sourcing marcomms talent in the last 16 years, she has bui...
Elizabeth Currie
Principal Consultant, Communications
Having begun her career as a fund manager, Elizabeth has over 15 years’ recruitment experience, initially in financial services. In 2019, she made the switch to corporate communications recruitment and joined VMA GROUP soo...
Ben Mitchell
Senior Consultant, Interim & Contract, Communications
Joining VMA GROUP as a Senior Consultant, Ben focuses on interim and contract external communications recruitment at mid-to-senior level. As a former Head of Media & Communications, Ben combines more than 20 years' pro...
Theo Walsh
Senior Consultant, Marketing & Communications
As a committed member of VMA GROUP's Interim Recruitment Team, Theo’s core responsibility lies in advising clients on their Internal and Change Communications recruitment strategies, and latterly delivering tailored recruitment solutions.
Jack Pascoe
Senior Consultant, Marketing & Digital
Jack headed up a digital marketing agency for nearly a decade, in the UAE and then in UK. In 2021, he transitioned from supporting global organisations with their digital strategy to aiding with their people strategy.
Gabriel Charles
Senior Consultant, Marketing & Digital
After a 15 year career in marketing, where he specialised in driving digital acquisition performance for a wide range of brands including Selfridges, Marks & Spencer & AXA Insurance, Gabriel now focuses on helping organisations source the best marketing talent, across sector and h...
Vanessa Wilbur
Senior Consultant, Communications
Following an extensive history of recruitment experience in her home countries Malaysia and Singapore – Vanessa joined VMA GROUP in 2023, sitting on the external communications team in the UK. Her previous experience co...
Doina Grubii
Consultant, Europe
Since joining VMA GROUP in 2021, Doina has developed a sector focus, placing permanent and interim communications, marketing and digital roles, across leading organisations in Europe. Prior to her career in recruitment, she worked as a Marketing Lead for emerging GEOs in the corporate env...
Callum Williams
Consultant, Marketing & Digital
Since joining VMA GROUP's Marketing & Digital team in early 2022, Callum has developed a sector focus, supporting our charity, not-for-profit and education clients, partnering with leading organisations across the UK a...
Hannah Ricketts
Consultant, Marketing & Communications
Hannah joined VMA GROUP in the Autumn of 2022 after graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London with a BA in History. Since joining, Hannah has specialised in Internal Communications recruitment from the junior t...
Anna Newsome
Consultant, Internal Communications
Having graduated from the University of Birmingham with a first class degree in Modern Languages & Translation, Anna joined VMA GROUP in 2022 sitting in the permanent internal communications team in the UK.Since joining VMA GROUP, Anna ...
Maddy Adlard
Consultant, Interim & Contract, Communications
Maddy joined VMA GROUP in 2023 as a consultant in the interim and contract team, specialising in External Communications. Maddy works across all sectors and levels in London and neighbouring regions, with a particular focus on Energy and Transport.
Natalie Ball
Recruitment Consultant, Communications
Having recently graduated with a degree in Modern Languages, Natalie joined VMA GROUP in September 2023. As part of the External Communications team, she focuses on placing communications professionals in permanent opport...
Marta Majos
Head of Finance
Joining VMA GROUP in 2021 as Head of Finance, Marta manages and oversees all of the financial operations of the company. With nearly 10 years of experience working in recruitment finance, Marta is an invaluable member of the VMA GROUP team.
Safie Sesay
Management Accounts Assistant
Having joined VMA GROUP five years ago in 2018, Safie is an integral member of our finance and operations teams. Assisting with interim and compliance management, accounts payable and credit control, Safie is a fundamental team member at VMA GROUP.
Kimberley Buckland
Finance & Operations Assistant
As Finance & Operations Assistant, Kim supports the finance team with maintaining client and supplier accounts as well as general ad-hoc projects across the team. She joined VMA GROUP in 2021 and plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of the business operations.
Inele Donat
Recruitment Coordinator, Europe
Inele joined VMA GROUP in 2016, working as a recruitment coordinator and supporting our team of consultants working in Europe. Assisting on tasks including search processes and organising events, Inele is an integral team member of our European offices.
Genevieve Schofield
Marketing Assistant
Genevieve joined VMA GROUP in 2022 after graduating from the University of East Anglia with an MSc in Marketing & Management. As Marketing Assistant, Genevieve facilitates VMA GROUP’s corporate marketing activity from social media and email marketing, to assisting with research surveys and insight reports.
Julia Meighan
Chair
Julia joined VMA GROUP in 2003 as Chief Executive Officer and ran the business for over 20 years, before facilitating the transition of VMA GROUP to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). She remains as Chair of VMA GROUP, where she oversees the running of the VMA GROUP Board.