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Meet the Team

Andrew Harvey

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...

Matt Gibbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theo Walsh

Senior Consultant, Interim & Contract, Internal 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

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

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

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

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

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

Hannah Ricketts

Consultant, Internal 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Angela Mathie

Angela Mathie

Recruitment Coordinator

​​Angela joined the VMA GROUP team in 2023 as Recruitment Coordinator, after graduating from the University of Exeter with a degree in Business. Sitting in the Interim & Contract team, Angela supports with the compliance for interim placements, as well as assisting with the corporate marketing of our interim practice.

Genevieve Schofield

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

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.

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