Profiles - Ri5

Ri5 profile: James Goldsmith

For our first profile of 2012, it’s only appropriate that we feature someone who started a new job this new year. Step forward James Goldsmith – head of media sales at OnlyMarketingJobs, former show-jumper (yes, really) and a Hammer to boot ... more or comment here 7 comments

Ri5 profile: Cheney Hamilton

Here is our final subject of the year: Cheney Hamilton, the digital recruitment manager at Mediaforce. Cheney’s rec comms career has always been on the digital side of things. And yet she consigns Facebook to Room 101. Just one of the points to ponder in an interesting and enjoyable profile. ... more or comment here 6 comments

Ri5 profile: Natasha Kyndt

This enjoyable profile of Tash Kyndt (account manager, Euro RSCG Riley) is a model of the genre. It starts quietly, gets better and better, and ends with a surprise fact that certainly surprised us. Good feelings and good taste throughout (see restaurants, culture, dinner-party guests, and Room 101). ... more or comment here 4 comments

Ri5 Profile: Bobby Leonard

‘Legend’ was one of the comments attached to Ri5’s first Leonard profile (of Jamie, back in July). So is younger brother Bobby destined for the same mythic status? Currently ad agency account manager at reed.co.uk and with previous experience at TheLadders, fish4 and Monster, he’s already making a name for himself in the online recruitment sector despite his tender years ... more or comment here 9 comments

Ri5 profile: Stephen O’Donnell

Judging is currently underway for the 11th National Online Recruitment Awards, to be presented on 2nd November at Sway Bar in London’s Covent Garden. (Tickets are available – click here.) The NORAs’ founder Stephen O’Donnell will be MC on the big night, and he is the latest subject in our profile series. ... more or comment here 4 comments

Ri5 profile: Iain Mackenzie

Iain has experienced all sides of recruitment communications and marketing – he started in agencies, crossed over to the media, and now works clientside as the employer brand consultant for RBS Insurance. We hope you enjoy the latest in our profile ... more or comment here 2 comments

Ri5 profile: Sarah Rozario

Sarah (yes, that is her name) Rozario has gained broad experience of the recruitment marketing industry, progressing from various ad agencies (Bartlett Scott Edgar – remember them?, aia and Bernard Hodes) via The Careers Group, University of London to her current role as recruitment marketing assistant manager at KPMG. It’s all a very long way from that first call-centre job. Older (well, a bit) and wiser now, she’s the latest in Ri5’s series of industry profiles ... more or comment here 3 comments

Ri5 profile: Bob Anthony

Since Ri5 started in 2001, its writers have adopted a deliberately low profile. What we say is more important than who is saying it. As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations, however, we have decided to reveal a little about ourselves. For a start, here is co-founder and editor Bob Anthony’s profile: ... more or comment here 16 comments

Ri5 profile: Jamie Leonard

You often hear people bemoaning the lack of characters in the recruitment communications business nowadays. So is Jamie Leonard the exception who proves the rule? He is certainly larger than life. And he continues to fight manfully for the “work hard, play hard” ethic that many used to live by. Hopefully, his Ri5 profile will spread a little joy … ... more or comment here 13 comments

Ri5 Profile: Isabelle Hung

Isabelle Hung has designed and implemented some of the UK's most innovative and successful resourcing solutions. She’s also one of the few resourcing professionals whose experience stretches from contingency to search, PR, recruitment advertising (with Monster/TMP), RPO and in-house (including Yell and Harrods). But just where does a polo scholarship fit in with all of this? Read on to find out… ... more or comment here 1 comment

Ri5 profile: Cassie Sissons

Cassie is Head of Business Development and Marketing at Bernard Hodes. She started in rec comms on Hairdressers Journal, following in the footsteps of Ri5’s editor (just a decade or several later). It’s a funny old world. And this is a funny new profile: ... more or comment here 1 comment

Ri5 profile: Fiona Berry

The Global Radio account manager may not have been around recruitment communications for very many years, but she’s come up with one of the best descriptions of the industry’s cast of characters that we’ve come across. Fiona is the latest subject in our profiles series: ... more or comment here 2 comments

Ri5 profile: Tom Beresford

He grew up in Oxford, supports Liverpool, likes strong tea, and clearly has a way with tigers. And he has dj’d at the Notting Hill Carnival and once lived next door to Vivienne Westwood. Tom, who is a key account manager at eFinancialCareers, is the latest subject in our profile series. ... more or comment here 18 comments

Ri5 profile: Gillian Hibberd

To judge from Gillian’s CV to date, retail management’s loss has clearly been HR’s gain. A former president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association who’s now strategic director (resources & business transformation) at Bucks County Council, her likes reflect her northern roots, including LS Lowry and, of course, Man U. Just don’t pass her the marmalade… ... more or comment here

Ri5 profile: Rebecca Grist

Rebecca Grist joined the Financial Times in 2008 and was recently promoted to global sales director of the Financial Times Recruitment Solutions team. Her role is to grow the global sales operation as part of making exec-appointments.com the "go to" job board for senior executives worldwide. Rebecca is the latest subject in Ri5's series of profiles. ... more or comment here

Ri5 profile: Jerry Taylor

After a successful career as a rugby player was cut short by injury in 1995, Jerry has had a varied career in recruitment, covering management support, account direction, and media management and strategy. He is currently head of media at Euro RSCG Riley. His hobbies (mountain biking, scuba diving, kayaking and motorbikes) drive his wife to distraction at times. We are told, however, that, if he starts getting carried away, two children, three dogs, three chickens, two cats and a pet snake help to keep him well grounded. ... more or comment here 3 comments

Ri5 profile: Henry Keenan

Henry Keenan set up Tags Consulting over 2 years ago to provide outsourced tagging, trafficking and reporting of online media campaigns to agencies and, more recently, client organisations developing direct sourcing models. Henry is excited about the potential for outsourced campaign management in our changing industry and is currently growing his team. He seems like an interesting chap, but does he have your interest? Read on to see his responses in this week's profile: ... more or comment here

Ri5 profile: Alasdair Murray

He doesn't look old enough, but Alasdair's CV takes you a fair way down Memory Lane. From media sales at Gotch House (a former home of the Daily Telegraph), through account handling at Austin Knight and MSL (among others), to freelance copywriting, this rec comms polymath has seen it all - good and bad. A number of buildings in which he has worked have been demolished, but Alasdair keeps going - as can be seen from his website (just one element of an active and varied online presence). ... more or comment here 11 comments

Ri5 profile: Tony Bowley

Tony, who is head of sales at Guardian Business and Professional, has taken longer than anyone else to respond to our inquisition. Simply busy, we asked ourselves? Or something to hide? Adolf Hitler's dog was a surprising guest at his perfect dinner party, but turned out to be a literal error: he wanted the American singer (Blondie) not the German Shepherd (Blondi). See what else Tony had to say ... ... more or comment here 4 comments

Ri5 profile: Stephanie Convery

Stephanie Convery is key account manager on Retail Week and has recently taken over agency relations for Emap Retail. Nuptials, folk-singing, double-glazing, David Hockney, and the footballer Frank McAvennie all feature in her profile. See how it all hangs together: ... more or comment here

Ri5 profile: Philip Marston

Philip Marston is a man after our own hearts: he is a man of the world, cultured and interested in punctuation. He worries about the way some young people speak. One would expect no less of the agency sales manager at TES, who spent a post-graduate year in ad sales, before heading east and spending seven years in the Land of the Rising Sun. Philip is the latest subject in Ri5's profiles series. ... more or comment here

Ri5 profile: Ben Wood

Cavendish Media account director Ben is one of the longer-serving characters in advertising and recruitment communications, with a career stretching back to 1964. His CV contains some grand names, including Whites, LBW, Vine Potterton and Work. So what else does his Ri5 profile reveal about this family-oriented Hammer? ... more or comment here 3 comments

Ri5 profile: Kevin Tunnah

Kevin Tunnah is an enigma. He is the branding and attraction manager at Lloyds Banking Group, and a rock ‘n' roller who writes children's books. He has some questionable views on advertising, and some would say on football. Should we love him or not? You decide from the latest Ri5 profile: ... more or comment here 1 comment

Ri5 profile: Vicki Cunningham

The latest subject in our series of profiles is Vicki Cunningham, who is a senior sales executive on UBM's construction and architecture portfolio. Vicki read tourism management at the University of Canterbury, and graduated with first-class honours in 2007. ... more or comment here 11 comments

Ri5 profile: Louisa Marsh

Advertising agency account manager at TARGETjobs is Louisa Marsh’s first role in the recruitment communications industry. If you’d like to know what she thinks of it so far, read on ... more or comment here 1 comment

Ri5 profile: Jeremy Roberts

It's not every day that we feature an Incisive Gooner on Ri5, but that's what we've got this week. Jeremy Roberts (pictured) is the recently appointed ad agency sales manager at Incisive Media, working on online brands carrying some of the most famous names in ... more or comment here 4 comments

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Pippa Watkins

After law school in Nottingham and travelling for a year, Pippa started her career at The Independent in 2003 and is now classified sales manager. Here is her profile: ... more or comment here 1 comment

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Graeme Wright

As head of research at Work Communications, Graeme is in the vanguard of new recruitment thinking. Interesting then to consider his background, influences, and interests. And our most surprising "surprising fact" to date ... more or comment here 8 comments

Ri5 profile: Spike Turner

We are pleased to introduce Spike, who is the latest scion of the Turner dynasty on the Ri5 team. He joins father Kevin and sister Vicky at Ri5 Towers, where he will be selling advertising on the website and working on a number of new developments. Here is his profile: ... more or comment here 1 comment

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Steve Playford

The latest subject in the profile series is the managing director of Financial Times Recruitment Solutions. Lots of fascinating insights here ... ... more or comment here 2 comments

Ri5 profile: Matthew Sinclair

Erudite, interesting, informative and amusing - what more could one ask of a profile? Matthew (pictured here with his Australian godson in the Portobello Road), is the executive creative director of SMRS. Anyone who mentions Tchaikovsky, Picasso and Sheekey's in the same piece has got to be worth a read: ... more or comment here 4 comments

Profile: John Thurston

John has a mountain to climb. To be precise, the highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro. In preparation for the attempt in September, he has become a shadow of his former self. The photograph shows the amount of weight John has lost since November, expressed in bags of sugar. Before he fades away completely, here is the profile of the founder of Genesis One Advertising: ... more or comment here 3 comments

Profile: Colin Barnett

When he’s not running Together Communications, the business he bought out from the International Group in 2004, Colin is practising walking. At the end of the month he’s heading for Scotland to trek from coast to coast in aid of Mencap. His profile includes details of how to support the challenge. ... more or comment here 4 comments

Profile: Mike Ferguson

Mike is an eight-year veteran of online recruitment, and was an early pioneer of social media in recruitment when he launched the seasonworkers.com website. He is currently head of classified for STV Group plc, Scotland's biggest commercial broadcaster, and heads up their digital business' recruitment site, stvjobs.com. ... more or comment here

Profile: Matt Criddle

An account development executive at UCAS Media, Matt is a central point of contact between the company’s core sales force and the agency community. His role involves delivering news and updates to key agency contacts to ensure they’re kept up to date with all the latest exciting developments. ... more or comment here

Profile: Steven Lewis

Steven Lewis is international sales director at Totaljobs, the job board he helped to launch in 2000. He had joined parent group RBI in 1997, as a fresh graduate of Southampton University. Steven is also managing director of The Network, the strategic alliance of job boards covering over 100 countries and offering access to a pool of 184 million jobseekers. Steven is an influential world figure in online recruitment and Ri5 was delighted that he agreed to be the latest subject in our Profiles series. And we were doubly delighted to read his fighting talk on the social media debate: ... more or comment here 1 comment

Profile: Nicola Scott

Nic is one of the founders of Pink Squid, the new digital recruitment communications shop in Covent Garden (full story here). Nic along with partners Manj and Tsz (Manjoor Azizul and Tsz Wu) have lots of business on their plates, and they’re preparing to judge the February Ri Fiver competition. Yet Nic still found time to be the latest subject in our Profiles series. ... more or comment here 18 comments

Profile: Dave Amos

Dave is a stalwart of the recruitment media scene. He has recently joined PE Publishing Ltd and is working as a project manager for Professional Engineering and the topengineeringjobs website. His story is interesting – and he has set a new benchmark for profile photos. ... more or comment here 9 comments

Profile: Julian Constance

Isn't he the chap in Gavin and Stacey? No, he's the chap running Wave's new London office in Oxford Street. For those who didn't meet Julian when he was at aia, here is the low down. ... more or comment here 9 comments

Profile: Debbie Smith

The sandwich industry's loss is recruitment communications' gain. Despite demonstrating wonderful taste in restaurants, ThirtyThree's head of media reveals interesting alternative career aspirations and a worrying dedication to radio's rustic soap opera. ... more or comment here

Profile: Graham Cox

By his own admission, Graham Cox has been in the business a very, very long time. Having been with what was then Charles Barker Recruitment when they moved into 30 Farringdon Street, you may think that Penna Barkers’ move to their new home (just down the road at 5 Fleet Place), a couple of days before Christmas, will be tinged with sadness. Nothing could be further from the truth! ... more or comment here 9 comments

Profile: Anna Fleetwood

Anna Fleetwood, who is head of recruitment communications at Feather Brooksbank, is looking forward to the Christmas break. In between work, parties and planning for the Christmas Day lunch she will be cooking for family and friends, Anna found time to be the latest in our series of Ri5 profiles: ... more or comment here 2 comments

Profile: Stephen Dix

It was with a touch of apprehension that we asked Bernard Hodes copywriter Stephen Dix to take part in our Profile feature. Would Dixy take it seriously? We needn’t have worried. As soon as we saw his photograph, we knew everything was going to be alright … ... more or comment here 5 comments

Profile: Ian Lovatt

Ian has had a long and illustrious career in recruitment communications. He founded the Fenning Lovatt advertising agency with Mike Fenning in the 1980s. ... more or comment here 4 comments

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Alex Nickolay-Kell

Alex Nickolay-Kell is away from her desk at the Telegraph Media Group and in the middle of the Sahara desert. She is on a 9-day, fund-raising walk for Help for Heroes, who provide practical support to those wounded in the line of duty in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (donate here). Just before Alex departed for Marrakech, she sportingly agreed to be the latest subject in our series of Ri5 profiles. ... more or comment here 1 comment

Profile: Mike Hill

A well-known figure in graduate recruitment circles, Mike Hill is CEO of both the charity HECSU (the Higher Education Careers Services Unit) and its commercial arm, Graduate Prospects. But with a career background that also included a spell at the Manchester Evening News, he’s no stranger to the world of recruitment media – and, as such, an ideal subject for our new Profiles feature ... more or comment here 1 comment

Profile: Charlotte Turner

Charlotte is manager of the advertising agency sales team at Totaljobs. She graciously agreed to be the second subject in Ri5's new series of profiles of interesting people in the recruitment communications business. Read what she has to say and see if you agree with Ri5: when it comes to our list for a perfect dinner party, Charlotte would be at or very near the top! ... more or comment here 2 comments

Profile: Terry Lawes

Terry Lawes of aia agreed sportingly to be the first subject in this new series of Ri5 profiles. The idea is to reveal some personal and professional details about interesting characters in the recruitment communications business. If you would like to nominate someone we could feature in future, simply send a name and email address to editorial@ri5.co.uk ... more or comment here 18 comments