Meet the Team

Alex Smith

Accounts Assistant

After graduating from University in 2019, Alex took a number of short term roles in accounts and payroll and most recently spent 6 months as an employment advisor. Alex is our Accounts Assistant responsible for credit control, processing supplier & sales invoices and staff expenses. He is currently studying Accountancy qualifications.

Alison Hall

Recruits professional office roles

Alison is a Managing Consultant who joined Pure in 2006 to set up the professional office division, having started her recruitment career in 1996 recruiting temporary office staff. Alison prides herself on her high level of customer service and on forming long-term client partnerships and is responsible for temporary/contract office support roles.

Amy Perks

Recruits senior accountancy roles

A Managing Consultant in our Ipswich office, Amy has been working in recruitment since 2009, covering Finance and Legal sectors, before joining Pure in April 2015. Amy is responsible for senior accountancy interim and permanent roles.

Andy Dowsett

Recruits executive roles

A Business Director, Andy is responsible for our Chelmsford office, senior finance and executive roles across Essex. With over 20 years of commercial experience, he was promoted to business director in 2022. Andy takes pride in developing his team to provide exceptional recruitment consultancy to diverse organisations across Essex.

Annette Wyld

Finance Director

Annette joined Pure in 2006 to establish the Finance department and now leads the team with responsibility for all aspects of financial control, reporting and governance at Pure. Annette is a CIMA qualified accountant and has over 20 years of finance experience with extensive knowledge in the recruitment and employment industry.

April Gotts

Senior Compliance and Quality Assistant

April started working at Pure Norwich in March 2011, having previously worked in the hospitality industry. April works as Senior Administrator supporting the Norwich office and companywide responsibilities including compliance.

Becky Waters

Quality and Compliance Administrator

Becky started working in recruitment in 2015 and joined Pure in January 2021. Becky works from our Norwich office but has responsibility for overseeing and supporting companywide compliance processes.

Becky Wilson

Recruits HR roles

As a Business Director, Becky has over 20 year’s recruitment experience. Having joined Pure in 2010, Becky specialises in recruiting HR professionals at all levels from Advisory, Business Partners to Directors across the Norfolk region. Becky also co-founded the specialist HR group HR Energy which provides networking and training opportunities for HR professionals.

Ben Farrow

Operations Director

Ben has over 18 years’ experience of working within specialist recruitment. He joined Pure in 2011 and has been key in the growth and development of the business across the Essex area. Ben leads on senior HR recruitment, utilising his strong networks and relationships across the region. He is a key part of the leadership team at Pure, overseeing our business operations across Essex and Suffolk, taking the lead on HR, L&D, quality, compliance, IT and infrastructure functions.

Caroline Batchelor

Recruits senior HR roles

Caroline joined Pure in 2002 at the beginning of our journey. As Director, Caroline is responsible for middle to senior HR recruitment across Cambridgeshire. A graduate of Manchester University, Caroline started her recruitment career in 1999. She is a qualified Coach and Co-Facilitator of our Women’s Leadership Programme

Caroline Meeson

Recruits accountancy roles

A Managing Consultant in our Norwich office, Caroline is responsible for temporary and permanent accountancy recruitment. She joined Pure in 2009. Prior to this, she recruited for commercial and public service businesses across East Anglia, focussing on interim recruitment within office support.

Charlotte Lennie

Business Administrator

Charlotte joined Pure in January 2020. This is her first role in recruitment and she looking forward to venturing into a different career path. Previous to joining pure, for the last 3 years she was working in a residential care home looking after the elderly. Charlotte specialises in administrative support for the Cambridge office.

Claire Bush

Recruits professional office roles

A Managing Consultant in our Norwich office, Claire joined Pure in 2011. She focuses on recruiting within the professional office division. With extensive consultancy experience within the office support market, Claire has been recruiting successfully for a diverse mix of clients in Norwich. Before joining Pure, she spent over 12 years working for two prestigious consultancies in London.

Claire Oakley

Recruits HR roles

As recruitment consultant, Claire recruits HR roles across Essex at all levels. She began her career in commercial recruitment in 2017 and joined the Chelmsford team in 2019. She enjoys building strong relationships with HR professionals and helping candidates thrive in their careers.

Dani Evans

HR and L&D Coordinator

Dani joined Pure in 2008 as an administrator to support the rapidly growing Cambridge office. In 2015, Dani joined the HR team and now supports the learning and development of our team at Pure.

David Culley

Managing Director

David joined Pure in 2003 and has played a key role in Pure’s growth. He has built an enviable reputation amongst the charity and public sector customer base and has responsibility for the delivery of senior-level recruitment solutions. David became Managing Director in April 2022 with oversight of all business operations whilst remaining close to his customers and being part of the Cambridge business community.

Debbie Meacham

Accounts Assistant

Debbie joined Pure as it ticked all of her boxes! Rewarding and Positive place to work, great team spirit, friendly and welcoming atmosphere, Pure’s fantastic reputation and commitment to candidates, clients and their staff, the list goes on. Everyone is very friendly and welcoming!

Emily Colby

Recruits supply chain roles

Emily, Senior Consultant in our Norwich office, began her recruitment journey in 2017. She started working for a global recruitment agency specialising in commercial recruitment. Emily joined Pure in November 2019 to work in the professional office division. She is now a specialist in our supply chain and engineering division.

Ethan Galanitsas

Recruitment Consultant

Ethan joined Pure through the graduate scheme in September 2022 with a first-class BA in Philosophy from the University of Essex. He loved the subject and published a short essay during his time at university.

Fiona Cooper

Recruits accountancy roles

A Managing Consultant in our Ipswich office, Fiona joined the Pure team in 2015 as a Recruitment Resourcer before shortly moving on to become a consultant. After working within HR & Office, Fiona joined Accountancy and Finance and now looks after permanent Finance roles in Suffolk and North Essex.

Georgina Taylor

Quality and Compliance Co-ordinator

Georgina has had various admin roles over the last 6 years with breaks in between to travel, do a ski season and become a yoga teacher. This is her first experience working in recruitment which she is very excited about!

Gerry Adams

Recruits engineering roles

A Recruitment Consultant, Gerry has over 10 years of recruitment experience. He has worked in a variety of sectors including construction, commercial and in more recent years, Engineering and Manufacturing. Gerry recruits supply chain, engineering and manufacturing roles across all levels covering Suffolk and Essex.

Giles Dawson

Recruits accountancy roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Norwich office, Giles has worked in recruitment since 2017, following various operational roles at TUI. He specialises in recruiting accountancy and finance appointments across Norfolk, focusing on permanent roles between £25,000 and £45,000.

Hannah Flindall

Recruits accountancy roles

A Business Director in our Chelmsford office, Hannah recruits interim and permanent qualified accountants across the Essex region. Since starting in accountancy recruitment in 2001, she has extensive knowledge of the Essex market and is extremely well networked within the area.

Harry Severn

Recruits embeded software roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Norwich office, Harry started his journey in recruitment in 2017. He started his recruitment journey in office support and Public Sector HR. His approach to recruitment is to offer a proactive yet tailored service both to candidates and clients to ensure business and career goals are met to ensure a lasting partnership. Harry recruits for software positions in Norfolk.

Henry Dawson

Recruits IT roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Norwich office, Henry began his recruitment career in the Midlands before relocating to Norfolk. He has extensive recruitment experience from working for a national recruitment business specialising in IT and digital marketing. He recruits senior IT positions across Norfolk and Cambridge.

Ian Walters

CEO

A founder member of Pure, Ian has worked in specialist recruitment since 1990, initially for a national recruitment firm growing their Accountancy recruitment business and then their Public Sector Executive recruitment brand. Alongside running Pure he has advised on the following types of appointments: CFO & FD roles, Partner appointments for Mid-Tier and Regional firms, and CEO/MD roles for privately owned firms.

Jacob Morrell

IT Support

My IT career began in 2020 when I started my CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications. I joined Pure in June 2022 as IT Support Assistant to support our candidates, clients and the business with first & second line support queries.

Jade Halil

Recruits professional office roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, Jade began her recruitment journey in 2014. Jade then worked within a local authority recruiting within social services and was a branch manager for a local agency, before joining Pure in 2021 to recruit temporary and permanent positions in our professional office specialism.

Jake Leslie

Recruits IT roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Norwich office, Jake grew up in New Zealand before relocating to Norfolk. He started his recruitment journey in early 2022, after a background in sales. Jake is responsible for recruitment of junior and mid-level IT across Norfolk.

James Ellis

Recruits software roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, James started his recruitment career in 2015 with an independent agency in Norwich recruiting for the Permanent Commercial Sector. Having recruited for sales, admin, IT and marketing positions for 6+ years James decided to focus on a more specialist area, recruiting for software positions in Ipswich and Chelmsford.

James Robertson

Recruits professional office roles

James focuses on professional office recruitment for mid to north Essex. He started his recruitment career back in June 2015, joining Pure in 2022. He enjoys finding the right solutions to recruitment challenges and building strong relationships with clients and candidates.

Jamie Durham

Recruits accountancy roles

Jamie is a Senior Recruitment Consultant responsible for permanent accountancy roles with salaries up to £35,000. Jamie joined Pure in July 2018 as a Graduate Trainee Recruitment Consultant. Prior to this, he spent 3 years studying Economics at the University of East Anglia, achieving a 2:1 in his studies.

Jenny Saban

Recruits IT roles

Now a Managing Consultant, Jenny first started in recruitment in 2013, specifically focused on the IT and technology market since 2014. Since joining Pure in 2018, Jenny recruits for specialist infrastructure and support roles within Cambridgeshire. With over 7 years of experience recruiting nationally within the IT sector, she is knowledgeable within her field of expertise and enjoys forming long-lasting relationships with her clients and candidates.

Jessica Dalton-Brown

Learning and Development Advisor

Jessica joined Pure in 2018 as an experienced accountancy recruiter with 4 years in the field. Since July 2021, Jessica has transitioned into our learning and development team and is now an L&D advisor for the business.

Joanna Bromwich

Resourcing Team Manager

Joanna started recruiting within the Cambridgeshire area in 2009 for a broad range of private and public sector clients and during her time with Pure. She is currently responsible for recruiting temporary finance professionals, across Cambridgeshire.

Jodie Woodrow

Recruits executive roles

A Director of our Pure Executive division, Jodie started her recruitment career in 2000. She joined Pure in 2005 to launch their Suffolk operation as co-manager of the Ipswich office. She is currently utilising her experience and relationships to develop the Ipswich office’s Executive and Senior Finance division.

Joseph O'Sullivan

Recruits accountancy roles

Senior Manager in our Norwich office, Joseph has over 30 year’s specialist recruitment experience. He joined Pure in March 2005 and specialises in recruiting interim and permanent senior finance roles. He also specialises in partnering with charity and not-for-profit sectors as part of our Pure Executive team.

Judith Pugh

Marketing and Communications Manager

Judith joined Pure in 2017 and is responsible for marketing the business, marketing strategy and delivering campaigns. Judith has worked in marketing for more than 20 years across a range of industries from health and fitness, horticulture, GIS software, education and now recruitment.

Julie Ottolangui

Recruits professional office roles

Julie is a Senior Recruitment Consultant for permanent professional office roles. Julie has more than 20 years of strong recruitment experience within the office sector and thrives working in a busy, challenging environment. She joined Pure due to our excellent reputation within the local area.

Justine Chapple

Recruits marketing roles

A Recruitment Consultant operating across the Eastern Region, Justine has been an experienced sales and marketing recruiter since 2018. She puts people first, with a demonstrated history of developing long-term relationships with candidates and clients alike. She recruits junior marketing roles across our four locations.

Kai MacDonald

Marketing Assistant

Kai joined Pure in March 2021 as Business Administrator, before joining the marketing team as Marketing Assistant on an apprenticeship. Kai previously worked in insurance after graduating from Kingston University with a photography degree and brings creative flair and lots of ideas to the team at Pure.

Karolina Solarz

Recruits marketing roles

A Senior Recruitment Consultant, Karolina is an experienced recruitment specialist, having worked in the industry since 2015. She started her career within the engineering and food manufacturing sector however found her love for sales and marketing recruitment which she has focused on since 2016. Karolina continues her passion within her role at Pure, focusing on marketing and digital appointments on both a permanent and temporary basis.

Kate Edwards

Recruits accountancy roles

A Senior Consultant in our Norwich office, Kate's experience spans all levels across the finance field, initially within Suffolk, then Norfolk and more recently regionally. Before joining Pure, Kate spent 16 years working in accountancy and finance recruitment across East Anglia. Her focus is on permanent senior finance roles.

Katherine Bell

Learning and Development Advisor

Katherine joined the office support team in 2008 recruiting permanent Office Support roles before moving to support with HR recruitment. Kath now works in the Pure Learning and Development team delivering high-quality training to new starters joining the company, as well as existing teams.

Kathryn Van Wyk

Recruits accountancy roles

Kathryn started in recruitment in 2007, beginning in Construction and Property, moving across to finance and then setting up a new office in Northampton. She then managed an office support recruitment team for 18 months and then returned to a temporary Finance desk. Kathryn joined Pure in 2021 for the culture and ethos of the business, customer service and what we deliver to our candidates and clients.

Kelly Rooks

Finance Manager

Kelly joined Pure in 2019 as the Finance Manager. She started her career in 1991 and has worked within the finance industry for over 28 years. Kelly manages the Finance team and is responsible for the Management Accounts.

Kirsty Giles

Recruits software roles

Senior Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, Kirsty began her recruitment career in 2012 for an independent agency based in Chelmsford, specializing in IT and Software recruitment for Berlin, Germany. She now focuses on Software recruitment for the Cambridge market.

Laura Turner

Recruits professional office roles

Laura specialises in professional office recruitment for south and east Essex. Since 2016, Laura has gained experience recruiting commercial, office, sales and accounting roles and brought this experience to Pure in 2021. Her passion is to build strong relationships and she leads charity fundraising activities for the Chelmsford office.

Laurie Smith

Recruits professional office roles

Senior Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, Laurie began her recruitment career in 2016, covering both temporary and permanent roles within the professional office division. Previously Laurie worked as a practice manager within the private health care sector, following a long period in retail management for the Arcadia Group. She specialises in professional office support recruitment, for salaries of £23,000 and under.

Lucy Shepherd

Senior Executive Assistant

Lucy joined Pure Executive in 2014 to support the Executive Recruitment team with research and administration of Executive and Board level appointments, as well as facilitating and organising events.

Lynn Walters

Executive Director

Lynn is a founding Director of Pure and leads Pure Executive with over 25 years recruiting for Executive appointments. Lynn supports East of England-based businesses with senior management and Board level recruitment. Lynn leads the Best Employer Eastern Region Initiative and the Women In Leadership Programme both of which are aimed at helping companies and people to develop.

Mark Colton

Recruits executive accountancy roles

Mark is a Senior Managing Consultant who has a wealth of experience in recruiting for a wide range of clients in the Cambridge area, ranging from SMEs to global, listed corporations. He's responsible for recruiting permanent, senior finance roles with over £80,000 in salary. He also recruits interim and contract positions for salaries of more than £50,000.

Mark Wishart

Recruits senior accountancy roles

Mark is our Senior Manager who manages our Cambridge office. He specialises in permanent finance recruitment for salaries between £60,000 and £80,000. Mark started his recruitment career in 2002 and joined Pure because of our reputation for offering an honest and professional recruitment service.

Marsha Gordon

Recruits HR roles

Marsha is a Senior Recruitment Consultant with experience across a number of professions and industries. Exposure to working for large corporates and SME'S. Marsha has chosen to work for Pure because of our reputation in the Cambridge market and the companies we work with.

Matilda Pilkington

Marketing Executive

Matilda has experience in marketing, working in a range of digital and traditional roles. In 2022, she completed her Level 4 CIM Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing and is looking forward to using her studies to assist the team in developing.

Michelle Richardson

Accounts Assistant

Michelle started her career in 1988 and has moved between industry and practice. She has learnt new sectors along the way, with great guidance from accountants.

Nadia Mullins-Hills

IT and Projects Manager

Nadia has been with Pure since 2006 after completing her A Levels.  During her time at Pure, Nadia has developed the IT infrastructure and operations for Pure, managing our website and client and candidate experience

Nancy Chizarura

Assistant Accountant

Nancy started a career in accounting in 2017 working as an accounts administrator. She joined Pure in January 2018 to work as an accounts assistant and is also working towards her AAT qualification. Nancy is responsible for supporting the accounts team with credit control, sales ledger, and purchase ledger.

Natalia Kina

Accounts Team Leader

Natalia joined Pure in 2015. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Marine Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Science of Economics. Natalia is responsible for the Credit Control of our Norwich and Ipswich offices.

Paul Sheldrake

Recruits executive HR roles

Director in our Ipswich office, Paul is a co-founder of the Ipswich office of Pure, has worked for the business for over 16 years and recruits in the HR market in Suffolk and North Essex. Paul has recruited in East Anglia for over 20 years. As well as specialising in HR recruitment, Paul also runs a development programme for the HR professionals, manages the Ipswich office and is a Director for Pure.

Phillip Watson

Recruits engineering roles

Phil began his recruitment career in 2005. He has worked for national and regional agencies covering professional office and HR before moving to engineering in 2012. Over the last 10 years, Phil has developed many long-standing relationships with engineers and manufacturing leaders throughout their career. He is currently our engineering and manufacturing recruitment specialist

Qumayl Panjwani

Recruits accountancy roles

Qumayl is our recruitment consultant responsible for transactional, permanent and temporary accountancy roles. He joined as a graduate in 2021, having graduated with a first in Business Management from UEA. He enjoys building relationships with clients and helping candidates with their career journey.

Rachel Thorogood

Recruits accountancy roles

Rachel is our senior recruitment consultant, responsible for transactional, temporary, permanent and contract roles, across north Essex. She started her career in recruitment in June 2015, after graduating with a 2:1 in Psychology from Brunel University. Rachel enjoys helping people start their accountancy career and helping clients build their dream team.

Ryan Marriott

Recruits IT roles

A Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, Ryan has worked in recruitment since 2016 recruiting temporary workers in the NHS and Local Authorities. Ryan is responsible for recruiting IT roles at all levels across Suffolk and Essex.

Scott Woodrow

Recruits executive IT roles

Scott is a Director at Pure. He joined Pure in 2004. Having specialised in senior finance recruitment for a number of years, Scott now leads the Technology, Marketing and Digital recruitment division, and recruits senior management and Board level IT appointments in the East of England.

Sean Cooper

Recruits IT roles

Sean joined Pure as a recruitment resourcer in October 2021, and has successfully been promoted to recruitment consultant. Sean's main hobby is rugby which he has played for since the age of seven but recently found his love for cricket again playing for Harlton CC. He is focused on infrastructure and technology support recruitment

Sophie Francis

Recruitment Consultant

Sophie started her recruitment career back in July 2018 whilst completing a Business and Administration apprenticeship at a legal recruitment agency, having previously worked in customer service and hospitality roles. She joined Pure in July 2021 as a Recruitment Resourcer in the HR and Professional Office team and is ready to dive headfirst into new challenges, putting candidate and client needs first.

Stephen Paul

Recruits IT roles

A Recruitment Consultant, Stephen joined Pure in February 2020 with 10 years of experience in IT recruitment across East Anglia. He recruits for IT temporary, contract and interim roles across the region, and has a wealth of experience in this area. Stephen's technical background, having worked in IT before entering recruitment, allows him to quickly understand client briefs, and the challenges they face in finding the right people.

Tia Bruzos

Quality and Compliance Administrator

Tia started her journey with Pure in July 2022. Having never worked in this industry before, she is excited to be a part of the team and expand on her skills and experience.

Toby Brownlie

Recruitment Consultant

Toby joined Pure in 2022 as a graduate recruitment consultant, having just recently graduated from UEA with a 2.1 in BSc Psychology. His focus is recruiting in our Norfolk software division.

Tom Blake

Recruits accountancy roles

Senior Recruitment Consultant in our Ipswich office, Tom believes in building open relationships and taking the time to understand individual recruitment needs. Tom has been working in the recruitment industry since 2006, and joined the Ipswich team in 2013. He specialises in temporary Accountancy recruitment across Suffolk & Essex.

Tom Earl

Recruits executive roles

A Director, Tom joined Pure in April 2007 initially joining the team in Suffolk, Tom has since been instrumental in establishing Pure in the Essex market and taking a lead in Pure Executive. Today, Tom still recruits at board level, looks after our Norwich team and is leading the growth of our latest division, supply chain and engineering.

Una Jones

Graduate Executive Search Associate

Una started working in recruitment in 2022 as a graduate. Now working for Pure’s Executive division as a Graduate Executive Search Associate she works alongside our executive recruiters undertaking research projects and market mapping for the Eastern Region.

Victoria Lumley

Recruits accountancy roles

Victoria is our senior recruitment consultant, who specialises in part and newly-qualified accountancy roles. She began her recruitment career in 2006 in accountancy and finance and has strong, long-term relationships in the area. Victoria enjoys helping candidates and clients be successful and finding the perfect match.