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Our team bring hard-won expertise across the US and UK, not just theory, to give you and your business the direction and delivery support you need.
Co-Founder & CEO at Foundation Partners. Ex-COO, ex-CPO and NED, with 20+ years working alongside VC-backed founders to scale their businesses - through 4 exits, 12 fundraises, and the hardest calls in between.
After gaining a PhD in Psychology, I started my career in government intelligence before moving into people leadership via a Big Four consultancy. I've built and led teams across 13 countries in Europe and North America - including growing UNiDAYS from 100 to 250 in six months. I was part of the founding team and Chief Operating Officer at HelloSelf, a Series B digital healthcare provider, and most recently Chief People Officer at an LSEG-backed firm building infrastructure for VCs, angels, startups and banks.
Cofounder + US CEO at Foundation Partners. Business impact is the goal - People and Talent is how you get there. I've built the function inside scaling businesses, and built a business doing it for everyone else. There isn't much I haven't seen break, or fixed.
I've spent 20 years in the People and Talent space, with a Masters in Business Management and a reputation for solving problems creatively. After 12 years in-house scaling tech businesses, I founded Unleashed - a far-from-average consultancy that supported over 150 high-growth startups and scaleups across the UK and Europe, from 10 to 1,000 people, across a huge range of sectors. I'm also a Fellow at Foundervine, a Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor to HRTech startups, and a School Governor focused on inclusion, diversity and wellbeing.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Foundation Partners.
I started in consulting, building La Fosse from 10 to 200 people and launching their people & talent startup advisory function. I then co-founded Eka Ventures as an operating-focused GP, raising $100m to back pre-seed to Series A businesses. I followed that as Director of People & Operations at Napo, a post-Series A insurtech, running people, talent, business and customer operations while the business grew from 6,000 to 60,000 customers and the team from 10 to 100+.
Alongside this I've worked as Chief People Officer at Fyxer AI, helping scale the business from $1m to $30m in 12 months. I'm also an advisor to Abingdon Software Group and sit as Visiting Partner and Adviser at Antler, backing and supporting the next generation of founders.
Senior Partner at Foundation Partners, working as a Fractional CPO to founders and exec teams. I start with the business strategy, then build the people foundations to match - org design, talent planning, and setting companies up to scale robustly across the UK and globally.
My background spans global businesses including ASOS and WPP. Most recently I was Global VP People at DICE, where I grew headcount from 75 to ~250 across the UK, France, Italy, Spain and North America, led the acquisition and onboarding - and subsequent sale - of Boiler Room, and supported the business through Series C and late-stage rounds to its exit in July 2025.
Senior Partner, Embedded Talent at Foundation Partners, where I run a team delivering talent solutions as an in-house function for founders of high-growth and high-aspiration start-ups. We sit inside client teams across a diverse range of industries from AI to FMCG, from Healthtech to Fintech - currently embedded across a portfolio of companies including Geosurge, Dex, Suri, Perceptic and many more - owning talent strategy, direct search and employer brand end to end, so founders get hiring capacity without adding agency fees or headcount. Prior to this I ran a Transatlantic VCT portfolio of around 50 companies while at Beringea, was part of the leadership team that exited JustGiving to Blackbaud for £110m in 2017, and have supported numerous start-ups and scale-ups within the UK venture ecosystem.
Senior Partner at Foundation Partners. I previously spent 7 years building People, Talent and HR functions from scratch as Director at Henry Meadows Associates, working across bootstrapped, Seed and Series A-D scale-ups on everything from search campaigns and org design to OKRs, board reporting and cultural transformation. I've since added Interim Talent Director at Fyxer AI and Director of People at xUnlocked to the portfolio, and founded Recdeck, a platform helping recruiters cut through the noise and win more business through trusted client reviews.
Senior Partner at Foundation Partners, building out our core People offering for our portfolio companies. I have spent the past 15 years helping founders build strong teams from pre-seed through Series C. Prior to joining Foundation Partners, I operated as a Fractional CPO partnering with brilliant brands across health, wellness, tech & partnering with VCs. Previous roles included Head of People at Forward Partners VC, an IPO'd VC now acquired by Molten & Talent Advisor to Kindred VC. Alongside my role at Foundation Partners, I hold a number of RemCo Chair positions and act as Venture Partner for Cornerstone.
The sweet spot for me in people, culture and talent is blended the psychology of high/optimal performance in health & sports and applying these values into the organisational workplace.
I partner with companies to build the people infrastructure to grow - without the growing pains. My focus is cutting through the noise for founders and leadership teams, so they're building healthy, high-performing organizations rather than reacting to problems as they surface - often as the standalone people voice sitting closest to the CEO. I have a particular soft spot for coaching leaders to sharpen how they lead, and for finding the right talent to take a business into its next phase.
I originally trained in psychology, started my career in San Francisco, and have spent the last 11 years building and evolving the people side of the business - across everything from scrappy early-stage scale-ups to structured global brands in the US & UK. I've scaled teams from 10 to 100+, and seen first-hand what breaks (and what holds) as companies grow fast.
Partner at Foundation Partners, where I work as a Fractional People Director. I've spent 12 years in People and Talent, largely in founder-led, VC-backed businesses. I love scaling teams and coaching leaders through the complexity that comes with growth. I've built and grown people and talent teams across high-growth businesses, including PayFit, the French unicorn. More recently I was Head of People at Floww, an LSEG-backed company building infrastructure for VCs and startups.
People Partner working with early stage and scaling businesses across a range of sectors. Originally a recruiter, I learned about being a People Leader at Dojo, growing with them from 4 to over 1000 people over a 13 year period. Navigated the business through multiple periods of hypergrowth, several rounds of fundraising and 1 transaction. Later worked with Kyte Broking to build out an international people function across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. Experienced in supporting founders across everything that makes a company high performing and a great place to work.
I'm a Talent Lead at Foundation Partners, working with founder-led businesses that have bold plans and need the right people to make them happen. Strategy, sourcing, employer brand, culture: I do the thinking and the doing.
I've spent 18 years in talent, the last 10 in the thick of it with startups and scale-ups across fintech, healthtech, insurtech, AI and, most recently, AI drug discovery - helping companies scale from Seed through to Series B. Before Foundation Partners, I led talent at fintech scale-up Floww, building the foundational team across engineering, product, finance, sales and legal. I've also been Senior Talent Lead at Curve, headed up EMEA and North America talent for a global e-commerce and gaming business, with earlier stints at LinkedIn and Centrica.
People first, always. I care as much about how candidates experience the process as whether they say yes - because great hiring is people saying yes and meaning it.
Talent Lead, Embedded Talent at Foundation Partners. I run a team delivering talent as an in-house function for high-growth startups, sitting inside client teams from AI to FMCG, Healthtech to Fintech. We're currently embedded across a portfolio including Geosurge, Dex, SURI and Perceptic, owning talent strategy, direct search and employer brand end to end, so founders get hiring capacity without adding agency fees or headcount. I started at Office Angels, found my niche in account management, and ran an embedded RPO account for Marks & Spencer for 8 years, scaling it 6x from 25 to 150 employees. I then moved to the US, becoming Director of Adecco's $30M Creative & Marketing recruitment division in New York, running programs for clients including Chanel, Google, Cartier and Apple. Back in the UK, I’ve specialised in Growth & Marketing hiring:14 startup clients, 93% acceptance rate, from Napo and Fyxer to KatKin and Metomic before moving to Foundation Partners, where I've helped build Fyxer's Marketing and Customer Success teams from scratch: 25 hires and counting in 10 months.
I'm a Senior People Associate, working as a Fractional People Partner across Seed to Series A businesses. Partnering with founders and leadership teams to build the people foundations that enable growth, with a focus on performance, manager development, compensation, and People Operations. Before joining Foundation Partners, I worked within venture capital, supporting fast-growing start-ups across FinTech, and B2B SaaS. I've helped companies scale from 30 to 50+ employees by designing practical People frameworks, and operational processes that align people strategy with wider business objectives.
I'm a Senior People Associate at Foundation Partners, embedded across a portfolio of start-ups and scale-ups as their people partner, working directly with founders and leadership teams to build and run the people function from the ground up.
My background spans hospitality HR, a global tech recruitment role, and scale-up people operations before moving into embedded consultancy. I've scaled companies from 5 to 100 employees, supporting clients through funding rounds. The work covers the full people remit; from culture and values to performance frameworks, compensation strategy and levelling, global ER and employment law, EMI option schemes, global EOR and PEO setup, board packs and comms structures.
I hold an MSc in Human Resources Management from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a CIPD Level 5 qualification.
Talent Lead scaling global teams across both sides of M&A in consumer-focused startups and scale-ups. I've built and grown talent functions through high-growth, high-change environments balancing hands-on global delivery with the strategic and commercial thinking alongside Founders/C-Suite. Recently scaled Runna 2.5x and oversaw global expansion at Two Circles.
Fractional Talent Lead at Foundation Partners. For nine years I’ve built people, talent and operations functions that help founders and leadership teams scale organisations to match their ambitions.I previously spent time as a Talent Investor in Entrepreneur First’s Growth team, where I identified emerging talent across the Applied AI and quantum domains and helped them take the leap into entrepreneurship.Since then, my work has been largely consultative, with projects ranging from founding People & Talent at a pan-African fintech to leading technical talent ops at a Series C unicorn.Today, I own talent delivery and infrastructure across a portfolio of deep tech startups.
Senior Associate at Foundation Partners. I build long-term partnerships with clients across a wide range of industries (AI, health tech, beauty tech, ed tech and FMCG) and stages, from pre-seed through Series B. Day to day, I'm designing compensation structures, building EVP and growth frameworks, running performance review cycles, and implementing the HR tech that holds it all together.
I bring an MSc in Organisational Psychology and 6 years across talent acquisition, people operations and people analytics - built across mission-driven charities and high-growth scaleups like Bloom & Wild. This shows in how I work: designing people solutions rooted in data and inclusion - ones that actually get used, support wellbeing, and create impact felt across the whole organisation.
I'm an Associate at Foundation Partners, I've previously worked for tech giants ranging from Ocado and Just Eat to global tech scale-ups like Disguise. My career highlight was as a founding People team member at Olio (series B climate-tech), I helped scale the company from 50 to 150 people, contributing to initiatives that drove a 4.7 Glassdoor rating, over 80% YoY employee satisfaction, and recognition including Sifted100 and 4th place in Escape the City's "Best Places to Work" awards.
I was also a keynote speaker at the Evolving HR Conference 2025, and I founded my own company, Bonsai, which specialised in building AI adoption roadmaps for scaling tech businesses.
I'd describe myself as a people, tech & AI-enablement specialist with a focus on tailored branding in the people space. I love any chance to architect something truly unique for businesses with big ambitions.
A Junior Associate at Foundation Partners, with a background in HR and recruitment. My experience spans people administration, implementing HR systems, supporting day-to-day employee enquiries, and contributing to people and culture projects. With an MSc in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology, and 2 years of experience in the HR space, I bring this alongside my team to help build a positive and driven culture and make meaningful impact across the organisation.
I'm a commercial HR partner with 13+ years advising founders, C-suites and business unit leaders, from matrixed, multi-brand organisations like BMW Group to high-growth scale-ups. I'm energised by clever people solving problems that matter, from cutting waste through electric car subscriptions to driving down the price of energy.
Most recently I led People & Talent at tem, the AI-powered energy company named in Tech Nation's Future Fifty. Reporting to the founder, I scaled the team from 19 to 200+ through Seed, Series A and Series B, and stepped in as Interim Head of Ops alongside it.
I build AI-native People functions: automated where it counts, structured only where it adds value. I treat People as a product, testing what actually gets used and refining it based on real behaviour and data.
I'd rather thrash out a decision with a founder / exec than nod along to one. I'm at my best when growth has started to break what used to work, whether that's the org structure, how performance is managed, or how decisions get made. I help leaders find the real cause, not the symptom, and fix it in a way the business can actually run.
I’m an Associate at Foundation Partners, with 5+ years’ experience across People & Culture in fast-paced, growing businesses. Before joining Foundation Partners, I built the People function from the ground up within an executive search firm, working across the full employee lifecycle from hiring and onboarding through to performance, development, engagement, HR systems and people operations. I love taking something that feels complicated or unclear and turning it into a simple, practical people process that actually works for the business and its people. I now bring that generalist experience to Foundation Partners, supporting founders and leaders to build and maintain strong people foundations that can grow with their business.
Partner at Foundation Partners, working with founders and leadership teams to build the people, talent and organisational foundations they need to scale.
I’ve spent more than 12 years leading People and Talent transformation across healthcare, retail and high-growth businesses, including Amazon, Tesco, Diaverum and Jewish Care.
Most recently, I founded miloHR and worked as a fractional People leader across start-ups and scale-ups, supporting leadership teams with people strategy, organisational design, talent acquisition, leadership development, HR technology and people operations.
I’m at my best in businesses going through growth, change or transformation, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery to turn complex people challenges into practical, commercially focused solutions.
I’m an associate at Foundation Partners, my background spans working with small to medium sized founder led businesses within the creative space, not for profits, and financial services to name a few.
As an HR generalist, I work closely with senior leaders of businesses to design and implement impactful people processes that allow their businesses to grow as well as retain their best talent.
As an Associate, I support businesses across the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to performance management and people operations. I specialise in HR systems implementation and management, streamline people processes, and partner closely with Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams to build efficient, people-focused workplaces that enable individuals and organisations to succeed.
I’m a Talent Executive with 5+ years of experience across an eclectic mix of industries. I started my career in agency recruitment, specialising in marketing, before moving in-house and recruiting across creative and motion design, VFX, technical, operational and specialist roles.
Throughout my career, I’ve managed the full recruitment lifecycle, from working with hiring managers to shape briefs, through to interviews, offers and onboarding. I’ve also been involved in early-careers initiatives and academic outreach programmes, including student events and industry partnerships.
I’m a Talent Executive at Foundation Partners, working as an embedded partner to founders and hiring teams to help ambitious startups build the teams they need to scale. My career in talent started in agency recruitment in the UK in 2018. I then moved to Sydney, continued in agency, and later made the move in-house. Over six years in Australia I hired for everyone from early-stage startups to the country’s Big 4 banks, specialising in GTM, Finance and Tech.Seeing hiring from both sides, agency and internal, has shaped how I work. I know what it takes to find great people fast, and what it takes to make sure they’re the right fit for the business long term.
My forte and passion is building scalable People structures that fit businesses of varying sizes and cultures.
I see what the growth objectives are for my clients, identify people solutions quickly and work with the founder/exec teams to implement the people strategy to provide for success with an eye on what comes after that. I previously reduced staff turnover for a well known brand from 26% down to 6% - all whilst setting the structures for a high performing team readying the Company for aquision.
I'm a Talent Executive here at Foundation Partners, supporting start up companies on their journey to scale their teams. By being fractional and onsite with clients I'm fully embedded with the team and hiring managers. I manage the full recruitment cycle, alongside managing external recruitment partners, and supporting with data/ benchmarking to support the general talent function. My background is in recruitment and business development, which has made me resilient, commercially minded and confident with stakeholders. I’ve hired across a range of markets and skillsets such as SaaS, energy, data centres, AI/fintech, healthtech and DTC, so I know what it takes to find great candidates and can adapt quickly to each client’s needs, all while keeping the personal side of hiring which is what I love the most.
Our company values
Foundation Partners brings experienced People and Talent expertise to businesses with ambitious goals. We are always interested in connecting with those that are passionate about building high performing teams and culture.
Be close to the work
Work alongside founders and leadership teams, not at a distance from the decisions that matter.
Raise the bar
Bring judgement, care and high standards to every hire, team conversation and business challenge.
Build what lasts
Create the capability clients need now, while helping them become stronger without us.
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