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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...
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, Southwest
As Director of VMA GROUP's Bristol based office, Mark supports clients and candidates across the Southwest 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 consultan...
Julie Mazzei
Account Director, 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...
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.
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...
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
Senior 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...
Kimberley Buckland
Business Operations Executive
As Business Operations Executive, 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 Executive
Genevieve joined VMA GROUP in 2022 after graduating from the University of East Anglia with an MSc in Marketing & Management. As Marketing Executive, 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.