Our team are genuine and authentic, operating with transparency and mutual respect across the UK, Europe, and North America. Our team are people driven, brave, future focused and real.
We are innovative in our approach, to ensure we are always one step ahead so we can deliver the best service to all.
We enable real-life connections in the constantly evolving workplace; it’s one of the most fascinating, challenging and rewarding jobs in the world, and with a wealth of blended experience across the team, each and every one of us feels privileged to be part of your story.
We are more than a professional recruitment consultancy; we help people understand the story within their career and add commercial benefit to an organisation. By providing confidence and capability our clients and candidates develop their talent and realise their potential.
CEO & Founder
When I set up Broster Buchanan I was passionate that we would create a consultancy based on experience, relationships, delivery and quality. With a career spanning 20 years in global recruitment companies, I was increasingly frustrated by how some of the sector was becoming more transactional in its nature. People are the most important asset of any organisation and the identification and attraction of the right talent is critical to any business’s success. Experience is key in this to ensure that there is a real value added to the identification of people and to individual’s careers.
I am firmly committed to hiring experienced leaders and consultants into Broster Buchanan so that when we identify new talent or handle a career search we can ensure a truly positive experience. I believe we have that experience and am proud of our continuing commitment to relationships, delivery and quality.
UK Managing Director
About:
Over 20 years of experience in the recruitment and talent industry, including managing and building small, start-up companies through to large organisations. Pete’s passion lies in building businesses through investment in people.
Pete is instrumental in the Broster Buchanan growth strategy; identifying, hiring and developing talent in all our existing locations & sectors, whilst also focusing on new opportunities and partnerships in our core sectors of Finance, Marketing, HR and STEM
Career Highlight:
The first person to sell a multi-vacancy pan-European retained assignment to Apple.
Interesting Fact:
Pete can do a great dolphin impression!
Chief Revenue Officer
About:
Kevin has a career spanning 24 years in event management and then moving into the recruitment sector for the past 15+ years. Kevin is also currently Chair of APSCo (Midlands), developing the Forum and ensuring key issues affecting our members are discussed in order to bring maximum value to recruitment businesses.
Career Highlight:
Kevin’s career highlight would have to be the journey that Broster Buchanan is currently on. Setting up 8 years ago working from home, cafes and hotel lobbies to the business it is today, it is really still at the start of its journey to what it will become over the years to come, which is really exciting.
Interesting Fact:
Out of work, Kevin’s time is mostly spent with the family, his wife and himself running around after 2 young boys and a dog! He also gets to the gym as much as possible and gets a few rounds of golf in where he can (more of a summer golfer!). He also loves a good Sunday Roast with a glass of red in a nice country pub in and around the Cotswolds and a summer festival with friends and family!
Executive Director
About:
Antony has 25 years of executive recruitment and management consulting experience both in the UK and throughout Europe.
Career Highlight:
Working with Walt Disney to help to build the senior management team for the ‘Lion King ‘
Interesting Fact:
Apparently, Antony is related to Richard Branson!
Executive Director
About:
Dom has over twenty years of experience within talent management and consulting, operating both for and within businesses from start-up to multi-national.
Career Highlight:
Dom’s professional highlight is when he became Co-Founder of Broster Buchanan, playing a key role in growing the business from an idea in 2015 into the multi-national, multi-functional offering that Broster Buchanan is today.
Interesting Fact:
Dom is a proud Dad to three children and richer in experience (if not poorer in reality) from having followed Liverpool FC around UK and Europe for the last 25 years.
Senior Director
Phill has 20 years Global recruitment experience. He specialises in senior Accounting and Finance recruitment but has built/managed teams across all professional operations recruitment such as HR, Marketing, Management support, Procurement and Tech.
Phill is extremely passionate about people and prides himself on being honest and modest in his approach.
His number one driver that has kept him laser-focused for 20 years has been helping people progress their careers and seeing people reach and exceed their full potential
Phill’s most interesting projects and achievements have come from successfully launching offices, locations, and brands across multiple territories, both domestically and internationally.
From a client perspective, Secured and led 4 significant relocation projects for well-known, leading businesses from planning support to talent delivery. This ranged from 35 to 100 hires. Whilst offering career support and coaching to those affected adversely by the relocation.
Phill is a proud Dad to 2 daughters and an aspiring Tiger Woods (Career PB of 69 (-2))
Senior Director
About:
Natalie has experience spanning nearly 20 years in the professional business, recruitment and consultancy world. She’s a highly skilled business leader, well placed to partner and consult amongst C-suite and senior leadership through talent management, development of recruitment strategies and helping professionals to achieve their career and business goals.
Career Highlight:
Establishing a real legacy for Broster Buchanan; heading up the East Anglia team which has grown exponentially over the last 3 years, continues to break records and now confidently sits as a market leader.
Interesting Fact:
Sport is a real passion for Natalia and is lucky enough to still be playing hockey for Bedford, proudly forming part of the National Cup-winning Over 35’s team.
Managing Director
Qualified Chartered MCIPD practitioner, and a highly capable senior recruiter
Experienced at partnering with board level and leadership teams on Recruitment and Talent Management, HR Strategy, Employee Engagement, Employee Relations and Learning & Development
Worked across multi-disciplines and for global FTSE 150 businesses and SME businesses including a start-up; portfolio of clients from a range of industries, sectors and sizes
“The mix of both agency and in-house resourcing experience has enabled me to develop a wide range of capabilities including management and recruitment of large multi-site and discipline teams, driving direct sourcing models, developing HR processes and procedures, management information, employee attrition and internal recruitment development, process review and restructure.”
Finance Assistant
About:
Hannah spent over 20 years in hospitality managing restaurants, pubs and hotels, but after embarking on an accounting course recently for a bit of variety found a real passion for finance, numbers and most especially, excel spreadsheets.
Career Highlight:
Hannah is very much a people person. She has worked with so many different characters over the years, from guests to colleagues, the famous to the general public. The highlight of her career would have to be all the incredible people she has met along the way, the best of whom are now lifelong friends.
Interesting Fact:
Hannah loves stand-up comedy, ruined castles and a great glass of red but her favourite way to spend her free time is hanging out with her daughters.
Head of Finance
About:
Helen has a varied career in finance across a diverse range of sectors. Her career started in the North East when our very own Pat Smith got her a job! Helen has gradually made her way over to the North West and now leads our in-house finance team.
Career Highlight:
Helen loves the satisfaction that comes from improving processes and systems. She is very much a people person, particularly enjoying developing and training people to achieve their goals.
Interesting Fact:
Helen’s ambition is to one day climb Mount Kilimanjaro!
Senior Director
About:
Alistair has over 15 years of recruitment experience in the UK & Internationally, focusing on niche & specialist areas such as Risk Assurance, Corporate Governance & Professional services.
Career Highlight:
Career highlights for Alistair include growing multiple successful teams to be market leaders and seeing individuals go from nervous trainees to experts in their field, the opportunity to work and grow teams Internationally in Germany and Switzerland and seeing Broster Buchanan flourish from a small start-up to where it is today.
Interesting Fact:
Outside of work, Alistair tries to remain fit & active, and also enjoys trail running, mountain biking & hiking; He also owns a VW campervan, which he tries to get out in as much as possible with his family.
Senior Director
About:
Lucy has worked in talent for over 20 years, dedicated to accounting and finance recruitment within Yorkshire. Lucy recruited across all industry sectors, but in recent years has predominantly focussed on public sector and not-for-profit clients. Lucy has a genuine interest in the people that she works with, helping both candidates find the right job and clients secure the best talent for their team. Lucy works hard to develop her networks for the long term and knows to achieve that, every candidate and client she supports has to receive the highest levels of service.
Career Highlight:
Lucy is an enthusiastic and supportive ally for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and proud to be a Mental Health Champion.
Interesting Fact:
Outside of work, Lucy is a qualified Coach in Running Fitness and a regular runner who has run races from 1 mile to Ultra Marathon Distance. She even met her husband at Park Run. She’s also a qualified guide leader and her long-term life goal is to own her own forest or piece of woodland to create a community green space.
Director
About:
Lee is an accomplished recruitment Director with experience spanning across 27 years. Specialist in placing both permanent & contract technology professionals across the UK & Europe covering a range of industry sectors, technologies and levels, up to and including C-Level appointments.
Career Highlight:
Lee successfully established a European network of offices for a Global staffing company from scratch and is looking forward to doing the same with Broster Buchanan.
Interesting Fact:
Lee is a busy Father of 5 soon to be 6 and grandfather of 1 – very family-focused, big on the outdoors with camping, and involved in Scouts.
Senior Director
Experience spanning 20 years in the recruitment and talent industry
Specialist in finance recruitment within the East Anglia region
“Following an early career in banking, it was through my genuine interest in people and understanding how they tick that I decided a career in recruitment was for me, and it has been my mission to establish what it is that results in the best fit between client and candidate.
What did I discover? Time, patience and a focus on ‘genuine’ relationship building allows us to understand and enable what it is that our candidates and clients need.”
Director
About:
Matt is an experienced Senior Recruiter in the Accountancy and Finance Sector. He focuses on Qualified and QBE accountancy/finance, covering the North Cambridgeshire/ South Lincs employment market.
This is a market Matt is passionate about having spent many years building relationships with a wide range of the region’s SMEs and corporate businesses.
When not at work, Matt can be found driving his children around East Anglia to various sporting events, or occasionally on the golf course…..but not as much as he would like!
With a keen interest in fitness and nutrition, Matt has completed various half marathons and likes to challenge himself in the gym and more recently taken up table tennis.
Having discovered a passion for books during the pandemic, Matt has gone down the rabbit hole of decentralised finance and fiat alternative forms of money, of which he regularly bores his colleagues!
Career Highlight:
Matt is particularly proud of the long-term relationships he has built. Many candidates and clients return time and time again, entrusting him to provide the right support when they need it.
Some of his recent reviews can be found at: https://www.sourcr.com/recruiter/matthew-shirley
Business Director
About:
Lucy has 20 years of recruitment experience, spanning Finance and Transformation recruitment across the North West, South West and London markets. She started her career in professional practice and has since gained a wealth of experience recruiting qualified finance and transformation professionals across the UK.
Career Highlight:
Joining Broster Buchanan from the start of its journey has enabled me to work alongside so many wonderful people, all aligned in their values and purpose. A recent career highlight was attending a BB conference where we had the whole business together, with over 50 people exchanging knowledge and ideas. It’s been so exciting to see BB grow into the fantastic business it is today.
Head of Marketing
About:
Sophia is an experienced multi-channel senior marketing professional with over 15 years’ experience in both B2b and B2C environments
Interesting Fact:
Sophia is in her element surrounded by family and friends including her two young daughters. She loves to travel, dance and drink wine!
Digital Marketing Executive
About:
Danny has over ten years of expertise working in all aspects of digital marketing across a variety of sectors. Danny decided to work in-house after working with a variety of recruiting businesses as part of an agency and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Career Highlight:
Danny’s professional highlight was seeing a campaign he was working on trend number one internationally on Twitter.
Interesting Fact:
Danny is an avid skier in his spare time, having spent many years skiing in beautiful locations such as the Alps. He now reluctantly settles for the indoor ski slope, The Chill Factore in Manchester, where he is preparing to begin instructing his 3-year-old son.
Managing Director
About:
Martin has worked in Technology Recruitment since 1999, moving into the SaaS and Salesforce market in 2011. He is passionate about building strong teams with a real focus on the quality of service.
Career Highlight:
As much as Martin enjoyed personal success, and loves it when clients and candidates give positive feedback; his highlights are related to watching team members succeed, and seeing them realise their ambitions.
Interesting Fact:
Martin moved to Italy around 5 years ago and is a champion for Remote Working. He loves to play golf, as well as being part of a group of super-fans for the European Ryder Cup team- the Guardians of the Ryder Cup.
Director of Technology USA
About:
With over 5 years of Technology Recruitment Experience, Lawrence worked with clients across EMEA and the Americas and joined Broster Buchanan to lead the Salesforce Recruitment Business in North America.
Career Highlight:
Supported one of the largest Technology Consulting Partners in the world in a D&I initiative that saw him increase diversified hiring across an entire technology department by 5x – He still works with several of the placement who have gone on to lead multi-million-dollar projects for Fortune 100 clients.
Interesting Fact:
Prior to recruitment, Lawrence worked in Michelin Star Restaurants as a chef, helping to win and maintain stars across France, Ireland and the UK.
Director
About:
Leigh has 10 years of recruitment experience within the Salesforce ecosystem. He has built Salesforce recruitment teams from the ground up and prides himself on delivering a level of service for our customers, which separates BB from the rest of the market.
Career Highlight:
Leigh is an ambassador for Women in Technology and has delivered 5 successful WiT events in the past 3 years. He was also a guest speaker on the Salesforce Blazing Business Trails Podcast.
Interesting Fact:
Leigh is completely outnumbered in his household… with his wife, 3 young daughters and their little dog called Luna.
Associate Director
About:
Pip is passionate about connecting people & organisations, Pip has over 15 years of Information & Cyber Security recruitment experience helping at all levels to support team growth.
Career Highlight:
Pip set up her own personal fitness training and sports massage company in Chester and Liverpool and ran it for 3 years.
Interesting Fact:
Pip loves keeping fit and being outdoors, walking her dog on the beach & watching her boys play rugby.
Associate Director
Career spanning 20 years in Finance and Finance recruitment
Specialist in recruiting Finance professionals across the North East of England
“At Broster Buchanan autonomy is actively encouraged; we foster an environment whereby openness to new ideas and flexibility enable a truly entrepreneurial approach. I also work closely with a team who are extremely experienced in their field, and amongst us there is a great wealth of knowledge and networks to tap into.
Combining our market expertise with the flexibility to offer bespoke solutions, alongside our natural ability to nurture relationships means we are able to offer our clients and candidates a truly exceptional service.”
Business Director
About:
Alex is a specialist in helping qualified accountants find their next opportunity
Established networks across the North West region
Career Highlight:
Personal highlights for Alex include being entrusted to run the North West finance business at Broster Buchanan. Managing a team has been Alex’s goal for a number of years and Broster Buchanan gave him the platform to achieve this.
Interesting Fact:
Before moving into recruitment, Alex spent three years as a secondary school Maths teacher.
Associate Director
Holds degree in Economics & Accounting followed by career in finance spanning over 10 years
Over 7 years experience in recruitment, building up strong network of Finance contacts across the North East of England
“Having joined the North-East team at Broster Buchanan I have the luxury of working closely with experienced colleagues who share their in-depth knowledge of our local markets, meaning we have a great wealth of expertise and networks to tap into.
Everything I do is led by the relationship – it’s the little things that make a big difference, and the high level of service combined with my specialist knowledge are the reasons why my candidates and clients return to me throughout the course of their careers.”
Associate Director
About:
Helen is an established Public Sector and Not-for-Profit recruitment specialist with over 10 years’ experience placing Finance & Accountancy professionals across the North East region. Helen personally recruits for non-qualified through to qualified Finance & Accountancy positions on a temporary, fixed term and permanent basis.
Career Highlight:
Helen has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend many networking events throughout her career, enabling her to educate herself in the sectors in which she operates. She’s passionate when it comes to learning about their challenges, future strategies and how they contribute to bettering the lives of people across their regions. Helen especially enjoys the motivational speakers at such events, a career highlight of hers being when Olympian Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards delivered an inspirational speech at an NHS Healthcare Financial Management Association dinner.
Interesting Fact:
Before graduating in Business Management, Helen completed a Diploma in Animal Management given her love of animals, David Attenborough being her number 1 idol! She’s the loving owner of a black and tan Dachshund named Claude who has his own Instagram page with over 5,000 followers!
Associate Director
About:
Tom is an experienced interim recruiter with a strong track record supporting SME, PE-backed and FTSE-listed businesses by finding specialist interims to support requirements across; C-suite, Digital transformation, Programme Management, Change Management, Finance, Marketing, Commercial, HR & Operations.
Working with an established network of experienced trusted interim specialists, Tom works with clients to identify key requirements across their business and connect amazing professional consultants to deliver quality project work.
Senior Consultant
Experience recruiting in the Finance market across East Anglia
Developed networks across the part-qualified and newly-qualified finance markets
“It is reassuring to know I am part of an highly experienced team, each of whom are focused on nurturing long-term relationships and offering honest, credible advice.
With values based around candidate and client experience, focused on long, sustainable and trustworthy relationships; combined with the agile and innovative approach that is carefully fostered here at Broster Buchanan, I am confident we will continue to attract the best talent whilst helping our clients and candidates make informed decisions about their next hire or their next career move.”
Senior Consultant
About:
Dayam specialises in providing personalised and flexible recruitment & talent advisory services for professionals across the East Anglia region, with a particular focus on the Accountancy & Finance markets. Dayam prides himself in keeping things simple and delivering on his promises.
Career Highlight:
Dayam was delighted to place over 50 candidates in 2022, we think that’s pretty impressive too!
Interesting Fact:
Dayam can speak four languages, Urdu, Arabic, English and Punjabi.
Senior Consultant
About:
Nicola has over 10 years of experience in recruitment, starting off in Travel and IT Recruitment. Nicola has a travel and tourism degree and has extensive knowledge and experience managing a variety of clients and roles on a global scale.
Career Highlight:
A highlight for Nicola is continuously placing roles and managing projects globally, IE America, Europe and Australia using expertise in headhunting.
Interesting Fact:
Nicola loves working out and keeping fit outside of work. Interesting fact, Nicola used to teach tap dancing!
Consultant
Experience across HR, Account Management, Customer Service and Recruitment within the fleet management and manufacturing industries.
“I have a genuine interest and love for people, and this enables me to remember small but positive details from clients and candidates which I use to add personal touch in how I communicate with them. Broster Buchanan shares my ethos in putting people and communities at the heart of everything that we do. This is also why I have a passion for working with charities and have years of experience volunteering for a charity and currently a director a Leeds based charity.”
Consultant
About:
Joshua is an experienced Tech Recruiter primarily covering the SDLC market across England.
Career Highlight:
Joshua started his career within one of the world’s biggest recruitment agencies, quickly being promoted from early careers recruitment into specialist tech recruitment within 12 months which is where he discovered his passion.
Interesting Fact:
Outside of work, Joshua loves being active – he’s a qualified diver, (reasonably) good skiier and has just started learning golf. On his bucket list is learning paragliding and getting qualified to be able to fly without an instructor.
Consultant
10 years experience recruiting Finance and Accounting Professionals throughout the Northwest of England and North Wales.
I get a huge sense of satisfaction in assisting Accountants in finding their next role. From those who are Newly Qualified to Senior Financial Leaders alike, knowing that I have played a part in facilitating their next career move is very rewarding. Having worked within the Qualified Finance Recruitment space for over 10 years across Cheshire, North Wales, Wirral, and Merseyside, I have a broad knowledge of key employees and employers within manufacturing, engineering, retail, pharmaceuticals, FMCG and beyond. My approach is to listen, understand and assist on a case-by-case basis. I endeavour to represent all my candidates and client with professionalism.
Resourcing Consultant
About:
Kerry is a Talent Consultant with 5+ years of recruitment experience. She’s extremely passionate about matching the best talent with the right opportunities and building long-lasting relationships along the way.
Interesting Fact:
Kerry used to be Cabin Crew for British Airways, so she loves to travel & explore as much as possible.
Senior Resourcing Consultant
About:
Oli supports the Risk Assurance & Professional services functions for Broster Buchanan, Nationally. Oli works to service clients of all sizes and works across all sectors to support organisations fulfil their resource strategies.
Career Highlight:
A personal highlight for Oli is resourcing over 20 placements within his first 9 months of recruitment.
Interesting Fact:
Oli holds a brown belt in North West Chinese Kickboxing!
Associate Consultant
About:
Before recruitment, Lucy has a previous background of 11 years in the Automotive Sales industry.
Career Highlight:
Lucy’s career highlight would have to be her promotion to Business Manager
Interesting Fact:
Lucy is a Massive Formula one fan who never misses a race every weekend.
Business Manager, Technology
About:
Robin has been successfully recruiting into the Salesforce ecosystem for nearly three years.
What he likes most about the Ohana is the fact that everyone works so closely together to help people be the best they can be within their chosen specifications, whether that is an Admin or a Technical Architect.
He has been very lucky to place the spectrum of Salesforce roles into either the partner or end-user space, everything from Admins, Devs and Architects.
Robin is looking forward to working closely with the US market, whilst helping our clients hire the best in class Salesforce and tech talent so their projects can continue at pace.
Career Highlight:
In 2021, Robin helped a digital skills charity build out their Salesforce team placing all five roles that were needed when their implementation partner parted ways in a matter of weeks, everything from Admin to Devs and a lead Solution Architect.
This helped enable the charity to keep doing its important work and helped upskill those most in need in the UK with important digital skills so they could keep improving their lives.
Interesting Fact:
Outside of work, Robin is a keen runner and regularly competes in 5K and 10K events whenever he gets the chance.
