Executive Search and Selection | Recruitment

Richard’s experience in the charity sector began after university, when he worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in Southern Thailand. Richard started his working life in education, teaching politics and history in schools and colleges. After a number of years in senior management in education, he moved into the charity sector, working as Development Director for the international HIV/AIDS charity ACET International.

Richard has throughout his life retained a lively interest in global politics, from observing a civilian coup d’état during his time in Thailand, to standing as a parliamentary candidate in two general elections, to being in Spain the night the Socialist Party was elected after the death of Franco. He has long followed American politics closely, and was a news reporter at a Republican Party Convention to select its Presidential candidate.

He has extensive experience as a charity trustee and is currently serving on the boards of the MedicAlert Foundation and the Campaign for Learning. He has previously been a trustee of the Brook Advisory Service, member of the Hansard Society, a school governor of several schools, and a churchwarden. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the English Speaking Union and the Institute of Directors. He is a Freeman of the City of London. Richard lives in London with his wife, who is a Master of Wine, and they have two adult daughters.

Tony Rayne is Finance Director and Company Secretary of CfA. After a ten year short service commission in the Royal Navy Tony worked for a trade body, the International Copper Association. During this period his programme management role entailed extensive travel in managing a wide variety of projects in different sectors of industry. He set up a new office in Singapore and as Director of Finance & Administration (Europe) he was also responsible for relocating the European Office to Brussels.

Tony gained a Master in Business Administration from the University of Durham. A keen sportsman, he has been active in encouraging the participation of young people in sport, particularly cricket and hockey. He has been in involved in a variety of community activities, most notably the setting up of a successful community shop in Buckinghamshire.

Nina is a Recruitment and Training professional with over ten year’s commercial experience including recruitment at middle and senior management level.

In the last six years she has concentrated in the advice and guidance industry. Her entrepreneurial nature ensured success, playing an instrumental role in the start up of Prospects Recruitment Services, now CfA's Advice and Guidance Recruitment Division.

In addition to leading the CfA Advice and Guidance Recruitment team she also delivers successful training courses for the advice and guidance sector.

She is committed to the growth and success of CfA and her most recent challenge to date is her appointment as a Board Director, making a lively, dynamic and creative contribution to the CfA Board.

Sara has worked as Campaign Director for leading national and international charities and also as a fundraising consultant assisting charities with strategic planning, major gift campaigns and training. Sara trained in marketing and advertising and her first career was as an account handler in advertising and creative agencies. Sara continues to enjoy finding solutions to challenges faced by charities and can offer our clients fundraising consultancy.

In her spare time, when not at the theatre, Sara is involved in the Jewish community. She is an active Board member of her Synagogue and participates in sponsored charity bike ride challenges, most recently a 520km ride from Vietnam to Cambodia.

Smita has worked with many high profile clients and is actively involved with Lions Club International and has assisted with a variety of international fundraising events. One of the main focal points continues to be the development of the “Eye-Camps” project throughout Asia.

Before joining CfA Smita’s career was in publishing, latterly as Deputy Publisher at Mitre House Publishing. She directed a leading charity trade journal, “Charities Management” as well as a number of international business and finance titles. She has a wealth of publishing, commissioning and marketing experience.

Peter has over 25 years in the charity sector and his interests focus on East and Southern Africa. Peter came to CfA from the Archbishops’ Council where he was involved in recruitment for the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church. He has wide experience of religious communities and organisations.

His skills include the running of assessment centres and the use of psychometrics for selection and personal development. He has been a trustee of a variety of organisations including Toynbee Hall, the Society of Saint Francis and Tower Hamlets Community Credit Union and is a member of a number of environmental charities including Plantlife, the Woodland Trust, HDRA and the National Trust for Scotland.

Judith Lovelace is a Senior Consultant and an experienced career consultant. Judith’s first career was in local government to Director of HR level in Inner London and was the first woman President of The Society of Chief Personnel Officers in local government (now PPMA). She moved into a freelance HR consultant role in the public and voluntary sectors. She has had among her many roles one as a Staff Commissioner for England advising the Secretary of State between 1993 and 1998. She has many years’ experience of chairing community and environmental organisations in Twickenham. She is a volunteer at The Twickenham Museum and is currently Chair of the Friends of Strawberry Hill. She is also a Trustee of the British Menopause Society. Judith’s passions are for the arts, heritage and architecture in the UK and Classical Europe.

Anna started her career in the charity sector through postgraduate work in the WWF and Red Cross. She has a degree in Business and Management, specialising in business ethics and politics. She has travelled widely across Asia and internationally and worked in recruitment for the commercial sector.

She diversified her experience with a career in property, where her focus was on delivering high-level customer service and tailored support to clients. She ran an office in Wimbledon Villlage and won an award for Best Estate Agent in Surrey. She is now enjoying applying her previous experiences and interests in the Charity and not-for-profit sector. In her spare time Anna is a keen competition horse-rider.

Dominique is an experienced recruiter who has specialised in the financial sector for both commerce and public sector clients for the last 4 years.

Dominique has a degree in Economics specialising in natural resource economics. Her entire career to date has focused on recruiting senior level finance professionals across the Surrey and London areas. During her time at Hays she received recognition for high levels of client development, candidate focus and was the highest billing consultant for the region on several occasions. Dominique is a keen traveller having spent time in Europe, Southern India and Kenya more recently. She hopes to travel more in the future and has a keen interest in International affairs and politics.

Chris has spent 40 years in teaching, the last 20 in two senior school independent headships most recently at St John's School, Leatherhead. In his final years as an HMC head, Chris chaired the HMC (and latterly combined HMC/GSA) Professional Development Committee and had responsibility, amongst other things, for directing the training courses for new heads.

Since retiring from full time school-based work, Chris has helped govern four schools (in two of which he chairs the Education Committee), formally appraised numerous HMC heads and assisted governing bodies with the appointment of heads, bursars and other senior staff as an education consultant with CfA. Chris is an experienced school governor.

Joanna joined CfA after a career in Education, most recently as Headmistress of St George’s School, Ascot. She assists schools in their recruitment of heads, bursars, deputy heads and directors of marketing and development at both preparatory and secondary level, in Britain and overseas.

Joanna has also been an independent consultant on university entrance, sixth form curricular choice and senior school selection and has been a GSA representative on the executive committee of the Independent Schools Examination Board. She advises schools on staff appointments and appraisal as well as career direction for school staff who are interested in promotion.

Joanna is on the board of several charitable trusts, works with two universities and on the management of a political and diplomatic training programme. She is also involved in the governance of both independent and state schools.

Ian is an Educational Consultant and joined CfA following a successful career in education that included leading two large secondary schools as Head Teacher. Ian has significant experience and expertise in the field of recruitment and selection of staff having worked in senior management for more than twenty five years. His sixteen years of headship also provides a valuable source of knowledge and expertise in strategic planning, team building,target setting, data analysis and financial planning.

As the Head Teacher of the UK's first PFI school his experience of building up a school from its early beginnings into a flourishing 1400+ pupil institution lends much to his capacity and capability to support the successful development of schools.

Ian is an accredited School Improvement Partner (SIP), is a visiting lecturer on the Post Graduate Masters programme at St Mary's University College in west London and has significant practical experience of the Ofsted Inspection Framework.

He has served as a governor at a number of schools and a College of Higher Education. Voluntary work includes working with the Glyndeboune Youth Opera.

Duncan has 34 years’ experience working in three HMC schools, two of them boarding schools, and then for 18 years as Headmaster of Kingston Grammar School, which expanded both its site and pupil numbers by a third during that time.

He was closely involved in the work of The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, including serving on the Membership and Community Service Committees, and as Chairman of the prestigious London Division. He writes on educational issues, has served on the Standards Committee of an Examination Board and was for many years an ISI inspector.

Duncan now works as an education consultant, helping schools and individuals make a difference to the future of education. He advises on school review and strategic planning; leadership, appraisal and recruitment; curriculum development; raising standards and marketing. As part of the CfA Education Team he assists governors in the appointment of Heads, Bursars and other senior staff.

Will joined Dulwich College as Bursar after more than 22 years army service as a Royal Engineer including postings to Quetta in Pakistan, the British Embassy in Copenhagen and the Royal School of Military Engineering. He remained at Dulwich College for more than 18 years until retiring in 2005 to spend 2 years working with a major international summer English School develop and grow its business. He has been working as an independent consultant since 2007 helping schools with their business plans, support staff organisations and bursars’ external appraisals.

He joined CfA in 2009 to assist schools in their recruitment of senior support staff including bursars and deputy bursars.

Edward has a career in fundraising and public affairs consultancy, which has included senior permanent and interim appointments with City University, Liverpool John Moores University, Imperial College, Crusaid and Coram Family.

He is non-executive chairman of 4ps: the Public Private Partnerships Programme and a non-executive director of London Strategic Housing and the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.

He serves as an elected member of the City of London Corporation and as a Justice of the Peace. He is also lead member for human resources and diversity on the City of London Police Authority. He is a Liveryman Elect of the Leathersellers’ Company and served as Clerk of the Tax Advisers’ Company as they prepared to take livery status. Edward has wide experience as a charity trustee and school/college governor, currently serving on the boards of the Anne Frank Trust, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Westminster Challenge.

He has previously been chairman of governors of the City of London School for Girls and Sir John Cass’s Foundation School and a trustee of City Parochial Foundation and the Refugee Council.

Michael is a consultant with specialise interests in the City Corporation and Livery Company appointments, whilst also covering charitable schools and other charities.

After a career which started in the Army, but which mainly continued in British Aerospace, he is now a Management Consultant who, when not engaged in CfA recruiting, also operates in high technology defence business consultancy. Michael is a Liveryman and member of the Court of Assistants of his Livery Company. He was Prime Warden (IE ‘Master’) in 1991/92.

He is Deputy Chairman of the Company’s grant giving charity, the Company’s representative on the Governing Body of the City University, and a City and Guilds Institute representative on the Governing Body of Imperial College. Through his Livery Company he is also a Trustee of a number of Charities.

Michael is also a Council Member (Trustee) of Speakability, a national charity which provides aid to adults suffering from aphasia, and a member of its Fundraising Committee.

John has been a Consultant with CfA since 1994. He has over thirty years’ experience in the public and voluntary sectors including in HR director roles in major housing associations. He is very active in his local community and has served as an elected Councilor, chairing his local authority's Housing Committee.

John is qualified by the British Psychological Society to conduct a full range of psychometric measures and he is experienced in devising and administering the assessment centres we run for our clients.

As the Director of our partner company Personnel Solutions UK Ltd, John also works with a wide range of charities and other voluntary bodies on every aspect of HR management. With nearly 250 different organisations on his client list, his experience of charity employment matters is second to none, and his consultancy is the only source of personnel management advice that works exclusively with voluntary sector organisations.

John is author of the much acclaimed Managing People in Charities, and is a regular columnist in Third Sector.

Peter is Chairman of CfA and was one of the three founder trustees of Charity Appointments in 1984. Subsequently he became chairman both of Charity Appointments and its associated limited company. He is also currently Chairman of Dawson Holdings Ltd.

Previously, he was Chairman of The Wace Group PLC, Associated British Industries, and of Longbridge PLC. Since 1959 he has been a Governor of Thomas Coram Foundation the oldest incorporated charity in the UK – and in 1990 became its Vice-President.

Karen has been working within the field of Recruitment for the past eight years starting her career recruiting permanent finance professionals in the City & the West End.

Karen has been recruiting for Prospects Services Ltd internal market for the past three years, specialising in Advice and Guidance roles primarily within Prospects' Connexions and NextStep contracts.

She is a versatile recruiter and has recruited successfully for Prospects' head office corporate roles within Finance, Facilities, Office support and Marketing which includes middle and senior management level.

Karen is currently working towards an MA in Human Resource Management to become fully CIPD qualified in February 2011.

Natalie has been in the recruitment industry for over ten years. Her career started as a Temporaries Consultant within the Hospitality & Catering sector. She has managed a large, successful and dynamic Temporaries Division. She was promoted to Business Manager, in the City where she continued to be influential within Hospitality and Catering Recruitment. Natalie then moved into the Commercial Recruitment Market where she used her entrepreneurial spirit to co-found a "Recruitment to Recruitment" company.

In 2007 Natalie joined Prospects Recruitments Services, now CfA's Advice & Guidance Recruitment Division and is committed to the growth of our external recruitment division within the Advice and Guidance industry.

Anita gained a Masters in Human Resources Management at University of Greenwich in 2006. On completion of her Masters, Anita joined Prospects Recruitment Services, now incorporated within CfA, in 2006 as a Junior Recruitment Consultant. She has played an instrumental role in the growth of CfA's Advice and Guidance Recruitment Division providing administrative support to the team and temporary workers.

Anita has run our temporary division committed to roles within the advice and guidance industry. From April 2010, Anita is committed to the growth of the external recruitment service in the advice and guidance sector.