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Becca Ly

<p>Becca heads up the Marketing operations for Futureheadsand and SyncD, the company's embedded solutions offering.</p>
<p>With over a decade of recruitment marketing experience, Becca brings a wealth of knowledge and a niche skill set of understanding the recruitment market, communicating to the market with integrity and data-led insight. As part of the leadership team, Becca manages a team of three and is responsible for the company's marketing and communications strategies, coaching on personal branding, developing thought leadership for the Digital and Tech sector, as well as ensuring a solid brand alignment with the company's ethos; People before Profit.</p>
<p>Outside of work, you'll find Becca travelling somewhere in the UK or abroad taking some time&nbsp;to recharge. Music, live sports and events are a go-to, she loves being in the moment. Most weekends you'll find her with friends or family enjoying good food and company!</p>

Caroline Waylen

<p>Caroline is the Head of People across the Futureheads and SyncD.</p>
<p>She has over 20 years of experience working in the recruitment industry across financial services and digital clients. Her role encompasses everything people which includes recruitment, training, retention, benefits and all things HR related.</p>
<p>Caroline loves to travel and has passed this love of travelling on to her twins. The family started travelling with a 3-month trip across Asia when the children were only 3 and they can now regularly be seen across the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.</p>

Craig Armstrong

<p>Craig is an experienced Recruitment Manager with a breadth of experience in Digital and Finance Tech. He leads the Engineering, Projects and Product teams, covering perm and contract covering Front end, Fullstack and Back end roles (generally with a largely leaning toward Javascript) as well as Engineering leadership roles and Architecture.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Craig is a hands-on leader that likes to engage closely with the tech community across every level from Junior to CTO. He loves to regularly discuss the challenges within the market amongst Tech Leaders in Startups to Scale-Ups &amp; Enterprise organisations.&nbsp;He likes to collaborate closely with his team and through them gets to see an even larger spread of what the London Tech scene has to offer whether that be in Tech for good, Travel Tech or Fintech.</p>
<p>Away from work, Craig has his hands full with Dogs, Cats and a mini human - Mylo, who's off to school this year. Aside from that, he loves gigs, football matches, running and cycling - when he can fit it into the diary.&nbsp;</p>

Emily Massey

<p>Emily is a Principal Consultant, leading the Product &amp; Projects team, working across roles up to C-suite level. She has eight years of experience across a range of sectors and clients, helping clients to grow teams across both contract and permanent work.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Outside of work, Emily has a wide range of interests including going to gigs and the theatre, both reading and buying books (one day she will finish her ever-growing to-be-read pile) and is always looking for new podcast suggestions, especially if it&rsquo;s true crime, history, film or pop culture based.&nbsp;</p>

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Rohan Maheswaran

<p>As Director of Growth, Rohan works across Futureheads leading our client acquisition, development and partnerships. He ensures the client experience is best-in-class and coaches customers and internal teams on building and executing successful recruitment and growth strategies.</p>
<p>Rohan is an industry high performer with a deep understanding of technology, and how the product life cycle and the individuals who contribute to it, impact a company&rsquo;s reach. His track record and building of genuine, trusted relationships enables him to advise on the right solutions without compromising the values.</p>
<p>When Rohan isn't working, he is travelling around the world &ndash; Japan, South Africa and Sri Lanka are recent faves! Enjoying exploring new foods along the way. He is also an avid sports fan (both playing and watching), and keeps fit at the gym and swims regularly.</p>

Toby Thwaites

<p>Toby joined Futureheads in 2011 as a Resourcer and one of the business's original recruits.</p>
<p>He now oversees all sales initiatives across the Futureheads business. Toby leads the Senior Sales management team in order to deliver an efficient, first-class experience to our clients and candidates.</p>
<p>When not at work, Toby loves countryside living with his partner and Labrador (Olive), good food, nurturing his garden, and going on new adventures.&nbsp;</p>

Alex Cavanagh

<p>Alex is a Senior Consultant at Futureheads and has been involved in the area of product design throughout his entire recruitment career. He particularly enjoys working with hiring managers to uncover exact details of what they'd be looking for and efficiently resourcing for roles.</p>
<p>As part of the product design team, Alex works with tech companies across London and has had great success working with start-ups and fintech businesses.</p>
<p>Outside of work, Alex loves to see friends, visit a variety of pubs around London and travel to different countries. He's had brief spells living in Singapore and Barcelona and now finds himself in the east end of London in Hackney. Alex has also scored at Wembley!</p>

Calvin Bruno

<p>A part-qualified accountant, Calvin has worked in finance teams in several SMEs in a range of industries, from interior design &amp; property development to mobile fintech &amp; digital media.</p>
<p>Calvin has expertise in putting together reports on cashflows forecasts, managing customer debt, and preparing monthly accounts, including P&amp;Ls and balance sheets.</p>
<p>Away from work, Calvin enjoys hiking, football, tennis, pub quizzes, crazy golf, cinemas/ theatre, art galleries/museums, craft beer festivals and music gigs. Calvin also used to run marathons and half-marathons in the UK and Europe.&nbsp;</p>

Jamie Roostan

<p>Jamie is a specialist recruiter building out our DevOps and SRE desk here at Futureheads who has been doing recruitment for the last seven years.</p>
<p>Her primary sectors include FinTech, eCom, Tech for Good &amp; Sustainability. She's super passionate about EDI and even runs her own gender minority meet-up group!</p>
<p>Jamie enjoys socialising, seeing her friends outside of work and binge-watching any reality TV shows (mainly below deck and RuPaul's drag race). She has also recently taken an interest in hiking and has completed Snowdon, Scafell Pike and next on the list is Ben Nevis!</p>

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    <h5>Our network includes professionals in:</h5>
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    <h5> Our network includes Designers with skills in:</h5>
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    <h5>Our network includes professionals across:</h5>
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From recruiting your first Product Owner to hiring your next experienced Product Managers, our recruiters have developed a specialist network in the design and tech space. They have trusted experts in sourcing and delivering both permanent and contract professionals in the field.

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    <h5>Our network includes practitioners with skills across:</h5>
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