delivery team

One of the UK’s leading diversity specialists, Suki has been revolutionising executive search and inclusion for 15 years.

Having started his career at a FTSE 250 recruitment company before becoming a Partner for a boutique firm he established Audeliss in 2011. Recruiting leaders and executives for global organisations across sectors and industries, Suki has established a unique network of exceptional and diverse candidates as well as building successful relationships with clients. 

Determined to shape inclusive workplaces, in 2013 Suki founded OUTstanding, an LGBT+ membership organisation which, in partnership with The Financial Times, publishes an annual role model list recognising leading LGBT+ and ally executives and LGBT+ future leaders. The powerful work and rapid success of OUTstanding earned Suki the title of ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2013 European Diversity Awards and he was also named 64th in The Independent’s ‘Rainbow List’.

In 2016, Suki was appointed a Trustee of the Guild of HR Professionals.

The following year Suki launched EMpower and HERoes - initiatives focused on ethnic minorities and women.  Each year, in partnership with the Financial Times, EMpower and HERoes publishes role model lists globally. In 2017 Suki was also named as “Most Inspiring Recruitment Leader” at The Recruiter's Investing in Talent Awards.

In 2018, Suki launched INvolve – an overarching mother-brand for OUTstanding, EMpower and HERoes. It encapsulates the mission, values and vision across all three brands, helping to create diverse and inclusive businesses where everyone can, and does, succeed. A world that involves 100% of everyone.

Suki is also a Stonewall Ambassador and passionately supports many charities including The Albert Kennedy Trust and Outright International. 

Anja has extensive international experience in executive search. She started her career in a FTSE-250 recruitment company, managing the Industry & Commerce finance searches in London.

She then moved to a Global Industrial Practice for a NASDAQ-listed leadership advisory firm conducting executive and Board assignments across the globe. Prior to joining Audeliss, Anja worked for a boutique search business focusing on Legal and Compliance appointments in the UK and EMEA markets. Anja leads Audeliss client partnerships, advising leadership teams and boardrooms on how to attract the best talent to their organisations. 

Anja’s track record in placing leaders across industry sectors and geographies, as well as her own international upbringing presents a unique perspective to our clients on the importance of D&I at the highest level for any business. Anja is European Co-Chair on the Advisory Board for WBC (Women’s Business Collaborative) which is dedicated to gender parity for women in leadership and board roles. She is also a member of Women Leaders Group for 25x25, which is an initiative to get to 25 women CEOs in FTSE100 and 250 by 2025.

Manuel has over 17 years’ international experience in executive talent acquisition.

He started his career in a FTSE250 recruitment company, managing the Industry & Commerce finance searches in Berlin, Hamburg & London. He then moved to one of the largest RPO businesses to lead talent acquisition teams for global brands in the consulting and financial services space. In 2016, he moved in-house to head up recruiting teams in EMEA and LATAM for a global tech company focusing on sales, marketing and finance roles. Prior to joining Audeliss, Manuel has been working as Director Recruiting and HR EMEA for one of the fastest growing tech startups in the IoT sector where he was responsible for all people and recruiting matters for their European employees.

He is very passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as creating a beautiful candidate experience and delivering value and market insights to our clients.

Manuel grew up as a gay boy in a small town in Southern Germany before moving to the UK. He is happily married for over 10 years now and is bilingual in German and English.

Ash leads the consumer practice at Audeliss.

He has global experience, having worked in New York and Cape Town earlier in his career where he spent 10 years with a FTSE250 recruitment company developing their presence in the US and South Africa. He subsequently spent 8 years at the UK’s largest search firm before joining a top 5 global search firm in the consumer practice.

Ash has worked across BBBEE in South Africa and was a partner with Women in Hospitality Travel & Leisure back in the UK. He has also partnered with multinationals and private equity portfolio brands and through his global experience has diverse executive networks across USA, EMEA, and APAC.

Alex has over 10 years’ experience in executive recruitment.

She joined Audeliss in 2015, bringing with her experience in both executive search and in-house recruitment, having begun her career at a search firm focused on retail and luxury brands and has delivered a high volume and wide variety of in-house assignments at NHS Improvement. Alex honed her skills in candidate selection and screening, which led to her working on the setup of their interim turnaround panel; developing a pool of senior interim candidates including CFOs, HRDs, COOs and CEOs.

During her time with Audeliss, she has placed candidates across a range of functions, as well as Chair, Trustee and NED appointments.
Most recently, Alex has been managing all Chief Diversity/Director of D&I roles with clients across the public and private sectors.

With 15 years experience in executive recruitment, he brings a broad and deep knowledge of running successful senior searches across multiple sectors an functions. His career began working within the banking sector, finding senior compliance and legal executives during the financial crisis. His career progressed on to working with c-suite executives across finance, technology, marketing and legal.

Since joining Audeliss in 2018, Barrie has led on prestigious FTSE 100 executive and non-executive searches, whilst also developing our diverse network groups to enable Audeliss to provide vast, diverse shortlist of candidates.

Most recently, Barrie was promoted to head our research function, focused on developing and enhancing our research capability to provide to support our delivery teams with the best talent available in the market.

Amna has over 8 years of business development and client relations experience. She has had a portfolio career history with experience across a variety of industry sectors. She started her career in the United States focusing on the Healthcare sector and then moved to the UK to develop business for the international textiles market. Most recently Amna worked in the private Higher Education sector in London supporting the c-suite executive team and developing a key international recruitment market. In her spare time Amna acts as a mentor for the Princes Trust Mosaic Foundation and is also a regular guest on the BBC Asian Network.

Amna joined Audeliss as Head of Client Development with a passion for increasing diversity and promoting inclusion in both the public and private sectors.

Rachel has over 12 years’ experience working within executive search, having begun her career at a boutique firm focused on the retail industry.

Rachel moved to an international talent management firm, where she partnered with both UK and Global companies within Digital and Multi-Channel Consumer brands, recruiting across disciplines both within the UK and Globally. Executing searches at Board level, she partners with CEOs and PE companies, building personable and in-depth relationships with her clients and candidates.

A brand ambassador for race representation Rachel focuses on creating awareness and challenging businesses on the disparities faced by Ethnic Group candidates. She is passionate about driving through the importance of having diverse representation through executives and boards, ensuring space is created in businesses for diverse executives.

Jamie Williams is an executive search professional with over 20 years’ experience. He began his search career in London working for a boutique financial services firm, before joining the UK office of a larger US-based firm, where he focused on investment banking assignments. He relocated to South Africa in 2003 and over the next 17 years was instrumental in key appointments at executive and board-level for local and multinational financial services, industrial, FMCG and mining sector clients, both in South Africa and broader Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa. His final role in South Africa was a partner in the Johannesburg office of a UK-based global executive search firm. The geographical scope of his experience includes the UK, Europe, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Much of his work in South Africa and Africa was influenced by the very real need to make clients’ boards and leadership teams more diverse and representative in terms of both gender and race.

Jamie has an MA (Hons) degree from the University of Edinburgh.

A dual Canadian and UK national, Louise has a Master’s in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics as well as a Master’s degree in Political Economy from Queen’s University in Canada She began her career in International Banking before moving into Executive Search focusing on financial markets search across different asset classes both on the buy and sell side.

Since joining Audeliss she has applied her search skills to a broad range of C Suite, Chair and Non-Executive Director roles in the private, public and third sector.

Isobel is an accomplished recruitment professional with demonstrated success finding diverse talent on an international scale for niche and complex roles across a variety of industry sectors.

Acting as a trusted partner to global brands and high growth SMEs, Isobel works with clients to provide practical, creative solutions to challenging hiring mandates.  She is particularly passionate about leadership hiring and the impact the right individual can have in driving change where needed and fostering a high performing, positive, inclusive culture.

Isobel spent her earlier career specialising in finance recruitment for a FTSE 250 consultancy, before moving into a boutique HR / Change management recruitment consultancy.  She then worked in house as Head of Group Talent Acquisition & Internal mobility for a global 10K employee business. Here she played a pivotal role in supporting the Group Board in making business-critical hires, including running in-house executive search mandates, scaling up operations in developing markets and implementing new programmes to drive internal mobility.

At Audeliss, Isobel focuses on senior appointments across a range of functions in both the Executive and Non-Executive space.

Adele has over 17 years’ international corporate and consulting experience across various sectors and functional areas predominantly in HR, finance, and professional services. She has identified and assessed senior hires for finance, legal, technology and communications roles, and has been a champion for talent diversity beyond physical representation to include background, training, and industry experience. 

Adele applies her leadership and organisation development training to specialise in change and transformation. She has supported the design, development and delivery of numerous strategic people plans, including full end-to-end management of talent programmes and processes for many companies such as GE, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, RSA, Prudential, Varde Partners and Tokio Marine Kiln. 

Adele is our well-networked, innovative, and revolutionary team member with a real passion for creating change through empathetic, strategic placements. Her appreciation of both clients' and candidates' deeper needs is instrumental to her delivery. 

Due to her multi-faceted background in finance, media, human resources and psychology, Adele has an excellent understanding of how things are on the ground. By wearing both commercial and human experience hats, she holds the space for a grander vision of business and community to take form through people and culture development. 

Adele is also a published author, mother and truth facilitator who believes in the power of one and creating a better tomorrow by reimagining wellness and wellbeing today.

James has worked within the recruitment space for the last 9 years working with across multiple disciplines, but with a focus on health and social care, working with candidates and clients in contingency, agency and permanent recruitment. Since 2019, he has worked within research for a number of clients in pharma, tech, financial services, mining, media/streaming and IT and has been responsible for delivering first-class research on assignments across all service lines, including talent mapping, talent intelligence and insight, search (including Executive search) and talent pipelining/succession planning. James joined Audeliss as a Senior Research & Delivery Associate working with our extensive talent network to support our Delivery Consultants with global-Executive and Board-level mandates.

Priyanka started her career in property before making the switch to recruitment. She shares our passion for diversity and inclusion whilst bringing an entrepreneurial flair. Her experience provides a solid foundation which underpins her successful focus on client and candidate experience. Priyanka joined Audeliss as a Research and Delivery Associate, supporting the team on connecting with our diverse networks, and carrying out detailed company research and market mapping.

Priyanka is now a Research Lead, supporting our Head of Delivery and Research and Delivery Consultants with candidate engagement and leading the research on global Executive and Board-level mandates.

Lynnette joined the executive search industry after graduating University. She has an immense passion for creating diverse and inclusive environments and as such truly believes in the mission and values of Audeliss. Her commitment to diversity and inclusion drives her to approach each project with diligence and creativity.

Lynnette works closely with the delivery and research team on a wide spectrum of executive and non-executive projects. Before joining Audeliss, she worked as a generalist researcher in another search organization conducting research for projects across industries and functions.

Billi started her career at Audeliss as Client Development Administrator after completing an internship at our sister company, INvolve, on the delivery team. Billi joined Audeliss as Client Development Administrator with a passion for interacting with clients and developing relationships whilst also promoting diversity and inclusion in both the public and private sectors. Before joining us Billi studied Psychology and Sociology at A-level.

Luisa has a wealth of recruitment administration experience as well as property experience. She started her career within administration over 20 years ago. Luisa supports the Audeliss team with diary management, research documents as well as ad-hoc tasks with absolute skill and attention to detail and has a strong team spirit and can-do attitude.