Advisory Panel

Kevin Green

May 25, 2016 by

Say hello to Kevin Green

Advisory Panel

Kevin has been the Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation since June 2008. The REC is the professional body for the UK’s £28.7bn private recruitment industry. Kevin is also VP of Ciett, the global representative body for the recruitment industry, where he chairs the National Federations Committee.

He has focused on improving the REC’s offering to members – introducing account management, and establishing the Institute of Recruitment Professionals. The organisation has been recognised for its excellence in service provision and campaigns, winning over nine association awards, as well Kevin personally winning the trade association leadership award.

Before starting at the REC, Kevin worked for Royal Mail from 2003 to 2008. His last role was HR Director for Royal Mail Letters; where he was responsible for all people-related issues for the business with 165,000 employees. He was part of the leadership team which transformed the business from losing £1 million a day in 2003 to making over £600 million profit in 2007.

Prior to this, Kevin was Managing Director of Qtab, a successful strategic HR consultancy that specialised in assisting businesses to develop and implement their people strategies. Kevin has a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel and is a Fellow of the CIPD and IRP.

Mark Cheshire

May 25, 2016 by

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Mark’s commercial background is in financial services. For 30 years he was with Lloyds Banking Group holding a range of executive roles including CEO of the UK private bank, sitting on the UK retail bank board. He had responsibility for the UK branch network and, reporting to the main board, ran the global group-wide integration programme merging Lloyds Bank and TSB.

He had 2 years on secondment at the Bank of England working on banking supervision during the post BCCI crisis. He has designed and delivered a range of leadership development programmes. On leaving Lloyds in 2009, Mark joined Syndicate Asset Management plc becoming Group CEO.

Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has a BA (Hons) degree in geography, and is a past delegate of the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme.

David Palmer-Jeffery

May 25, 2016 by

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David started his career with Travis & Arnold Plc on the fast track management development programme. He then entered the commodity trading market as sales director of a global organisation. After which he joined his family business to develop one of the largest catering, hospitaliy, and event management businesses in the UK.

David joined Staples as Sales & Marketing Director, later joining Wace Group Plc, a global pre-press, print and packaging business, where he was responsible for business development. It was here that David established the marketing services, data and document management BPO genre in the UK. He was involved in selling a large part of Wace Group to private equity.

David saw an opportunity, and in conjunction with a small team , he purchased the remaining Wace Group print divisions. As well as looking for further acquisitions, they formed a joint venture with the Virgin Group. This created an outsourced provider of marketing, print, document and logistical management services – which was then grown and developed prior to sale.

David was part of an entrepreneurial team that purchased Brann Direct Communications and Great Western Computing. The combined business was eventually sold to TripleArc Plc.