Tamarin is a Talent Acquisition Specialist and has over 5 years recruitment experience collectively, 3 out of the 5 years being part of Xcede Group. She started out in 360 recruitment for our global energy brand EarthStream and was offered an exciting opportunity to transfer to our internal Talent Acquisition team. As we continue to scale globally, Tamarin aims to increase the teams at all...
Jazmina Durakova
Associate ConsultantJazmina joined Xcede in July 2022 as Associate Consultant in the DACH Cybersecurity department. She specialises in identifying and acquiring the best suited candidates for her clients needs. She prides herself on keeping up to date with market information, innovation and news for the thriving cybersecurity market.
Daniel Mills
Principal ConsultantDaniel joined Xcede in 2020. With over 12 years of recruitment experience, he now manages key relationships and delivers to numerous global financial services and consultancy clients. His specialities include security and identity, cloud and DevOps, and Modern Workplace.
Sean Wild
ConsultantWith over 6 years of experience, Sean joins Xcede as a senior consultant. He now focuses on ServiceNow roles.
James Coglan
ConsultantJames joined Xcede in May 2022, with previous experience in recruiting for contract software development. He now focuses on recruiting for Product Design, UX & UI roles.
Brendan De Beer
Associate ConsultantBrendan joined Xcede in May 2022, focusing on recruiting positions into the Data Engineering space in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, covering various technologies within data pipelining, platforming and streaming.
Angie Begollari
Associate ConsultantAngie joined as an associate consultant in our DACH team. Talking to new people every day has to be one of the highlights of my role so far. There are so many talented people to place in roles that could change their life, and it is exciting to be part of that process in a company like Xcede!
Will Deans
ConsultantWill joined Xcede's Data team in April 2022, he focuses on finding Data Engineers within the UK their dream role.
Flávio Camara
Associate ConsultantFlávio joined Xcede as an Associate Consultant, after moving to London from Ireland. He has joined our DACH Contract team .
Theo Jones
Associate ConsultantAfter a stint the army, Theo began his recruitment career specialising in the cyber market. Currently, Theo works in our Cyber Go-to-Market Team across the EMEA Region.Working with the top cyber vendors across the region, including Checkpoint and Digital Shadows, Theo is currently looking for candidates in the EMEA region to join some of these cyber vendors specialising in sales engineering.Ge...
Minnette Gous
Talent ConsultantMinnette joined the Xcede Group in Cape Town during January 2022, as a Talent Associate in the Data recruitment division. Although having started her career in legal recruitment, Minnette has quickly applied her mind to the world of data and shown quick success in assisting Data Scientists, Machine Learning Specialists and Data Engineers. She has a great passion for working with people and pri...
Mingjie Xu
ConsultantMingjie is passionate about helping people to be the best version of themselves. Coaching and matching people with their dream job, focusing on the Technology market predominantly in the Nordic region.
Mouna Kaess
Senior ConsultantMouna joined Xcede in 2022 as a senior consultant, working in our specialised DACH division. She brings almost 3 years of experience and a track record of recruiting top talent into the German speaking insurance markets.Mouna is currently focused on supporting clients and talent across the Cyber, IT and Information Security space in the German speaking DACH region. She is a native German speak...
Liam Wilson
Principal ConsultantLiam joined Xcede in January 2022 as a Senior Consultant working across BI, Insight & Analytics. He has since been promoted to Principal Consultant. He has been recruiting into the Data & Analytics space for over 3 years and has a proven track record of placing talent into businesses ranging from some of the UK’s most successful Tech Start-ups to multinational organisations. Liam is cu...
Jacques Gildenhuys
Talent ConsultantJacques joined the Xcede Group in January 2022 within the Contracting team; with a core focus on building a candidate base for clients across EMEA. He comes with years of experience within internal recruitment but is making massive headway towards establishing himself as an external recruiter. When you see Jacques on the sales floor, he has his head down, working towards his goal of setting u...
Stephanie Payne
Senior ConsultantBased in Cape Town, Stephanie joined Xcede as a Senior Talent Consultant in 2021. Stephanie has a background in Commercial Recruitment with a specialist focus on placing commercial talent within South Africa and expat talent into Mozambique, Angola, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Working primarily in the FinTech, Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunication, FMCG, Retail and Media ...
Roger Guzman
ManagerRoger is one of Xcede's Manager's working across the APAC region. Currently heading up our RegTech recruitment division, Roger focuses on the Financial Crime & Compliance software market. Roger works closely with our partners across Asia-Pacific who use machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cyber analytics to combat Cyber Crime and deliver Fraud Prevention solutions. Roger is inte...
James Bull
Talent Principal ConsultantJames joined Xcede's Cyber division as a Principal Consultant in 2016, and recruits for IT security talent across the US. Working alongside Talent, Professional & Managed service offerings, James focuses on the following technical verticals: SOC/CIRT functions; IR/Computer Forensics; Cybersecurity Strategy; SIEM Solutions; Project/Programme Delivery; and CISO/Cyber Thought Leader Executive...
Stavros Tsemekidis
ConsultantBased in London, Stavros joined Xcede's Cyber division as an Associate Consultant in 2021. Stavros primarily works on cybersecurity roles, recruiting for candidates and clients across the DACH market.
Luke Zbieranowski
Principal ConsultantHaving worked in cybersecurity talent acquisition since 2013, Luke is currently heading up Xcede's Cyber division in the United States. Based in New York, Luke is responsible for helping to solve the increasing skills gap across the global security market. His cybersecurity functional expertise lies across all core aspects of this sector, from Information Security (CISO/ BISO/ TISO & GRC),...
Jamaine Agyepong
Principal ConsultantBased in London, Jamaine joined Xcede's Cyber division as a Senior Consultant in 2021 and has since been promoted to Principal Consultant. Jamaine specialises in the recruitment of Post Sales cybersecurity professionals in the USA.
Neil DeMarco
Senior Talent ConsultantBased in Philadelphia, Neil joined Xcede as a Talent Consultant in 2020. Working primarily across cybersecurity sales and marketing roles, Neil recruits for Director and Senior-level roles spanning everything from direct and channel sales to marketing and product management. Alongside his team, Neil is responsible for expanding Xcede's Sales and Business Development Functions with the top "tec...
Daniel Klein
Associate DirectorDaniel is responsible for partnering with pre-IPO and post-IPO cybersecurity vendors who are looking to develop and expand their presence within the region. Daniel is currently heading up our commercial talent acquisition teams across the UK and Europe. Daniel works with numerous cybersecurity vendors from early phase product conceptualisations through to product commercialisation and IPO. He h...
Alex Candeland
European Business ManagerWith over a decade of experience working in international recruitment, Alex is now heading up Xcede's Cyber DACH teams Alex is currently expanding our team of specialised consultants focusing on DACH-specific recruitment services. Alex and his team partner with global organisations to locate and select top Information Security and Cybersecurity talent across everything from Information Securit...
Jonathan Malone
Principal ConsultantJonathan joined Xcede's Cyber division in 2020, and is now one of our Principal InfoSec Recruitment Consultants recruiting into the DACH region. Jonathan primarily works across cybersecurity roles spanning Security Operations Centre, Incident Response, SIEM (Security Information & Event Management) and Digital Forensics. He prides himself on finding exceptional cybersecurity talent for his...
Oliver Thomas
Principal Recruitment ConsultantAs one of our Principal Consultants at Xcede, Oliver has a proven track record of successfully delivering IAM specialists into both German and/or English-speaking sites across the DACH region. With over 6 years of experience in IT recruitment, and over 3 years of experience recruiting into the IAM sector in Germany specifically, Oliver specialises in roles spanning Identity & Access Manage...
Luke Davis
ConsultantLuke has dedicated his recruitment career to cyber security. Luke joined Xcede's cyber division as a consultant recruiting into the DACH region in 2021 working mainly across consulting and security engineering roles. He possesses a very in-depth knowledge of his market and strives to build long-term relationships with his candidates and clients.
Chloe-Mary Booth
Associate ConsultantBased in London, Chloe joined Xcede as an Associate Consultant in 2021. Chloe recruits for a variety of IT roles spanning Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture, and Cloud Development.
Jenna Doveton
Talent ConsultantJenna is a 360 Talent Consultant working within the Product team, specializing in recruiting top Product Talent. Within her 1 year of experience at Xcede, she has a passion for collaborating and building teams for different Fintech companies across Africa and the MENA region that have a focus offering of Financial Inclusion.
Miné Potgieter
ConsultantBased in Cape Town, Miné joined Xcede in November of 2021 as an Associate, taking her first steps into the recruitment world. Now, as a 360 Consultant, Miné has an “all-or-nothing” approach and specialises in identifying and acquiring exceptional UI, UX and CX Designers, Engineers and Writers for clients in a variety of industries across the EMEA region. She is passionate about building ...
Liam Flannery
Senior ConsultantLiam is a Senior Consultant at Xcede, working across the Product market.
Mihailo Vukasinovic
Senior ConsultantBased in London, Mihailo joined Xcede´s first ever Academy as a Recruitment Consultant. He is part of our German Data offering focusing on Data Science and ML related hires across all levels. In only a short space he has developed a deep understanding of the German data market and is constantly expanding his network.
Cristina Istvan
ConsultantCristina joined Xcede as a Recruitment Consultant sitting within our dedicated DACH team in 2021, her market is the Frontend and JavaScript Development market in the North of Germany (mainly Berlin). She recently graduated with an MSc International Business from Cass Business School.
Sergio Osman
ConsultantSergio joined as a Consultant sitting within our UK Contract team in 2021. He specialising in data roles recruitng for; Data analysts, Data Engineers, data scientists, insights and reporting consultants.
Pav Panesar
Associate DirectorPav joined Xcede’s dedicated DACH team as a Sales Manager in 2021, within a year he has been promoted to Associate Director. With 8 years of recruitment into Tech, Digital, Data industries in the DACH region, Pav brings reliable and effective market knowledge to assist in clients scaling and growth plans. As well as this, Pav has over 6 years of management and leadership experience and in the ...
Tania Smolentseva
Principal Talent ConsultantTania is one of our Principal Consultants at Xcede supporting OEM’s and tier-one suppliers across Europe, USA and China. She is chiefly focused on Electromobility roles predominantly across the DACH region. Tania is CIPD qualified and holds an Intermediate Level Diploma in Human Resource Management, as well as being bilingual (Russian and English). She moved to Spain in 2018 with over 10 years...
Melissa Gamble
Principal ConsultantBased in Spain, Melissa is one of Xcede's Principal Consultants specialising in Semiconductor and Electronics technology roles. Melissa is a dedicated talent acquisition specialist with demonstrated experience of providing temporary and permanent recruitment solutions across the engineering and technology sectors. Specifically, she now partners with industry specialists in the Semiconductor &a...
Harry Twort
Principal Talent ConsultantLocated in Spain, Harry joined Xcede as Principal Consultant in 2021. Harry’s core focus is within Xcede's Embedded and Semiconductor division recruiting Engineering, Sales, and Application specialists across the EU, UK and US. His particular speciality encompasses Semicon Design and Verification Engineering in the Analog, Mixed Signal, and Digital Microelectronic disciplines. Harry has proven...
Matilda Keywood
Senior ConsultantBased in Spain, Matilda joined Xcede as a Senior Consultant in 2021. Matilda recruits into the Semiconductor Industry, specialising in Technical Engineering and Applications roles. During her degree in Computer Science, Matilda studied the design and functionality of hardware and developed assemblers from scratch while developing a variety of other engineering skills. This foundational knowled...
Charles Cureton
Principal ConsultantWith over a decade of experience providing talent and recruitment solutions to the automation and controls industry globally, Charles joined Xcede as a Principal Consultant working across Automation, Controls & Digitalisation roles in 2021. Over the years, Charles has developed long-term relationships with industry-leading system integrators, technology vendors, machine builders, OEMs and ...
Paul Bosman
Senior ManagerBased in Cape Town, Paul is one of Xcede's Senior Managers responsible for recruiting mid to senior-level technology talent across MEA. He is currently heading up our Cape Town Commercial Tech team: a key part of our SSA Key Accounts Team. The Key Accounts Team have successfully introduced clients and candidates in 38 African Countries, placing exceptional local and expat talent into South Afr...
Kat Baker
ManagerWith 15 years of experience in the staffing and recruiting industry, Kat is an experienced Specialist with a proven track record of delivering tailored talent solutions to clients across the EMEA. Kat joined Xcede as a Talent Principal consulting across roles within the EMEA regions in 2020, after spending a year and a half in our Cyber sector specialising in roles across the cyber and informa...
Chris McCabe
DirectorBased in Cape Town, Chris is CloudStream’s Client Services Director recruiting top AWS and Azure professionals across the DACH region. From Talent Acquisition to Managed Services and Digital Solutions, Chris currently specialises in recruiting outstanding talent in many areas of software development, data management and security. With a decade of experience in talent acquisition, Chris has fos...
Helen Graham
Associate DirectorHelen joined Xcede in 2020 as our Sales Manager working across Design, UX and Project Delivery roles. In 2022, Helen was promoted to Associate Director. She has been recruiting in the Design space for over 8 years and managing teams for over 5 years, with a proven track record of placing exceptional candidates in a variety of organisations across industry sectors, from pioneering start-ups, to ...
Megan Richards
Talent ConsultantLocated in Cape Town, Megan is one of our expert Contract Talent Specialists at Xcede, continuously building her network of skilled technical contractors and clients across Southern Africa and the Middle East. She is an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the staffing and recruiting industry across the IT space. Primarily, Megan focuses on roles ...
Andrew Morales
Principal Talent ConsultantBased in New York City, Andrew is heading up Xcede's North American Permanent Recruitment team. Andrew specialises in FinTech roles spanning everything from hedge funds and banks to cryptocurrency and beyond, as well as working alongside numerous Tech clients with a major focus on software development jobs. Andrew ensures every one of his clients and candidates receives a top level of service....
Ben Davis
Talent DirectorAs Xcede' Talent Director and Head of our UK Permanent Team, Ben is an expert at placing senior technology managers across leading IT organisations globally. Utilising his 15 years of technology, infrastructure, and financial services staffing experience, Ben is responsible for driving the delivery of the team across a global client base that operates at the cutting edge of the IT industry. Be...
Niall Wharton
Sales ManagerSince setting up Xcede's Data Science and Data Engineering Recruitment offering from scratch back in 2013, Niall has earned nearly a decade of experience recruiting in this specialist area of the data space. Alongside his colleague Matthew, Niall was one of the first UK recruiters to place Data Science roles and has witnessed the industry evolve from the ground up. Being one of the first recru...
Cameron Wells
ConsultantCameron harnesses his years of experience as an agency recruiter in the UX/ UI Design space to help his clients build exceptional Design & UX teams across Europe, and his candidates secure the best role for their skillset and aspirations. Working primarily across the dynamic Design space, Cameron has proven experience of building successful design teams for a range of clients, from start-u...
Toby Ranson
Business ManagerToby joined Xcede as our Business Manager across European Contract roles in 2020. As the Head of European contract for CloudStream, Toby’s role is to lead and expand the group’s SAP, MSDynamics, Cloud and Infrastructure delivery into Europe covering Scandinavia, Benelux and the DACH. His teams are split into 3 niche technology divisions, all of which focus within a specific European country: Cl...
Shakir Muhammad
Senior ConsultantShakir joined Xcede in 2020, he is a skilled Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the staffing and recruiting industry across the IT space. As his role is delivery focused, Shakir supports the Xcede team on a variety of urgent roles. His primary focus is on contract technology positions across the UK.
Kit Pelham
Senior ConsultantKit is Xcede’s Senior Consultant recruiting across the DACH markets. Although he started his career working in Programmatic advertising, Kit soon moved into recruitment in 2018 when he realised that talent acquisition was his passion. Working primarily across roles in the Data Science and BI space, Kit is a focused, motivated, and industry-aware consultant who delivers unique talent solutions ...
Jake Pankhurst
Senior ConsultantJake joined Xcede as a specialist Senior Consultant in 2021 to help grow the brand's Software Development delivery into the UK and Europe. Recruiting primarily into the UK market, Jake works on roles covering the entire Cloud Computing and Development spectrum including Java, Python, React, Spring Boot, BootVMware, Citrix, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, Openshift a...
Lucas Schrodl
Associate DirectorLucas is one of Xcede’s Associate Directors of the Data Team, working across roles in the Data Science, ML and Big Data Engineering space. Lucas currently specialises in placing Data Science and Big Data candidates across Germany. As one of our bilingual consultants, Lucas has spent the last 3 years building an exceptional network of Data talent, as well as nurturing client relationships across...
Jorden Chan
ConsultantAs a Consultant at Xcede, Jorden specialises in recruiting for roles across the Performance, Marketing & Analytics space. He also spends some of his time consulting for technology roles across the thriving German market. From front-end to back-end and full-stack roles, Jorden is a versatile, dynamic recruiter who has a proven track record of successfully finding top talent tailored to his ...
Sam Webb
Principal ConsultantBased in London, Samuel is one of our Principal Technology Consultants at Xcede working across the Nordics market. With experience of working across both niche and broad aspects of software engineering, Samuel has a proven track record of building exceptional software engineering teams from the ground up. Samuel is part of a team that maintains one of the largest JavaScript networks in Europe,...
Jordan Wright
Principal ConsultantJordan joined Xcede in 2021 as a Principal Consultant recruiting into the Data Engineering space across Germany. He covers roles spanning various technologies within data pipelining, platforming and streaming, such as Big Data Engineer, Datawarehouse Engineers, Machine Learning Engineer, Hadoop Administrators. Jordan covers a wide variety of areas in the Data Engineering space including Big Da...
Bailey Snow
Managing ConsultantJoining Xcede as a Graduate in 2018, Bailey soon worked his way up to his current role as a Senior Consultant specialising in Data and Digital Analytics. Sitting within a data recruitment team that is renowned in the UK for their industry-leading events, Bailey’s expertise spans Web, Digital, and Product Analytics. Working across UK data roles from a junior to senior level, Bailey consults for...
Daniel Wexler
Senior ConsultantDaniel is a Senior Consultant working across roles in the Product Analytics and Data Science space in the UK. He currently sits in Xcede’s data recruitment team, specialising in Product Analytics and Data Science recruitment. Daniel has worked across a variety of sectors and industries, specialising in Digital, Product Analytics and Optimisation at all levels.
Andrew Barnett
Associate DirectorWith a decade of experience recruiting in the product space, Andrew is currently heading up our UK and Europe Product and Project Management recruitment teams. Leveraging his years of experience consulting for account and project managers, Andrew’s expertise now spans roles across the project management landscape. Andrew tailors each hiring process to ensure his clients gain the top talent in ...
Paul Culmer
Senior Principal ConsultantWith over 15 years of experience working for Xcede, Paul is currently our Senior Principal Consultant in Analytics across the UK and Europe. Leveraging his diverse range of talent acquisition experience, Paul has helped a range of organisations to expand their technology teams. Paul consults on a wide range of analytics-focused roles across all levels, from Customer Insights, Marketing Analysi...
Luke Adams
DirectorWith nearly 15 years of experience consulting in the Web Analytics, Product Analytics and Conversion market, Luke is currently our Director of Digital Analytics and Optimisation at Xcede. Luke has worked across a diverse range of organisations — from the UK’s biggest consumer brands to innovative tech start-ups — with a proven track record of building pioneering teams from the ground up. His e...
Matthew Rees
Associate DirectorMatthew joined Xcede as an Associate Director in 2021 after years of working in the Technology recruitment space in Hamburg and Berlin. As well as working across Permanent roles in Germany, Matthew is currently responsible for leading, nurturing and scaling the department with a full coverage of the German market across Data, Tech, Product and Marketing. Although Matthew primarily recruits for ...
Matthew Jones
Sales DirectorHaving originally specialised in Data Science recruitment for 8 years, Matt now heads up our UK Data and Tech recruitment teams. Matt was one of the first recruiters in the UK to specialise in placing Data Science roles and has played a key role in curating Xcede’s industry-leading events, roundtables, webinars and thought leadership sessions in the data space. Matt manages a team of consu...