Talented Hires

At Talented Hires, we partner with tech founders to help them build the world-class teams they need to achieve breakout growth, secure funding, and deliver on the promise of artificial intelligence.

Beyond recruiting, we provide strategic guidance to help you:

◦ Define your ideal tech stack and organizational structure
◦ Implement best practices for onboarding, training, and career development
◦ Foster a mission-driven culture that aligns with your values
◦ Position your startup's technical vision to attract investors and top talent

Having scaled talent solutions for Fortune 500 companies and hired over 2,000 engineers, I bring a wealth of insights and best practices to help you navigate the unique challenges of scaling a startup with AI. 

If you're looking for a strategic partner to help you build an elite team, secure funding, and achieve your world-changing vision, let's connect. 

I'm always happy to share insights, make warm intros to VCs and experts in my network, or brainstorm how we can leverage AI to create a better future.

Founder and CEO

Project People

Global technology search & placement 
Specialised focus on AI & DevOps
Over 2,000 successful appointments from CTO to Senior Software Engineers
Retained Search projects for critical niche hires
Impactful Diversity and Equality initiatives
Deep customer relationships built on partnership, trust, and continuous innovative delivery

Senior Search Director, AI & DevOps

Rethink

Search Director

Experis

Search Consultant

Tech Founder | AI Enthusiast | DevOps Expert

Fellow founder and CTO,

I understand the challenges of building an elite team to bring a vision to life and navigate the complex funding landscape. 

My journey began at age 8 when my father brought home a computer, sparking a lifelong passion for technology. 

This led me to study Computer Science in 1999, where I discovered the potential of AI.

Frustrated by recruiters' lack of technical understanding, I realized my CS degree could be a powerful asset in building world-class tech teams. 

Over the past 20 years, I've partnered with founders to:

✓ Clarify Talent Needs: Develop winning hiring strategies
✓ Foster Innovation: Create a culture that retains top talent
✓ Attract A-Players: Identify & recruit elite engineers
✓ Achieve Growth Milestones: Build the right team to secure funding and scale
✓ Navigate Fundraising: Provide warm introductions to VCs and domain experts

After scaling Fujitsu's talent solution to £500M annually, I founded Talented Hires to help startups achieve their world-changing visions. 

Here are some of our success stories:

Pienso

— Hired 2 dream engineers (DevOps & FS)
— Secured Series A funding
— Launched 2 new products and signed $XXM in customers

Mersive Technologies

— Hired 8 dream engineers (DevOps, FS, FE, BE)
— Established a new engineering division
— Signed a $XXM contract with WeWork

Spacelift

— Hired a critical DevOps Engineer after 3 interviews in 14 days
— Engineer promoted to Chief Product Officer
— Increased customer base by 400%

GSR & Lake Parime

— Made 4 business-critical hires for each company (DevOps, SRE, Go, CTO)


✅ VC APPROVED

— Approved by Insight Partners due to positive customer feedback
— One of 11 IT globally recognized recruiters


As a strategic partner, I share battle-tested insights on scaling teams, nurturing culture, and navigating the evolving AI landscape. 

Whether you're hiring your first critical engineer in 14 days or scaling your team to 50+, I'm here to support you.

Let's chat about your startup journey, swap founder stories, or brainstorm how AI can positively impact society.

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Rich Roberts

Frontier Resourcing

Everything we do at Frontier Resourcing is about partnering you with the best talent. We do this thanks to our skills, our knowledge and being able to provide clear and innovative solutions to your hiring. Our purpose is ultimately delivering talent solutions that drives your business forward.

Director

Fujitsu

Senior Talent Acquisition & Growth Lead - Fujitsu Defence (contract)

RINA

Recruitment lead in the UK for the Space & Defence and Digital business units as part of the Global Technical recruitment team.

RINA provides testing, inspection, certification and consulting services across the Energy, Marine, Certification, Transport & Infrastructure and Industry sectors. Thanks to our expertise, public and private organisations can achieve innovation and sustainability goals, safety and quality. Our team of 3700 people work in 65 countries with a network of 170+ offices, excellence centres and laboratories.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Space, Defence and Digital

Dyson

The Research Project Management practice is at the heart of Dyson across all our Research activities. This team focuses on accelerating the innovation flow from upstream fundamental research (internal and external) through to technology development and transfer to downstream industrialisation for all categories.

Project Manager - Research and NPI

Partnered with senior leadership to help build industry leading teams supporting growth in research and development.

Dyson RDD invests £8,000,000 every week in to the R&D of new and existing technologies. For Dyson to grow, we will need to double our research and development footprint and recruit up to 3,000 more engineers. Dyson are planning the biggest expansion in its 20 year history and we need innovative and bright minds to help make it a reality!

Talent Acquisition Partner - Research, Design and Development

Accountable for the delivery of contract, temporary and permanent recruitment into Fujitsu, across GB and Northern Ireland. 

Project People is at the forefront of the RPO industry, Project People have become renowned for being the Information Technology and Telecommunication industry's Premier Supplier of Talent Acquisition and Management Solutions worldwide.

Delivery Lead - Fujitsu UK&I

Managing contract and permanent recruitment into Fujitsu Defence UK. 
Working to service level agreements, managing all aspects of the recruitment process.

Senior Account Manager - Fujitsu Defence

Experis has established a first-rate reputation for consistently delivering the right people in terms of both expertise and cultural fit.
 
We have unrivalled experience as a Recruitment Process Systems Integrator across multiple professions, skill categories and regions within the Defence sector. Our unparalleled portfolio of services from traditional permanent and contract recruitment through to Managed Service continues to attract the best Defence partners such as Thales, QinetiQ, General Dynamics UK Ltd. and various HM Government departments.

Consultant - Engineering – Contract & permanent recruitment - Defence/Aerospace

Sole supplier for contract work within Capgemini.

Global network of 58 offices across 17 countries with 800 staff, a contractor book of over 9000 and permanent business of over 3000 placements a year. We provide full IT recruitment services across all disciplines and technologies and throughout all industries, offering a variety of approaches to recruiting and managing IT professionals on clients' behalf including contract and permanent recruitment, managed services and training solutions.
 
We are now a sales organisation that can boast its market leading capacity in some of the most innovative areas of IT recruitment

Consultant - Capgemini Global Accounts 

Elan Health is an established specialist division of Elan Computing; a market leader in providing IT, Informatics and Project & Programme Management recruitment solutions for the NHS, private hospitals and eHealth suppliers. 

Our specialist knowledge is recognised through our retained supplier status with NHS Connecting for Health, NHS Information Centre and over 90 public sector bodies including NHS Trusts, SHAs, PCTs, regulatory bodies and Special Health Authorities coupled with our in-depth experience within the ehealth and health informatics supplier community.

• We place in excess of 400 permanent staff every year and currently manage over 500 live contractor's in the UK’s Health market
• Detailed knowledge of key ehealth programmes including PAS, EPR, Order Comms, EPS and Choose & Book
• Over ten years experience of supplying IT and health domain recruitment solutions into the UK public sector and wider health sector
• Over 140 clients within the UK Health market
• National coverage with seven regional UK offices

Consultant - Business Intelligence 

Victorian Department of Primary Industries

Executive Assistant

System Administrator

Endsleigh Insurance

Insurance Consultant

An experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist / Project Manager with 15+ years experience in project leading, project delivery and recruitment strategy with Prince 2 qualification.

Tim has successfully managed and developed key client accounts which support the Government & Defence industry with a successful background in niche IT and Engineering requirements. Excellence in the delivery and management of a team for permanent, contract and interim business and technology recruitment solutions.

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