Adam Blaney is an experienced executive with a background in both large PLC organisations and small-scale startups, coupled with extensive international experience. Beginning as COO within the group, he transitioned into the role of Global Managing Director for the Xcede brand, focusing on fostering collaboration and driving strategic alignment. Adam's leadership is characterised by his dedication to innovation and delivering top-tier solutions, positioning Xcede as an award-winning brand in the market.

Adam Blaney

Global Managing Director

Having worked in Contract tech recruitment across the UK, US, and Singapore, Adam joins our team as a Client Services Director for the DACH team.

Adam Fletcher

Client Services Director

​With over 4 years of recruitment experience, Ailish joined our Xcede Software team in our London office as a Senior Consultant. She has worked previously within both the construction and technology space. 

Ailish Kelly

Senior Consultant

​With 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 Security (CISO practice), Compliance and Access Management, to Penetration Testing, Security Engineering and Programme Management. He has since been promoted to Regional Director.

Alex Candeland

Regional Director

​Andreea joined Xcede in 2021 as a Consultant. Her focus is Data, BI and Analytics. She has since been promoted to Senior Account Consultant.

Andreea Tancau

Senior Account Consultant

​With 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 line with their business goals and unique workplace culture, whether that is expanding a remote team or developing an agile in-house team from the ground up. ​

Andrew Barnett

Associate Director

​Based 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. He ensures transparency across all communications, working fast and smart throughout the entire recruitment life cycle.

Andrew Morales

Manager

Angela Evans

Talent Acquisition Lead

​Joining Xcede as a Graduate in 2018, Bailey soon worked his way up to his current role as a Manager 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 a wide range of jobs in the space, from Web Analytics Manager and CRO Consultant, to Analytics Implementation specialist and beyond.  

Bailey Snow

Bao has a M.Sc. in Economics and 7 years of experience in permanent recruitment. As one of the DACH team's first hires, she was pivotal in evolving the German offering within the Xcede group. Her projects included building digital & tech teams of large corporations undergoing their digitalisation from scratch to growing start-ups into UNICORNS by delivering top-notch from entry to C-Level. She is now focusing on client acquisition & development whilst specialising in senior leadership searches. Her markets span Data, Software, Cyber, Product, Marketing & AI. Bao is fluent in English, German, and Italian. 

Bao Trinh

​As 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. Ben is also still a hands-on consultant, sourcing the top talent to fill roles at the more senior end of the market, placing C-Level, Programme Director and Programme Manager candidates through to Project Management and ITIL Service Delivery.

Ben Davis

Talent Director

As the Managing Partner for Xcede North America Brett utilises his 20 years of technology, infrastructure & cybersecurity staffing experience around the globe to ensure continuous high quality delivery is achieved to our enterprise, consulting & startup technology clients. 

Brett Marsh

US Managing Director

​Cameron 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-ups to large tech companies, from the ground up. Based in our London offices, Cameron has hosted a range of diversity webinars on behalf of Xcede featuring speakers from major household names such as Google and Cazoo.  

Cameron Wells

Principal Consultant

​Based 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.

Chloe-Mary Booth

Consultant

Connor Crosbie

Connor joins our DACH team with 2 years experience in tech recruitment. 

Connor Elliott-Grout

Craig joined Xcede in 2021 as our Practice Lead in our London office. With over 20 years of recruitment experience within the Financial Markets sector, his focus is on Software Engineering, Hardware Development and Quantitative roles.

Craig Pearman

Practice Lead

​Daniel joined Xcede's contract Product team in the London office as a consultant. He has a year of experience specialising in UX/UI. 

Daniel Baldock

Daniel 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 has a proven track record of successfully identifying the evolving needs of hyper-growth security providers as they move from Series A funding product development through to Series B rapid growth and positioning for a successful event in the market.

Daniel Klein

Daniel 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. 

Daniel Mills

​Daniel 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.  

Daniel Wexler

​Donald joined Xcede in our merger with Etonwood in 2023 as a Principal Consultant in our London office. He works in the Cloud space, focusing on ServiceNow practice. 

Donald Mackay

​Eva joined the Xcede DACH team in 2023 with previous experience within energy recruitment. She now focuses within the Software space, particularly software engineering and architecture.

Eva Makraiova

Associate Consultant

​Jamaine has more than 5 years of Technical Recruitment experience with most of his expertise being in Cybersecurity and Senior Leadership. He is now a Principal Cybersecurity Recruiter focussed in the niche cybersecurity area of Identity & Access Management for our DACH partners. Jamaine is also  an advocate for Diversity & Inclusion including Neurodiversity.

Jamaine Agyepong

​James 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 Search.

James Bull

​Joe joined Xcede in 2023 with the Etonwood merger as a Director in our London office. He runs our contract team across the UK and Europe.

Joe Quick

Director

​Jonathan 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 clients as well as the top roles tailored to his candidates’ unique experiences and skillsets.

Jonathan Malone

​As 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 client’s needs, as well as the best roles for his candidates. 

Jorden Chan

Backend Development Consultant

With 2 years of experience in technology recruitment, Julian joins our London team as a Consultant.

Julian Miguel Dela Cruz

​Kit is Xcede’s Principal 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 tailored to his client’s specific business needs.   

Kit Pelham

Lochlan has 4 years of experience working in the tech recruitment, focusing predominantly within the Data industry. 

Lochlan Robertson

Lucas 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 Germany, so he is very well connected in the DACH market. After joining Xcede as a Consultant in 2018, Lucas soon worked his way up from Trainee to Sales Manager in just 3 years, illustrative of the outstanding level of service he delivers his candidates and clients. 

Lucas Schrodl

​Ludmila joined Xcede through the merger with Etonwood as a Researcher focusing on candidate sourcing, qualification, conducting market research and market mapping across the following Technology disciplines; Software Engineering, Quant Research and Machine Learning

Ludmila Sevcova

Researcher

​With nearly 15 years of experience consulting in the Web Analytics, Product Analytics and Conversion market, Luke is currently our VP of Data Search 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 exceptional level of service ensures candidates attain the best position for their skillset, and clients secure the top talent for their teams in line with their business goals.

Luke Adams

VP of Data Search

Luke works in the Global cybersecurity practice with 11 years of experience. He is an experienced people manager, hiring top cybersecurity talent for global enterprises on both FTE and Contract in North America. He also is laterally developing and working with global accounts. 

Luke Caselle

Luke 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. He has since been promoted to a Senior Consultant.

Luke Davis

​Luke joined Xcede as a Principal Consultant with over 4 years of experience in Data recruitment.

Luke Frost

Maria joins our Xcede London team as Business Performance Director. She has 11 years of experience in the IT Recruitment Industry.

Maria Ioannou

Business Performance Director

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 consultants who specialise on roles in the Data, Tech and Engineering space.

Matthew Jones

Sales Director

Matthew 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 Software Engineers, he works across a wide variety of management-level roles too such as Head of Product, Head of Program Management, CFO, CTO, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Head of Vendor Management.

Matthew Rees-Davis

​Matt joined Xcede through the merger with Etonwood in 2023 as a Director in our London office. He is responsible for Cyber Security and Networks with a focus on Financial Markets, FinTech and Data Science across the London and UAE markets (Contract and Perm). 

Matt O'Hare

With 3 years in tech recruitment, Matt joins the team in London as a Senior Consultant. His specialist areas are Data and AI & Machine Learning.

Matt Watson

​Morgan joined Xcede in 2022 as a Consultant in our London office. Her focus area is in the Data space, specifically Data Science, Machine Learning & Data Engineering. 

Morgan Beck

​Mouna 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 speaker with business fluency in English and Spanish. Mouna prides herself on building relevant long-term relations across her specialisms, as well as always keeping a close eye on interesting market movements and trends in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Mouna Kaess

​Since 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 recruiters in the UK to focus on this arena of Data, Niall has played a key role in curating Xcede’s industry-leading events in the data recruiting space. Niall consults for roles at each level from Associate through to Director, for a range of jobs including Senior Data Scientist and Head of Analytics to Machine Learning Engineer and Big Data Architect and beyond. He has since been promoted to Associate Director.​

Niall Wharton

​Norman joined Xcede's DACH team in 2022 as a Consultant. His focus area is BI and Analytics.

Norman Cistovas

​As one of our Lead 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 Management within Cybersecurity. As a specialist in building Identity & Access Management teams in the DACH region, Oliver has supported a variety of organisations of every size and across every sector, from start-ups to global enterprises, consultancies, and technology vendors. 

Oliver Thomas

Lead Consultant

​With 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 Analysis, Database Marketing and Campaign Management, to Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Forecasting and beyond. Specialists with proven experience in SQL, Python, and R can contact Paul to discuss the latest Analytics roles. 

Paul Culmer

Samuel Keene

​Based 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, boasting access to the top available talent in the market. He has been a pivotal member of our team for various scaling operations of major start-ups as well as for established technology businesses across the UK and the Nordics by successfully delivering expert engineers and building outstanding engineering teams to tight deadlines. 

Samuel Webb

Sean has worked in tech recruitment for 24 years as joins our Xcede team as an Associate Director in our London office.

Sean Johnston

​Sergio 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. He has since been promoted to Senior Consultant. 

Sergio Osman

​Shakir 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. 

Shakir Muhammad

Steve joined our Xcede DACH team in 2023 in our London office as a Manager. Steve has over 9 years of experience within the IT recruitment space, working his way up from Trainee Recruitment Consultant to Manager. 

Steven Waterson

Stuart is the Global Business Development Director at Xcede, known for his collaborative leadership style and innovative solutions in talent acquisition. With a focus on reducing complexities and costs, he drives initiatives that position Xcede as a leader in the global market.

Stuart Holman

Global Business Development Director

Toby Ranson

​Will joined our Xcede Software team in our London office as a Senior Consultant in 2023. He has more than 2.5 years of experience in recruitment, with over half of that time specialising in tech.

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