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When you are looking to fill key positions within your organisation, you need exceptional people who will make things happen.

One of the key reasons for our success is the depth of our industry expertise. Our Search Consultants know these industries and the people working in them inside-out. This, combined with their recruiting experience, gives them the advantage of knowing who you need to hire and where to find them.

Combined years of experience

148+ Years

Global reach

35+ Countries

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Tim Dare

Managing Director and Managing Consultant, Education and Business Information
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Lynne-Dare

Lynne Dare

Operations Director
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Phil-Ruck

Phil Ruck

Managing Consultant, BPO and Financial Services Operations
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Matt Hyde

Managing Consultant, BPO within non-Financial Services
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Jo Howard

Managing Consultant – Trade and Consumer Publishing
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Mark Carden

Managing Consultant – STM Publishing, Libraries & Higher Education
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Luke Glastonbury-Cole

Research Team Manager
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Simone Allan

Managing Consultant - Australia
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Trond Larson

Managing Consultant - Nordics
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Raj Mahadev

Managing Consultant - India
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Robert Williams

Managing Consultant - Asia
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Tim-Dare

Tim Dare

Managing Director and Managing Consultant, Education and Business Information

Tim established Mosaic Search & Selection in 2000, having spent over 10 years as a Sales & Marketing Director within the educational publishing sector.

He continues to run the team responsible for Executive Search within the Education and Business Information sectors. In addition to his role as Managing Director at Mosaic, he has also recently been non-executive Chairman of a large social housing company for 12 years and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.

Throughout the year Tim  regularly enjoys mountain biking in the Forest of Dean and all around Wales and has participated in the Pass Portes du Soleil 80km event in the French/Swiss Alps.  After retiring from playing polo for 12 years, he still takes a keen interest in all things polo and loves to watch games at his local clubs at Edgeworth & Cirencester Park.  At home Tim keeps bees and enjoys the honey his hives produce each year.

Lynne-Dare

Lynne Dare

Operations Director

Tim and Lynne co-founded Mosaic in 2000.

Lynne brought with her extensive HR experience acquired from her time at Jaeger’s London head office and at WWF-UK (World Wide Fund for Nature) in Surrey.  She played a vital role in establishing a strong and dedicated team to grow Mosaic Search as a leading executive search company.  Lynne is responsible for various areas, including marketing, social media, website development, team training, recruitment, and providing HR support to the consultants and researchers.  She ensures that the office runs efficiently and enjoys arranging successful team-building events throughout the year.

In her leisure time, Lynne takes care of her small flock of hens and bakes with their fresh eggs.  She loves walking, cycling, gardening, beekeeping and practicing yoga. Additionally, she is an avid reader of various genres, including historical novels, biographies, and even some Terry Pratchett, and is a member of a local book club. Living near the Forest of Dean & Wales, she also goes mountain biking around their trails and has participated in the MTB Pass Portes de Soleil 80km event through the French/Swiss Alps.

Phil-Ruck

Phil Ruck

Managing Consultant, BPO and Financial Services Operations

Phil joined Mosaic in July 2004, and heads up the Financial Services and the Front & Back Office Contact Centre Executive Search Team.

He combines his first-class research and analytical skills, gained through a History BA (Hons), with a personable character and the level of professionalism necessary to succeed in this arena.

Phil is a keen follower of Cheltenham Town FC, and regularly travels across Europe to watch various levels of football. Other interests include cricket and military history.

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Matt Hyde

Managing Consultant, BPO within non-Financial Services

Matt has been part of the Mosaic team since June 2010, after spending the previous seven years working in other areas of recruitment.

Matt currently heads up the Outsourcing/BPO desk, which has a strong focus on the EMEA contact centre arena. Matt’s ability to build relationships at senior level has helped him build an exclusive network of professionals within his specialist sector, and to deliver for his clients on many of his assignments to date.

With a personal affection for most sports, Matt is a season ticket holder at Manchester United FC, and having Cheltenham’s beautiful racecourse on his doorstep has fuelled his passion for horse racing.

Jo-Howard

Jo Howard

Managing Consultant – Trade and Consumer Publishing

Jo has been with Mosaic since 2009.

During her time with us, she’s completed multiple successful searches for managing directors, publishing directors, sales and marketing directors, art and design directors, editorial directors and business development directors, as well as many other senior roles in trade, consumer, academic, educational and journal publishing.

Jo has more than 25 years’ experience in publishing, which has given her a broad and deep understanding of the sector – not to mention an unrivalled network of industry contacts. Prior to becoming a consultant, she headed up strategy development at WH Smith Retail, having previously been Director of their Children’s and Education Business Unit and Product Marketing Director for Books. Prior to joining WH Smith, Jo was also Commercial Director, and then Supply Chain Director, for Waterstone’s.

Jo has an MBA from Oxford Brookes University and postgraduate qualifications in coaching and mentoring, and she works with leaders, c-level teams and individuals in the UK and internationally. She lives near Oxford and is a keen walker.

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Mark Carden

Managing Consultant – STM Publishing, Libraries & Higher Education

Mark is a publishing and education technology consultant with over 15 years’ experience in publishing software, library systems and e-content.

In addition to consultancy projects, he has also held senior posts at Publishing Technology, Ingram Digital, SirsiDynix and Innovative Interfaces.

Mark has a further 15 years’ experience in information technology and project management, gained within blue chip companies such as Accenture, Barclays and NatWest. He has a philosophy and psychology degree from Oxford University, and lives near Cheltenham with his wife and two sons.

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Luke Glastonbury-Cole

Research Team Manager

Luke joined Mosaic in 2012 as Researcher/Resourcer.

After graduating with a media studies degree, his career path took him into coaching and from there to credit control; these roles have developed Luke’s ability to interact on many levels, creating a warm, relaxed approach to business conversations. Working alongside the Consultants, his role is to research and engage candidates for open opportunities.

In his spare time Luke enjoys live music, comedy and walking his dogs.

 

Simone Allan

Managing Consultant - Australia

Simone graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Psychology Major & Social Policy & Administration and a postgraduate in Human Resources.

Simone founded Mondo Search – an Executive Search Consultancy in 1998 and has interviewed over 22,000 candidates and placed over 2,800 leaders in business.  Simone leads a tenured team who care about building long term relationships with clients. Many of their clients are clients that they have worked with for over two decades.

“Mondo Search makes business easier. We connect great companies with quality people. We have built a trusted alumnus,  by placing over  2800 leaders over the last 24 years. Our track record allows us to find people not on the job market but in the job market- doing a good job somewhere else. We have a long-standing team of consultants who know their industry sectors and can work with speed and ease to identify best talent across Australia and New Zealand. We enjoy working with clients to build new teams, new divisions, new subsidiaries or new entrepreneurial ventures.”

Simone has been a tenured member of Entrepreneur’s Organisation, a  Committee Member of South Pacific Private Hospital,  Director of Lived Experience Australia and  Founder of The Women’s Resilience Centre.  She is passionate about seeing and building the best in people, allowing opportunities for people to renew and reset their lives and positively impacting future generations. Simone is also passionate about living the best optimal life that you can live.

As a Volunteer Surf Life Saver for her local club, she enjoys spending time with family, being on the beach, in the surf, yoga, reading, cooking, travelling, and entertaining.

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Trond Larson

Managing Consultant - Nordics

Based in Norway, Trond has over 30 years’ experience of interviewing and selecting professional, aspiring individuals to fulfil client’s critical roles.

With a background as a newspaper journalist he understands the more you speak to people, the more you get to know about their life, ambitions and personality.

Trond works with small, medium sized or large organizations who want crucial positions filled quickly and with high quality candidates, anywhere in the world.  Working with daily deadlines, he will steadily transfer his experience to his clients ensuring they have the best team members on board – quickly.

His core focus areas are Executive Search, Sales and Marketing, B2B.

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Raj Mahadev

Managing Consultant - India

An MBA,CFP,CWM with over 32 years of experience in Financial Services, Education and Recruitment industry.

Raj worked for 20 years across international banks in India, namely, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, DBS Bank where he was the Sr Vice President. Since 2008 he has been a serial entrepreneur setting up multiple lines of business across Financial Service Distribution, a Boutique Investment Bank and now co-founded Confluence group which is an Executive Search and Training company in Mumbai, India.

The company works across Financial Services, Fintech, Animation, Big Data/AI/ML/Analytics and Hospitality and are proud member-owners at NPA WORLDWIDE.

Raj is also the India Area Head for NPA Worldwide and has interest in Philosophy, Ancient Indian Culture and loves to take road trips with his family across the country.

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Robert Williams

Managing Consultant - Asia

Robert is a highly sought after Executive Recruiter specialising in the Events and Media industries for Asia.

He offers a bespoke experience that blends his unique and insightful market knowledge with a professional process, to both candidates and clients. Handling search assignments at all levels and functions within these fast-paced sectors, his placements have ranged from Sales Executives & Finance Mangers to Managing Partners & Asia Pacific Regional CEO’s.

He has been living in Hong Kong since 1998 and has been an Executive Recruiter since 2002.

Robert is involved with the global recruitment association NPA, which Mosaic Search & Selection is also a member, and he is the past president of the International Live Events Association.

When not helping facilitate career moves, he spends his time with his family and is the Editor-in-Chief for a monthly NGO magazine.

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