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About Us
Meet the Team
Interim management consultants - extensive industry expertise. Real market insight.
Our team of interim management consultants are industry specialists. All have direct operational experience and many have spent time as interim managers themselves.
Through organising our business around specific industry sectors and job functions our consultants are able to offer real market insight and the expertise to select only the very best candidates for each role.
Christine de Largy
Managing Director
Sector Expertise
Consumer & Retail, Private Equity
Functional Specialisation
General Management, Supply Chain
Christine leads the Impact Executives team, she has a strong track record in general management gained from working for a broad range of blue chip organisations at senior and board level.
Previously a director for a number of leading retail organisations including divisions of Kingfisher, Sears and the Burton Group, and MD for a leading Italian fashion retailer, she has also worked as an interim manager.
Phone:+44 (0)20 7314 2003
UK
Premila Puri
Principal Consultant
Sector Expertise
Business Services, Central Government
Functional Specialisation
Human Resources
Premila moved from the Netherlands to read Law & Management Studies and subsequently pursued an MPhil in Marketing at Keele University. She brings extensive experience in UK and European recruitment having set up the Dutch operations of a London-based recruitment company.
As a corporate in-house recruiter, she managed multi-disciplinary recruitment assignments across Western Europe and put her HR and recruitment experience to good use while working as an interim manager in investment banking for Barclays Capital and telematics for Ford.
Phone:+44 (0)20 7314 2004
Trudy Peeler
Senior Consultant
Sector Expertise
Technology, Media & Telecoms, Transport
Functional Specialisation
IT (CIO, IT Directors, CTO and their leadership teams) and Project & Programme Management.
Trudy is responsible for the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice, focussing on the business application of technology.
She brings 10 years experience of providing client solutions enabling businesses to optimise performance through the use of technology. Specialising in interim management since 2007, client solutions cover everything from value creation and performance improvement, cost optimisation and leadership to transition management, growth and innovation. Solutions are cross functional and include IT, HR, Finance, Project and Programme Management, Transformation, Sales and Marketing, General Management and Industry experts. She has worked with a broad variety of clients from the FTSE 100 to start ups and private equity backed businesses.
She holds a BSc (Hons) in Geography from the University of Wales, Swansea.
Phone:+44 (0) 20 7314 2006
Annabel Lewis-Grey
Senior Consultant
Sector Expertise
Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals
Coming from a change management consultancy Annabel’s specialisms include M & A, transformation, restructure, off shoring and outsourcing projects. She works closely with a broad range of businesses from AIM listed and FTSE 100 to SME's and Start-ups.
Annabel has 14 years recruitment experience in primarily in manufacture but also in pharmaceuticals and financial services.
Phone:+44 (0)20 7314 2007
Chris Seel
Practise Manager, Birmingham
Sector Expertise
IT Interim Management
Functional Specialisation
Chris heads up Harvey Nash’s IT Interim Management practice in Birmingham.
After completing his degree Chris started his career with John Lewis Partnership where he gained extensive experience of retail & retail management. It was with John Lewis that Chris saw first-hand the power of quality customer care and service, principles that formed the foundations of his working ethos from that point on.
Chris joined the Harvey Nash group in 2003 spending his first five years working as a consultant within the IT Leadership Practice with a particular focus on recruiting and providing leadership services to CIOs, IT Directors, Programme Managers and Project Managers. In 2009 he became the Practice Manager for the Contract & Interim function in Birmingham with responsibility for Harvey Nash’s contract technology recruitment team as well as IT Interim management.
His clients range from large blue chips through to small start ups and include: Mitie Group, John Lewis Partnership, Pinsent Masons, Leeds University, Interserve, The NEC Group and G4S.
Phone:+44 (0)121 717 1914
Email: chris.seel@harveynash.com
David Burke
Manager, Ireland
Sector Expertise
IT Leadership and Interim Management
Functional Specialisation
David is a key member of the Harvey Nash Ireland management team and leads the IT Leadership and Interim Management business lines.
After completing his English degree in University College Dublin and a further year studying e-Commerce web design David began his career in technical services for one of the world’s leading OEMs. During this period David developed a deep affinity for technology and business, knowledge that became the bedrock of his success when he subsequently moved into technology recruitment.
Over the last eight years David has become a leading figure in the Irish Technology Recruitment Industry. As part of the leadership team of Harvey Nash he has established one of the most widely regarded IT and CIO communities in Ireland through a unique programme of events and white papers. He is also seen as a leading expert on the local market, often quoted in the press in publications such as the Sunday Business Post and Silicon Republic.
David immerses himself in the Irish IT leadership community and has developed relationships with CIOs, Project Directors and IT executives built on mutual trust and respect over many years.
Phone:+353 (0)1 6741410
Email: david.burke@harveynash.com
Louise McAleer
Contracts Manager and Office Manager
Louise joined Impact Executives in March 2011, prior to this she has worked in the recruitment industry for over 6 years. Louise is responsible for all the business operations. She also acts as the first point of contact for all Interim Managers on assignment with Impact Executives and is your contact for enquiries regarding Contracts, Invoicing, CMS (timesheets) and Payments.
Phone:+44 (0) 20 7314 2023
Jocasta Anderson
Research Assistant and Candidate Relationship Co-Coordinator
Jocasta is responsible for our Research capability and she also manages the candidate registration process.
Phone:+44 (0) 20 7314 2011
Email: jocasta.anderson@impactexecutives.com
SWEDEN
Blenda Lagerkvist
Managing Director, Sweden
Blenda is Managing Director for Impact Executives Sweden and manager in the Alumni Group. She joined Alumni in 2004. "Working with people strategy and leadership development at Impact Executives/Alumni /Harvey Nash enables me to interact with a large variety of clients and candidates and help them reach business success through people". I find the challenges that I face on a daily basis are an exiting opportunity to combine great professional experience with the opportunity to build long-lasting relationships with both up-coming stars and well experienced high-performing leaders".
Blenda has a double major in Marketing and International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), complemented by the CEMS Master in International Management. After graduating from SSE, Blenda was selected to be the Female Economist of the Year – a scholarship that gave her a two-year, tailor-made work experience placement in Sweden and the US at Pharmacia/Pfizer HQ.
Blenda has a Swedish-Italian heritage and enjoys reaping the benefits in the social and culinary arenas, as well as providing a unique cultural and language understanding to our clients.
Phone:+46 (0) 8 796 17 48
Anna Hjertstedt
Advisor
Anna works as an Advisor for the Impact Executives team in Sweden. She joined Alumni in 2007, and during this time she has worked on assignments across all industries and functions as a senior researcher. Before joining Alumni, Anna worked as a Project Manager at an education and conferences company where she built the business area with a focus on bespoke training packages. Anna has a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Stockholm.
Phone:+46 (0)8 796 17 37
Contact Impact Executives
Email us at info@impactexecutives.com or phone on +44 (0)20 7314 2011
