ResourceBank – recruitment solutions partner

the management team

Richard Pearson
Richard is the founder and Managing Director of ResourceBank and remains active as a consultant, focussing on senior executive management in a wide variety of cross-functional roles.

Richard is a graduate in Manufacturing Studies, and spent 8 years with Mars Inc. working in Production Management, Engineering and Sales before being appointed Divisional Sales Manager. He left Mars to become Sales & Marketing Director of a medium sized dairy company and managed its sale to Avonmore Foods. Richard joined Whitehead Mann in 1992 as a Senior Recruitment Consultant, establishing the Birmingham office before founding ResourceBank in 1995.

Sarah Hopkins
Sarah is Director of Business Development at ResourceBank and focuses on our outsourced solutions with a particular focus on retail, while still remaining an active consultant in senior recruitment across all sectors.

After leaving Newcastle upon Tyne University with BSc Hons she joined Harrods on their graduate trainee scheme. Subsequently Sarah worked for EMAP prior to graduating with a Masters in Business and Economics and starting her career in recruitment. Initially working for a small business specialising in recruiting graduates for clients including M&S, The Economist and IPC, she left to join MSL Executive Search and Selection. Sarah then spent four years as a senior consultant with Whitehead Mann focussing on recruitment retail, financial services and FMCG sectors.

contact: sarah.hopkins@resourcebank.co.uk

Sarah Crocker
Sarah is Director of Operations, responsible for managing client Resourcing Centres and for ResourceBank's systems and procedures.

A graduate in Business Studies, Sarah joined Securicor as a Personnel Officer. Following a short spell as an "Investors in People" Implementation Adviser with Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce, Sarah joined ResourceBank. Sarah has extensive experience in the design and delivery of assessment centres, being fully Saville & Holdsworth qualified. Sarah has also worked at Galileo as HR Manager - Resourcing, responsible for managing all aspects of their UK and European recruiting.

contact: sarah.crocker@resourcebank.co.uk

Andrew Goodman
Andrew is non-executive Chairman of ResourceBank. A well-known entrepreneur and serial investor in HR, recruitment, outsourcing and service companies across the UK, including Capital Consulting, James Harvard International, JSA Group and Eutopia.

contact: andrew.goodman@resourcebank.co.uk

Debbie Anderson
Debbie is Finance Manager for ResourceBank, and an integral part of the senior management team. This infrastructure helps support the activities of ResourceBank to ensure that we act and think like a big business but remain true to our guiding principles.

Debbie has been with the Company for over five years and is responsible for all the monetary aspects of the Company – from dealing with the day to day business with both our debtors and creditors to producing detailed profit and loss analysis for each business unit, as well as providing financial analysis, forecasting and accounting advice and support to a steadily growing business.

contact: debbie.anderson@resourcebank.co.uk

Julie McTear
Julie is the HR Business Partner for ResourceBank, working with the Business delivering HR solutions to meet our strategic business needs and ensuring our policies and procedures are robust, leading edge and fully support our dynamic business. Julie also acts as a senior consultant undertaking senior recruitment responsibilities.

Julie is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has fifteen years' experience working within HR at Nat West. Julie worked for a variety of business areas within the group with emphasis on generalist HR, change management, recruitment, policy development and implementation.

contact: julie.mctear@resourcebank.co.uk

Caroline Bevan
Caroline is Account Development Manager, heading up the dedicated Kimberly-Clark Recruitment Centre based at the company's Brighton HQ.

Caroline graduated with an honours degree in English Literature at Hull University. She joined ResourceBank in 1999 and has extensive experience of psychometric testing, telephone interviewing, designing and running assessment centres and is Saville and Holdsworth qualified to Level 3. Caroline specialises in recruiting for IT, logistics & supply chain sectors and European Graduate recruitment.

contact: caroline.bevan@resourcebank.co.uk

Melody Hermon
Melody is Account Development Manager heading up the Aliaxis Resourcing Centre focussing on the Building Services and Construction marketplace. The team recruits across a cross section of disciplines including; sales, marketing, purchasing, supply chain, engineering and technical services.

Melody worked in the IT industry for 20 years in a number of HR roles, firstly as a generalist and then moving onto learning and development, internal career coaching, assessment and recruitment. Most recently Melody was the Programme Manager for Computer Clubs for Girls, a national government funded programme to encourage girls aged between 9 and 13 to consider a technology based career.

contact: melody.hermon@resourcebank.co.uk

Anna Stower
Anna studied Law at the University of Southampton following a successful career in financial services. After graduation in 2002 she joined the university staff to help manage the allocation of student accommodation for over 5000 students. In September 2003 she relocated to Shropshire and joined ResourceBank as a Project Manager. Her first Account Manager role was with the Magnet Group Resourcing Centre, she remained in this role for two years managing the team and recruitment process for over 500 vacancies per annum for this dynamic retailer. In September 2005 she moved to Portsmouth to launch and establish a Resource Centre for new client Flagship Training Ltd recruiting specialist training and training support roles. Now back in Telford she is Account Development Manager, responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of new recruitment projects within the business.

contact: anna.stower@resourcebank.co.uk

Michelle Rowlands
Michelle is Account Development Manager leading the Magnet Group Resourcing Centre which provides a one-stop recruitment solution for over 175 outlets, and the Aga Rangemaster Resourcing Centre.

Michelle graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA Hons in Business Studies and then spent seven years working with Securicor in various Recruitment and Employee Screening roles.

After relocating back to the Shropshire area in 2004 she joined ResourceBank initially as a Project Manager for Magnet and then gained further experience with other clients such as Myriad and Sainsburys TU.

contact: michelle.rowlands@resourcebank.co.uk

Katy Goodwin
Katy has been working in in-house recruitment either directly for companies or as part of an outsourced solution for over 15 years. Katy started her career in recruitment working as Head of HR and Training in a small call centre, then took her first specialist recruitment role working for a small telecoms company in Manchester. Whilst there, she also spent a year working in the Netherlands in a more generalist HR role. Katy then joined a large RPO company and had a successful 7 year career managing recruitment in the telecoms and defence markets for large clients, also spending a period of time working on a project in Australia.

CIPD trained, Katy joined ResourceBank in May 2008 to manage the recruitment operation for one of our key clients, Kimberly-Clark

contact: katy.goodwin@resourcebank.co.uk

Charlotte Todd
Charlotte is Account Manager heading up the Pitney Bowes resourcing centre. Pitney Bowes are the world's leading provider of mailstream solutions. This project initially focuses on Sales recruitment for the Global Mainstream Solutions division with a longer term view to expanding where possible into all divisions and disciplines.

Charlotte joined ResourceBank in 2004 as consultant, specialising in Sales & Marketing recruitment for the FMCG sector. She had previously worked on recruitment projects across a variety of industry sectors and disciplines from manufacturing to global telecoms.

contact: charlotte.todd@resourcebank.co.uk