Steve Wright is a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with the London office of Ernst & Young and, after moving into commerce, has over 25 years experience working in senior executive positions. His corporate experience is broad and includes the AIM listed Hot Group, which was sold to Trinity Mirror Group in 2005, Computer People sold to Adecco in 1999;, Thomson NETG, Virgin Group, where he was part of the turnaround team that transformed Virgin Retail, and Wang Computers.

John Sadiq started his career in market research, before broadening his experience into other sectors. He has held senior positions at a number of prominent companies including being Chairman of Norwest Holst plc and Managing Director of The Gallup Organisation Limited, as well as investing in and building up a number of successful and profitable companies. John was a founder of the business and has been Non-executive Chairman of the Company since March 2005.

Heading up ReThink Recruitment, Andrew is one of the founding Directors of Rethink Group, with 20 years of Business and Technology staffing experience under his hat. After working with two smaller companies, he joined Best International Group plc in April 1997 where he was responsible for the Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds offices. Andrew is responsible for all brands within the ReThink Recruitment portfolio, including Talent Management, Executive Search and Energy.

Taking care of Otravida, the Executive Search business and all Group Marketing and Development, Michael is one of the founding Directors of Rethink Group, with 20 years in the recruitment industry. Having spent five years at Ajilon (UK) Limited, he served as Managing Director for Spring Group Plc and is also one of the founding partners of Best International Group plc.

One of the founding Directors of Rethink Group, Iain Blair has 15 years’ IT staffing experience. After training with Ajilon (UK) limited, Iain joined Best International Group plc and was promoted to head of permanent recruitment in the South West. Before joining Rethink, Iain was responsible for the delivery of permanent recruitment services for Sanderson Recruitment plc, the largest supplier of IT services in the South West. Iain now takes care of the Group’s South Western, Talent Management and Retail operations.

Fergal Brosnan has over 17 years’ experience in Technology, Engineering and Resourcing, launching his career within the Software and hardware R&D Centre for Apple Computer, working for both the Irish and US facilities. He later took up QA & Test Manager roles in Cognotec Autodealing, an FX Trading Software company, and with Performix Technology in Dublin. Fergal founded the IT and Life Science Functions within Berkley in 2000. Fergal currently operates and manages the European operations for Berkley.

Launching his career with Love & Tate Plc, Steve recruited for high profile clients such as The International Stock Exchange, Esso and BP, gaining experience in all areas of the business. He relocated to Ireland in 1992, working with The Independent Newspaper Group, and returned to recruitment consultancy in 1998 to build and develop Berkley Group with fellow director Fergal Brosnan. Steve took Berkley into the Asian market in late 2008 and moved to Singapore in January 2010 to build Berkley’s regional operation based. In January 2011 Steve was elected to the board of The Irish Chamber of Commerce Singapore.

Robert O’Callaghan started his career in recruitment over 16 years ago, working within business development and delivery at Adecco (UK) Limited. He has since worked for the IT and technical divisions of Pertemps Limited, before joining Rethink in 2007. Based in Birmingham, Robert runs the Group’s Midlands operations.

Stephen has been involved in a number of international businesses. As well as consulting roles at Electronic Data Systems and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, he has been the founder and Managing Director of APS Limited, a UK consulting firm specialising in business process management. He has also held Vice President roles for Lava Corporation Inc., a Toronto based workflow software company, OpenText Corporation Inc., a Canadian content management and collaboration software company and Microstrategy Inc, a business intelligence software company based in Washington DC. Stephen is the Managing Director of Aiimi, the Technology division of the Group.

Peter has over 30 years’ experience in advising directors and companies. He founded the law firm Memery Crystal, which specialises in matters relating to listed companies and advising on floatations, takeovers, mergers and other corporate finance activities. Peter is a graduate of Oxford and McGill Universities as well as being a former Law Society examiner, Chairman and Director of several companies. He also lectures on corporate finance and corporate governance issues.

John has over 40 years’ experience in the IT industry holding a number of senior executive roles both in the UK and USA, primarily in training and enterprise software. After graduating from the London School of Economics he spent the early part of his career at Ford Motor Company and IBM UK. He then helped build two US-based companies, Applied Learning and Wave Technologies, both of which were successfully floated on NASDAQ. The latter was sold to Thomson Corp. and John became VP International for Thomson Enterprise Solutions. Until 2007 John was Executive Vice President, Global Sales for Open Text Inc, the world’s leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management.