Our Team.

Kevin has over 25 years experience at Board level, including Managing Director and COO. He has worked on projects for global organisations including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, JP Morgan, CSC, Deloitte, PwC, Man Investments, The London Metals Exchange, Augentius, TESM and Dexda.

Roles have included primary responsibility for the design of strategic business roadmaps and implementation of associated technology-led change. Kevin has sat on the Credit Suisse Securities Global Operations Team, with responsibility for the design and delivery of their securities change programme. He has also held non-executive director positions on the boards of the UK Ministry of Justice and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.

Kevin has just commenced a Fellowship with Harvard University in Boston, something he has dreamed of for some time.

Baroness Ritchie accepted a life peerage in September 2019 as part of Theresa May’s resignation honours list. She was previously an MP for many years representing the constituency of South Down.

Margaret is a former leader of the Social Democratic & Labour Party (SDLP) and was Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2007 to 2010. She has also served as International Secretary of the SDLP and as an alternate member of the European Committee of the Regions. Margaret is a graduate of Queens University Belfast.

Margaret is widely experienced in public policy. She advises PeopleHawk® on government and other initiatives around third level education, employability and workplace skills development.

Ed grew up in the UK, but moved to the US to study at Harvard University where he graduated with honours in Hispanic Studies. After Harvard, Ed led a development project in Ecuador, working with NGOs and local government.

On returning to the US, he pursued a career in marketing at Grey Advertising (WPP), completing his Master’s in Integrated Marketing at New York University. Ed’s dissertation led him to co-found A-List Education, a business that provided education services to more than 30,000 students every year globally.

Ed eventually returned to the UK, completing a joint EMBA programme at Columbia Business School and London Business School. Following graduation, he launched A-List UK, providing expert support to international students applying to the US education system. In 2019, A-List was acquired by Dukes Education. Ed stayed on as Managing Director before stepping down to move with his family to the Oxfordshire countryside.

Ed currently consults with a variety of start-ups and early-stage businesses. He continues to be actively involved in the non-profit community in the UK and the US. Outside of that he is mostly found on a tennis court!

Terri began her career at Queens University Belfast and subsequently held senior leadership posts at Dublin City University and visiting appointments at Carnegie Mellon University University, MIT and San Jose State University. Terri is a former Pro Vice Chancellor at Ulster University where she led Academic Operations.

She is a former Principal & CEO at Northern Regional College, as well as President at what is now Atlantic Technological University, Ireland. In both institutions she achieved success in leading ambitious transformations.

Terri is an advocate for leadership and entrepreneurship. As former Managing Director of Invest NI, her portfolio including entrepreneurship and enterprise policy. Terri is also an experienced non-executive Director having served on Public Bodies in UK and Ireland. As a Board member of OFQUAL (Qualifications regulator in England) she applied her extensive knowledge of apprenticeship models and international education systems.

Terri is passionate about helping individuals and organisations achieve their full potential. She lives at the coast and is an avid sea swimmer, bracing the waves in all weather!

Patrick is a sales leader with over 25 years experience. He has been involved in the development of PeopleHawk® from its inception.

Patrick has extensive domain expertise as a sales leader and startup consultant to recruitment marketplaces. He was LinkedIn’s first sales hire in EMEA and primarily ran new business sales teams during his 7 years with the business. As a consultant and Advisory Board Member, he advised temporary recruitment marketplace Syft for 3yrs from inception to acquisition by Indeed. Patrick has also been a consultant and VP of Sales at The-Dots (network for creatives), YunoJuno (freelancer marketplace) and Snap.hr (tech recruitment platform). He currently leads sales in EMEA for Mixpanel, a user analytics tool favoured by startups.

Pat is South African by birth, but has been based in London for some time. He is a keen environmentalist and is very excited about having purchased his first all-electric vehicle.

Ramki has more than 25 years of experience in delivering business, organisational and technology transformation programmes in many sectors, with core expertise in banking, finance, fin-tech and payments sectors.

He is an Agile Coach, Scaled Agile Consultant, Trainer and Executive Coach, with experience in multiple implementations in both financial and non-financial sectors. Ramki is a panel member of QA, Radtac and Architecture Centre. He also has specialist skills in Product Management, Portfolio Management, SAFe Implementations, as well as Digital and Agile Transformations in both global organisations and start-ups

Ramki is a health and well-being enthusiast. Despite this, he is also a wine connoisseur. His favourite place to visit? Not surprisingly, it’s the Barolo valleys, Italy.

Andrew was raised in Carnoustie, Scotland. After obtaining a degree in Accounting he trained with a London based firm before becoming a Chartered Tax Adviser in 2005.

Andrew has specialised in providing businesses with international tax advice for over 15 years, having worked with one of the largest tax and accounting practices in Europe. More recently Andrew has established his own advisory firm delivering tailored taxation and company secretarial services to a small number of growth companies, including PeopleHawk®.

Andrew is Scottish, and like most Scots craves time out to enjoy the beauty of highland life, especially with a glass (or two) of single malt whisky.