Meet The Quarsh Team

At Quarsh, we're proud to be generalist headhunters, although we all have our own areas that we enjoy more than others. As generalists, each search is approached afresh, with you as our partner. We don't make assumptions or rely on our little black books. This means that you get the most current information about competitors in your sector, and we'll know where you can look to find transferable skills.

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  Lucy James

  Co-Founder & Managing Director

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  Jason Collings

  Co-Founder & Managing Director

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  Adrian Hill

  Executive Search Director

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• Lucy James

  Co-Founder & Managing Director

  Lucy James has been a headhunter since 2005. Over her search career, she has handled appointments across almost all disciplines, at all levels, and for businesses as diverse as beauty and cosmetics, financial services, aerospace and security technology. She handles Foundry Director roles with as much pleasure as Product Directors for luxury cosmetics. A Midlander born and bred, Lucy’s heart lies in manufacturing, and she loves a good factory.

  Lucy trained as a headhunter with Norman Broadbent, then set up a boutique search firm before establishing Quarsh in 2010.
  
  “I love getting to the heart of how someone has made a strategic impact and watching people light up when they talk about things that excite them. It’s a great indicator of how they’ll make a difference.”

• Jason Collings

  Co-Founder & Managing Director

  Jason started his career in management consulting before focusing on HR and search. He has been an MD/Chief Exec of a number of major UK and international executive search firms including Korn/Ferry, Norman Broadbent and Penna Group. He has well over twenty year’s experience in the industry and has worked in pretty much every industry there is, from pharmaceutical to technology, fashion to security services.

  Regardless of industry good recruitment always demands a commitment to best practice process and the best possible solution for the client. That was the essence of Quarsh when Jason and Lucy founded it and remains it today.

  “Having worked for some of the ‘biggest and best’ in the industry I knew it could be done better: better for client, candidate and ultimately for us. How do we do this better is always our first question, and the results speak for themselves.”

• Adrian Hill

  Executive Search Director

  Adrian Hill has been a headhunter for almost thirty years. In that time he has managed assignments across just about all executive functions and many sectors, including power, oil & gas, telecoms, electronics, manufacturing and government. He has also worked for both huge corporations (such as BT, Rolls-Royce and GE/Alstom) and VC-funded micro businesses.

  The key to the hires that he has made across five continents are the steps that we take to understand the candidate profile and identify the few critical points that will guide our selection decisions. Then we diligently apply our candidate generation process using a mix of technology tools and human experience to build and engage with a pool of potential candidates.

  The other thing that we strive to get right – and which our clients tell us we do – is to communicate regularly with you.

  “I love it when clients come back to us to manage supplementary assignments. Not only does this reflect their satisfaction in the job that we did, but it often means us recruiting for individuals that we have placed in the organisation.”