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Meet the team

Chris Goulding

Chris Goulding

Managing Director

Chris joined Wade Macdonald as Managing Director in January 2018. Chris is responsible for all operations within Wade Macdonald, but as a hands-on Managing Director, he has never forgotten his roots and is more often than not helping out the team with the recruitment of our clients’ roles.

Caterina Glenn

Caterina Glenn

Director

Caterina (Cat) joined as a Senior Manager in April 2018 and following promotions, is now a Director at Wade Macdonald. Cat deals with permanent recruitment within the Human Resources division and manages this division together with the non-qualified finance division. Her team across Human Resour...

Dominic Wade

Dominic Wade

Co-Founder

After working together as Managers of a recruitment business in London, Dominic and Philip founded the company in February 1991. 30 years on and two recessions beaten, the company still stands, double its size.What do you love about your company?In one word, it’s about the people. We have a great sense...

Philip Macdonald

Philip Macdonald

Co-Founder

After working together as Managers of a recruitment business in London, Philip and Dominic founded the company in February 1991. 30 years on and two recessions beaten, the company still stands, double its size. What do you love about your company?It is the passion demonstrated by everybody that makes me p...

Issi Briggs

Issi Briggs

Marketing Manager

Issi joined Wade Macdonald in December 2017 and heads up the marketing for the company. She oversees all activity across the social media channels and website, creates company material such as salary guides and everything else that falls under the marketing umbrella. After leaving school, Issi spent ...

Nicky Taberner

Nicky Taberner

Compliance & Data Manager

​Nicky joined Wade Macdonald in January 2021 looking after all compliance and database management as well as picking some ad hoc back office projects. Having started her career as a trainee ACA accountant with a big 4 accountancy firm, she quickly realised she preferred recruiting accountants than actually being one h...

Lucy-Emma Heath-Turrall

Lucy-Emma Heath-Turrall

Senior Business Manager - Senior Interim HR

Lucy-Emma joined Wade Macdonald in 2009, re-establishing the HR function which has proved to be hugely successful over the years. She has been in recruitment for over 25 years, 13 of which has been in Human Resources. Lucy-Emma is an expert in interim, temporary and contract HR appointments - niche, ...

Miles Gallagher

Miles Gallagher

Business Manager - Senior Finance

Miles joined Wade Macdonald in 2017, focusing on the Senior Finance market. Having spent 20 years in the market before arriving with us, he almost does not need an introduction as he is so well known in the local market! Miles prides himself on delivering high quality, specialised staffing solutions. He is flex...

Ashley Page

Ashley Page

Client Relations Manager

Ashley started with Wade Macdonald back in 2018. Ashley a Senior Client Relations Executive at Wade Macdonald, spending the majority of his time on the phone or visiting clients developing relationships, negotiating psl contracts and assist with all recruitment needs across finance & HR.

Zoe Jones

Zoe Jones

Business Manager

Zoe joined Wade Macdonald in March 2018. Having not worked in the sector before, she wanted to try something outside of her comfort zone. Zoe covers all transactional roles within the finance and accounting division, working alongside her colleagues providing solutions for temporary, interim and fixe...

Nathan Freestone

Nathan Freestone

Business Manager - Senior Finance

Nathan joined Wade Macdonald as Business Manager in April 2021. Nathan recruits Senior Finance professionals throughout Oxfordshire from Newly Qualified to C-Suite level. Nathan started his career in recruitment in 2010 and has worked for large and boutique recruitment businesses which ha...

Martin Lawrence

Martin Lawrence

Senior Consultant

Martin joined Wade Macdonald in June 2021 as part of the Accountancy and Finance Division and focuses on part-qualified roles. Following his graduation from Oxford Brookes University in 2017, Martin started his career in recruitment at a boutique generalist agency. He then transitioned to internal re...

Ellis Bradley

Ellis Bradley

Recruitment Consultant

Ellis joined Wade Macdonald in June 2021. Ellis works alongside Nathan Freestone covering Oxfordshire. His focus is on the transactional and part-qualified finance market. Previous to working at Wade Macdonald, Ellis worked in sales and other customer facing roles. Ellis is a...

Keeley Hamblin

Keeley Hamblin

Senior Consultant

Keeley joined Wade Macdonald as a recruitment consultant in 2021. Keeley’s focuses on temporary roles for non-qualified finance professionals. Having worked in customer facing roles for over 10 years, Keeley is keen on building long-term relationships with both her candidates...

Ryan Marner

Ryan Marner

Manager

Ryan joined the Wade Macdonald team near the end of 2021. Ryan works within our specialist Senior Finance team, where he supports recruitment needs from Newly Qualified Accountants right the way through to Finance Directors on a permanent basis. He also moonlights as Wade Macdonald’s 1st line IT supp...

Jodie Hayden

Jodie Hayden

Recruitment Consultant

​Jodie joined Wade Macdonald in 2022 to join our expanding HR recruitment team.Previously to working with us, Jodie had spent 5 years working in childcare. This is particularly useful as it has taught her patience – which is needed with a large number of the wider team at Wade Macdonald.Jodie ...

Liz Major

Liz Major

Senior Consultant

​Liz joined Wade Macdonald in January 2023, and works within the Interim Finance division. She started her recruitment career at a corporate recruiter in South Africa, where she quickly cemented herself as the top consultant at her branch every year. She went on to ...

Amber Mitchell

Amber Mitchell

Client Relations Executive

​Amber joined the expanding Client Relations team at Wade Macdonald in 2023. Amber focuses on building and managing relationships with our HR clients and enjoys meeting with clients face to face and supporting client needs throughout the recruitment process.Prior to joining Wade Macdonald, Amber worked as a social wor...

Phil Beresford

Phil Beresford

Senior Consultant

Phil joined Wade Macdonald in 2023 and works alongside Manager, Ryan and Martin in the Newly Qualified and Senior Finance team. Phil works with finance professionals on a permanent basis in the Thames Valley and West London markets, and businesses ranging from SMEs to Blue Chip.Phil graduated from University with a de...

Gareth Jenkins

Gareth Jenkins

Business Manager

​Gareth joined Wade Macdonald in April 2023, focusing on interim finance recruitment in Oxfordshire from newly qualified to CFO level.Gareth began his recruitment career in 2004. During this time he has primarily focused on the recruitment of finance professionals and legal professionals for offshore law firms. He al...

Beau Briggs

Beau Briggs

Co-Manager of Stress Relief

Beau has been intermittently coming into the office since 2021 but has been working in stress relief since he was born in 2014. He's a little noisy and loves to riffle through everyone's bins, but the team enjoy having him in - especially Martin, who on a regular occurrence asks if he can give him part of his lunch (usually its a n...

Willow Wade

Willow Wade

Co-Manager of Stress Relief

​Willow is Co-Founder, Dominic Wade's, pride and joy. She was born the 29th of September 2021 and has been a hit in the office ever since waltzing through the door. She's very naughty but is easily forgiven once she presents puppy dog eyes.Away from her role at the office, Willow likes chewing, human food (cheese & roast chicken ar...

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