John Lombard

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Managing Director: Executive Search - Sales & Marketing

John is the founder and Managing Director of HR national. For the past 25 years he has established several successful enterprises and worked within the IT&T sector at an executive level. John entered the recruitment sector in 2004 when he founded Sales Staff Australia, a dedicated sales recruitment firm, which he sold 2007. He then founded HR national, a national network of independent recruitment professionals.

John is an executive search consultant with a primary focus on senior level sales & marketing talent across all industry sectors. Given John’s expansive network, nationally and abroad, John is in an ideal position to source the high quality talent needed to improve the top and bottom line of any organisation.

Alex Cullen

Principal Consultant: Executive Search Mining & Utilities

Alex is a career HR professional with over 30 years experience with organisations such as ETSA Utilities, Philmac Industries and Orcon Steel. In recent years he has taken on a diverse range of interim management positions and consulting contracts for the Australian Central Credit Union and other enterprise level organisations.

During his time at Philmac, Orrcon Steel, Minda Inc. and through his general consulting work, Alex focused on employee and team development as well as strategic recruitment programs across all levels within these organisations.

Alex’ provides executive search & selection services to the utilities and mining industry and given his intrinsic knowledge of these sectors and his diverse network of executive level candidates globally, Alex is the perfect choice for your next executive search initiative.

Brigid Sorby

Principal Consultant: Generalist

Brigid’s career of (18) years in Employment & Training has provided her with a great depth of practical knowledge and skills across various segments of the labour market, particularly in the Resources sector.

Brigid’s passion for recruitment is driven by ethical guiding principles – Equity & Fairness.  Her determination to move forward, towards a modern recruitment within WA, calls for Ethical Leadership and business decision making.  Each person in the recruitment process stands equal, candidate and company (clients) and her successes rise from the recognition that the relationship between employer and employee is critical. 

Brigid’s understanding and knowledge of her clients, their jobs and their industry firmly places her as a recruitment partner to companies in the building industry in Perth and parts of Asia, as well as Specialist  Search and Selection I.T  drawing from both local networks and contacts in  Asia and Europe.

Debra Berry

Principal Consultant: Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain

My Recruitment experience is in all areas of the mid to Senior levels in the Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Industries... My diverse expertise can help companies empower and retain their greatest asset – their staff.

I am highly experienced and versatile recruitment professional, having also worked in a number of alternative industries across my entire career. I can say that I have achieved a proud record of fast and effective recruitment outcomes for clients and in that period have replaced less than a handful of candidates, which is a testament to the thorough recruitment process that I undertake. I offer a very personalised service to ensure that I am building sustainable relationships, with both clients and candidates, but also adding value to the businesses that I partner with.

David Hewison

Principal Consultant:  IT - Project Services

David has spent 4 years in Technology Recruitment specialising in Project Services. Over that time, he has built a strong and reliable network within the sector that he constantly draws upon to offer the best service possible to both clients and candidates. Before his time in recruitment, David was involved in setting up a number of Start Up’s in the Technology and Event Management sectors. Having spent many years in the industry, he understands the value of rapid and targeted solutions, with an emphasis on ensuring that he constantly adds value to HR national’s clients.

Francis Love

Principal Consultant: Information Technology & Telecomunications   

Francis has over 25 years’ experience working with large Multi-National Corporations both here in Australia and Internationally, foremost specialising in Telecommunications, Retail, Pharmaceutical, and the Finance Industry. Directly involved in the planning of new Company Sales Organization Structures, through to the final recruitment decisions. Recruitment of Sales Teams, Sales & Marketing Management, Retail, Project Managers, Billing Analysts, Customer Care, Sales Distribution and IT Managers.

His knowledge and understanding of recruitment is evident from the first time you talk to Francis. Having worked in Australia in senior management positions with, 3 Telecoms, Proctor & Gamble and Dun & Bradstreet. As a sought after professional in the Industry, he worked with France Telecom Botswana, as Chief Commercial Officer and Qtel Palestine as Sales & Marketing Director. To add further to this overseas experience he has also worked in Thailand, Madagascar, Maldives and Cambodia.

Francis's extensive local and international knowledge has enabled Francis to develop a significant network contact list of local and International candidates. Experienced and proficient in recruitment from entry level Trainee Staff to Middle and Senior Management. Competent in understanding the importance of individual needs and the critical necessity of meeting urgent timeframes. Proficient and detailed in the transcribing of work related job descriptions through to the final selection process. Having worked in a disciplined Industry, you can always be assured of complete integrity and confidentially at all times.

Fredavic Osswald

Principal Consultant: Retail, Banking & Insurance    

With over 25 years experience in retail management, banking, insurance, sales and customer service, Fredavic has gained a thorough understanding with proven success in building a solid relationship between clients and candidates.

Fredavic’s point of difference in terms of recruitment are: speed, honesty and integrity with clients and candidates needs being the top priority.

Gillian Alexis

Principal Consultant: Health Care 

General Practitioners in Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, and Northern Territory

Gillian is a dynamic, tenacious achiever demonstrating a history of accomplishments in international and domestic business, academic research and community involvement. Prior to Gillian’s dedicated focus in Health she was the National Head of a ASX Listed Recruitment company leading Executive Search to CEO/Partner level within the Professional Services (Legal & Chartered Accounting); Health sectors.

At HR National, Gillian’s primary focus is to serve the growing needs of the QLD, NSW, ACT and NT General Practice sectors. In doing so she responds to the deficiency of General Practitioners in rural and remote areas. This specialty requires considerable understanding of the requirements of the Australian regulatory authorities and requires close engagement with both our clients (GP clinics) and the General Practice doctors who are looking for new career options. 

Gillian partners with her colleague Lindsay Kelly where they focus all their attention in the General Practice sector. They carefully screen interested medical specialist from Australia and throughout, UK, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. They offer a consultative approach to both parties with professional and ethical responses to your enquiry. They treat all parties with due respect and, confidence is assured at all times. Both look forward to facilitating a smooth transition into your career and life in a new city, state or country and offer extended allied services including immigration, accreditation and registration advice. Their strength is not only in our mature professional consultative approach but in our knowledge of a complex medical system and in-depth coverage of permanent General practice roles across Australia.

Jason Wickham

Principal Consultant: Excecutive Level Sales & Marketing

Jason has had twelve successful years in the sales industry at a senior level and spent the majority of this time in the Recruitment Industry.

With a strong focus on Executive Level Sales & Marketing Recruitment, Jason has had great success placing candidates at various levels from Field Sales Reps & Account Managers right through to State Sales Manager, State Manager and General Manager Level. Jason has recruitment strategies, strong industry networks and partnerships in place that enable him to recruit nationally and he has a large existing portfolio of existing clients which include, SME, Corporate, Blue Chip National and International companies.

Moreover, his experience is across all industries with much of his success coming from the Building & Construction, Industrial, Safety, Transport & Logistics, Gas, Marine, Mining & Engineering Industries. By listening to the needs of his clients and candidates Jason has gained much repect in the industry as a true professional who prides himself on ""going the extra mile"" and in turn this results in successful recruitment outcomes.

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Narmie Veerasingam

Principal Consultant: Allied Health & Administration

Narmie comes from 4 years of both general and specialised recruitment experience in allied health and administration. She takes pride in each and every one of her placements and knows that the key to successful recruitment is not just understanding what the clients needs but also understanding the needs of her candidates.
 
Narmie strongly believes in building solid relationships with her clients and candidates alike and ensuring honesty and open communication through the entire recruitment process.

Paul Greening

Principal Consultant: Excecutive Search

Sales & Marketing, IT&T, Banking & Finance, Accounting, Government and Defence

As an executive search consultant, Paul focuses on recruiting executives as well as mid to senior level professional candidates for private, venture-backed and publicly traded companies in the technology (IT & T), Banking and Finance, Accounting, Government and Defense sectors. In addition Paul has a strong focus on Executive, Sales and Marketing roles across all sectors. In his specialty areas he conducts assignments that span across multiple industries and geographies.

Prior to becoming a search consultant, Paul was the head of the APJ region for International Decision Systems Inc. in this role he was also part of the Global executive team. Prior to IDS, Paul has worked for a number of MNC including CA, General Electric, Cincom and Dell as well as pre IPO startups including Saba in executive roles, he has also worked for a number of Australian companies. Through his extensive network of connections in the region Paul has access to an extensive pool of talent.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Economics degree as well as his accounting qualifications and an MBA from the Adelaide University. He has also completed a Cert V in workplace assessment and training. He is currently a member of the CPA, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company directors and a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute.

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Peter Detering

Principal Consultant: Information Technology  

Peter's experience spans the ICT and Finance Industries. With a background of a very successful career as a business owner and operator of a financial services company, Peter decided to move to the ICT industry. He worked for major IT and telecommunications providers in Sales and Management positions for well over a decade and would now like to contribute to the quality of hiring in these industries. His personal achievements include being nominated for "employee of the year" at a large financial institution through to making one of the largest multi-million dollar sales at a major IT provider. Peter would like to put to use the many things he has learned about hiring, both as a hiring manager and as a IT sales consultant to the HR industry. The outcome for his clients is to get the best person for the job, not just a person who "might" be able to do the job.

Philip McLeod

Principal Consultant: Sales & Marketing

Phillip is a career sales and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience, the majority of which has been at a senior management level in the media sector.

Since 2007, Philip has been assisting companies source Australia best sales and marketing staff and has placed hundreds of high performance individuals into some of Australia’s best companies.  Philips network of mid to senior level candidates is exceptional, which places him in an ideal position to  help solve any talent shortage problem, promptly and cost effectively.

Tania Matthews

Principal Consultant: Resources and Infrastructure

Tania's experience derives from many years within the Resources and Infrastructure Industry being employed as an external recruiter for various companies across Australia. Her expertise lays within the Oil and Gas and Mining sectors mainly across disciplined engineering degrees and top end corporate roles example: Project Directors/Managers and Engineers across industries. I have worked with Owners groups implementing strategic recruitment drives for billion dollar projects along with working closely with EPCM and EPC companies."
 
Tania's philosophy in working closely within the Service industry is a strong emphasis on integrity and loyalty to the client and candidate alike in finding the right fit for the right time. 

Tom Anusic

Principal Consultant: Information Technology

With a successful and proud career in IT, Tom recognised early on that hiring the right person is critical to company stability and success. Tom took a step away from a Technical Manager position to fill a much needed gap in the market of recruiters with industry specific backgrounds. Moving forward he has assisted boutiques to blue chip fortune 500 companies in finding the best talent on the market. From Agile transformations to ranking first on Google with the latest white hate SEO tactics Tom lives the industry he recruits in and has access to networks colleagues and friends that you will not find via traditional recruitment.

Virginia Davies

Principal Consultant: Freight Forwarding & Logistics

Virginia is an experienced recruitment professional dedicated to sourcing the very best Freight Forwarding and Logistics talent in Australia. Virginia’s effectiveness in this area stems from a 15 year career at a senior level within the freight forwarding industry, thus giving her priority access to an exceptional network of employers and candidates throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.