Cyber Security Valley UK – Press Release
Cyber Security Valley UK Proud to Announce That Genevieve Wells, Managing Director, Hayman Executive is Their First Partner
Cyber Security Valley UK are delighted to be partnering with Genevieve Wells, founder and Managing Director of Hayman Executive, a specialist recruitment firm working with cyber vendors to find them the best talent in the UK and Europe to enable them to meet their business objectives.
Genevieve is a highly experienced consultant, delivering on mission-critical positions for her clients. She joined the Software Sales Recruitment industry in the mid 90’s at the very beginning of what became the ‘dot.com’ boom, before being head hunted to US recruitment start-up Hall Kinion. There, after establishing herself as a top biller, she was promoted to Manager, UK Operations, heading up a top performing team and helping many firms, including Hall Kinion, to achieve their revenue growth objectives and successfully IPO.
Genevieve’s recruitment experience also includes Legal, Agency and In-House. This combination of exposure to different markets makes Genevieve ideally placed to respond to her clients varying needs and demonstrates her ability to successfully source for a diverse range of roles.
The backbone of Genevieve’s experience is in sourcing client facing professionals for the Enterprise Software market and for the last few years, more specifically, the Cyber Security software industry where she has helped many young organisations build the teams that brought them success.
Prior to Recruitment, Genevieve’s early career as an Account Manager and National Customer Service Manager with a blue-chip service provider, gave her a solid foundation in business as a manager of teams with large revenue responsibility. Having had to hire into her own teams many times, Genevieve fully understands the pressure to get it right and how this impacts the bottom line.
Genevieve’s style is to work closely with a small portfolio of clients, focussed on providing a high-quality service and becoming part of the team. This approach has worked time and time again with clients either making their first hiring moves in Europe or going through their first phase of ‘rapid growth’ where having the right people on board is essential.
Hayman Executive provide Recruitment Solutions – tailored to fit each particular requirement, whether that be retained search or contingency. Ultimately, as an experienced service provider, they identify the client’s needs and work with them to deliver the solution.
Example positions Hayman Executive have successfully filled include VP / Country Manager / Regional VP / all aspects of Sales including Channel / Site Reliability Engineer / UX / Training / Product Marketing / Marcoms / Security Analyst. They have experience of sourcing top talent in the UK and Europe – particularly Northern Europe (DACH, Benelux, Nordics), though also have experience of searches further afield in the Middle East, Singapore, and Australia.
HR at Carbon Black (recently acquired by VMWare) said “I had the pleasure of working with Genevieve for over a year during a period of rapid growth at Carbon Back. She helped us close many technical and sales roles across the EMEA region in a very competitive cybersecurity market. I found Genevieve to be excellent at what she does, she knows the market very well, puts lots of care and attention into the recruitment process and represents both candidates and the company in the best possible way”
Genevieve says “I’m very excited to be partnering with Cyber Security Valley UK – not just because I believe the UK has an enormous pool of talent and world class abilities, but also because this investment into the West of England, encompassing Birmingham in the North, Bristol and Bath in the South, and Cardiff and Swansea in the West, offers skilled Cyber security professionals a literal breath of fresh air.
In the new Covid world, the move to home / remote working for a substantial part of 2020 has led many to question why they need to live in the over-crowded, over-priced South East. I’ve had many conversations with candidates talking about the value to them of quality of life – and that means fresh air, family time, a better work/life balance and not commuting or travelling on busy motorways or crowded trains to London or Reading on a daily basis.
Cyber Security Valley UK offers the potential for exciting and challenging work, in some of the most beautiful countryside the UK has. I used to live not far from Bristol and worked as an Area Manager covering the whole South West – including frequent trips up the M5 to my Birmingham regional HQ. It was a totally different way of life and one I know many candidates will be keen to embrace. This should give those companies looking to invest in office space in the various business parks that make up Cyber Security Valley UK enormous confidence about how they will be able to attract and retain the best staff”
Contact: Genevieve Wells [email protected] / +44 1737 762 736 / www.haymanexec.com
