Meet The Team

Our PeopleMeet the Team

We pride ourselves on our approachable, knowledgeable and personal approach. Meet our team of specialists who can help you on your journey.

Ashley Lawrence

Chief Executive Officer

Ashley spearheads BioTalent’s attraction strategy, focusing on developing new business and client relationships and working with life sciences clients on senior appointments, with over a decade of experience.

Ashley Lawrence

Chief Executive Officer

James Cox

Managing Director and Co-Founder

James' specialist knowledge and networking experience cover all areas of the Life Sciences market: Quality Assurance, Research and Design, Regulatory, Medical, Clinical and Technical Operations, across both permanent and contract roles.

James Cox

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Lucy Neal

Marketing Manager, CSR and D&I Ambassador

Lucy focuses on creating, implementing and developing the internal and external marketing strategy, campaigns and overall management of the brand, ensuring all is aligned with our CSR and D&I strategy.

Lucy Neal

Marketing Manager, CSR and D&I Ambassador

Ben Adams

Co-Founder

Ben is the Managing Director of BioTalent’s sister company, Broadgate Search. He is responsible for developing new business in addition to nurturing and consolidating relations with existing clients in the UK, Ireland, and wider Europe.

Ben Adams

Co-Founder

DJ Marker

Chief Operating Officer

DJ is responsible for ensuring BioTalent’s operations allow our colleagues to deliver on our clients and candidates’ expectations, now and in the future.

DJ Marker

Chief Operating Officer

Hannah Sutton

Contractor Engagement Manager

Hannah focuses on contractor care across the whole of BioTalent. Dealing with contracts, compliance and the aftercare process of all candidates. She meets many candidates face to face to build an ongoing relationship.

Hannah Sutton

Contractor Engagement Manager

Nicholas Boyle

Contracts Business Manager

Nick heads up the contract team of the business. The team focus on recruiting interim and project-based consultants globally for pharma, biotech, medical device and service providers.

Nicholas Boyle

Contracts Business Manager

Michael Kakoullis

Managing Consultant

Michael specifically focuses on the medical device and diagnostics RA/QA function within the UK. He works with a range of clients with a focus on growing SME organisations.

Michael Kakoullis

Managing Consultant

Sarah Irvine

Principal Consultant

Sarah recruits specifically within the UK and Ireland for professionals within Quality Assurance - in particular, Qualified Persons. She supports a wide range of clients from large scale manufacturers to small scale start-ups.

Sarah Irvine

Principal Consultant

Hayley Harkins

Head of People and Culture

Hayley is responsible for supporting our teams in finding, developing, motivating and retaining our expertise at BioTalent, whilst ensuring our company values are embedded in all that we do. Hayley started her career in HR in 2017.

Hayley Harkins

Head of People and Culture

Edward Robinson

Recruitment Consultant

Edward has worked exclusively in the Engineering and Validation market for 2 and a half years, focusing on Biotech and Pharma companies in the DACH region of Europe. He has worked hard to establish himself in the market as an engineering and validation expert.

Edward Robinson

Recruitment Consultant

Natasha Cole

Senior Consultant

Natasha focuses on the Quality Assurance space in the Life Sciences sector, specifically working with biopharmaceutical or cell and gene therapeutic sectors.

Natasha Cole

Senior Consultant

Olivia Skye

Recruitment Consultant

Olivia focuses on the Quality Control space in the Life Sciences sector, as well as Microbiology. Predominantly working with small to medium-sized pharma or biotech companies who work on the next phase of drug development.

Olivia Skye

Recruitment Consultant

Owen Lavers

Principal Consultant

Owen recruits globally for experts within the late pre-clinical, translational science, early and late clinical development cycle and within medical affairs. Primarily this is for pioneering biopharma and biotech clients.

Owen Lavers

Principal Consultant

Ailbhe O'Connor

Operations Executive

Ailbhe works as part of the Operations Team. Her role is to support all aspects in the day-to-day running of the business such as on-boarding of new recruits, general administration, office management and HR.

Ailbhe O'Connor

Operations Executive

Sam Heron

Recruitment Consultant

Sam covers the wider Technical Operations space within Pharma and Biotech. He loves learning about his market in as much detail as possible and can draw insight from his parents who are Medical professionals.

Sam Heron

Recruitment Consultant

Dominic Pritchard

Recruitment Consultant

Dom spans across the phases of drug development (I-IV) interacting with Medical/Scientific professionals at senior to exec level across all therapy areas. Previously, he trained as a Physician Associate at St Georges Hospital Medical School.

Dominic Pritchard

Recruitment Consultant

Taylor Whelpton

Senior Consultant

Taylor works across Europe supporting global Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical clients by providing freelance project management and engineering support. He started his career in recruitment in 2018 and hasn’t looked back since!

Taylor Whelpton

Senior Consultant

Izzy Pike

Marketing Intern

Izzy’s sector is within Marketing and Events across BioTalent, specialising in promoting content, bespoke marketing analysis and helping to organise upcoming events (internal and external). She has joined us to help support our Marketing Manager.

Izzy Pike

Marketing Intern

Josh Greaves

Senior Consultant

Josh specialises in sourcing senior talent in the Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs space in the Medical Device sector across Europe.