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meet the team

about Origin HR

meet the team

	Leigh Carpenter - Senior Director - EMEA Leigh Carpenter has over twelve years' recruitment and RPO experience. Leigh has been with the Randstad group for over 9 years and formed part of the management team that launched our first UK MSP brand in 2004, which subsequently joined forces with Origin in 2008. Leigh has operational responsibility across the business and continues to drive the organisation and its people forward.
	Lisa Forrest - Resourcing & Information Director Lisa has over twelve years' experience in HR consultancy, project management and recruitment (both onsite and off site) gained within Randstad companies. Lisa is responsible for graduate recruitment campaigns, internal resourcing and our vendor management program.
	Richard Summers - Implementation Director Richard has over twelve years' experience in recruitment and project management. Richard manages all implementations for new and existing clients for Origin HR. He started his career in a search firm, moved in-house to manage UK and European recruitment for Reuters before joining Origin in 2005. Richard was initially responsible for the implementation and management of Dresdner Kleinwort in London and New York and has for the last two years been responsible for the deployment of EMEA-wide RPO solutions. Richard is also involved in the application of technology solutions, online advertising and branding.
	Rachel Arter - Operations Director - EMEA Rachel has over 10 years' recruitment experience, initially specialising in finance before joining Origin as Recruiter in April 2004. During her time at Origin, Rachel has managed or implemented most of the major Financial Services clients, and now has responsibility for all clients in this sector as well other vertical markets.
	Steve Brown - Financial Controller Steve has over twenty years' experience in senior finance roles within both public and private recruitment companies. He started with specialist IT agencies before moving onto more general recruitment. Steve started his current role as Financial Controller in April 2005, his responsibilities cover all aspects of the Finance operation.
	Jackie Campbell - Sales and Marketing Director Jackie has over 20 years' recruitment and RPO experience within a breadth of client sectors including Media, FMCG, Legal, Property, Accountancy Practice, Investment Management and Banking. She joined Origin as Sales & Marketing Director responsible for business development within new and existing clients. She is also currently responsible for overseeing a number of our on-site recruitment accounts.