Michelle McDaid

Director

2 recommendations

Salary / Daily rate

2 people recommend

United Kingdom

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Talent AcquisitionChange ManagementTrainingSourcingOrganizational DevelopmentTalent ManagementHREmployer BrandingPerformance Management

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Phillip Payton

Clinisys

Contract Manager

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Osita Ngene FCCA, MSc

Bank of America

Senior Architect - Analysis & Design

Recommended on 03 october 2012

About me

Intro

Connecting cutting-edge tech companies with world-class talent!

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Work experience

Director

Raytech Talent

May 2023 - Present

3 years 6 months

Raytech Talent is a values-driven talent consultancy connecting the most cutting-edge companies in the Fintech, SaaS and Emerging Technology markets with world-class talent across Europe and North America. We partner with companies to identify and connect them with the best game-changing, impactful technical talent, who will propel companies to the next level. We're obsessed with providing an incredible, seamless experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike and also offer talent advisory services to maximise the efficiency of your recruitment and interviewing processes. Whether you're looking to hire your next superstar, searching for your next opportunity, or curious how the current market is - we'd love to hear from you!

Operations and People Lead

Stealth Mode

Jan 2023 - May 2023

5 months

Built the Founding team and Operations and People functions for a brand new B2B SaaS company for the European market.

Head of Talent

Zeal

Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

8 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Your all-in-one web3 wallet! Zeal is the web3 wallet that defends your crypto and privacy. Manage all your crypto across networks and apps, with shielded privacy and protection from scams.

Talent Lead

Kana

Oct 2021 - Jul 2022

10 months

Kana is on a mission to automate revenue for the internet. Kana creates building blocks for pricing. Integrate Pricing and Packaging directly into your applications so that your users can have access to the right features, pay for exactly what they want, while being supported by best in class infra. Founded by Chuka Ebi in July 2021, we're backed by early investors in Stripe, Monday.com and Hopin. The first Talent/People hire, I built the Founding team and set up the Talent and People Operations functions from scratch.

Talent Lead

Metomic

Jul 2021 - Jan 2022

7 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Metomic builds trust infrastructure for the internet. Helping tech scale-ups discover and control sensitive data in the cloud, so they can reduce the risk of data breaches, and automate necessary security practices. We're a London based startup backed by some of Europe's best investors and are on a mission to solve one of the internet's biggest problems.

Senior Talent Partner

hyperexponential

Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

4 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

hyperexponential (or 'hx') is an exciting new fintech developing a toolkit to help people build mathematical models with the small, sparse, and fragmented datasets that are regularly used to drive critical decisions in many businesses.

Talent Lead

Hazy

Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

6 months

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Hazy is a synthetic data company. We use advanced AI/ML techniques to generate a new type of smart synthetic data that's both private and safe to work with. Hazy helps some of the world's top banks and insurance companies reduce compliance risk and increase data agility and the speed of data innovation by allowing them to work freely on synthetic data. Use cases for Hazy data in financial services include fraud modelling, financial crime, AML, credit risk, operational risk, asset management and customer engagement. Awards - $1 million Microsoft Innovate AI prize for the best AI startup in Europe - Grand Prix at the prestigious Société Générale Banking CyberSecurity Innovation Awards - CogX Award for Best Innovation In Data Protection And Privacy https://hazy.com/about For our latest jobs: https://apply.workable.com/hazy/

Talent Lead

Curve

May 2019 - Jul 2020

1 year 3 months

London, UK

Helping build the world's first 'connected finance' platform. There are already so many cards; so many banks; so many new providers; so much choice. Curve simplifies the way you spend and save your money - by combining all your accounts into one smart Curve card, and an even smarter mobile app.

Pan EMEA Talent Acquisition Partner

JLL

Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

8 months

London, UK

A professional services firm whose common passions are real estate services and investment management. JLL's knowledge runs deep with specialists in every property type and every facet of transaction, management and advisory services.

Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract)

PayPal

Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

7 months

London, UK

Also managed recruitment for Braintree and Venmo in EMEA

EMEA Talent Acquisition (Contract)

BlackRock

Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

7 months

London, UK

Hired to deliver an urgent scaling project across multiple locations. Onsite via Randstad Sourceright.

Principal Resource Specialist (Contract)

HSBC

Dec 2016 - May 2017

6 months

London, UK

Manager - Experienced Recruitment

PwC

Oct 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 3 months

London, UK

Roles included: - Multiple disciplines into Financial Services Risk and Regulation department - Temps & Contractors desk - 'Back to Business' Returner Programme Onsite via Randstad Sourceright.

Recruitment Manager

Royal Bank of Scotland Business

Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year 5 months

London, UK

Remit included RBS C&IB.

Recruitment Consultant

Pod Talent

Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

11 months

London, UK

Recruitment Consultant

Badenoch & Clark

Apr 2012 - Oct 2013

1 year 7 months

London, UK

Head of HR & Operations

LSH Recycling

Sep 2007 - May 2012

4 years 9 months

Ireland, Shefford SG17 5QL, UK

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