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DNA appointments Strategic Advisor - Farooq Mohammed02-Feb-22

With 2022 upon us, DNA has continued its ambitious global expansion plans into the new year. Kicking off with the appointment of a new Strategic Advisor - Farooq Mohammed. Farooq joins the company with a wealth of knowledge and experience to impart. During his 15 years within the industry, he has worked in senior leadership roles within some of the top global recruitment firms. Having been one of the founding members of the specialist digital recruitment agency, Digital Gurus, Farooq helped build a formidable brand presence in the UK, Dubai, and Sydney. With his focus firmly on strategy and...

DNA continues to grow with a new Head of Creative Recruitment. 02-Dec-21

We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Head of Creative Recruitment - James Bunkin. With his hands on a strategic approach, James brings a wealth of knowledge, along with his 16 years of recruitment experience to the DNA team having worked in leading digital recruitment businesses  ECOM, RGA, Huge and Black Swan. Although specialising in creative, design, and production, James has also worked across a range of sectors in his time, as well as assisting in the upscale of RGA from 20 to 220 people over a 5 year period.  Commenting on joining DNA, James said: “DNA Recruit’s pos...

DNA expands with senior hires11-Nov-21

DNA expands with senior hires DNA Recruit are delighted to announce several new additions to the team including the appointment of Dan Brocklehurst – joining us as Practice Sales Director.  With a strong background in technical and engineering including 10 years in consultant sales and team leadership, Dan brings an additional 7 years of IT and Sales recruitment industry experience. His appointment includes the acquisition of his Cornwall based, specialist infrastructure and emerging technologies agency Air Search.  Commenting on joining DNA, Dan said:  “After two very successful years runn...

DNA make key hires looking towards 202111-Nov-20

DNA make key hires looking towards 2021 DNA Recruit, the specialist marketing, digital and creative recruitment business have appointed Stephen Phillips as Head of Tech to bolster their Technical and Digital recruitment division. Ali said “It’s a really exciting time here at DNA. Having joined the Iliad Group earlier this year, we identified some key strategic hires we wanted to make which would help deliver our ambitious 5-year plan. Talking about Stephen he added “We’re delighted to have Stephen joining the leadership team at DNA. It’s obviously an exciting time in Tech and Digital and at...

Interview with Hannah March10-Nov-20

Interview with Hannah March from Engine 2019 winners of the BD100 Business Development Team of the Year. We are very excited to announce that for the third year running, DNA Recruit will be partnering with The BD100 on their annual awards. Once again, we will be sponsoring the BD Team of the Year award – this year the awards will be held virtually on Thursday, November 26th 2020. 2020 has been a year where collaboration has shone through. We have seen some fantastic examples of virtual teams coming together to work on and deliver pitches with brilliant success. We really want to recognise a...