Our Global Team

Chris is the CEO of Zeren, responsible for setting the company’s strategy and developing the global team. Chris has 20 years experience of leading high-performing recruitment and search businesses, working with clients in USA, Europe and Asia across the Investor and Technology landscape.

Matt is the Managing Director of our US business. Matt has 20+ years in building global recruitment businesses and specializes in consulting with clients to assist with rapid growth. His background in specialty recruitment ranges from large scale EPC Engineering projects to the high-growth tech space including biotech, fintech, tech dev and tech sales.

Matthieu brings nearly 15 years of recruitment experience, gained across APAC and Europe, helping fast-growing companies scale their technology, product, marketing and sales teams. He has also built and led several high-performing recruitment teams globally, and is leading Zeren’s expansion across Europe.

Hetal is the CFO at Zeren leading all aspects of Finance and Operations across the business. Hetal brings over 20 years of experience in business and financial management focused on the recruitment sector as well as broader, Private Equity backed companies.

Harry is a Senior Director at Zeren, leading the Go-To-Market Team specialising in Sales, Customer Success, Pre-Sales and Marketing hires for high-growth tech businesses, typically with $1M to $450M of funding. Earlier in his career, Harry founded two tech start-ups, securing funding with a UK-wide presence.

Chris a Senior Director at Zeren, leading the UK Technology and Product functions, specialising Engineering and Data. He has 14 years’ experience, specialising across the SME and high growth Technology sector. Prior to joining Zeren, Chris built technology functions at both Robert Walters and the SThree Group.

Jen is a Director at Zeren, leading our Interim & Consulting business function with nearly 15 years of experience providing specialist Executive-level talent on demand. She assists start-ups, high-growth scale-ups and large multinational corporates to fill critical gaps or carry out major change and transformation projects.

Dan is a Director at Zeren, leading the Operations team, specialising in People, Finance and Operations hires for high-growth tech businesses. Dan has over 10 years of experience working with companies to hire great leaders and build high performing teams.

Hannah is a Director at Zeren with responsibility for the Research Team, Marketing and Operations to support and empower excellent client delivery. Hannah joined the Zeren team in 2018, moving across from PE-backed Trainline where she focused on Talent Acquisition and Management across commercial and technology functions.

Siobhain is Zeren's Global Head of Marketing and is based at our UK Headquarters. Siobhain has seven years' worth of marketing experience within the recruitment space and has built a strong track record of shaping and leading marketing functions for high-growth, technology-focused recruitment businesses. Having joined in 2022, Siobhain supports all marketing activities across the entire business and plays a pivotal role in the continued growth and success of ZEREN.

Rob is the Partner in the US for Zeren’s Sales & Marketing Practice, specializing in senior-level strategic hires for high-growth Tech VC and PE start-ups and scale-ups, B2B Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Internet. He brings deep experience in retained search on both coasts, working with investors, founders, and leadership teams. Recent clients include: - Dataiku (Capital G, Battery Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Insight Venture Partners) - Wayflyer (LeftLane Capital), LeafLink (Founders Fund) - CausaLens (Molten Ventures) - Katana (Atomico) - Siteimprove (Nordic Capital) - YouNow (Union Square Ventures, Venrock)

Monika is a Partner at Zeren, leading the US Technology Practice. She has an extensive background working with high-growth businesses both as a search partner and a leader. Her specialty within Tech and Digital hires spans across VC and PE start-ups, scale-ups as well as established enterprises.

Lisette is a Partner at Zeren US and will be building out its marketing capabilities. Prior to Zeren, Lisette partnered with commercial leaders to launch and expand teams in the Biotechnology/Life Science sector at Compass Consulting Group and will be bringing her experience into the technology sector.

Jean-Pierre is a Director at Zeren, based in Germany, and combines many years of Recruitment experience and Tech Entrepreneurship throughout Asia and Europe, specialising in placing senior hires in across the Tech and Digital fields.

Will is a Director in Zeren’s Commercial team, specialising in placing Commercial hires into the SaaS market. Prior to Zeren, Will was a Managing Partner with the search firm DHR International based in Hong Kong and London, specialising in digital transformation for clients at all stages of growth.

Tom is the Director of Zeren’s Marketing division, specialising in Growth, Digital, Brand, and Product Marketing. He partners with high growth and transformative technology businesses across both B2B and B2C sectors, hiring talent across Europe. Prior to Zeren, Tom was part of the founding team at one of London’s leading Marketing recruitment agencies.

Paul is a Director at Zeren where he leads the Product Management recruitment team, partnering with some of the hottest tech companies across UK & Europe. Paul has deep knowledge of the product space, and specialises in placing the product leadership roles.

Alan is a Director in Zeren’s Commercial team, specialising in placing Customer Success and Post Sale roles into high-growth tech businesses. Alan has a long recruitment career, including successfully founding and exiting Just Digital, a specialist B2B SaaS recruiter who worked extensively with investor backed businesses.

Helder is a Director of Technology for Zeren’s Interim & Consulting division, and is based in London. Born and raised in Portugal, Helder has shy to 15 years of experience in the IT recruitment domain. Helder has worked global markets, with a special focus on emergent markets like LATAM, EMEA and the CIS region as well as the Sub-Saharan region, but also Mature markets, such as the UK, Europe and the US.

Chris is a Director at Zeren, leading the interim HR, Finance and Operations business as part of the executive interim and consulting practice. Chris comes with 15 years worth of experience in international executive search and interim and consulting, assisting entrepreneurial SMEs, start-ups and high-growth scale-ups through to large multinational organisations going through people, process and transformational change.

Sistla is an Associate Director at Zeren leading the IT Infrastructure and Security function and has seven years' worth of experience in this market across the UK and APAC. Her expertise lies in building technical leadership teams across high-growth Tech businesses through to large corporate firms.

Imad has more than eight years of experience supporting high-growth and established businesses in Asia and Europe, supporting key stakeholders in scaling their finance and business support functions. Holding a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Finance, Imad has a wealth of working experience in the domain prior to getting into recruitment. He's also known for his ability to find the right talent depending on our unique client's needs by leveraging his robust network of top-tier finance professionals.

Stephen is an Associate Partner in Zeren’s USA Technology Practice. He has over ten years of experience in technology recruitment, specializing in all facets of engineering, data and product. With a track record of success in placing all levels of leadership for enterprises and VC/PE start-ups, his passion lies in the world of technology and digital transformations: he brings a recruiting strategy to execute all searches successfully.

Andreas is a Manager at Zeren, based in Berlin, and is a member of our DACH Commercial hiring team. Andreas is responsible for identifying the best Sales talent on behalf of venture capital backed startups and scaleups, from VP Level and leadership roles, down to senior managers and individual contributors across Europe.

Austin is a Manager at Zeren, based in Berlin, and is a member of our DACH Technology hiring team. Austin is responsible for identifying the best technology talent on behalf of venture capital backed startups and scale-ups, from VP Level and leadership roles, down to senior managers and individual contributors across Europe.

Bethany is the Research Manager for the US division of Zeren, leading the US research team in developing best practices and designing comprehensive and individualized tools and materials to create innovative search strategies tailored to each client’s specific needs. Prior to Zeren, Bethany was a Senior Research Associate focused on supporting executive level searches across all organization functions in a variety of industries throughout the US.

Simon is a Principal Consultant at Zeren, within the Senior Finance division, operating from our London office. He typically works with clients who are pre-revenue start-ups, through to £200M turnover established technology brands, placing financial leaders from £70k-150k on a retained basis. Simon has over six years' worth of experience within this space and has developed an established network within it that continues to grow.

Joey is the Executive Assistant to Chris Preston, as well as the team Operations Coordinator. Aside from looking after Chris's schedule, she spends much of her time coordinating various operational needs across our global locations. She has over 5 years’ experience in event management which lends itself to this role, partially organizing office renovations, re-locations and team events.

Hailey is the Executive Assistant to Matt Evelt and is a member of Zeren's Operations Coordinating team. Hailey works on Matt’s administrative needs, such as looking after his schedule, and spends much of her time coordinating various operational needs throughout the USA. She has over 4 years’ experience in executive support, client relations and organizational leadership.

Acrelda is a Finance Manager at Zeren. Acrelda has worked for Zeren since the company formed in 2018. Her role covers HR/payroll, purchase ledger and general finance support. She has over 25 years of experience working for a variety of organisations including creative, manufacturing and leisure industries.

Priya is a Credit Control Manager at Zeren, supporting the group finance function.

Vlad is a Senior Management accountant at Zeren, supporting the group finance function. He has 8 years of experience of working in finance departments within professional services agencies.

Liam is a Senior Consultant in Zeren’s Commercial practice. Liam partners with clients across Europe, bringing 6 years of commercial recruitment experience within the high-growth VC-backed tech space, including market-entry mandates, leadership searches and team build-out projects.

Calum is a Senior Consultant at Zeren within the Technology practice. Based in Munich, Calum partners with clients across Europe within the high-growth VC-backed Tech space including team build out projects to Senior Technology roles.

Thibault is a Senior Consultant at Zeren, working for 4 years in Commercial Recruitment within the high-growth VC-backed tech space, from Seeds to pre-IPO stage. He has experience placing profiles from Individual Contributors to Leadership positions across Europe. Thibault is bilingual in French and English.

Dan is a Senior Consultant at Zeren, building Software Engineering teams for high-growth technology companies across the UK. His market knowledge within Ruby, Java and Golang has proved invaluable for VC/PE-backed start-ups and corporate businesses going through their growth journeys, as they venture into the competitive world of acquiring talented Software Engineers.

Oli is a Senior Consultant within the commercial team at Zeren. His core focus is on senior level go-to-market hires across EMEA. Oli has successfully partnered with multiple high-growth tech businesses, helping them scale their commercial teams across sales, marketing, account management and customer success.

Eugene is a Senior Consultant within the Commercial team at Zeren. He has over 5 years of experience successfully partnering with VC backed technology companies who are scaling their commercial teams across Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success across the UK and EMEA regions.

Gavin is a Senior Consultant with Zeren in the Software Engineering & Data Practice, working closely with Engineering leaders in high-growth start-ups from Seed to Series B to scale their Engineering teams

Tom is a Senior Consultant within the Marketing team at Zeren. Based out of the London office, Tom has extensive experience placing Marketing professionals predominantly within the B2B sector across all key disciplines, working across the UK and Europe.

Kyle is a Senior Consultant at Zeren US, helping grow the US practice while specializing in placing commercial and marketing executives in emerging tech markets globally. Earlier in his career, Kyle was a key component in helping grow two divisions at multiple search firms.

Lillie is a Senior Consultant at Zeren, leading the Tech Sales practice in Austin, Texas. She specializes in senior sales placements for private equity-backed businesses, late-stage venture capital, and founder-led companies in SaaS and software-based verticals. Earlier in her career, Lillie worked for Bespoke Partners as a Principal Executive Recruiter, focused on retained search for private equity clients and their portfolio companies. She also worked for GLG, a primary research platform, managing Research and Recruiting teams serving Corporate Markets.

Josué is a Consultant in Zeren’s Engineering and Data practice and works within the high growth technology sector. Josué partners with businesses going through Data scale journeys and has over 2 years of commercial recruitment experience, including mid-senior level mandates and team build-out projects.

Based in London, Nick is a Consultant in the Product team at Zeren specialising in Product Design partnering with high-growth B2B and B2C businesses. Nick possesses a track record of success in placing hires in VC/PE backed companies in the PropTech space throughout the UK and Europe.

Ken is a Consultant at Zeren, on the Go-To-Market Team specialising in Sales, Customer Success, Pre-Sales and Marketing hires for high-growth VC/PE backed tech businesses, typically with $1M to $500M of funding. Before Zeren, Ken worked for Integrity Power Search as a Director of Talent, helping attract top talent to VC backed startups in early stage. He focused on all executive level roles for their GTM team.

Oscar is a Consultant, and a member of Zeren’s Product Management practice. He works closely with high growth companies, typically VC or PE backed, that are looking to build out their Product function: Product Managers, Leads and Head of Product. Oscar has experience working on mandates in both EMEA and the US.

Fatima is an Associate Consultant at Zeren, sitting within the Commercial team, specialising in Sales hires for high-growth VC backed and PE backed tech businesses. Her passion for the tech industry stems from investing in FinTech and having worked for Google and Facebook.

Charlotte is a Senior Associate at Zeren’s London office, working across all 6 functions, Sales & Marketing, Product & Engineering, and People and Finance for Zeren’s clients across EMEA and the US. Charlotte brings over 3 years experience working for the Global Non Profit and Social Impact sector, focusing on executive and non-executive appointments.

Lucy is a Senior Associate with Zeren, focusing on research across all functional areas to help identify the ideal candidates. She brings previous experience from the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, having worked on a variety of senior-level appointments across Europe and the USA.

Dylan is a Senior Associate at Zeren based in Boston, working on searches across numerous hiring functions. Before Zeren, Dylan was a Senior Research Consultant at Morgan Samuels, where she led research for Private Equity-backed clients in the Technology, Industrials, and Aerospace industries. She also worked at a search firm serving Social Impact and Non-Profit clients, and in Non-Profits in Direct Service roles.

Pierre is a Senior Associate in Zeren’s DACH region. He brings over one year recruitment experience and is supporting the Head of DACH across all functional focus area for Zeren. He specialises on mid-to-senior level technology roles and helps B2B SaaS clients scale across the DACH region.

Sefik is a Senior Associate at Zeren. He brings a year and a half of recruitment experience within Information Technology sector across various industries and partners with a range of clients across the DACH region.

Kayla is a Research Associate with Zeren in the US, where she focuses on mapping projects to support searches for our clients, and candidates nationwide for sales, marketing, sales operations, and business operations roles. She brings prior recruiting experience, and a strong passion for building out successful teams.

Sean is an Associate for Zeren based on the West Coast in the US. He primarily focuses on Targeted Landscapes and generating candidate profiles for sales, marketing, and various operational roles. He brings previous experience working with the Ad Agency sector, where he worked with various Publicis Groupe subsidiaries, Simpli.Fi, and IAB.

Ben is an Associate at Zeren, working alongside the DACH team whilst based in our London office. Ben has prior experience in Executive Search, having previously recruited Senior Executives in the Tech sector across Europe, the UK, and the US.

Basia is an Associate at Zeren, focusing on providing research for the Technology and Engineering team. She has a background in Executive Search and the wider tech space with a keen interest in BCT and AI.

Christina is an Associate at Zeren and part of the company’s Research team based in London. She aids the team in implementing extensive research strategy and providing the highest calibre of talent solutions within Zeren’s Commercial function.

Francesca is an Associate at Zeren specialising in Product, and provides high-calibre research and market intelligence for high-growth tech businesses. Previously in her career, Francesca also had experience in both senior-level Recruiting and Tech Marketing in both Asia and in the UK.

Tony is the Chairman and a member of the Board at Zeren. In his role, Tony works with the CEO, CFO and Non-Executive Directors on strategic planning to ensure ambitious growth plans are achieved. During his earlier career, Tony held senior leadership positions with Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart and British Telecom.

Thomas is a Non-Executive Director of Zeren and the co-Founder and Managing Partner of Renovata & Company, based in London. Thomas has worked across the high-growth technology landscape for the last 25 years and is an expert search partner with a deep track record across VC, Growth and Private Equity.

Mannie is a Non-Executive Director of Zeren and the co-Founder and a Partner with Renovata & Company, based in New York. Mannie has worked across the high-growth technology landscape for the last 25 years and is an expert search partner with a deep track record across VC, Growth and Private Equity.