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.

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.

Heidi joined the Renovata & Company platform in 2023 to develop and lead across all HR, People and Talent areas with a focus on Learning and Development for our global team, along with Talent Acquisition to support our future growth.

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.

Harry is Zeren's UK Managing Director and leads all permanent recruitment divisions across our UK business. Harry joined Zeren as its fourth employee, originally launching and growing our sales business and focusing on GTM functions for businesses across Venture Capital, Growth and Private Equity. Earlier in his career, Harry founded two tech start-ups, securing funding with a UK-wide presence.

Based between Spain and London, Julia has spent 20 years working in Search and Consulting, having co-founded and led teams at Cornell Partnership for over 8 years. She has since worked in Search, Embedded Talent and Interim, with a focus on Venture and Growth sectors.

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.

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.

Thomas has eight years of recruitment experience and has supported founder-led companies for five of those. He has worked closely with the executive teams of many companies such as Revolut, Miro and McKinsey Digital, and served as interim Head of Talent Acquisition at Shippeo. At Zeren, he is responsible for leading the Embedded Business Unit and is responsible for the quality of service delivery.

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, Marketing 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.

Ali is a seasoned professional with over a decade of experience in senior-level recruitment and Executive Search. As a Director in Zeren’s Go-To-Market (GTM) team, Ali has built an impressive career working across the UK, EMEA, and US markets. His primary focus is on collaborating with investor-backed high-growth tech companies, including those in the VC & PE sectors. Ali specialises in helping these businesses establish exceptional Go-To-Market teams worldwide, with a particular emphasis on leadership hires in Sales, Marketing and Customer Success. Prior to his role at Zeren, Ali played a pivotal role in spearheading GTM hiring efforts at a boutique Executive Search firm headquartered in London.

Paul is the Director of our EU Operations practice. He focuses on executive search for Finance, Operations, Strategy, HR and Talent across Europe. He is based in Amsterdam and helps businesses with their hiring across our hubs in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam.

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.

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.

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.

Luca is a Principal Consultant in the Berlin office, focusing on Commercial / GTM roles Across Europe (DACH and Germany most heavily). She has extensive experience in the SaaS and Big Data space as she has been specialising in it for the past 4 years. She is your go-to person for any Commercial roles from mid-senior to leadership level in the region.

Quentin is a Senior Consultant at Zeren, building Sales and Marketing teams for high-growth technology companies across the EU.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eva comes with a wealth of experience in recruiting for software & data. Her extensive background in the European tech market, particularly in FinTechs, InsurTechs, start-ups, and trading firms, makes her a perfect fit for our team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deya is a multilingual Associate at the Tech and Product Team within ZEREN where she supports leading PE and VC backed high growth software companies, helping them to source senior Commercial, Technology and Operations talent across the UK. She is an experienced recruiter with exposure to the start-up space throughout her career.

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.

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.

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

Joey is the Operations Manager for our UK & EU teams. Following her recent promotion from EA & Operations Coordinator, she now spends much of her time maximising the efficiency of our systems, coordinating the UK summer office move as well as supporting Finance & Marketing. She has over 5 years’ experience in event management which lends itself to this role, partially when organising platform engagement events, incentive trips and team quarterly socials.

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.

Mark join the Renovata & Company and Zeren board at the start of 2023. Mark has had an incredible career, having founded and led the SR Group over the last 35 years.

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.