Judith Beck
Managing Director

Judith is the Founder and Managing Director of Financial Recruitment Group, and has extensive experience in Executive Search within the financial services industry for the past 18 years, along with ten years experience within Banking and Finance. Judith held several management positions within major financial institutions in Australia and overseas.

Judith has successfully placed hundreds of candidates over the years at Senior to MD level. Judith has a high profile in the industry and has been a mentor to some of Australia's most successful executives.

Judith has completed her MBA in Human Resource Management and is also a member of the Financial Planning Association.

Nigel Haworth
Executive Director

Nigel has been in the Recruitment Industry for 28 years, with the last 17 years building, running, and listing recruitment companies.  He has extremely diverse business knowledge from Executive Search in London, Singapore and Hong Kong to $100 million plus businesses across broad vertical markets.

Between the years of 1993 to 1999, Nigel built and listed with two partners a diverse business (Empresaria) in London.  At the same time he established Sheffield Haworth to focus on the Investment Banking sector in London.  He brings with him a strong ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels across a broad product base.  He has excellent people management skills engendering loyalty and a focused work ethic.  Along with a natural appetite to build business and identify niche opportunities, he is well versed in the process of Acquisition, Joint Ventures, and Integration.  His high level of negotiating ability is complimented by a successful and demonstrable track record in driving organisational and cultural change.  Along with international experience in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, he has successful and demonstrable experience in building multi-dimensional organisations across multi sites and geographies.

In his last major position as CEO of Westaff and under his guidance between 2002 and 2007, Westaff's revenue doubled to in excess of $130 million in 2007 and the company was rewarded with a dramatically increased EBIT performance.  All of this growth was organic.  During the years 2006, 2007, and 2008 Westaff achieved extremely high levels of employee, customer, and candidate engagement.  This was recognised with the Hewitt Award for Best Employer in Australia and New Zealand in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the Employer of Choice for Women in the Workplace in 2007 and 2008, and the Sara (Seek) Award as voted by customers and candidates in 2008 and 2009.

Gordon Kerr
Executive Director

Gordon has been a senior manager in the Human Resources & Recruitment Industry for the last 27 years, with the last 14 years spent growing and developing the businesses he has been involved in through careful shaping of key growth market sectors.  Gordon has worked for large corporations in both the United States and Australia, and in 1996 Gordon built his own Management & HR Consultancy (The Kerr Group).

Gordon is a growth focused consultative manager who enjoys discovering new target markets and revenue streams to further complement existing revenues. In addition, Gordon takes genuine interest in the growth and success of individuals who wish to upskill, take on greater responsibility, and strive to bring strong value to the companies they represent.  Gordon has had a great deal of experience in company mergers and acquisitions, and understands the necessity for solid strategic planning, communication, and implementation models that allow for smooth and effective transitions.

Lena Coates
Senior Consultant

Lena has been with Financial Recruitment Group since 1995. Lena's extensive experience covers conducting specialist assignments at senior level recruitment. Lena has placed a cross-section of financial service professionals within the financial services industry on a national basis. Since joining Financial Recruitment Group, Lena has developed and grown her extensive industry networks and contacts, and has a solid reputation in the recruitment industry for delivering high quality solutions to her financial services clients.

Lena holds a Diploma of Business Administration. As part of continuing professional development, Lena also attends selected education and networking forums.

Conor Donoghue
State Manager, NSW

Conor joined Financial Recruitment Group in 2004 and has been recruiting within the financial services industry in Australia since 1999. As a professional Executive Search Consultant he has gained substantial experience in sourcing and recruiting a broad range of professionals across funds and asset management, as well as wealth management within New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

Specific areas of speciality include:

• Business Development Managers
• Key Account Managers
• National Distribution Managers
• Practice Development Managers
• Compliance & Professional Standards
• Technical & Paraplanning Managers
• State & National Managers
• Product Development.

Prior to working within Executive Search, Conor was involved in financial services sales into Europe & the USA, as well as training and relationship management positions.

Conor holds a BA (Hons) Human Resource Management as well as a Higher National Diploma in Business Studies, and is a member of the Financial Planning Association.

Martin Rush
Senior Consultant

Martin recently joined Financial Recruitment Group as Senior Consultant, based in our Melbourne office.  Martin has worked within the Banking & Finance industry for over 13 years, with institutions including Prudential Securities, JBWere, Toronto Dominion Bank, and ANZ Global Markets.

Since 2009, Martin has taken that experience and applied it to the banking and financial recruitment space, drawing on a vast network of contacts and relationships across the market not only in Melbourne, but Australia-wide.

Martin's specialty areas include search work in:

• Business, Corporate & Institutional Banking
• FX & Money Markets
• Wealth & Financial Planning
• Trade & Equipment Finance

Stephanie Gregory
National Office Manager

Stephanie is the National Office Manager and has been with Financial Recruitment Group for 12 years. Stephanie has previous experience in office management roles within the executive search and selection industry and also within the political arena in South Australia, where she worked with the Leader of the Opposition, the Premier, and the Minister for Primary Industries and Mines & Energy as Secretary/Personal Assistant.

Stephanie is the first point of contact for Financial Recruitment Group's clients and candidates, and prides herself on providing excellent customer service in a friendly and efficient manner, which in turn enables her to establish strong relationships with both clients and candidates. Stephanie has recently completed the Certificate IV in Business Administration which has further enhanced her administrative and organisation skills, to ensure the smooth running of the office, allowing the Consultants to concentrate on the business of executive search.