Our team of experts in the UK

Alexis de Bretteville

Deputy CEO, Morgan Philips Group

Alexis de Bretteville is Deputy CEO for Morgan Philips Group. He is responsible for the management and leadership of the firm’s operations in the UK, Europe (excluding France), South East Asia and the Americas. Previously, Alexis was the CEO – Europe of Hudson Global Resources before its European recruitment and talent consulting businesses (excluding Benelux) were acquired by Morgan Philips Group in 2018.

Dan Benson

Managing Director, England, Morgan Philips Executive Search

Dan’s made a career out of delivering senior search campaigns to help organisations identify leaders in challenging and changing circumstances. Dan has 15 years’ experience in executive search and leadership consulting working directly for Executive Board level stakeholders to complete projects that range from talent and leadership acquisition to strategic research, market data and insights. He particularly focusses his work on supporting companies in finding modern leaders who effectively translate corporate strategy into tangible business operations, enabled through the use of technology and innovation.

Stuart McRobbie

Director, Scotland, Fyte

Stuart is Director of our Fyte brand in Scotland, covering our offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He leads our Permanent and Contract businesses for IT, Sales, Marketing & Digital, Procurement, Construction and Life Sciences. With over 10 years experience in agency Recruitment, Stuart has a strong track record of building effective teams who consistently exceed client expectations for key hires within their businesses. On a personal level, Stuart also delivers critical hires for our clients with highly effective recruitment campaigns, either single assignments or multiple projects. Detail and information being at the heart of all of these, providing clients with the ability to have conviction in their decisions at the end of robust processes.

Dr Dane Poboka

Managing Director, Talent Consulting

Dane leads the talent consulting business in the UK and plays a key role in shaping the global talent consulting practice for Morgan Philips. He is an experienced leader with over 15 years’ of international consulting experience. In addition to this, he also spent five years as a supervisor for Occupational Psychology Masters students at both Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales.
Dane was awarded his PhD in Psychology in 2017 and is a member of both the British and Australian Psychological Societies. He is passionate about aligning technology and scientific validity with simplicity to improve outcomes for clients as well as making assessment tools more accessible and understandable to organisations.

Laura Buchanan

Director Morgan Philips Specialist Recruitment Scotland

Laura is Director of Morgan Philips in Scotland, overseeing our offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Leading our professional services teams including Finance, HR, Procurement and Executive Search, Laura brings two decades of experience within agency recruitment. Laura remains hands on within Finance recruitment where she has spent most of her career to date as a successful recruiter and leader.  With a strong record of building successful teams who continually exceed candidate and client expectations for key hires within their business, whilst meeting candidate career aspirations.
Leading by example is key for Laura and she remains hands on, delivering critical hires from single assignments to large projects with attention to detail being at the forefront always.  Laura is passionate about her role and of supporting and leading her team, this is very much demonstrated in her work ethic and success to date.

Mubin Ibrahim

Associate Director

Mubin is the Associate Director of Morgan Philips Specialist Recruitment. He recruits across multiple sectors such as healthcare, financial services, fintech, law, public sector, gaming, and much more. Mubin enjoys working with hiring managers to help scale their tech teams for permanent and contract hires.

Mubin enjoys rising to a challenge and has experience filling niche roles whilst delivering a great candidate experience.

Tom Gowing

Managing Director Morgan Philips Specialist Recruitment UK

Tom is the Managing Director responsible for MPSR's UK operations. With 16 years’ experience in the recruitment sector, Tom was Director of Hudson’s professional services operations in London and the South before it was acquired by Morgan Philips Group in April 2018. Previously he was a director at Michael Page, where he looked after teams across Finance and Legal.