Key People

Key People

Matt Lodge

Matt Lodge

Chief Executive Officer

Matt specialises in senior level recruitment counsel to companies seeking to grow their business with high calibre teams, effective executives, and board level representatives for public and private enterprise.

Matt founded RSP in 1999 with an office in Sydney followed one year later by the launch of the Melbourne office. Over the next two years these offices were expanded into a regional network of broker partner alliances.

A recognised and respected regional entrepreneur, Matt has been involved in several successful start-ups since the mid nineties; including two high profile IPO's. Prior to the incorporation of RSP, his main focus was in emerging ICT technologies and wholesale telecommunications companies. He had a particular interest in deregulating markets and their economic impact on neighbouring countries throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Matt has passionately driven RSP's mandate since inception, firmly believing that providing premium, all encompassing, partnership-based service to an exclusive portfolio of clients makes far more sense commercially than simply completing ad-hoc assignments for hundreds of different businesses simultaneously. This cornerstone philosophy has resulted in RSP becoming the fastest growing recruitment company in Australia over a six year period and also one of the one-hundred fastest growing businesses in the country from any industry group. It has also enabled Matt to spearhead RSP's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region.

Matt is regularly featured in national and regional media as a recruitment innovator and insightful commentator. He is very much considered an industry authority.

Max King

Max King

Managing Director

Maximilian Hugo Paul King (Max) completed a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree at the University College London in 1995. He became a qualified chartered accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Max began his career with PriceWaterhouse Coopers in their London Bridge office within the Media and Entertainment Section of the Audit and Business Advisory Services Division. His main clients included BMG Records, Thomson Publishing and the legendary Elton John.

Upon his permanent arrival to Australia Max became the group Financial Controller of Merivale in 2000, a highly successful predominantly Sydney-based hospitality and property business. Max was instrumental to the opening of the iconic Establishment Hotel, as well as the overall operational and financial management of several other hotels within the group.

Max subsequently enjoyed a successful tenure as Chief Financial Officer (Oceania) of Louis Vuitton Fashion Group prior to being headhunted by RSP in order for him to take on his current role.

Firmly entrenched within the regional senior management team at RSP, Max provides high-level strategic support and direction to the company and its stakeholders in all matters of finance and commerce. In late 2005 Max, in conjunction with the company's external advisors successfully effected RSP's corporate restructure. A re-engineering of RSP's back of house operations was undertaken to continually improve the accuracy and efficiency of all processes and information. Additionally Max oversees all of RSP's financial management, budgeting, cash flow forecasting, expenditure and continuously provides meaningful analysis of relevant targets and KPI's.

Julia Byrne

Julia Byrne

Client Services Director

Julia is an international recruiter of significant pedigree with senior executive experience in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. She has managed multi-million dollar recruitment programs with major employers across banking and finance, utilities, airlines, technology and government departments. Julia was appointed an Executive Director in 2001.

Prior to joining RSP, she worked with listed recruitment company, Morgan & Banks, as National Business Solutions Manager for four years. Julia spent the previous six years developing and managing branch networks for Drake International where she was responsible for branch operations in Seattle and Vancouver.

She has developed and implemented major organisational change programs, profit improvement, strategic sales training of business executives and improving overall service delivery for client organisations. Her experience includes the development of strong strategic alliances across industries as well as leading and motivating teams of highly driven consultants.

Julia's recruitment career commenced in London with Brook Street Bureau in 1983. Her early success as a branch manager led to a $1million profit for that company in a twelve week period and an award for the most successful branch in the UK.

An admired and widely respected member of RSP for the past several years, the introduction of notable Employers of Choice such as Apple, Commander and 3 to RSP can be attributed directly to Julia.

Matt Dunham

Matt Dunham

Managing Director (Singapore)

Matt possesses more than ten years International recruitment experience, the most recent of which have been entirely focused on the IT Security, Risk & Audit sectors.

Commencing his recruitment career with Personnel Selection UK in 1995, Matt immediately gained a strong reputation as an IT recruiter of some note and subsequently became a target for other leading recruitment organisations and joined Jigsaw in 1998.

Arriving in Australia in 2000, Matt enjoyed Senior Consultant (360 degree), team management, and general management positions and became the pre-eminent regional recruiter in his area of expertise – IT Security, Risk & Audit. His regional client list includes but is not limited to leading businesses such as Cybertrust, Ericsson, NAB, TCNZ, ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, CSFB & Deutsche Bank.

Matt joined RSP in Sydney in early 2005 and by the end of that year was its leading revenue generator, effectively quadrupling the standard industry average figures.

Taking advantage of the stellar growth within his industry vertical regionally, together with his overall management and client service skills, Matt became Country Manager of RSP's Singapore operation in early 2006. Covering the region from this significant technological hub, Matt and his team’s focus remains firmly entrenched within the medium to senior-executive level IT Security, Risk & Audit sectors. Typical positions covered include Technology Risk Consultants and Risk Managers, Security Consultants (Senior, Managing and Principal), Penetration Testers, Senior IT Audit Managers (AVP and Associate Director-level) and Chief Information Security Officers.

Mark Forsyth

Mark Forsyth

Director (Singapore)

Mark possesses more than twenty years international-markets business experience in a prolific career already spanning the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, Continental Europe, the USA and more recently the Asia-Pacific region.

Commencing his international career with DHL Worldwide Express, Mark spent thirteen years in corporate finance and general management. For the majority of his tenure Mark was responsible for successfully identifying and developing new markets, geographical expansion, margin improvement as well as finance and treasury. Mark personally developed and managed from start-up the Eastern European businesses for DHL between 1988 and 1992. In his final role with the company, Mark was the Global Manager for Cost and Margin Measurement, reporting directly to the board of directors.

During the past several years Mark has commuted between Australia and Asia (primarily Singapore) and is the principal behind Far-Shore Business Solutions, a regional consulting firm assisting Australasian businesses to successfully enter major Asian markets. He specialises in the areas of market penetration, corporate re-structure, effective tax minimisation, transfer pricing, business acquisition and mergers and acquisition.

Mark is an active member of our Singapore-based regional business and is responsible for providing strategic advice and direction regarding RSP's expansion throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.

Wendi Chee

Wendi Chee

Manager, Key Accounts Team (Singapore)

Wendi joined RSP in Singapore following a successful and distinguished tenure at one of Singapore's most highly-regarded and well-established boutique agencies.

Prior to embarking on her recruitment career, Wendi gained in-depth knowledge of the Information Technology and Banking recruitment industry working for Federal Express and JP Morgan within their technology support and applications development departments. This hands-on experience furnished Wendi with a thorough understanding of client requirements while arming her with the ability to execute the recruitment process in a decisive and purposeful manner. She was integral to the successful process of search and selection of senior candidates ranging from IT Executives to global CEO’s.

Predominantly involved in developing, maintaining and improving managing business for RSP within the IT and banking sectors, Wendi provides high-level specialist counsel to marquee MNC’s throughout the Asia Pacific. Her portfolio of clients includes JP Morgan, UBS, MasterCard, Oracle, and Citigroup.

Extensively travelled, Wendi’s overall professional offering is further enhanced from having lived and worked in Korea, Geneva and Singapore. Wendi speaks fluent Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Teow Chew, Korean, French, Bahasa Melayu, Indonesian and English.

Wendi's core focus with RSP is working closely with retail and investment banks, system integrators and vendors. Typical regional placements include Security Architects, IT Audit Managers & Directors, Principal Security Consultants, Technology Risk Consultants and Managers, and Chief Information Security Officers.

wchee@rsprecruitment.com

Jennifer Craig

Jennifer Craig

Manager, Business Support Team

Jenny has a strong, professional and well-recognised aptitude for recruitment within Information Communications Technology space as well as mid to high-level administrative recruitment assignments. At RSP she is responsible for the management and overall performance of a team of six Project Team Consultants and is a long term member of the senior management team. Working closely and proactively with her team, Jenny has overall responsibility for the company's national volume-recruitment activity, including assessment centres and candidates skills and psychometric-based testing.

Utilising her extensive experience in project management as well as her extremely pleasant and professional manner, Jenny has been instrumental in the successful completion of several large volume-based, national recruitment projects including the highly successful simultaneous deployment of more than twelve hundred permanent staff over five states on one occasion, as well as ongoing large contact-centre based projects.

Jenny joined RSP as one of its original employees from Ireland where she worked for Onyx Software as a marketing assistant on campaigns covering technology, finance, and telecommunications. Previously she worked in the Irish property sector for Cullen Development.

Christopher O'Brien

Christopher O'Brien

Account Manager

Chris Joined RSP in 2003 as an Account Manager immediately complimenting that team's unique focus towards professional client delivery and strategic service. With more than six years of technology recruitment experience, Chris quickly moved into exclusively recruiting in the Security, Technology, Risk & Compliance markets. Chris's niche focus is within the particularly tight candidate market recruitment of professionals including Security Architects, Design Engineers, Firewall Engineers and Consultants within the Compliance, Governance, Vulnerability Assessment and Business Continuity Planning areas.

Focused on consistently delivering, as well as building a detailed understanding of RSP's client's businesses, Chris has achieved staggering fill rates, benchmarked against industry standards, resulting in the renewal of a number of preferred supplier agreements and prolific account growth in hiring activity. His client list includes but is not limited to leading businesses such as Cybertrust, NAB, TCNZ, ABN Amro and Unisys.

Chris was recruited by RSP from the UK to take up his role. He was previously with Merit Recruitment for four years where he was responsible for placing IT & T professionals into clients within the IT Outsourcing, Telecommunication, Software Development and Electronic industries. He joined Merit Recruitment as a Business Development Executive, moving to IT recruitment and specialist placements. Chris graduated with a Bachelors degree in Business Studies.

Janine Pace

Janine Pace

Account Manager

Janine has extensive experience within the customer service, sales and marketing, contact-centre management sectors, and has also developed sound internal recruitment experience across the Banking and Finance, Hospitality and Tourism industries.

Commencing her career with Westpac Banking Corporation's Broken Hill office in 1983, Janine gained experience across all facets of branch and call-centre functionality, prior to becoming the Call-Centre Manager with a large wine company who at that time were utilising the relatively new sales channel of direct marketing.

Joining RSP in 2003 as a member of the Project Team, Janine initially focused primarily on volume recruitment assignments. Her easy consultative manner, together with her sincere commitment to success, ensured Janine's ability to identify clients requirements and produce industry-high completion and retention rates.

Janine was promoted to Account Manager in early 2005, subsequently partnering with national and global companies such as HSBC, Unwired Australia, Apple, Hutchison and Commander. She is regularly commended by her clients on her down-to-earth, honest and proactive approach to building and maintaining strong working relationships.

Janine enjoys ongoing success with RSP, having won the prestigious Bottom Line Contribution Award three times in one year. She is also consistently one of the top three billers in the group. A significant part of her success is due to having the ability to look outside the traditional sourcing methods for effective candidates.

Monique Skalsky

Monique Skalsky

Account Manager

Monique joined the RSP team in January 2005 after graduating from UNSW with a Bachelor of Social Science Majoring in Human Resource Management.

Monique brings a fresh, energetic approach to recruitment. She specialises in the recruitment of Temporary personnel for Call Centre and Business Support roles across a range of industries.

Monique has successfully placed temps on both long and short term contracts with with clients such as Nokia, Commander, Hutchison, Datacom and AAPT.

Volume recruitment is also one of Monique’s strong capabilities, incorporating assessment centres and skills testing. She has successfully large resource requirements for some of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies and large outsourced call centres.

Monique prides herself on her quality and consistency of service delivery to both candidates and clients.

Lynn Koo

Lynn Koo

Research and Finance Manager (Singapore)

Lynn has a strong professional, regionally-focussed interest in recruitment and has the overall responsibility for day-to-day finance, administration and high level research at RSP in Singapore.

Prior to joining RSP in 2004, Lynn worked with Singaporean companies registering multi-million dollar annual turnover and was responsible for the driving of operational performance and maximizing the value of these companies businesses. She led a team of six accountants and was responsible for the overall direction and control of all financial matters.

Lynn has also developed and implemented major organisational change programs incorporating profit improvement, employee learning and development and policies and procedures.

Lynn was instrumental in the success of RSP's regional corporate restructuring in late 2005.

Vivien Nicholls

Vivien Nicholls

Finance & Human Resource Assistant

Vivien joined RSP in July of 2005 to help bolster the company's back office support functionality. Within a very short timeframe Vivien's efforts began to positively impact the overall performance of the department. She possesses heightened attention to detail skills and is known for the perfectionist approach with which she carries on her work.

Vivien provides meaningful financial data and administrative support to RSP's CFO, Human Resource Manager and other members of the senior management team on a daily basis. She is responsible for the compilation and management of many of the reports that enable the business to run smoothly and allow the full integration and cooperation of front and back office systems and procedures.

Predominantly spending her time on financially-based assignments, Vivien also oversees RSP's accounts payable and receivable traffic alongside our external providers. Payroll preparation, in-depth financial analysis, sales reporting, invoicing also all benefit from Vivien's experience and sound financial acumen.

Vivien commands impeccable presentation skills, both written and verbal, and has been very successful in building and further developing RSP's solid relationships with clients, candidates and other stakeholders of the business.

Having spent most of her life in Singapore, Vivien speaks Mandarin, Cantonese as well as fluent English. She has now made Sydney her home, enjoying permanent resident status.

Kate Broughton

Kate Broughton

Account Manager (Singapore)

Kate joined the RSP team in February 2006 and brought with her a unique skill set to add to RSP's highly successful Project Team. She comes from a strong recruiting and financial services background both nationally and internationally.

With an emphasis on administrative, financial and technology recruitment, Kate possesses a wealth of knowledge and experience that delivered immediate positive results.

Kate's recruitment career began at Morgan & Banks in 1999 where she became an integral part of the wider M&B business. Apart from recruiting for their Sales and Marketing contracts division, Kate was heavily involved in event management, account management, and the launch of Morgan & Banks online job posting system.

Following a brief tenure in the financial services sector in Canada, Kate recommenced her domestic recruitment career at Challenge Consulting in Sydney. There she recruited across administration, sales and accounting and account managed some of Challenge's tier one accounts. Through her increasing knowledge in behavioural assessments, Kate also became an accredited psychometric tester.

In 2004 Kate joined Ambit Recruitment as an IT recruitment consultant for the telecommunications vertical.

Kate showed exceptional talent in innovative sourcing methods, and quickly became a leading force on the Telstra account filling positions from entry level customer service to high level project management.

Alex Wallace

Alex Wallace

Account Manager

Alex is a seasoned professional with more than ten years hands-on IT experience. Before arriving in Australia, Alex was working in the highly specialised computer games recruitment field and was responsible for placing Programmers, Designers and Senior Technical Managers.

Prior to becoming an IT Recruitment Consultant, Alex gained valuable experience working within the industry in the United Kingdom. Employed as a senior procurement professional at blue-chip organisations such as BOC, British Airways and Westcon, Alex developed a thorough understanding of effective recruitment policies and procedures from a large corporations’ perspective.

Commencing his recruitment career proper, Alex was able to utilise this ‘other side of the fence’ experience to great effect. He completely understands the requirements and necessities of his clients together with the intricacies involved with niche recruitment services. While exclusively working within the computer games recruitment sector, Alex managed a team of specialist recruitment professionals servicing clients across the United Kingdom, Europe, USA, Canada, China and Australia.

Alex joined RSP in early 2006 determined to repeat his previous overseas successes and to utilise his knowledge in IT and business in general. Alex continuingly delivers in-depth and truly consultative service to RSP’s clients. His primary focus is in the provision of contract and permanent recruitment across the entire spectrum of traditional IT positions. Typical placements include Project Managers, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, Product Development Managers and Application Support Analysts.

awallace@rsprecruitment.com.au

Shammi Rahman

Shammi Rahman

Account Manager

Shammi has over seven years sales and management experience with the fast moving consumer goods chain Harvey Norman. Shammi worked her way to the highest levels of store management, running a team of 15 staff. Constant liaison with high level clients has given her a strong client relationship focus and an ambition to succeed. This drive and ambition has seen her excel in her roles and always achieve a minimum of 110% of the targets set.

Having joined RSP in August of 2006, Shammi is a key member of the IT Support Team, specializing in recruiting a range of customer service, bi-lingual support, help desk, and technical support roles, both temporary and permanent within the IT and Telecommunications industries

Shammi's strong resourcing skills complement the urgent needs and requirements of her clients, whilst her vibrant personality and honesty has enabled her to develop and sustain loyal relationships with both her candidates and clients. Shammi's professionalism and competitiveness has proven to be the ingredients for positive client and candidate outcomes.

Shammi is passionate about satisfying RSP's customers - i.e. both clients and candidates alike and keeping up to date with the fast moving recruitment industry.

Katie Towers

Katie Towers

Account Manager

Katie joined RSP in January 2007 and brings with her over 11 years experience in the Tourism, Hospitality and FMCG industries.

Katie began her career as a corporate travel consultant with American Express Corporate and quickly moved through the ranks into team leader and operations manager roles. She worked with some key clients including Kellogg Australia, Cisco Systems, Gartner and Nestle and was well respected by her clients for her ability to consistently provide excellent customer service. Katie was well known at American Express for her problem solving skills and for being a proactive and fair manager and was awarded the 'Pacesetter Award' which recognised her as the being in the top 2% of Operations Managers in American Express Worldwide.

Katie then moved into an Account Manager's role with another key global player HRG Worldwide and managed a 20 million dollar client portfolio including Oracle, Kerry Ingredients, Baxter Healthcare, Equant and BNP Paribas. Her passionate, friendly but professional manner and her ability to consistently provide high cost saving initiatives to her clients saw her successfully re-contract key clients. Katie was a well respected member of the team and became the ‘information library’ for anyone who needed advice.

Commencing her career in recruitment with AA Appointments in Sydney Katie has experience in the call centre, account management, operations management, sales executive, administration and back office support areas. She has a sound track record recruiting for Virgin Blue, American Express, Malaysia Airlines and Carlson Marketing.

Katie successfully recruited for the launch of the Virgin Blue Velocity call centre which included over 100 roles in customer service, call centre management and training. Katie was very successful in this role and in her first 6 months with AA Appointments won the Consultant of the Year Award.
Katie looks forward to continuing her success with RSP and brings a wealth of knowledge, passion and professionalism to the organisation.

Juhee An

Juhee An

Account Manager (Singapore)

Juhee joined RSP as an Account Manager in January 2007. She possesses more than 3 years experience in the recruitment industry, gained initially in Korea then most recently in Singapore.

Further to graduating with a B.A. in Psychology from University of Nebraska at Omaha, Juhee worked for a major American insurance company where she gained a solid understanding of corporate structures, good governance and human resources. As her career interest has always been in line with the human resources field, this in-house experience convinced Juhee of her desired area of employment. She left almost immediately for Korea to pursue a career as a professional recruiter.

Juhee spent two years in a Korean executive search firm and enjoyed helping multinational companies with high profile roles. Positions were at senior levels across most functions including IT, Sales & Marketing, and Finance, and most industry sectors although mainly finance. Juhee counts Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of America, HSBC, SG Asset Management, Symantec and McDonalds among her key clients. Her bilingual capability in Korean and English enabled her to take regional assignments in countries such as Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong while still based in Korea. This exposure to an overseas dynamic and fast moving market prompted her to accept an offer from a Singapore based search firm when she was headhunted by them. Having been in Singapore since early 2006, Juhee has successfully closed numerous positions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Juhee's wealth of knowledge within the financial services sector has meant that she focuses on assisting a number of RSP's banking clients with their IT recruitment needs. Typical placements for Juhee include Business Analysts, Project Managers, Service Delivery Managers and various front office support and development positions.

Neve Joyce

Account Manager

Neve, a business graduate from Dublin's ITT, majoring in Marketing and Languages, joined RSP in June 2007, having relocated to Sydney in 2006.

She complements RSP's strong presence in the telco sector with four years experience working in this industry for one of Ireland's leading Telco's; Smart Telecom plc. Neve initially joined Smart in 2001 as Customer Care Agent whilst still at University. During her time with the company she saw it grow from a modest 20 employees to approximately 300.

Neve had a passion for delivering a high level of service to her clients and candidates which made her an obvious choice for promotion to Senior Complaints Controller in 2004. Handling all high level disputes and escalations across four customer service departments, in the areas of customer care, credit control, broadband and faults, she developed a phenomenal understanding of 1st class customer service and its ability to define and differentiate businesses in highly competitive environments.

Working closely with senior management, Neve developed compensation procedures and established strategic processes aimed to enable Smart Telecom's teams to meet and exceed customer's expectations every time.

Moving to Sydney on a working holiday visa, Neve was contracted to companies such as Zenith Optimedia, AMP Capital and The Sydney Arts Festival, fulfilling functions such as accounts payable, accounts receivable and marketing.

Neve's extensive customer service and administrative background make her an extremely valuable and welcome addition to the Business Support Team at RSP. In a short period of time, Neve has made her mark in the recruitment industry, demonstrating an uncanny ability to identifying candidates for the right roles.