Founder
David Allison
Chief Executive Officer
Founder of The Talent People, building fairer early careers hiring over more than a decade with backing from Nesta, City & Guilds and UnLtd.
Experts from our solutions team, with you from first conversation to post-hire review.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of business psychologists, early careers specialists, platform engineers and engagement leads. Our sales team leads the co-creation process from the first conversation, bringing the right experts from our solutions team together with the right people on your side. The people involved in scoping your work are the people who deliver it.
Three things you can rely on across every engagement.
1. A named expert on every engagement. Whatever you are working on — an assessment platform deployment, a schools programme or a managed recruitment service — there is a named expert from our solutions team accountable for it. Our assessment work is led by Amy Davies, a chartered business psychologist. The team she leads combines occupational psychology, early careers expertise and data analysis.
2. Multi-disciplinary by design. Behavioural assessment is not a single discipline. We pair business psychologists with platform engineers, schools specialists with data analysts, engagement leads with early careers consultants. Different expertise applied to the same problem produces better work.
3. Embedded, not arms-length. We do not hand a tool over and walk away. For most engagements, your solutions team expert is involved for the full cycle: from programme design through shortlist review to post-hire evaluation. We use Teams and Asana to stay connected between sessions.
The people who set the bar.
A small leadership team, deliberately. The work that distinguishes us (predictive validity, adverse impact, schools engagement, platform engineering) sits with named, accountable owners.
Partnerships
Jenny Bicknell
Sales and Marketing Director
Leads on Employer, Educator and charity partnerships to widen access to early talent opportunities.
Technology
Josh Bailey
Director of Infrastructure & Data
Oversees the data and infrastructure foundations of The Talent Hub, ensuring platform reliability, security and the integrity of our candidate and employer data.
Solutions
Amy Davies
Director of Employer Solutions
Translates early talent strategy into practical, measurable outcomes for employers, guiding teams from programme design through to post-hire evaluation.
Platform
Jonathan Garrood
Director of Platforms
Leads product development across The Talent Hub, building the tools that make fairer and more efficient early careers hiring possible at scale.
Innovation
Christos Orthodoxou
Director of Innovation & Insight
Combines research, data and emerging technology to advance early talent recruitment practice and shape how the industry thinks about candidate potential.
A wider team of business psychologists, designers, engineers, engagement specialists and customer-success leads sit behind the six above.
How the team is structured
Partnerships & Policy
Works with employers, government bodies and education institutions to shape access to early talent. Owns strategic relationships and policy engagement. Led by Jenny Bicknell.
Infrastructure & Data
The foundations that power The Talent Hub. Responsible for platform reliability, security, UK data residency and the integrity of candidate and employer data. Led by Josh Bailey.
Employer Solutions
Translates early talent strategy into measurable outcomes. Embedded practitioners who guide clients from programme design through to post-hire evaluation. Led by Amy Davies.
Platforms
The engineering team behind the six-product stack. ISO 27001-aligned practice, two-week release cadence, and a product philosophy built around the candidate as much as the employer. Led by Jonathan Garrood.
Innovation & Insight
Combines research, data and emerging technology to advance what early talent recruitment can do. Responsible for our thinking, our publishing and how we stay ahead of the market. Led by Christos Orthodoxou.
Remote-first. UK-based. Always.
We are a fully distributed team with no central office. Most of the team is UK-based. We meet in person regularly for the work that benefits from it.
For procurement: all candidate and employer data is stored in Microsoft Azure UK data centres. We do not subcontract delivery offshore. Our remote structure does not change that.
Where we work
Remote‑first
No offices. Fully distributed across the UK.
Data residency
Azure UK
All candidate data stored in Microsoft Azure UK data centres. No offshore subcontracting.
In person
Regular
We come together for client work, team planning and the conversations a screen can’t replace.
The team is supported by
The fastest way to meet the team.
Most clients meet two or three of us in their first conversation, usually a senior business psychologist, a platform specialist, and someone from the relevant industry team. No handover layers. The people in the first conversation are the people who would work on your account.