MEET OUR EXPERT TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALISTS

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Anthony Butler has been MD of the GWV Talent Solutions brands for over five years, and in recruitment for more than twenty. Throughout his career he’s built a talent division from nothing to a team of thirty across three offices, covering financial services, analytics and digital. Before that came a decade in public sector recruitment, working on government frameworks where the scrutiny is a different order to commercial hiring.

At Vermelo he leads strategy, commercial growth and delivery across RPO, MSP and embedded programmes. In practice that means designing and mobilising outsourced recruitment programmes, then staying close enough to the delivery to know whether they're working. He will always be in the room for the complex ones, where the answer isn't a standard model.

He also built graduate hiring and training programmes early in his career, a thread that runs straight through to FlarePeople, the group's recruit-train-deploy model launched in 2025 exclusively to address the insurance pricing talent shortage.

Employer brand, diversity and employee wellbeing have been part of his remit rather than an interest on the side, which is why they keep showing up in how Vermelo runs.

Anthony wants to hear from you if hiring has become the thing holding your growth back, whether that's cost, capacity, compliance or capability you can't buy in the market.

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HEAD OF OPERATIONS

Kathryn Hunt has spent more than twenty-five years in recruitment, starting in contract and permanent technology hiring across oil and gas, financial and professional services. Early on she ran a contingent workforce and payrolling solution for a global oil company, which was managed service provision a long time before anyone called it MSP.

Since then she has led RPO, embedded and MSP programmes across energy, financial services, pensions, banking and insurance, and built the compliance controls underneath them: IR35, AWR and the rest of it.

Whilst workingHer technology practice at Gerrard White covered general insurance, investment management, banking, insurtech and the Lloyd's London market.

As Head of Operations she covers all 3 GWV talent solutions brands (Vermelo, Gerrard White and FlarePeople), which means she owns how every programme actually runs: resourcing, process, and the recruitment technology sitting behind it. That's the difference between a model that works on the pitch deck and one that works in month seven.

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GROUP TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER

Andy Langley is a talent acquisition specialist who helps clients unlock the full value of RPO and embedded partnerships.

As Group Talent Acquisition Manager, Andy has been with Vermelo for thirteen years working within one of our largest multi-brand insurance clients. He runs the full recruitment lifecycle at group level, from resource planning and recruitment strategy through to sourcing, delivery and onboarding.

His hiring expertise spans field engineers and contact centre operatives through to insurance specialists, counter fraud investigators and claims handlers. Volume campaigns and specialist roles running at the same time, in the same business. Candidate NPS: +81 (July 2025).

Before joining Vermelo, he recruited for a global engineering group's civil nuclear and marine businesses across the UK and Europe, as the single point of contact for a sector where the vetting is a different order to commercial hiring.

He works on workforce planning, candidate experience design, employer brand, and the reporting that tells you whether any of it worked.

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TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER

Marie Smart brings global experience as a talent acquisition specialist, having worked across Ireland, the UK, Canada and Australia.

Initially a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist, she now excels in internal hiring, Embedded Talent (RaaS), RPO and MSP delivery across engineering, manufacturing and insurance.

At Vermelo she is responsible for recruitment for finance, marketing, legal and broking services within a major financial services group, combining specialist hiring with high-volume and contact-centre campaigns.

Marie partners with senior stakeholders to shape data-driven hiring strategies, ensuring seamless attraction, selection and onboarding of high-performing talent while supporting scalable, future-ready workforce plans.

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TALENT SERVICES CONSULTANT (BDM)

Santa works closely with scale-ups, fintechs, insurtechs and the wider insurance and financial services sector, helping ambitious businesses find the right talent solutions to support growth.

She is passionate about building strong relationships and understanding what organisations need as they scale, connecting them with flexible recruitment support that delivers real impact.

Known for her collaborative style and commercial mindset, Santa plays a key role in helping clients navigate hiring challenges with confidence.

Santa is usually the first person a prospective client speaks to. Her job is to understand your hiring challenges and help you work out which model is best suited: RPO for end-to-end permanent hiring, MSP for contractor and contingent workforces, embedded recruiters for hiring spikes, Total Talent where both permanent and contractors needs running together, or advisory where the answer is a project rather than a function. She works mostly with scale-ups, fintechs and insurtechs, and with insurance and financial services businesses growing faster than their hiring can keep up with.

Santa wants to hear from you if you know hiring is the constraint but not which model solves it, including if the honest answer turns out to be none of them yet.

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