Neal Wyman

Senior Partner, Tyzack + Board Services

Neal Wyman is one of the Senior Partners of Tyzack and has been with the firm for over 35 years. He specialises in Board Appointments for both Quoted and Unquoted companies and has strong connections within Private Equity. His primary focus is on the Consumer Sector with a particular specialism in Leisure, Hospitality, Travel and Gaming. He has recently been responsible for some very high-profile appointments in the Leisure Sector.

A number of his assignments have a strong international dimension.

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant having undertaken graduate articles with Coopers and Lybrand (PWC), prior to spending two years in Hong Kong with Peat Marwick Mitchell (KPMG). He has a degree in Economics from the LSE.

Outside of work, Neal has a keen interest in many sports including; Cricket, football, rugby, horse racing and golf. He has two adult children and resides in London.

David Dumeresque

Senior Partner, Tyzack + Board Services

David recruits senior executives and board directors for a wide variety of organisations, both public and privately owned. He has a particular specialisation in the Information and Communications sector and the recruitment of Non-Executive Directors. 

His track record covers the full range of the C – suiter including CEO, CFO, CTO and CDO roles, as well as functional appointments. He has over 30 years’ experience of advising a variety of different organisations from the largest multinational to small owner-managed businesses.

A qualified solicitor, David practised in London and Paris with Slaughter and May before spending some ten years in investment banking.

Mary Karolyi

Global CFO

Mary Karolyi, our Global CFO, leads all traditional aspects of the finance function and helps drive the global commercial strategy of our business.

Apart from oversight and establishment of finance functions, her experience has also included the transformation and evolution of start-ups, scale-ups and other growth or disrupted organisations within the technology, retail, professional services sectors and across the Asia Pacific, United States of America and the United Arab Emirates.

Matt Smith

Managing Partner, ANZ

Matt loves connecting great people and companies with a purpose to make things better through technology and innovation. He works in MitchelLake’s Melbourne office and leads the MLG Growth vision for ANZ, working with an awesome team who source talent for leadership hiring and scaling teams across emerging technology, experience and service design, product, digital marketing, growth, data science and analytics.

Matt’s domain expertise leans towards hiring senior roles in experience and design and he enjoys the balance of working with fast growth, early stage organisations and larger scale companies going through digital transformation and the unique challenges they both bring.

Sophie Cohen

Senior Principal

Sophie Cohen is the Senior Associate of MitchelLake’s UK office and boasts 20 years of experience, managing executive search, market intelligence, succession planning, salary surveys, talent mapping and pipeline projects across EMEA, North America, Russia, Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India, Philippines), UAE and LATAM. She possesses broad sectorial experience in digital, advertising, marketing, media, pharmaceutical, and industrial.

Passionate about digital and technology start-ups, Sophie works with her clients to acquire the best talent for a healthy international growth or digital transformation.Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her children, exploring the world of nature, and being a climate change fighter.

Jon Tanner

Group CEO & Managing Partner

Jon Tanner co-founded the MitchelLake Group in 2001 and has been advising startup, scale-up and enterprise clients on leadership, executive search and talent acquisition for digital ventures and initiatives for almost two decades.

As Group CEO and Managing Partner, Jon is based in Singapore and works across our international hubs in APAC, Americas, and Europe. He directent and partner organisations. Jon is an active earlntrepreneurs, ventures and innovation including SocietyOne, Biteable, Blackbird VC, and Genos International.

Jamie Gripton

Partner, EMEA

With over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, human capital services and sales leadership, Jamie Gripton is our Lead Partner in EMEA. Jamie specialises in providing Retained Executive Search solutions to businesses looking to attract top talent globally within the digital, innovation, growth ventures and technology arena. He spent the last 10 years in APAC and is now based in Europe, with a core focus on EMEA & ASIAN markets.

He previously launched and sold multiple businesses including Rochfort Executive Search, LMA Recruitment Singapore, Risk Management Intelligence, Pure Energy Nation and Nakd Artesian Water. His specialisations include Digital Transformation Leaders for IT & Consulting Services as well as CxO’s & NED’s in Funded Growth Tech Ventures & Global MNC’s.

Michael Solomon

Managing Director, ANZ

Michael Solomon has led a varied commercial life from coaching leaders and teams as a management consultant to heading emerging technology ventures for News Corp, to driving digital transformation and operational excellence at the AFL.

Michael is currently a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, shareholder and advisor to Enex Carbon, Chair of the Michael Long Foundation, and Director of the Darwin International Essington School. Past governance and directorships include Executive Director of News Digital Media, CEO and Director of Learning Seat, Director of Moshtix, Director of Recruit Advantage, Chairman and Director of Getprice, and Chairman and Director of Sporting Pulse.

Mark Sparrow

Managing Partner MLG UKI

Having operated in the industry for over 20 years, including 10 years in Asia, , Mark is responsible for driving the Tyzack Mitchellake solution suite . An highly respected search professional, Mark has often been quoted as a thought leader in the media and has appeared regularly on business-related broadcasts including CNN, CNBC, BBC, CNA and Bloomberg

Mark has led major recruitment businesses through periods of exceptional growth in both Europe and Asia Pacific. His experience covers a broad spectrum of industries but in the last 10 years he has been largely focussed on leadership appointments within Software, Technology Consulting, IT Services, Telecommunications and Media firms, globally where he has helped to appoint an array of roles spanning the C-Suite and their direct reports.  This exposure has seen him encounter businesses at all stages of their evolution; from Series A to pre transaction to turnaround and through to PLCs, giving him an ideal perspective to be able to advise firms in every situation they face, particularly in helping to appoint leaders who spur rapid growth.

Mark Chote

Group NED

Mark Chote is the Non-Executive Director for The MitchelLake Group. Boasting over 30 years of experience in the tech recruitment industry, he has partnered with a number of start-ups and grown these to multi-national operations through to successful exits. Mark is incredibly passionate about digital ventures and serves on a number of boards, utilising the knowledge he has gained having led businesses in both New Zealand and Australia.

Angela Borbe

Senior Associate

With over seven years’ experience in recruitment, Angela has worked with various companies who are scaling their teams in-market. Her experience has focussed on handling tech start-ups in Tokyo and ANZ, where she assisted key stakeholders and decision-makers in finding their starting members for both technical and non-technical teams. She attributes her success in the business, to her genuine love for building things from scratch and her passion for technology.

Born and raised in the Philippines but having lived in Tokyo and now in Australia, Angela has been exposed to various recruitment strategies, which gives her the flexibility to adapt to different types of clients across the industry.

Michael Datta

Partner, Sport Media & Entertainment

Michael Datta is a Partner with MitchelLake who has strong expertise in building ventures, brands, and activating multinational organisations across multiple industries and geographies, with a driving passion for technology, agriculture, food & beverage, sport, and consumer goods.

Operating as a ML’s Lead in Queensland, Michael will stimulate both the outbound and inbound US venture market while building into the company’s sport, entertainment and entrepreneur network!

Illona Vak

Partner, ANZ

Illona Vak is a Partner with MitchelLake, Melbourne and brings over 16 years’ experience recruiting across Digital, Marketing and Product from both local and international markets.

She joins after successfully running a boutique executive recruitment firm where she partnered with global and local businesses to deliver exceptional talent solutions. Illona is passionate about digital innovation within corporates and advising growth businesses on how to build successful teams. Illona has invested her time developing deep networks, and the culmination of her experience ensures recruitment strategy is always perfectly aligned to the client’s overall business strategy.

Benjamin Bullock

Head of Research & Delivery, ANZ

Ben fell into recruitment looking for work experience whilst studying Business & Psychology at University in Manchester. Well schooled in headhunting, he moved to London to join the Australian recruitment firm Morgan & Banks. Despite never really understanding Investment Banking, Ben was able to convince the company he was worthy of a transfer to Sydney. Here, Ben and his teams successfully navigated an acquisition and multiple rebrands before he left to pursue several startups of his own. After 3 years leading an Internal TA function helping to build Australia’s 3rd fastest growing business, Ben now has a player/coach role in MitchelLake’s Research and Delivery team.

Michael Ferndale

Partner, Tyzack

Aditi Kittane

Principal

Ian McCelland

Board Advisor

Ian McClelland has worked across start-up, SME, multinational and corporate environments worldwide to help businesses launch, scale or adapt to disruption. He is a BAFTA winning digital producer, media/tech CEO and investor in start-up and growth stage TMT businesses.

Previously founding CEO of Guardian Australia and currently CEO of Be-A Education Ltd; he is also a Venture Partner at Ascension Ventures, founder of The Ramp Partnership advisory and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Ian is based in the UK and sits on the board of several UK & Australian start-ups and scale-ups.

Emma Dwyer

Head of People & Culture

Emma Dwyer has over 15 years’ experience working with some of Australia’s largest corporations, specialising in the supply of the key competencies responsible for driving strategy & innovation.

Initially operating within the realm of talent acquisition and recruitment, Emma now operates as a trusted business partner to Executives, Senior Management, Employees and Peers providing strategic advice and executing on general HR, Employee Engagement and Talent Management initiatives, and ultimately drives the internal people and culture agenda.

Emma has worked with clients across our businesses, which gives her unique insights into this leadership role.

Bianca Nikolovski

People and Culture

At Mitchellake, Bianca will play a pivotal role in building the company’s capability across the group. Some key accountabilities of Bianca in her role as People & Culture Assistant will be streamlining HRIS and building sustainable HR processes.

Patrick Blute

Growth Advisor, North America

Patrick has over 10 years of experience leading product marketing and global sustainability initiatives with a focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact.

He started his career in Silicon Valley consulting with early stage startups facilitating positioning and go-to-market strategy development. He has advised and partnered with leaders at companies including Ernst & Young, Silicon Valley Bank, and the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Patrick holds a degree from Columbia University in Sustainable Development and is pursuing a Masters in Business Administration focused on Sustainability at Trinity College Dublin.

Patrick is based in New York, advising MLG on product and marketing strategies for hypergrowth technology, social good, and sustainability ventures.

Fyza Sharma

Associate Consultant

Hal Barne

Growth Advisor, North America

Hal has amassed over 20 years of international business experience, specializing in strategic business development & marketing in the interactive entertainment/video games, digital media and technology sectors across global markets, having lived and worked across Asia, Europe and the US.

Hal started his career in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), helping Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies expand to countries newly integrated into the EU.  He then joined PlayStation Europe, heading up the CEE region, including challenging territories like Russia, before joining Codemasters Software Company (later acquired by Electronic Arts), focusing on the Middle East and Asia in particular.  Hal then moved to Singapore in 2011, where he took on various roles and companies in Esports and Web3/Blockchain technology.

Hal is now based in LA and splits his time between LA, Singapore and other locales, advising MLG on Global Growth strategies and opportunities, particularly in the Web3/Blockchain space.