Andrew Greening

Managing Partner, Search & Talent Development

•   26 years in Executive Search with success defined by quality delivery and dedication to long term candidate/client relationships

•   Former Top 5 (Europe) / Top 15 (Global) consistent performer out of 200+ partners for global Search firm

•   Acquiring Main Board Director Odgers International, previously Korn Ferry, Norman Broadbent, early career NatWest

•   Defining strategies for Talent Identification and Development from VC backed start-ups to major corporates across the Americas and EMEA regions

•   Founder - Clipper Greening Ventures – The World Program; assisting fast growth companies build international teams and maximise performance

•   5 years Chairman of Governors, Times Top 100 HMC School – major restructure of Board and Leadership team to drive future success

•   Professional education at Harvard and London Business Schools

Outside of Greenings
Family time in Canada and England – offshore sailing, skiing, snowmobiling and motoring tours

Claire Macleod

Senior Partner, Education

•   More than 20 years in consultancy, research and business development in the UK and North America

•   Established and grew the national search and consultancy practices for the Education sector at Hays Executive and Active Executive Recruitment

•   Works closely with executive management and boards to provide specialist advice and assistance to a wide range of public and private sector organisations

•   Placed Chief Executives and Managing Directors to NGOs, research institutes and private and not-for-profit organisations who serve the Education sector

•   Skilled in meeting facilitation, senior management training and strategic development

Prior roles:

 •   Claire ran her own firm, specialising in international executive search for top-ranking universities including: Bristol, Cambridge, Lancaster, Manchester, Oxford and Warwick

Outside of Greenings:

•   Became a school governor in 2007 and was elected Chair in 2010. Ofsted rated the Board as Outstanding in 2011

•   Former RYA Senior Instructor, still loves to sail

•   Keen amateur gardener and photographer, who loves Instagram

•   Snowboarder and pianist

John de Lavis

Managing Partner, Advisory Services

•   Over 30 years experience in the global payments and retail banking sectors with the last 20 years in senior executive or C suite roles

•   Undertaken a number of senior strategy roles in HSBC and MasterCard

•   Significant experience in practical and successful innovation and start-ups - First Direct, MasterCard chip and e-business strategies, MasterCard Advisors and many new products at NetSpend and Metabank

•   Considerable P&L experience at HSBC and other businesses

•   Strong operational experience in a number of different payment businesses – from transaction management through to risk and compliance and operational quality

•   Significant experience of organisation design and transformation at Midland, HSBC and MasterCard. Responsible for the end to end Europay acquisition and integration and for enabling organisational growth at start ups

Prior roles:

•   Head of UK Payment Businesses HSBC

•   Chief Product Officer for MasterCard International

•   COO NetSpend

•   COO Metapay

Outside of Greenings:

• Advisory Board of Fordham Business school

• Three day eventing – sponsor to aspects of Canadian Olympic team

• Interested in skiing, sailing, rugby and soccer

• Cambridge and MIT Alumni associations

• Sloan Fellow, MIT

• Classical music, English French and Classical literature and philosophy

David Elleray MBE

Founding Partner, Sport & Events

When John Motson began his Match of the Day commentary on a top PL match with “Today’s referee, David Elleray, is probably the country’s most famous schoolmaster” he encapsulated the two strands of David’s distinguished intertwined sport and education careers.

•   Over 40 years successfully combining top level work in sport and education; the only clash was in 1998 when he declined refereeing in the FIFA World Cup finals in France as he was a candidate for the Headmastership of Harrow

•   Schoolmaster at Harrow School for 32 years: coaching sport, Head of Geography, House Master (18 years) and Director of Boarding (9 years)

•   England’s top football referee: 17 years at the highest level and 8 years as an international referee; refereed the FA Cup final and international finals in Europe, Africa, Asia and S. America

•   Member of the FA Council since 2002; Chairman of FA Referees’ Committee

•   Works extensively for the FA, FIFA and IFAB (International body responsible for the Laws of the Football worldwide)

•   Closely involved with governance and integrity as Vice Chairman of the Football Regulatory Authority and Chairman of the Compliance Monitoring Group

•   Appointed in 2010 by S. African authorities to sit with a high court judge on a Commission of Inquiry into corruption in S. African football

•   Combining sports and education continues e.g. Chairman, Independent Schools FA 

•   Awarded honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University for ‘outstanding contribution to education and sport’

Outside of Greenings:

Watching a variety of sports and supporting his large number of Godchildren