Stuart runs the IT Recruitment business across Scotland and the North of England, responsible for recruitment, training, management and motivation of all sales staff. He has a BSc in Physics from St Andrews, and has a strong understanding of contract and permanent recruitment across a wide breadth of technology. His humour and demeanour are those of an 80 year old man, and he likes nothing more than wearing slippers and moaning about the Hibs.
About Us
Our Story
Cathcart Associates was founded by a team of the country’s most successful recruiters, with a desire to show that good recruitment consultancy should provide a service which is simple, professional and effective.
We are not “mere CV senders”. Our approach demonstrates that recruiting technical talent can be simple, seamless and enjoyable, and provides a service which adds value at every stage of the recruitment process.
We are an agile and independent organisation – with no parent group we are able to offer a more cost-effective solution, allowing us to invest more freely in our database and advertising reach.
Our Team
Edinburgh
Murray Simpson
Principal Consultant - Scotland
Murray Simpson – Recruitment Wonderkid. Murray has been with us since he bounced out of Edinburgh Uni with a Masters in Business in one hand and a desire to make his mark in the other. His enthusiasm is as infectious as it is unremitting (except on Monday mornings) and over the years he has grown to be an exceptional recruiter. Murray looks after Executive and Senior positions for all our clients – contract and permanent. He is dedicated, knowledgeable, hard working and he has a really good grasp of his candidate community, which is really impressive considering he has one of the biggest patches in the business.
Rhona Kennedy
Consultant - Permanent Software Development - Scotland
Rhona has an MSc in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, which we're sure she uses to great effect in helping source the best software developers in Scotland for her clients. She concentrates exclusively on the Greater Glasgow area in order to get a total understanding the best candidates, and the most desirable employers.
Callum Hunter
Consultant - Permanent Infrastructure & Support - Scotland
Callum works in the permanent team, focusing exclusively on Infrastructure and Support specialists in Scotland. His reputation as a delightful young man is well founded, and he manages the huge workload that his market throws at him with aplomb. Outside of work Callum enjoys football and resembling a young Martin Sheen.
Douglas Paget
Consultant - Permanent Software Development - West of Scotland
Douglas specialises in recruiting software developers throughout the West of Scotland, from Java developers to digital designers, software architects and front end specialists, he’s your man!
He gained a BSc in Sports Coaching and spent a few years traveling the world teaching surfing. But lucky for us, he’s back and here to stay in sunny Scotland.
Lindsey Morris
Client Services Manager
Lindsey is currently on Maternity Leave, but she's returning in late 2018 to manage and develop and our key accounts, heading up Client Services across the whole IT function.
Hamish Niven
Consultant - Permanent Software and Business Intelligence - Scotland
Hamish is an Accountancy graduate, but let’s not hold that against him. An enthusiastic and friendly young man, he is responsible for permanent Business Intelligence, ERP and CRM recruitment across Scotland. It’s a complex and diverse market, but he knows all the top clients and all the best technical people across Scotland. Outside of the office he is a keen footballer and golfer and is Scotland’s proudest cricket fan.
Michael Burrell
Consultant - Contract Infrastructure & Support - Scotland
Mike is the consultant who looks after our IT Infrastructure, Network, Server Support and Security contractors. If you’re looking for a contract in Scotland, or if you have an urgent project to deliver, then Mike is your man. His mild-mannered and professional demeanour hides his animal side – he’s a Muay Thai expert and a fanatical Hibbee.
Andy Weir
Consultant - Contract Software Development - Scotland
Andy specialises in contract recruitment, with a focus on software developers. He has a strong sales pedigree and a really solid grasp of both understanding a client’s urgent requirements and how to find the right person to fit them. Were it not for a dodgy wrist, he would have made it as a professional golfer (seriously… he’s not making it up)... The Tour’s loss is our gain
North England
Liam Wilson
Principal Consultant - North
Liam is an experienced technology recruiter, who leads our North England team. He brings maturity, dedication and intelligence to what he does, and takes a great deal of care to make sure he knows enough about his clients and candidates to do his job perfectly. He has a really strong and broad technical knowledge – particularly in Machine Learning and Data Science, demonstrated by his curation of MancML (www.mancml.io)
Josh Barker
Consultant - Permanent Software Developers - North West England
Josh recruits Software specialist in and around Manchester and Liverpool. He concentrates on non-Microsoft & Open Source technologies - Java J2EE, PHP, JavaScript, Python - you name it - he really knows his stuff.
He has a degree in Geography, a raft of sales experience and the gift of the gab, and has built a success business with the technical community in the North West. Outside the office he’s a keen rugby enthusiast. All those knocks to the head probably explain a lot…
Mark McLaren
Consultant - Permanent Software and Business Intelligence - Yorkshire and North East
Mark specialises in Open Source Software in the North East and Yorkshire. He came from humble beginnings as he grew up on a farm somewhere near Kinross and somehow made his way through school and university earning a degree in Business from The University of Edinburgh. He made a name for himself selling bus tour tickets on Waverly Bridge and now makes an even bigger name for himself moving people around companies.
Matthew Gray
Consultant - Permanent Software and Business Intelligence - Yorkshire and North East
Matthew joined us straight out of Edinburgh University with a BSc in Geography. He helps source developers who work with Microsoft Technologies across the North East. Matthew is a Movember enthusiast, a keen golfer and very average footballer.
Lewis Black
Consultant - Permanent Network & Infrastructure - North West England
Lewis recruits Network and Infrastructure professionals for clients in the North of England. The sharpest dresser in the office, he is something of an enigma – mainly because he’s refused for months to provide any information for his website bio. So let’s make some assumptions... In his spare time he enjoys basket weaving and the history of the French middle ages, his middle name is Horatio, and he can’t swim.
Natasha Crichton
Consultant - Permanent Software Development - North West England
Natasha has a BSc in Psychology with Management, and has just completed a management internship with a leading multinational. She is working in our Manchester team, looking after software developers in the area who are looking to move jobs. She spent her formative years in Brunei, which coupled with her love of the Kardashians means she must know a lot about the super-rich.
Bangkok
Nick Macdougall
Managing Consultant - Thailand
Nick has an MSc in Media Management and an MA in English from the University of Glasgow. In 2015 he opened our first international office in Bangkok, Thailand and is now responsible for developing the business there; winning clients, identifying the best candidates and training the team. A busy man!
Prairie Punsoni
Commercial Director - Thailand
Prairie received her law degree from Thammasat Unversity in Thailand. She then went on to do her Masters in International Business Transaction and Comparative Laws at The University of San Francisco School of Laws. She has practiced in several leading law offices in Bangkok and one of the largest Petro-Chemical companies in the region. She has been instrumental in helping us opening Thailand - to the extent that without her, we'd still just be filling in forms! In her spare time she likes to play polo and eat good food!
Thakaewklaow Kaewmungkhala (Prae)
Consultant – Web Development
Thakaewklaow (Prae) graduated from Assumption University with a BFA in Contemporary Music Performance - giving her a strong sense of team work and listening skills. She specialises in fulfilling the needs of organisations and candidates working in Web Development by providing a consultative approach and has established herself as a quality recruiter.
Nuttapol Dilokvanichkul (TJ)
Consultant - Network & Infrastructure
TJ is a graduate from Mahidol University International College with honors, and he specialises in Network & Infrastructure for Cathcart Associates in Bangkok. He is exceptionally highly motivated and determined to develop relationship with the best candidates and the most sought after employers in Bangkok.
Chanatinad Chotiksatis (Nice)
Office Administrator
Chanatinad (Nice) graduated from Kasesart University in 2017 in International Relations. She joined us to help with all our back office activities and has been a real star in getting the business running ever more smoothly. Nice is also instrumental in assisting with social media, marketing and internal recruitment as well as acting as our Client Liaison.
Group
Sam Wason
Director
Sam set up the Cathcart Associates in 2009, and along with Gordon has grown it from a small attic room with just the two of them to a global business employing over 25 people across two continents. He is immensely proud of the team, and the company’s reputation as professional recruiter who does things properly.
Gordon Kaye
Director
Gordon has 19 years IT recruitment experience in Scotland, Cathcart Associates being only his second employer in that time. Starting his career with a degree in Information Management, he has permanent, contract and business development experience and a very customer-focused recruitment style. It’s helped him build countless successful relationships with countless organisations over the years.
Caroline Forbes
Financial Controller
Caroline is the Financial Controller - read "The Boss" - without whom the company would fall apart! No one knows more about how the whole company hangs together, how and how much people get paid and where the light bulbs are kept. She’s truly indispensable.
Bevin Gosling
Office Manager
Bevin has a BA (Hons) in Fashion Business from Glasgow Caledonian University. She joined us following two successful years in London after graduating. Bevin is the Office Manager - managing back office and our social media, marketing and internal recruitment as well as acting as our Client and Contractor Liaison.
Catriona Todd
Office Administrator
Catriona manages the huge volume of administrative work that the contract business generates (so if you need an advance, it’s Toddsy you have to be nice to!), controls our social media presence, organises company events and everything else you would expect from the PoF (Princess of Fun!)
Adding the right person to the right business equals success
Ultimately we've earned our reputation through caring about this simple equation – that adding great people to great opportunities will equal success for all parties.
We operate best when we truly understand what drives your need – not just the basic skills needed for the job, but by really getting to the root of the requirement. This is when we become indispensable to the process.
Knowing our candidates in depth is just as crucial. We consult with you at every stage – what you want from your next job, how your skills will fit into a new organisation and how your career will develop from here.
Using our knowledge of both sides of this equation – we then consult throughout the entire process, ensuring that both parties get what they want.
Your fast paced and rewarding career
could start here.
could start here.
Cathcart Associates offers a real chance to make your mark in the recruitment industry. Working to supply the country’s leading firms with niche technical staff is a hugely challenging, fast paced and rewarding career. From our office in city centre Edinburgh; our extremely close knit team of recruitment professionals deliver an award winning service.
We are currently hiring for Trainee Recruitment Consultants. You should be a confident, articulate and intelligent individual of graduate calibre, with a strong work ethic and a desire to make a success of yourself. In return we offer:
- Full training and industry leading tools to do the job
- A relaxed but highly motivated working environment
- A very competitive OTE
- Industry leading uncapped commission
- Unbelievable perks such as reward lunches in the finest restaurants, foreign trips, company cars, gym membership and much more…
- The chance to make your mark…
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