About

We believe there’s a better way to recruit. A faster, easier way to connect clients with exceptional talent. 

 

The Agora team has decades of experience building networks and identifying brilliant candidates. We’ve successfully placed hundreds of people with established brands, startups and investment firms, both in London and overseas.

We’re experts in our field, but that’s not the only reason why clients like Dr Martens, Marks & Spencer and WIT Fitness love working with us. Successful recruitment is all about the people and that goes for the recruitment process too. You won’t find pushy salespeople or patchy communication at Agora – we’re a friendly, flexible team who work hard to find the right fit for every role.

How do we do that?

To start with, we learn who you are as a business and what you like – and don’t – before hitting the market. And, if you aren’t 100% on the brief, our senior team is here to help you nail down what it is you’re looking for.

We’re big believers in transparency, so we’ll keep you in the loop from start to finish and provide you with any support you need along the way.

Find out what some of our clients have to say about us on our testimonials.

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What are our values?

  • Agora is fully committed to an ethical approach to business. This means being honest and thinking about the best long-term interests of clients, candidates and colleagues. 

  • We encourage people to work from anywhere and around their own life schedules so it is important that everyone has the integrity to be productive without micromanagement and monitoring

  • We expect everyone to act with integrity at all times, even when it might not be the most profitable thing to do

  • We believe that caring about our colleagues and our customers is fundamental to everything we do

  • Caring about others is part of being a good human. We must have empathy and think about the feelings of others

  • We have to care about what we are doing in order to reach our potential in anything

  • We have to care about our sectors to drive ourselves to become experts

  • We know that best practice now might not be best practice in the future so we work on the principle of continuous improvement and we never stop iterating and evolving

  • Our focus on being ethical means being honest about our aims and giving balanced advice 

  • We ask for feedback and provide it as often as is constructive 

  • We have clear, accessible hiring processes, job specs, performance expectations and criteria for promotion

  • We share our search work, mapping and shortlists with clients

  • If anything is unclear we can just ask and will get an honest answer

  • We aim to be the absolute best versions of ourselves and perform to our maximum potential individually and as a team

  • We believe that every member of our team should have the potential to advise world class operators and businesses

  • We aim to be an aspirational employer – a destination of choice for our competitors 

  • We want our team to feel totally confident there is nowhere else that can offer better financial reward

  • Agora is welcoming to everyone 

  • Everyone at Agora is welcoming

  • We recruit and develop people with their own personalities so we actively support individuality in communication, expression and discussion

  • We don’t just say “it’s ok to be yourself”, we encourage people to express their individuality as much as they like

  • We set goals and help people to achieve them in their own way using the methods that are best suited to them as individuals 

Our Team

Greg Wellman

Director | Start-ups

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Caroline Phillips

Director | Brands

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Felix Meller

Director | Investors

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Matthew Gunn

Manager | Finance

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Chris Hall

Manager | Interim Finance

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Matthew Greenwood

Principal | Investors

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Ellen Lewis

Associate | Finance

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Abby Denny

Senior Consultant | Start-ups

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Danielle O’Rourke

Search Lead | Start-Ups

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Annie Mbuyi

Associate | Investors

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Grant Moir

Consultant | Interim Finance

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Stef Maccioni

Principal | Start-ups

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Who we help

We’ve successfully placed candidates with clients from market-leading retailers to trailblazing startups. So whether you’re hiring for established roles or need help building out a recruitment brief, come and talk to us. We’re a phone call away or pop into our London office for a coffee.

Investors

We’re experts at finding unique candidates who bring passion, experience and diversity of perspective to investment firms.

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Brands

Looking for a recruitment partner with the right relationships and experience? We’re trusted by some of the UK’s leading brands to find highly qualified candidates for every role.

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Start-ups

Are you making that all-important first management hire or getting ready to scale? The Agora team can help you every step of the way.

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“We had a very extreme period where there were lots of roles in a short space of time and Agora’s agility was really useful. The quality of candidates was right too, so we didn't have to see loads of people to make hires. They know what kind of candidates we need and they’ve got the relationships.”
Hannah Berman - Senior TA Business Partner at Moonpig
Hannah Berman - Senior TA Business Partner at Moonpig
“Agora are really, really good. They’ve helped us out of tricky spots where we’ve had to fill roles super quickly. And they’re flexible – I think they’re small enough to really care. Whatever the role, they’re willing to get stuck in and chuck everything into it, which is amazing.”
Nick Hunter Ford - Chief of Staff at Skin + Me
Nick Hunter Ford - Chief of Staff at Skin + Me
“I can’t praise Agora enough. They’re so lovely. They take the time to understand what we want and do as much of the process as possible, so it’s all taken off our shoulders. They find the right people too – the team just gets it.”
Camilla Ford - Researcher/EA at JamJar Investments
Camilla Ford - Researcher/EA at JamJar Investments
“Agora’s understanding of their market is so perfect. The calibre of candidates they have on their portfolios is outstanding. It’s always hard to find someone 100% right for a role, but the calibre Caroline sent over was way above what I was looking for. You know when you find your perfect hairdresser? It’s like finding the perfect recruitment company.”
Kriti Thakkar - Head of FP&A at Depop
Kriti Thakkar - Head of FP&A at Depop
“Agora has found us some great talent for the business. Felix is an absolute gem with group strategy and Caroline knows our business extremely well. She really understands what makes us tick. That allows us to be confident with candidates and I feel confident with them representing us to candidates.”
Paul Hunter, Recruitment Lead of Corporate Services, Leadership, Technology, Digital and Data at Marks & Spencer
Paul Hunter, Recruitment Lead of Corporate Services, Leadership, Technology, Digital and Data at Marks & Spencer
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Come and work for us!

We aim to be the best possible platform for highly dedicated Recruiters who have a passion for recruiting into the Consumer industries. The Agora office is a friendly and informal environment and we offer support and freedom in equal measures. Everyone at Agora is highly motivated and we work hard but because we want to. We enjoy unlimited holidays, flexible and home-working, and no dress-code. All new starters are provided with a Macbook Pro and an iPhone.

We believe in thinking long-term, providing transparency for our clients and treating people the way we would want to be treated.

We believe that in order to add value, we have to be experts in our space. This is why we immerse ourselves in the Consumer sectors and regularly attend tradeshows to discover the newest and fastest-growing brands, partner with specialist advisory firms for conferences such as Interpath, and sponsor industry events such as The Pitch.

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