Meet the team Not just another faceless company
Gus Sargent
Director & Co-Founder
In a world full of recruitment "specialists" Gus founded Tecknuovo to remove those quote marks. Far from your traditional Recruitment business owner, he stumbled into the industry before spotting the opportunity to build a company around the DevOps niche and its methodology. He hasn’t turned back since and is now keenly involved in the community. Interested to learn from everyone around him, Gus lives by the motto of you don’t know what you don’t know and is committed to enhancing his business and technical understanding on a daily basis.
Kieran Blackstone
Director & Co-Founder
It’s important to break down entire teams from top to bottom, know the good engineers, the evangelists, and all of their best friends too. It’s his knowledge of the best DevOps environments that has led to Kieran’s success. Not at all bad when it comes to tech either, Kieran surely would have been better placed as an Engineer himself. He is excelling at recruitment based on genuine technical understanding rather than the age old “control-F” technique so synonymous with this industry, very much the technical Director at Tecknuovo.
Emmanuel Shodeinde
US Practice Head
Emmanuel has spent the past 2 years in the Big Apple feeding off Hotdogs, Artichoke Pizza’s and “Football”. With a wealth of experience at both start-up and established recruitment companies he now joins Tecknuovo to expand our business philosophy and motto across the Atlantic to New York.
Vicky Coates
Finance Manager
It’s tempting as a start-up, but at Tecknuovo we don’t believe in outsourcing core areas of our business, ever. Vicky is our Finance Manager and in charge of day to day accounts at Tecknuovo. Vicky will be happy to help with any invoice queries for all of our candidates and clients. She is great to have around and keeps us all in check.
Email:accounts@tecknuovo.com
Joanna Doyle
Operations Manager
Joanna is Operations Manager here in charge of everything non Sales at Tecknuovo. With a recruitment background herself she understands the industry perfectly and what we need to keep business running smoothly. A great new addition to the office and already wooed the team with some fantastic home baked cakes.
Jack Broughton
Head of Client Partnerships
Jack is one of life’s great guys and that makes him a fantastic recruiter. He is a calm, assured voice for our DevOps network and valued Clients, thoroughly knowledgeable and gets the job done with zero fuss. An overall safe set of hands and very much embracing the DevOps community culture.
Shaun Kayll
Account Manager
Shaun loves a placement. He is only happy if he has matched up candidate and client at least 4 or 5 times a month. Visibly unhappy should he fail to meet his personal targets, if you are working with Shaun you are in safe hands.
Emmanuel Oloko
Senior DevOps Consultant
Emmanuel is a Permanent Consultant here and simply gets DevOps. The first hurdle to recruit this market is to understand it, and Emmanuel got it from day one. On the side this man can be found either travelling the world or selling awesome trainers through his side venture.
Jack Painter
Account Manager
Incredibly hard working and always happy to dig in and find those truly awesome candidates, not just the visibly available ones. Jack is a company stalwart and one of the first Tecknuovo hires, while we were just a co-working space operation.
Sam Gorvin
WinOps Consultant
Sam has a strong background in Windows DevOps recruitment and has joined to help develop Tecknuovo’s presence in this market. He has spent three years working the market and knows all the best clients and candidates in this space. When not scouring London for top talent Sam can be found spending time with his family or watching/playing cricket.
Email:sam.gorvin@tecknuovo.com
Dominique Top
DevOps Consultant - Europe
Dominique is our Dutch and German markets specialist, helping drive our DevOps coverage across the globe. Bringing with her a bubbly personality, awesome work ethic and amazing expat and local contact book, we are excited to see the business expand with Dom.
Jennifer Morales
DevOps Delivery Consultant
Jen has a great network in the Open Source world and brings with her some Latin flair to add to our diverse team. Jen’s focus and passion lies with candidates. Meeting, meeting again, networking, following up and pinpointing awesome opportunities. All day every day.
