Team

Scene is home to the best recruiters operating in the investor backed space. We share your standards and move at your pace.

Architect of Scene's culture, helping individuals unlock peak performance; qualified organisational development coach, previously led recruitment businesses at SThree.

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Managing Partner, Performance & Culture
Claire Brennan
Managing Partner, Performance & Culture

Founding member of Scene with ~20 years building Product, Strategy and Operations teams; personally placed 150+ Senior ICs and Leaders.

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Managing Partner, Product, Strategy & Operations
Tom Knights
Managing Partner, Product, Strategy & Operations

Recruits for investor-backed start-ups and scale-ups, specialising in Senior IC and Leadership GTM hires; competes in Hyrox internationally.

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Principal, GTM
Chloe Cook
Principal, GTM

Founded Scene in 2019; 20 years building Legal, Risk and Compliance teams across the UK, Europe and US. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.

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Founder, Legal, Risk & Compliance
Pete Miller
Founder, Legal, Risk & Compliance

Builds GTM teams for investor-backed tech companies; helped launch Scene's US business, played pro basketball in England, Italy, Germany.

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Principal, GTM
Ellie Shaxon
Principal, GTM

Leads Operations and People at Scene, overseeing global infrastructure across finance, people and technology behind Scene's growth.

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Partner, People & Operations
Frankie Hesling
Partner, People & Operations

A leader in Scene's US GTM practice for growth-stage software companies; previously ran Seaport Search Partners, a leading high-growth software search firm.

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Director, GTM
Kelley Vesey
Director, GTM

Spent 5+ years building Software Engineering teams for venture-backed US start-ups, hiring engineers from founding through leadership as companies scale.

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Principal, Software Engineering
Kyle Ihanainen
Principal, Software Engineering

Supports European start-ups with Engineering, Data and AI hiring; previously at a bio-tech search firm, keen triathlete competing nationally.

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Principal, Software Engineering
Rodrigo Jechimer
Principal, Software Engineering

Supports investor-backed tech companies across Europe and the US with engineering hiring, helping founders hire exceptional engineers and data scientists.

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Principal, Software Engineering
George Murray
Principal, Software Engineering

Hunter supports investor-backed tech companies across the US with engineering and technical leadership hiring. Specialist in AI/ML, SWE and robotics.

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Principal, Software Engineering
Hunter Martin
Principal, Software Engineering

Builds B2B SaaS leadership teams from seed to hypergrowth; trained at Daversa/Bespoke Partners, studied biochemistry and economics at NYU.

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Director, Leadership
Brian Suarez
Director, Leadership

Claire Brennan

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Managing Partner, Performance & Culture

Architect of Scene's culture, helping individuals unlock peak performance; qualified organisational development coach, previously led recruitment businesses at SThree.

Tom Knights

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Managing Partner, Product, Strategy & Operations

Founding member of Scene with ~20 years building Product, Strategy and Operations teams; personally placed 150+ Senior ICs and Leaders.

Chloe Cook

Linkedin
Principal, GTM

Recruits for investor-backed start-ups and scale-ups, specialising in Senior IC and Leadership GTM hires; competes in Hyrox internationally.

Pete Miller

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Founder, Legal, Risk & Compliance

Founded Scene in 2019; 20 years building Legal, Risk and Compliance teams across the UK, Europe and US. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.

Ellie Shaxon

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Principal, GTM

Builds GTM teams for investor-backed tech companies; helped launch Scene's US business, played pro basketball in England, Italy, Germany.

Frankie Hesling

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Partner, People & Operations

Leads Operations and People at Scene, overseeing global infrastructure across finance, people and technology behind Scene's growth.

Kelley Vesey

Linkedin
Director, GTM

A leader in Scene's US GTM practice for growth-stage software companies; previously ran Seaport Search Partners, a leading high-growth software search firm.

Kyle Ihanainen

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Principal, Software Engineering

Spent 5+ years building Software Engineering teams for venture-backed US start-ups, hiring engineers from founding through leadership as companies scale.

Rodrigo Jechimer

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Principal, Software Engineering

Supports European start-ups with Engineering, Data and AI hiring; previously at a bio-tech search firm, keen triathlete competing nationally.

George Murray

Linkedin
Principal, Software Engineering

Supports investor-backed tech companies across Europe and the US with engineering hiring, helping founders hire exceptional engineers and data scientists.

Hunter Martin

Linkedin
Principal, Software Engineering

Hunter supports investor-backed tech companies across the US with engineering and technical leadership hiring. Specialist in AI/ML, SWE and robotics.

Brian Suarez

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Director, Leadership

Builds B2B SaaS leadership teams from seed to hypergrowth; trained at Daversa/Bespoke Partners, studied biochemistry and economics at NYU.