Rowan recruits four

Chorley-based recruitment firm Rowan Executive Search has announced four new appointments.

Associate director Sara Jackson joins the finance team as an associate director from Morson International. She will specialise in appointing chief financial officers and finance directors, with a focus on the Cheshire region.

She has more than 15 years’ experience, including head of talent acquisition roles with key clients such as Manchester United and Manchester Airports Group.

Lexi Graty has joined as a senior consultant in Rowan’s sales and marketing practice to help drive growth in the retail, digital and e-commerce sectors. She has over a decade’s experience working for leading retail brands such as Zara and Marks and Spencer.

Jennie Adamson has joined from Morson Talent as an executive researcher in the HR and operations team. She has more than 11 years of experience in the recruitment industry and during her career has played a key role serving accounts with clients including Manchester Airports Group.

Molly Chalfont Pollard is a university graduate with a degree in English literature and joins as a business support executive for the Rowan group. Her role involves helping the research team in their quest to source and appoint the right candidates to drive client performance and growth.

Rowan focuses on recruiting chief executives, chairmen, other board level directors and senior executives for finance, sales and marketing, operations, HR and tech roles across various sectors.

Clients include e-commerce fulfilment business Fulfilmentcrowd, Clubhouse Golf, SpaMedica, Eque2, Utiligroup, Lakelovers, MPM Products and Made Tech, which floated on the stock market last year. Rowan also works closely with private equity clients, including LDC, NorthEdge Capital, Pitalia Capital, Maven Capital Partners, Mercia, WestBridge and Apiary Capital.

Paul Waite, founder and managing director of Rowan, said: "These are significant appointments which reflect our continued commitment to our expanding North West SME and private equity customer base.

“The expertise that all four bring across finance, operations and sales will further support company founders looking for leadership talent to drive business performance. We are thrilled to welcome them to the group and look forward to seeing their careers flourish with us.”

Photo L-R: Molly Chalfont Pollard, Sara Jackson, Lexi Graty and Jennie Adamson.