Shani Newbold

Managing Partner

Shani has over 20 years’ experience working in executive recruitment, talent management and coaching, both in the UK and the USA. She is a leading diversity and inclusion campaigner wh...

Vicki Wright

Interim Director of Finance

Vicki is an accomplished leader with extensive experience spanning strategic development, finance, fundraising, HR, EDI, governance, and programme management. Over the past two decades, she has honed her skills across senior roles in impactful organisations such as the New Economics Foundation, ThinkForward, and Mind. Known for her inclusive ...

Robert Muncaster

Lead Consultant

​Robert has nearly two decades of experience leading high-end and executive searches throughout the public, private and third sectors. He has been instrumental in the appointing of hundreds of senior leaders for some of the UK’s most prominent third sector organisations and is fiercely passionate...

Nicola Flinton

Executive Assistant

​Nicola the glue that holds the team together, she is a fun loving, committed and passionate people person with over 25 years’ experience in HR and Executive support. Communication is key to her role here at Cadence Partners, making day-to-day life that little bit easier for the Managing Partner and Senior Leadership Team.

Sophie Wilson

Business Operations and Marketing Lead

Sophie is our Business Operations & Marketing Lead. Having graduated in 2020 from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Hispanic Studies, Sophie has been working for Cadence for over 3 years – originally as a member of the operations team, she now plays a key role in driving the company's marketing strategies, ensuring operational...

Lara Balodis

Associate Researcher

Rachael Yates

Associate Consultant

Lan Lay

Associate Consultant

​Lan brings over a decade of experience overseeing the delivery of large-scale, complex, multi-stakeholder programmes targeting improvements to public service delivery. For the last 7 years, she has worked exclusively on behalf of multilateral development banks, where she has ma...

Dr Emma French

Associate Partner

​Emma brings over twenty years' executive search experience, focused upon Chief Executive and board appointments across the public, private and third sector. Her previous roles include Principal Consultant, Board Practice at GatenbySanderson and Co-Head of the Derivatives Desk at Odgers. She also spent over three years working with ...

Rob Wright

Associate Partner

​​Rob is a specialist in developing and promoting board-level talent in the health, care, and public sectors, having supported hundreds of hiring organisations to attract, assess, and appoint the right leaders, to the right jobs, at the right time. He previously worked for NHS England as Head of Executive Talent and Appointments; for ...

Agnes Fletcher

Associate Partner

Agnes is a leading expert in disability and the wider diversity agenda. She has advised and led EDI programmes for more than 500 organisations, including Arsenal FC, the EHRC, government departments and the NHS, to name just a few. Her strategic insight has helped shape some amazing inclusive solutions in leadership deve...

Angela Goldberg

Associate Partner

​Angela is a versatile assessment and development specialist, with extensive experience across the private and public sectors and internationally (US, Far East, Africa and Europe). She is very diversity-confident with a strong understanding of unconscious bias. This enables her to work conf...

Patricia Williamson

Associate Partner

​Patricia is a commercially focused HR Director, Chief People Officer and Transformation Leader, with strong strategic and operational skills. Patricia specialises in organisational effectiveness and employee experience across multiple sectors and types of organisation, with a track record of initiating and implementing sustainable cha...

Rob McDavitt

Associate Partner

​Rob is an incredibly experienced Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant. He most recently spent 14 years as a Senior Director at Apple, where he was one of the leaders who helped Apple on their journey to realise their value of inclusion and diversity, by building a global talent strategy that enabled people to be their best selves and by...

Jim Hess

Board Advisor

​Jim Hess is a founding partner of Opus Partners, leading engagements in the Health Care, Not-for-Profit, and Higher Education practices. Over a 30-year career in executive recruitment, he has conducted more than 500 searches in general management, finance, marketing, information technology, human resources, risk management, and investment ma...